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Jock Stewart
Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire
Mainstream humor with a dash of mystery… A throwback to Hollywood's film noir reporters, Jock Stewart is out of touch with the looming world of digital journalism. While he goes out of his way to mock those in authority by pretending to kowtow to them, he admits he does his best work by being an a-hole.
A mix of Don Rickles and Don Quixote, Stewart is the man for the job when the skirts are up and the chips are down…Hard-boiled reporter Jock Stewart wakes up on the morning after the Star-Gazer office party with a hangover and an old flame in his bed and he cuddles up with the mayor's wife in the back seat of a 1953 Desoto.
Between these defining moments, he investigates the theft of the mayor's race horse Sea of Fire and the murder of his publisher's girlfriend, Bambi Hill. Stewart discovers the truth for his news stories via an interview style based on lies, pretense and audacious behavior…
A mix of Don Rickles and Don Quixote, Stewart is the man for the job when the skirts are up and the chips are down…Hard-boiled reporter Jock Stewart wakes up on the morning after the Star-Gazer office party with a hangover and an old flame in his bed and he cuddles up with the mayor's wife in the back seat of a 1953 Desoto.
Between these defining moments, he investigates the theft of the mayor's race horse Sea of Fire and the murder of his publisher's girlfriend, Bambi Hill. Stewart discovers the truth for his news stories via an interview style based on lies, pretense and audacious behavior…
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First published August 1, 2009
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About the author
Malcolm R. Campbell
41 books89 followersAuthor of "Conjure Woman's Cat," a 1950s-era novella set in the Florida Panhandle. The first three chapters of this book have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The book has two sequels, "Eulalie and Washerwoman" and "Lena."
Campbell is also the author of "Sarabande," "The Sun Singer," and "Sarabande."
I've lived in north Georgia since 1977.
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Campbell is also the author of "Sarabande," "The Sun Singer," and "Sarabande."
I've lived in north Georgia since 1977.
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July 5, 2010
Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire is the first novel starring the wise-cracking journalist who heretofore has appeared in the Morning Satirical New blog and in the satire news article collection The Worst of Jock Stewart. (Jock Stewart is rumored to be the alter-ego of author Malcolm R. Campbell.) Jock Stewart is an old school journalist who started his career by handsetting metal type and doesn’t appreciate the nuances of the upcoming digital news age as much as his editor wishes he would. As the Star-Gazer newspaper transitions toward a paperless future where Jock will no longer “report” the news, but merely “facilitate” discussion between bloggers and Internet users, Jock struggles to complete his one last, real news assignment. Unfortunately, the missing race horse Sea of Fire just refuses to turn up; his owners can’t even commit to admitting he’s been stolen, and the #1 suspect is Jock’s on-again-off-again girlfriend, last seen leaving Jock’s house without her little black dress. Then, there’s the murder …
First of all, I have to say that you shouldn’t read this book for the mystery. I couldn’t summon much concern for a race horse that may or may not have been stolen, and I never had any doubt about the mastermind behind the murder. The pleasure in reading this book is in the humor – rather in the vein of Joan Hess’s Maggody series. Junction City is full of quirky, laughable characters whose daily activities are more interesting than the central mystery, and Jock Stewart’s wise-cracking persona provides, even in third person, an enjoyable narration full of puns and word play. Whether it’s Officer House, who, after accidentally shooting off his left nut (to be clarified as his sole remaining nut), no longer “has what it takes” to be a patrolman – or local author Cane Molasses who was roughed up by an unidentified woman for making the naughty slut in his novel “just like me” (to be clarified as the unidentified woman and not me) – Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire is full of fun, chuckles, and belly laughs.
First of all, I have to say that you shouldn’t read this book for the mystery. I couldn’t summon much concern for a race horse that may or may not have been stolen, and I never had any doubt about the mastermind behind the murder. The pleasure in reading this book is in the humor – rather in the vein of Joan Hess’s Maggody series. Junction City is full of quirky, laughable characters whose daily activities are more interesting than the central mystery, and Jock Stewart’s wise-cracking persona provides, even in third person, an enjoyable narration full of puns and word play. Whether it’s Officer House, who, after accidentally shooting off his left nut (to be clarified as his sole remaining nut), no longer “has what it takes” to be a patrolman – or local author Cane Molasses who was roughed up by an unidentified woman for making the naughty slut in his novel “just like me” (to be clarified as the unidentified woman and not me) – Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire is full of fun, chuckles, and belly laughs.
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