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48 Hours To Die: An Anthony Stone Novel

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A deadly serial killer that goes by the name Uncle Sam is on the loose terrorizing the city. By day he's a regular working man, but by night he transforms into a vicious killer that preys on single women. Everything is fine until Detective Anthony Stone begins to stick his nose in Uncle Sam's business. Uncle Sam then captures Anthony Stone's family and gives the detective 48 hours to either kill himself or watch his loved one's die..... the choice is his.

Just when Anthony Stone's life is calming down, he's forced to make a decision that will change his life as well as all the lives around him forever.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 26, 2015

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Silk White

50 books202 followers
A native of Harlem, New York, Silk White began his writing career in 2006.

He is the author of the Urban Fiction series Tears of a Hustler & Co-Owner of Good2go Publishing and Good2Go Films.

Silk has No Way Out and Black Barbie film credits under Good2Go Films and in his spare time, loves to write and act.

He is currently producing a new movie and is hard at work on his next novel.

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Profile Image for Varsha Naik.
40 reviews4 followers
September 21, 2016
yikes. I'm writing this review to help others. Before I got the (thankfully free) copy of this e book I went by the 5 star reviews it had. Bad move.

The story is pathetic. It's like someone sat down to write a story, wrote gibberish for 2 hrs and got it published. There is hardly any story, no plot and the most annoying thing is that the central character is called by his full name ALL.THE.TIME. Anthony Stone got up. Anthony Stone went to the car. Anthony Stone drove the car. Duh ..where are those things called pronouns?! Real waste of time.
Profile Image for Cheryl Johnson.
6 reviews1 follower
October 31, 2016
Oh my... I don't even know where to begin. I have never rated a book one star before, but quite frankly in this case even that is too generous. The author writes like a 12 year old child with a violent imagination. The only thing that was missing at the end was "and then I woke up and it had all just been a bad dream...". There are no pronouns, the protagonist's full name is used every time, and its infuriating. Not to mention the clumsy attempts to create any sort of tension, the numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes and general lack of cohesion. I'm all honesty if this book had actually been written by a 12 year old child, I would still not be impressed. As it is, I wish I'd never picked it up, it's just awful.
Profile Image for Will Decker.
Author 23 books17 followers
September 19, 2016
If there is anything good to say about this book it would be that it's short! Even if you fixed all the grammatical, sentence structure, misused words, and the list goes on, you would still have a lousy plot written by someone that didn't take the time to research his subject matter. If you're going to chop up people as a main part of your story, research anatomy. If you're going to speak from a cop's perspective, research police procedures. And last but no least, remember what you've written-her foot can't be chopped off with an ax one minute and then refer to it later as having been sawed off. Reading this story made my brain bleed. It really only rates a single star, but I'm giving the author a second star for effort. My first grade teacher used to do the same for me.
Profile Image for Kendell That'sMe.
167 reviews14 followers
April 7, 2015
Another Great Book From Silk white.
I really enjoyed this Fast paced Read. it Held my attention from the very 1st page.I like detective Anthony Stone.And hope the author Continue to write about his character.This was a stand alone book which made it even better.Good Job Mr white keep up the Good work.
Profile Image for James Rawly.
266 reviews3 followers
November 20, 2016
Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone,Anthony Stone.

Get used to reading that name because that is basically the only words in this garbage book. Grammatical errors are plenty as well. The only positive of reading this crap is it was a free ebook.

Garbage all around
Profile Image for Patti Illingworth.
2 reviews
September 13, 2016
48 Hours to Die

Great story but the repeated usage of the main character's full name and the multiple errors per page were distracting. Proofreading before printing should not be optional.
92 reviews1 follower
March 2, 2017
Yes, this was a free book from bookbub.com, but it needed a good editor. There were so many grammatical errors that it was hard to read some parts. Other than that, the story wasn't half bad.
293 reviews
October 27, 2016
This is poorly written story, almost every second line has "Anthony Stone" in it. Its like someone did a search and replace and put the name every where. "Anthony Stone took off into the woods after the hooded man. Anthony Stone held his flash-light above his 9mm .... " you get what I mean. Its actually distracting from the story.
Profile Image for Donna Noe.
6 reviews1 follower
September 26, 2016
Needs editing...

While I had great hopes for this one, but it just didn't work. This could be a good page turner, however it needs thorough editing. Also, I think that the writer over uses Stone's full name. It just didn't do it for me. I say edit, and issue another edition.
Profile Image for heather steigler.
84 reviews
October 22, 2016
Disappointed

Too many typos. Story was not only predictable but way overdone and not believable. I read a lot and rarely say I wouldn't recommend but for this book I couldn't recommend.
1 review
October 26, 2016
Grammar.....

I don't understand how this was released! Was it not proofread at all? I was getting annoyed when page after page had mistakes! Really wanted to read it because the plot sounded enticing.
Profile Image for Amy.
610 reviews7 followers
March 20, 2017
I actually liked this book because of its fast pace and interesting characters. You may be wondering why if I liked the book I only rated it 3 stars; that would because of the annoying and incessant grammatical errors and the author continuously using the main characters full name when speaking of him. "Anthony Stone said... Anthony Stone's girlfriend..." I'm pretty sure just saying "Anthony" to identify Anthony Stone will not confuse the reader. Super annoying! To make it worse, because I noticed it early in, I couldn't "un-notice it".
Profile Image for Kim.
12 reviews1 follower
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September 24, 2016
The only thing that this book has going for it is that the story line is decent. It's pretty exciting although it does get repetitive and is fairly predictable.

But it looks like some high schooler with terrible grammar skills wrote this book. About 10 pages in, I said, "Did I PAY for this?" because there were so many errors, it was ridiculous. Thankfully, the wrong use of words or misspellings were way less common than the awkward placement of commas. Seriously...every single page...a comma was in some place where it had no business being and more than likely, there was more than one on the page. It makes for awkward reading and really takes away from the story, but I kept reading because it was a quick read and the story didn't exactly suck.

Next, why does the main character's full name have to be used every single time!? I think there was twice where Captain Fischer simply referred to him as Stone and maybe just Detective Stone a few more times. It's incredibly annoying. I know his name is Anthony Stone; it doesn't need to be repeated 1,000 times throughout the book.

And then there's the notes left by Uncle Sam. They aren't scary or intimidating. They seem kind of amateurish. Most of them are pretty similar, as well, so the gist of every letter, save varied wording, is this: "If you're getting this letter, it's because you have failed to do your job once again. The police need to start working harder and so I'm going to keep killing people until you do. -Uncle Sam"

Honestly, I beg of the author/publisher, please PROOFREAD your stuff before you put it out there for all the world to see. I'm no english major and could have done a better job at correcting errors than your editor did.
Profile Image for Steven Potts.
46 reviews
September 27, 2016
Not worth the time

This was a 1-2-3 cop story with no suspense. A police officer you new was going to win from the beginning. A detective who seemed to have a police captain working for him. Two dimensional characters and a bad guy that was almost one dimensional (pointed out fairly close to the beginning and very poorly developed).

Don't waste your time unless you have an hour to kill and nothing else to read. Yes, I've told you how I really feel.
Profile Image for Zara Payne.
14 reviews1 follower
October 6, 2016
"Anthony Stone"

It was very irritating to constantly read "Anthony Stone" when the main character was mentioned. Not Tony or not Stone, the whole entire name. I felt like I was reading a primer. It was very distracting. It also seemed to have missing parts of the story. For someone who reads a lot, I would not recommend this to anyone.
1 review
December 14, 2016
Sorry it's had the making of being good but the insistence of the author calling the main character by his full name every single time just irritate

Sorry it's completely irrational and I don't know why it bothered me so much but using the full name of the lead character every single time he was mentioned absolutely irritated me to the point I couldn't get past a few chapters.
Profile Image for Blkvelvet.
522 reviews14 followers
September 4, 2016
Typically I rate stories with grammatical errors one to three stars, but the story was so exciting I rated it four stars. I see five star ratings in your future, all it takes is a good editor.

GREAT STORY Author.

BV11
Profile Image for Luna Jordan.
Author 2 books56 followers
May 9, 2024
It looked interesting; truthfully, I just looked at the cover and title, and thought “this could be interesting”. Then, I opened the book (eBook, really) and ultimately just questioned myself as to why I bothered in the first place. Because I liked the cover and the title. And because it was free.
24 reviews
September 29, 2016
Poorly Written

This is the second story of Mr White I have read and one of the worst I think a 10 year old child could have written a better story. Totally drivel.
Profile Image for Kasia Elliott.
3 reviews
October 4, 2016
Extraordinary happy that it was a free eBook.
Was a quick read, predictable, lacked creativity and imagination.
3 reviews
November 6, 2016
Too many grammatical mistakes

Hard to read as there were poor sentence structure and punctuation. There were also misused words. Someone needs to proof read.
Profile Image for Marbea Logan.
1,301 reviews17 followers
March 26, 2015
It was too fast paced to be a crime novel, but it was a good read!!
Profile Image for Alisha Rowe.
631 reviews33 followers
September 11, 2021
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Uncle Sam is on the loose and he has one mission in mind: Make Detective Anthony Stone pay for his wife's death. It is the police's job to protect and serve. So, in order for the cops to get up and start doing their duty Uncle Sam is going on a killing spree. When that isn't enough Uncle Sam decides to make it personal. Stone has 48 hours to choose himself or his family. Who lives and who dies will be up to the detective.

I started this book with the highest of hopes. I loved the synopsis. I serial killer with an ultimatum? Yes please. Everyone loves a good serial killer book. Especially where they chop their victims up into tiny little pieces. That being said this book falls flat of my expectations. If you were to chop up this book the same way Uncle Sam does then you'd have about half the words and a decent short story.

The story has hope. If you ignore everything else. The story itself has the possibility of being a gruesome vengeance book. I am sitting here going through my lists of eBooks trying to find out where I got this book from. If it was an impulse buy then I don't feel bad about what comes next. If, however, it was an indie author who suggested I purchase their book on Amazon I am going to feel terrible. Because I love the indie authors on my Twitter and hate to leave a negative review. Especially considering I would give it zero stars if I had the option. I know I shouldn't feel the relief that I do, but this was not one of "my authors" as I like to call them. This was an impulse buy.

Moving on, since I have expelled everything nice I have to say about this book. It was so badly written that I wasn't sure if the author was from another country and English wasn't their primary language. Spoiler. They are from New York. No dice there. Someone needs to take away this authors right to use a comma. The amount of times they are used incorrectly baffles the mind. Seriously. Who puts a comma in the middle of a sentence? It is like they were using it as their only seasoning and they were liberal with it. I really don't even want to know how many commas are in this book.

Next. The overly descriptive sections. If I ever have to read the name Anthony Stone again I may stab out my own eyes. EVERY time Stone is talked about or there is a chapter about this man it is Anthony Stone. Not Stone. Not Anthony. It was infuriating. Or "the masked man" did this and continues using that phrase in each sentence of a paragraph. I don't know if there was some word count that had to be achieved and when the story just didn't cut it the author went "Let's add some descriptives!" ,but that was not the way to go.

I know I am not the only one who noticed how badly this book was written because there were frequently highlighted sections. Normally I don't pay these too much mind. People like to highlight things they enjoyed. However, in this case I feel these readers were doing exactly what I was doing. Which was highlighting all of the errors in the book. I know I didn't catch them all because I started skimming just wanting this torture to end. 173 in the 93 pages that make up this book. And no, this does not include every time the detectives name was used.

I know I have been harsh on the awfulness of this editing, but honestly while it was obviously non-existent that isn't the entire issue with this book. There is also the issue of Uncle Sam's deceased partner. At the beginning she is referred to as his fiancé and from that point thereafter she is referred to as his wife. To my knowledge you have to be married before you die to become someone's wife. But, it could just be another of the many errors in this book. It is safe to say I won't be getting any other books from this author.
Profile Image for Rebel.
2,654 reviews
August 12, 2018
Awful!!!! DON'T BUY

I couldn't take anymore. I put up with it until Chapter 19 but by then it was too much. The grammar was awful, too many insipid "Baby" this or "Baby" that. There was no need for the writer to constantly refer to her detective character as "Anthony Stone". It becomes really redundant every time "Anthony Stone sat sipping ....." "Anthony Stone was pissed ......". Refer to him as Stone or Anthony. Digital copy is bad, it has missing pages. The writer uses exclamation point when "Uncle Sam aka Reggie" is saying something in a calm tone. No need for exclamation point in that sentence. The story was too bogged down to get through with the forced dialogue. The writer didn't seem to know how to portray the characters in any real or fluid manner. Just a couple examples of the forced dialogue -

Captain Fisher patted, Anthony Stone on the back. "You'll get him next time champ. Go home and get you some rest." Seriously, what kind of grammar is that.

He merged onto the highway when he heard cell phone ringing. I seriously hope it's just the digital copy that's the problem. Sounds like a caveman talking, "Me heard animal, me kill."

"He hadn't been with a woman since his wife had been murdered ...." Now that had nothing to do with the digital copy, that was the writer and he can't seem to keep his storyline correct. The writer said it was "the fiance" who was killed during a hostage situation not a wife.

"warm, wet slice" who the hell talks like that.

I thought LKH was bad with all her "flaccid bits" but this writer is ridiculous. I'm sorry but I wouldn't pay for any of this author's books. I hate that I wasted bandwidth downloading this book. DON'T BUY!
Profile Image for Elmer Foster.
713 reviews5 followers
February 17, 2020
Rough and not worth the effort!

Bad is a starting point because it just kept getting worse the more I read.
Short of writing what comes across as a book report based on a repeating rerun of CSI (or the like), there wasn't anything realistic or relevant within this story.

Clearly, the author hasn't taken a criminal justice course, psychology course or anything remotely covering human behavior, let alone a writing course.(Otherwise, why address your main character by his full name nearly every time?!?) Or how about motive: You let my girlfriend get killed, therefore, I will go on a murder spree (completely dismembering women) to teach you a lesson in how to do your job! Said by the actual "killer" within the first few pages of the story. Who, of course, is a thriving business owner of a local club that affords him enough profit to buy a mansion and a Porsche. Sure, I'll kill you at my place and just discard your remains elsewhere... too easy.

There was no deliberate effort to understand criminal psychosis, police procedure, or personal interactions on any level that developed believable characters.

C'mon man the dialogue was lazy, the action was predictable and unbelievable, and at no time was Anthony Stone ever qualified to be on the police force, let alone a detective, with phrases like "I want the entire area dusted for prints" as the first effort on an active crime scene. Really? Or asking a potential witness (aka friend of the victim killed after being last seen at the killer's packed club,) three irrelevant questions that leads you DIRECTLY to the office of the killer to no avail.

Avoid this and read a cereal box for more depth.

Thanks for reading because this one hurt.
1,517 reviews28 followers
January 7, 2017
Toto som mala precitane asi za dve hodiny a len prekrucam ocami, ze som ju vobec docitala :rolling_eyes: Trapne, trapne, hrozne pisanie.
Hlavny hrdina sa vola Anthony Stone. A preco som si jeho meno na rozdiel od inych hrdinov zapamatala??? Lebo zakazdym, ked nieco v knihe spravil alebo povedal, autor pouzil jeho cele meno. Myslim si, ze je to kvoli tomu, aby nepouzival ON, alebo MUZ a tak natiahol tu chabu knihu aspon o jednu stranu
Pribeh nie je zly, v meste zacne stupat pocet vrazd. Masovy vrah sa chce pomstit policajtom za to, ze nezachranili pred smrtou jeho zenu. Ale cele je to cudne, lebo potom sa v tom jeho dome najdu muciace nastroje a myslim si, ze taky clovek ani nie je schopny niekoho milovat.
Autor pise ako 10 rocne decko. Na konci detektiv zachrani tu svoju frajerku, okolo neho je plno mrtvych ludi a on sa na nu uskrnie, ze idu domov do postele oslavit, ze zije. Hlavna vec, ze jej mama je este niekde v sklade s odrubanou nohou, zaviazana...proste, sex je prednejsi ako vlastna mama
Nechapem to, lebo dalsie autorove knihy su lepsie hodnotene, ale uz to nebudem zistovat
Profile Image for Heather Britsky.
55 reviews6 followers
June 8, 2018
The only redeeming thing about this book is that it was a super quick read. Yet I still can’t believe I wasted the time reading it. Not only is the writing subpar, but there are countless mistakes between spelling, punctuation, inconsistencies, and sentences either repeating or not making sense. Did no one edit this?

The women are all physically described, yet of course none of the men are. The relationship between the main character and his girlfriend made me roll my eyes and gag more than once. Who really uses “baby” every sentence they are speaking to their significant other? His full name is used way too much. On one page “Anthony Stone” was mentioned 4 times within 8 sentences. For being a cop, Stone was a complete moron. His captain wasn’t much better. There is not a single likeable character. There is not a single intelligent character.

I could keep going on, but it all just comes down to this - Why did I keep reading? I just can't process fully how bad this was.
34 reviews
February 9, 2018
Poorly written with loads of grammatical errors. It's as though the author has English as a second language. The sentences are far to short and almost like a list of things happening in sequence, with limited punctuation or connectives and very few adjectives. The main character Antony Stone, how could I forget his name when nearly every thing he did or said started with "Antony Stone said... or Antony stone thought... or Antony Stone got up...", you get the picture. Quite frankly it drove me mad. I finished it just to see what happened, which wasn't very much except lots of violence. How someone can have their foot cut off and survive without attention I do not know, one would have thought they would have bled out, but obviously not in this author's world! I wouldn't recommend this book. If it wasn't free in the first place I would have asked for a refund.
Profile Image for Pamela Miller.
1 review
May 22, 2017
Written by a child?

The story line was good; however, the way it was written gave me the feeling I was reading a story written by an elementary student. "Anthony ran, fast to first base. Now Anthony is, running fast to second base. Anthony tripped, and was touched by the ball so he is out." The end of the story left me with the feeling that Tasha's mother was completely forgotten about. Perhaps with some coaching on, using different phrases, words and proper puncuation, and tying up the loose ends, I would want to read the next book published. After reading this ebook, I have no desire to continue reading this author.
3 reviews
May 16, 2017
I wish I could say that once you got past the grammatical errors this was a good book but I can't.

Within the first few chapters I wanted to give up and read something worth reading, however I stuck with it hoping that it was a slow burner and would improve, alas it didn't.

If you decide that you wish to read this book you will become very familiar with Anthony Stone because in the format I read this in this name featured on average about 4 times a page. I am throughly sick of Anthony Stone.







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