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Seek
It is 2025. Investigative journalist Stephen “Seek” Solomon has been released from prison on charges of wiretapping and email-hacking, in a scandal which has made international headlines and estranged him from family and coworkers. Desperate to redeem himself, the descendant of two Holocaust survivors acts on a tip pinpointing a small island off the coast of southern Argentina – San Magnus Island – as the final refuge for a group of Nazi fugitives who fled during the Second World War. In his quest for redemption, plunder and justice, Solomon uncovers the impossible, ruins of an abandoned villa resort and the aftermath of horrific genetic experimentation. Amidst the ocean of questions surrounding it, one emerges; what is the real treasure of San Magnus Island?
280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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N.B. Goldzer
1 book2 followersN. B Goldzer is a third generation American, grandson of two Holocaust survivors, and avid free-time historian. He hails from the tri-state area, having roamed around New Jersey, New York and Connecticut for the better part of a decade. He holds a B.A in Creative Writing from Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, where he focused on fiction and screenwriting.
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May 15, 2014
”Why breathe?...Why eat? Why care? Why love? Why make love? Why should we let murderers get away with murder? I believe in something more than that…. It’s not a flag; it’s not a god; it’s not even me. It’s knowledge. It’s people. Yeah, they suck. A lot of us are assholes. Most of us... never think about that old fishmonger in Mar Del Sur or the dead school teacher in Qalat. It’s me-me-me out there, and no one knows what it’s like for anyone else to live, so no one sympathizes, no one cares, but most important, no one sees the big picture. I’m about information. We feel bad for ourselves and our forty-grand-a-year jobs. We get through every day just to come home to the microwave and the late night programming.”
Stephen “Seek” Solomon hasn’t been out of prison very long in the year 2025. He was an investigative journalist who got caught wiretapping and email-hacking a seriously nasty piece of work by the name of General Salazar. Now the US government does what Seek was doing every day, but when a private citizen does it... well... it’s illegal. A buddy lets him publish under his name so he can earn some semblance of a living, but Seek is aching to get back in the game. He just needs a big story, something that will force everybody to recognize that he is still a viable reporter. Fox News had done a pretty good job taking him down.
The Fox News Blondes. There are speculations they are all clones of one person. SPOOKY!!!
”Then there’s Fox News. Oh, how I love my dear old friend Fox News. I spent almost an entire day watching Fox News, except for quick breaks to piss and vomit, often in the same place and once at the same time. Nearly every segment on that feed is bemoaning the violation of one man’s rights with one outstretched twisted little hand and beating my career into an early grave with the other. ‘Stephen Solomon is a violator of the Constitution of the United States and a traitor to the great nation for which it stands!’ preached on indiscernible big-boobed, blonde talking head.”
Now anybody that Fox News doesn’t like is someone I like a lot.
His buddy turns Seek onto the perfect story. A Nazi by the name of Dr. Metzger and a group of followers escaped to a small island off the coast of southern Argentina called San Magnus. Finding out what happened to those jackbooted immoral thugs and if there are any descendants still on the island is exactly the type of Headline News story Seek needs. Seek is descended from two Holocaust survivors so as proxy for his ancestors he already has skin in the game. He is determined to find out what happened to Metzger and what he was up to on that island.
Well it starts out rough, Seek wakes up on the island to find a pill strapped to his throat nestled in a web of varicose veins (which really creeped me out). The earpiece that his captor has been so kind to provide starts talking to him. Seek is informed that the pill is a bomb and if he doesn’t help liberate $6 billion from the Nazi vaults his head will become a geyser of blood and brain matter.
He is given three companions, a professor from a university on the verge of losing her tenure. Reasons unknown. Name: Liliana Ferreira. Her job on the island? To secure samples of the DNA of the four top Nazis. The vault combination is coded to their DNA.
Chuck Polanski is actually a friend of Seek and provides the muscle and protection for the group. Now what could they need protecting from on a seemingly deserted island?
Cledwyn King is a thief and a master of machines. When they need power he is the guy that fixes the generators. He keeps disappearing at odd moments increasing Seek’s paranoia.
There are Nazi skeletons everywhere and the deeper the team probe the island the more bodies they find, only some of them are a lot fresher. As the facts start to pile up they realize they are not the first team to attempt an assault on the vaults filled with bullion.
Nazi Doctors trying to create the master race create a predator instead. Mengele/Metzger could be twins.
Dr. Metzger has designed a creature, an advanced human. The ultimate predator built to obey and perfectly created to hunt and kill the top of the food chain. They are called Volksklausurs.
”In the light he could see their limbs, their bodies, bare, naked, gray and cold like anthropomorphic beings, gargoyles with their noses perched high in the air to catch his craven stench.”
They speak German, but because of their massive teeth it comes out as a hiss. Luckily Seek has brought along his Kindle, battered, but functional that he uses to translate what they are saying.
It isn’t good.
Oh, did I mention that everyone is coughing up blood from the poisonous gases the Germans released on the island? Yeah, on the verge of dying, needing all the brain power they can get to figure out this sick game, living in constant fear of the Volksklausurs, and the possibility of becoming a bloody geyser at any minute. Is it any wonder that there is a double cross thrown into the mix as well?
N. B. Goldzer
N.B. Goldzer is, like his character Seek, the descendent of two Holocaust survivors. He lives in Salt Lake City which is still the cleanest city I’ve ever visited. The residents must attack the sidewalks with soap and brushes every time the sun goes down. Goldzer is also an avid historian which is something he and I have in common. This is the first volume of a three part trilogy called The Suffering of Solomon. He informed me today that he has 87,000 words typed on the second book Reign.
”Reign will carry on with the aftermath of San Magnus' discovery, as Stephen Solomon attempts to uncover the organization behind its creation and support. Someone has kept it a secret for half a century and he's determined to discover who.”
He definitely kept me hooked. Once started I had to find out how in the world Seek was going to survive long enough to finish the trilogy. There is a mystery, loads of suspense, and some science-fiction elements that add an extra dose of creepy to the plot. This cowboy, for one, has already signed up for part two.
Stephen “Seek” Solomon hasn’t been out of prison very long in the year 2025. He was an investigative journalist who got caught wiretapping and email-hacking a seriously nasty piece of work by the name of General Salazar. Now the US government does what Seek was doing every day, but when a private citizen does it... well... it’s illegal. A buddy lets him publish under his name so he can earn some semblance of a living, but Seek is aching to get back in the game. He just needs a big story, something that will force everybody to recognize that he is still a viable reporter. Fox News had done a pretty good job taking him down.
The Fox News Blondes. There are speculations they are all clones of one person. SPOOKY!!!
”Then there’s Fox News. Oh, how I love my dear old friend Fox News. I spent almost an entire day watching Fox News, except for quick breaks to piss and vomit, often in the same place and once at the same time. Nearly every segment on that feed is bemoaning the violation of one man’s rights with one outstretched twisted little hand and beating my career into an early grave with the other. ‘Stephen Solomon is a violator of the Constitution of the United States and a traitor to the great nation for which it stands!’ preached on indiscernible big-boobed, blonde talking head.”
Now anybody that Fox News doesn’t like is someone I like a lot.
His buddy turns Seek onto the perfect story. A Nazi by the name of Dr. Metzger and a group of followers escaped to a small island off the coast of southern Argentina called San Magnus. Finding out what happened to those jackbooted immoral thugs and if there are any descendants still on the island is exactly the type of Headline News story Seek needs. Seek is descended from two Holocaust survivors so as proxy for his ancestors he already has skin in the game. He is determined to find out what happened to Metzger and what he was up to on that island.
Well it starts out rough, Seek wakes up on the island to find a pill strapped to his throat nestled in a web of varicose veins (which really creeped me out). The earpiece that his captor has been so kind to provide starts talking to him. Seek is informed that the pill is a bomb and if he doesn’t help liberate $6 billion from the Nazi vaults his head will become a geyser of blood and brain matter.
He is given three companions, a professor from a university on the verge of losing her tenure. Reasons unknown. Name: Liliana Ferreira. Her job on the island? To secure samples of the DNA of the four top Nazis. The vault combination is coded to their DNA.
Chuck Polanski is actually a friend of Seek and provides the muscle and protection for the group. Now what could they need protecting from on a seemingly deserted island?
Cledwyn King is a thief and a master of machines. When they need power he is the guy that fixes the generators. He keeps disappearing at odd moments increasing Seek’s paranoia.
There are Nazi skeletons everywhere and the deeper the team probe the island the more bodies they find, only some of them are a lot fresher. As the facts start to pile up they realize they are not the first team to attempt an assault on the vaults filled with bullion.
Nazi Doctors trying to create the master race create a predator instead. Mengele/Metzger could be twins.
Dr. Metzger has designed a creature, an advanced human. The ultimate predator built to obey and perfectly created to hunt and kill the top of the food chain. They are called Volksklausurs.
”In the light he could see their limbs, their bodies, bare, naked, gray and cold like anthropomorphic beings, gargoyles with their noses perched high in the air to catch his craven stench.”
They speak German, but because of their massive teeth it comes out as a hiss. Luckily Seek has brought along his Kindle, battered, but functional that he uses to translate what they are saying.
It isn’t good.
Oh, did I mention that everyone is coughing up blood from the poisonous gases the Germans released on the island? Yeah, on the verge of dying, needing all the brain power they can get to figure out this sick game, living in constant fear of the Volksklausurs, and the possibility of becoming a bloody geyser at any minute. Is it any wonder that there is a double cross thrown into the mix as well?
N. B. Goldzer
N.B. Goldzer is, like his character Seek, the descendent of two Holocaust survivors. He lives in Salt Lake City which is still the cleanest city I’ve ever visited. The residents must attack the sidewalks with soap and brushes every time the sun goes down. Goldzer is also an avid historian which is something he and I have in common. This is the first volume of a three part trilogy called The Suffering of Solomon. He informed me today that he has 87,000 words typed on the second book Reign.
”Reign will carry on with the aftermath of San Magnus' discovery, as Stephen Solomon attempts to uncover the organization behind its creation and support. Someone has kept it a secret for half a century and he's determined to discover who.”
He definitely kept me hooked. Once started I had to find out how in the world Seek was going to survive long enough to finish the trilogy. There is a mystery, loads of suspense, and some science-fiction elements that add an extra dose of creepy to the plot. This cowboy, for one, has already signed up for part two.
June 21, 2015
Put a group of people on an island in a fictional story and they always start dropping like flies. I really like the dynamic between all the characters, though their roles seemed obvious from the start because there were so few of them to begin with. I could not put this book down while I was reading the last third of it. I'm excited for the next one!
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June 9, 2014My mother says it has too many curse words.
June 9, 2014
A pacey, exciting thriller with a touch of the exotic, that keeps one turning the pages. The author is skilled in building up the suspense and drip-feeding the reader just enough information to make him want more. The character development is also terrific, one really wants the hero to succeed. Seek is a man willing to sacrifice himself for his principles, a man so stubborn that he just can't let go. But the reader can also empathise with him completely because he's flawed and yet so likeable.
I also loved the setting. An exotic island with a dark secret, sci-fi GM monsters and the shadow of the Nazis' evil misdeeds.
I can't wait to read the next book to find out what happens next.
I also loved the setting. An exotic island with a dark secret, sci-fi GM monsters and the shadow of the Nazis' evil misdeeds.
I can't wait to read the next book to find out what happens next.
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