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The Mentor
The Mentor (An Excerpt)
As if he held the reins of both the darkness and light in his gloved hands, something flashed in front of his belly.
My body started to hum with electricity--this time, I wasn't going down without a fight.
I looked around the room for a weapon. In the dim light, I saw Laura's "Pocket Rocket" vibrator poking through the folds of the blanket. But, I'd certainly never get close enough to him to use it and would need at least two or three minutes, if experience were any guide, before it had any sort of brief, debilitating effect.
Slowly peeling off the covers, my trembling hands turned to fists.
"No, no," he said. "This would be easier for both of us if you didn't move."
With a quick flex of his arm, he hit me with the golf club he'd been twirling between his fingers. Knocked me out.
When I woke up, hours later... I was far from my messy bedroom.
And, in a far worse predicament than I could have ever imagined.
The Mentor (Description)
Once a brilliant student, Dexter is now thirty and living a simple, beer-soaked life.
Then, The Mentor showed up. It's no longer simple, markedly less beer-soaked, and if he doesn't unravel the mystery of why The Mentor chose Dex for his bizarre "tests," that life will be over very, very soon.
Nine years ago, Dexter blamed himself for the car crash that killed his young sister, sending him into a downward spiral that ended a brilliant academic career. He simply gave up-- a wrung-out, drunken soul wandering amongst the living.
But had it been an accident?
Now, those responsible for the events that lead to the crash nine years earlier are back to finish what they started.
With no help from the cops-- they're eye-balling him as a potential troublemaker-- Dex must find a way to reawaken that one-time brilliant kid.
But that kid's now about a decade older, forty pounds fatter, and half-drunk. The only "help" he's got comes from his best friend, Pavan-- a young stoner who believes Jay Leno collects souls through late night television.
This won't be easy.
As if he held the reins of both the darkness and light in his gloved hands, something flashed in front of his belly.
My body started to hum with electricity--this time, I wasn't going down without a fight.
I looked around the room for a weapon. In the dim light, I saw Laura's "Pocket Rocket" vibrator poking through the folds of the blanket. But, I'd certainly never get close enough to him to use it and would need at least two or three minutes, if experience were any guide, before it had any sort of brief, debilitating effect.
Slowly peeling off the covers, my trembling hands turned to fists.
"No, no," he said. "This would be easier for both of us if you didn't move."
With a quick flex of his arm, he hit me with the golf club he'd been twirling between his fingers. Knocked me out.
When I woke up, hours later... I was far from my messy bedroom.
And, in a far worse predicament than I could have ever imagined.
The Mentor (Description)
Once a brilliant student, Dexter is now thirty and living a simple, beer-soaked life.
Then, The Mentor showed up. It's no longer simple, markedly less beer-soaked, and if he doesn't unravel the mystery of why The Mentor chose Dex for his bizarre "tests," that life will be over very, very soon.
Nine years ago, Dexter blamed himself for the car crash that killed his young sister, sending him into a downward spiral that ended a brilliant academic career. He simply gave up-- a wrung-out, drunken soul wandering amongst the living.
But had it been an accident?
Now, those responsible for the events that lead to the crash nine years earlier are back to finish what they started.
With no help from the cops-- they're eye-balling him as a potential troublemaker-- Dex must find a way to reawaken that one-time brilliant kid.
But that kid's now about a decade older, forty pounds fatter, and half-drunk. The only "help" he's got comes from his best friend, Pavan-- a young stoner who believes Jay Leno collects souls through late night television.
This won't be easy.
339 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 15, 2013
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February 11, 2020
Pretty good story, very funny. But loses a star for proofreading and editing.
I'm not one of those people that gets really hung up on typos and such, but this book has more than I've ever seen in a book before. It became very annoying and distracting to have to keep mentally translating typos, filling in missing words and removing superfluous ones, and figuring out why there are commas in some of the strangest places. I made it to the end, but it loses a star for making me work at it.
The story itself is pretty good. It has some good humor and the death-defying scenarios are pretty clever. It requires some suspension of disbelief, as a lot of the action and story elements run to the James Bond-ish school of incredulity.
Worth a read, if it gets some serious proofreading.
I'm not one of those people that gets really hung up on typos and such, but this book has more than I've ever seen in a book before. It became very annoying and distracting to have to keep mentally translating typos, filling in missing words and removing superfluous ones, and figuring out why there are commas in some of the strangest places. I made it to the end, but it loses a star for making me work at it.
The story itself is pretty good. It has some good humor and the death-defying scenarios are pretty clever. It requires some suspension of disbelief, as a lot of the action and story elements run to the James Bond-ish school of incredulity.
Worth a read, if it gets some serious proofreading.
February 1, 2019
Ha, beware the chupacabra!!!
What a ride, a real rollercoaster! I loved the challenges Dex was put through, thinking all along, what would I have done if that had been me. And I want a best friend like Pavan! With a better car maybe.
I hope there's more to come from these two guys.
What a ride, a real rollercoaster! I loved the challenges Dex was put through, thinking all along, what would I have done if that had been me. And I want a best friend like Pavan! With a better car maybe.
I hope there's more to come from these two guys.
January 16, 2020
Great
What a read the story grabbed my attention and slowly brought me into what Dexter was going through building on each step of his experience and kept me in suspense til the end thanks Mr wybrow
What a read the story grabbed my attention and slowly brought me into what Dexter was going through building on each step of his experience and kept me in suspense til the end thanks Mr wybrow
April 19, 2024
I was hooked right at first. Very mysterious situation in which the protagonist is clubbed over the head and awakens to find himself in a deadly situation. This happens about three times before he decides to get ahead of the situation.
March 12, 2019
WTF was that?
So bad I wished I had a brain wipe. A boring and jejune slog. Needs an editor. Also needs a plot. Plus you are not funny. Please don’t write anymore. :-)
So bad I wished I had a brain wipe. A boring and jejune slog. Needs an editor. Also needs a plot. Plus you are not funny. Please don’t write anymore. :-)
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