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Counterpoint: take back that which is yours
Jonathan Savage’s company Tri-Com has grown to dominate the word of high tech, becoming a global empire. On the cusp of releasing its most revolutionary product to date, the company is suddenly finds itself under attack. Its offices and manufacturing plants around the world are targeted in a carefully orchestrated operation.
Miranda Phillips emerges from hiding, determined to bring about the demise of Savage, having teamed up with a determined group of Russian activists hell bent on taking control of the world’s biggest software producer.
Savage enlists the help of Scotland Yard in a desperate attempt to save himself and everything he has built. Counterpoint carries on where Blowback left off, and is a thrill-a-minute ride up until the last page, with the final showdown taking place in the frozen city of Vladivostok.
“Savage by name but not by nature. Walters’s hero takes us on a deadly game across a trilogy of thrillers in which the winner takes all. A brilliant read!” – John Affleck, Gold Coast Bulletin
“Kept me turning the pages to see how Savage survives. Both Final Diagnosis and Blowback are absorbing reads.” – Alana Woods
The first in the trilogy, Final Diagnosis, sets a wonderful platform for the rest of the series.” – Irish Times
“The Savage trilogy promises a wild and exciting ride and delivers in spades.” – Michael Jacobson, News Ltd
“Walters’s storytelling skills offer a gripping tale of suspense and intrigue sure to keep the reader captivated.” – The Bulletin
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Paul V. Walters has spent most of his career as an advertising copywriter. He ran his own successful advertising agency until deciding to pursue writing full time. Having lived all over the world, he now divides his time between Australia’s Gold Coast and Bali in Indonesia.
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First published June 23, 2010
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Paul V. Walters
3 books10 followersI was born in the splendid city of Bath in the UK.
At a relatively young age, my parents dragged me to Africa – a continent I was once told “was not for sissies”. A Long sojourn under African skies followed where I gained a questionable education and great sun tan.
Advertising was always my passion and so spent my formative years as a budding copywriter at Grey International South Africa, before joining the advertising fraternity in London. A series of stints with , BBDO, Cato Johnson, Y&R and Ogilvy & Mather followed – loved Ogilvy’s work! Dispatched to the world’s most southern capital, Wellington, New Zealand. Here I teamed with Robert Anderson renowned Everest mountaineer. Together we built the Ogilvy & Mather Direct brand throughout Australasia.
All things must pass and eventually I started my own agency with David Meo, to form Logan Meo & Walters based in the land of the long white cloud.
We moved in the early 90′s to Australia to the rather unlikely location of the Gold Coast, Queensland and have been here ever since!! In 2008 LMW was acquired by a smart agency out of Melbourne and whom are aptly named Smart.I have two wonderful daughters, Hannah, who is in the film industry, based in Vancouver Canada and Hope, who is still enduring the final years of her university education.
I am married to Elisabeth who is a rather clever individual who’s ESL skills allow us to travel, a pastime I love.
I now write books and base myself in Bali for six months of each year.It’s a sexy job….however it’s yet to pay the rent.
At a relatively young age, my parents dragged me to Africa – a continent I was once told “was not for sissies”. A Long sojourn under African skies followed where I gained a questionable education and great sun tan.
Advertising was always my passion and so spent my formative years as a budding copywriter at Grey International South Africa, before joining the advertising fraternity in London. A series of stints with , BBDO, Cato Johnson, Y&R and Ogilvy & Mather followed – loved Ogilvy’s work! Dispatched to the world’s most southern capital, Wellington, New Zealand. Here I teamed with Robert Anderson renowned Everest mountaineer. Together we built the Ogilvy & Mather Direct brand throughout Australasia.
All things must pass and eventually I started my own agency with David Meo, to form Logan Meo & Walters based in the land of the long white cloud.
We moved in the early 90′s to Australia to the rather unlikely location of the Gold Coast, Queensland and have been here ever since!! In 2008 LMW was acquired by a smart agency out of Melbourne and whom are aptly named Smart.I have two wonderful daughters, Hannah, who is in the film industry, based in Vancouver Canada and Hope, who is still enduring the final years of her university education.
I am married to Elisabeth who is a rather clever individual who’s ESL skills allow us to travel, a pastime I love.
I now write books and base myself in Bali for six months of each year.It’s a sexy job….however it’s yet to pay the rent.
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July 20, 2014
Something wicked this way comes ... … and, boy, is it wicked.
This is the final book in Walters’ Jonathan Savage trilogy and it doesn’t disappoint. In fact it ramps up a dozen rungs or so on the ladder delivering a non-stop fireworks show, burst after pyrotechnic burst.
The main players from Final Diagnosis and Payback unite to meet their varied ends. The villains are villainous, the heroes are real and, given what’s happening in our world, the scenario is all-too-terrifyingly possible.
The pace never slackens and the words flow effortlessly to create scenes easily conjured into images.
A really good finale. Thanks for the entertainment, Mr Walters!
This is the final book in Walters’ Jonathan Savage trilogy and it doesn’t disappoint. In fact it ramps up a dozen rungs or so on the ladder delivering a non-stop fireworks show, burst after pyrotechnic burst.
The main players from Final Diagnosis and Payback unite to meet their varied ends. The villains are villainous, the heroes are real and, given what’s happening in our world, the scenario is all-too-terrifyingly possible.
The pace never slackens and the words flow effortlessly to create scenes easily conjured into images.
A really good finale. Thanks for the entertainment, Mr Walters!
July 20, 2014
A good read
First off the bat let me say that the FINAL DIAGNOSIS plotline is a good one with only one flaw for me. That flaw has to do with the number of people who work for one of the baddies--Miranda Phillips, a drop-dead gorgeous female with cascading red hair and Botticelli face--who are party to what she's doing. I found it hard to believe that all these employees are okay with what is required of them, which is to carry out investigations that have deadly consequences.
The story: Jonathon Savage, a communications billionaire with a company fast rivalling the likes of Apple, receives some devastating medical news and hatches a plan to circumvent what he's told will be a fast downward spiral. The plan sees him leaving a trusted friend in charge of the company while he globe trots in an effort to evade an assassin. Bad luck of a personal nature follows Savage around. Several years previously his wife and daughter died in a plane crash. In Spain he meets a beautiful young woman and is instantly attracted. That attraction puts her in danger's path. It's touch and go whether they survive.
Other than Savage I felt the characters were rather one-dimensional. Miranda Phillips tended to scream a lot, which got on my nerves. Fortunately she doesn't appear on every page. The dialogue, for me, was not quite natural, and at times I had to read it twice to see who was talking because exchanges between characters ran on instead of dropping down when there was a change of speaker.
Other than those points, as I say, the story is a good one. It kept me turning the page to see how Savage survives because, as this is the first in a three-book series, survive he obviously does.
First off the bat let me say that the FINAL DIAGNOSIS plotline is a good one with only one flaw for me. That flaw has to do with the number of people who work for one of the baddies--Miranda Phillips, a drop-dead gorgeous female with cascading red hair and Botticelli face--who are party to what she's doing. I found it hard to believe that all these employees are okay with what is required of them, which is to carry out investigations that have deadly consequences.
The story: Jonathon Savage, a communications billionaire with a company fast rivalling the likes of Apple, receives some devastating medical news and hatches a plan to circumvent what he's told will be a fast downward spiral. The plan sees him leaving a trusted friend in charge of the company while he globe trots in an effort to evade an assassin. Bad luck of a personal nature follows Savage around. Several years previously his wife and daughter died in a plane crash. In Spain he meets a beautiful young woman and is instantly attracted. That attraction puts her in danger's path. It's touch and go whether they survive.
Other than Savage I felt the characters were rather one-dimensional. Miranda Phillips tended to scream a lot, which got on my nerves. Fortunately she doesn't appear on every page. The dialogue, for me, was not quite natural, and at times I had to read it twice to see who was talking because exchanges between characters ran on instead of dropping down when there was a change of speaker.
Other than those points, as I say, the story is a good one. It kept me turning the page to see how Savage survives because, as this is the first in a three-book series, survive he obviously does.
March 14, 2013
Not quite what I expected, but a captivating story line and I look forward to reading the third in the series.
July 22, 2014
Another exciting and easy to read book by Mr Walters.... Nicely ties everything together from the previous books.
Look forward to the next one!
Look forward to the next one!
January 13, 2013
This is the second book in the Jonathon Savage trilogy, the first being FINAL DIAGNOSIS which I have already reviewed.
Because it's called The Jonathan Savage trilogy I expected BLOWBACK to also feature Jonathan Savage but it doesn't. The link is Miranda Phillips, the criminal in the first book who lived to get away. FINAL DIAGNOSIS was played out for the most past in New York and Bali. The setting for BLOWBACK is England with brief excursions to other places including Africa.
The story revolves around a very nasty virus being let loose in public places around London, the first in a late night tube train, and the assumption that it is a terrorist attack. Until that is confirmed Chief Inspector Jim Moore of Scotland Yard is asked to lead the investigation into the multiple murders. As the second and then a third attack occurs the pressure on Moore to solve the case becomes increasingly intense. I won't reveal what Phillips involvement is except to say she is one nasty piece of work. Moore has to contend with his own demons while trying to track down the real ones holding the UK to ransom.
All in all a good read well told. There is no in-depth characterisation, Walters concentrates on the plot. Characters are drawn to the extent needed to advance the story.
It's a read that will keep you absorbed without taxing your brain. In other words, a good book to relax back with, glass in hand, to while away an afternoon or evening.
Because it's called The Jonathan Savage trilogy I expected BLOWBACK to also feature Jonathan Savage but it doesn't. The link is Miranda Phillips, the criminal in the first book who lived to get away. FINAL DIAGNOSIS was played out for the most past in New York and Bali. The setting for BLOWBACK is England with brief excursions to other places including Africa.
The story revolves around a very nasty virus being let loose in public places around London, the first in a late night tube train, and the assumption that it is a terrorist attack. Until that is confirmed Chief Inspector Jim Moore of Scotland Yard is asked to lead the investigation into the multiple murders. As the second and then a third attack occurs the pressure on Moore to solve the case becomes increasingly intense. I won't reveal what Phillips involvement is except to say she is one nasty piece of work. Moore has to contend with his own demons while trying to track down the real ones holding the UK to ransom.
All in all a good read well told. There is no in-depth characterisation, Walters concentrates on the plot. Characters are drawn to the extent needed to advance the story.
It's a read that will keep you absorbed without taxing your brain. In other words, a good book to relax back with, glass in hand, to while away an afternoon or evening.
September 29, 2011
Good easy read for a first effort
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