Home

by Daniel Martin Eckhart

"The heart truly is where the Home is."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"It made me cry and left me feeling new, forever young and hopeful."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Imaginative, life affirming and magical."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"This just has to be made into a movie."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Come to America's Playground, the one and only Coney Island! When eighty-two year old Max Flynn meets Walt Miller, he can't believe his eyes. Walt is not only seven and a half feet tall, he also looks exactly like the giant Max knew as a child during Coney Island's golden years. Max, a former cop who spent his life protecting the island and the people walking upon it, decides to solve the mystery of 'the impossible man'. As Max learns more and more about Walt Miller, he finds friendship, love, a dark secret and a world beyond his wildest dreams.This is a novel about home, about our planet and the very earth we walk on. This is also a novel about being mindful and doing the right thing. In Walt's "Max Flynn gives me hope. There must be others like him. People who care deeply, deeply enough to hear the heartbeat of the land they walk on. They are the future. They will be the balance."

Genres: Amazon

243 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2016

About the author

Daniel Martin Eckhart is the author of the novels The Champ, Barnaby Smith, Home, Tales of Wychwood and The Sweet-Maker of Connemara.

Eckhart has written screenplays for more than two decades, has published several of his original screenplays in the Eckhart Screenplays series and shared his experiences about the life of a screenwriter in his book, Write, Write, Write.

Before focusing on his writing career, Eckhart served in the Swiss military, guarded the Pope's life in the Vatican, worked for the United Nations, driving trucks across the Sinai Desert, delivering diplomatic mail to Damascus and driving armored limousines in Beirut. After five adventurous years in Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, Eckhart quit the UN to study acting in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he discovered screenwriting. He has penned several feature-length movies, worked on TV shows and has adapted novels for the small screen.

Eckhart lives with his family on a 17th century farm in Switzerland.

Reviews

[Maureen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book covers it all: mystery, romance, history, fantasy and just plain old fashioned storytelling. Max Flynn is a life long resident of New York's Coney Island. He managed to overcome a childhood tragedy and now, as a retired police officer, keeps his eye on the heartbeat of everything that makes Coney Island what it is. Max is just the central character of an array of engaging characters in this book, which takes surprising twists and turns and ends on an uplifting note. It is a fascinating read from a stimulating author

[Barb · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so good. Max is 82, retired cop of Coney Island, only has 3 months to live, but he goes to diner everyday to see Rebecca. The woman who owns the diner, Al, dies and her bracelet is gone, so Max has reason to solve it. Then a man who looks like a giant comes to Coney Island.

[Lynn Leach · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book surprised me. It started out as one genre and blended with others along the way. I loved the characters. In the end, it broke my heart but left hope in it's wake.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pastels of E L Doctorow raises personal sentimentality from the dead and like Lazarus He is remembered and has his memories : that camp counselor, famous long ago like a friend you once knew but forgot; and the ember glows again in you heart of all things loved and now gone. Yet it is not
perfect Lazarus lives but is not quite human like Frankenstein's monster-We expect so much from our writers! Raising the dead but still not perfect....A Coney Island of dreams worth revisiting

[Annie · Rating 5 out of 5]

MAGIC AND WONDER

Magic, wonder and an irresistible cast of characters is only a beginning to describing this book. The story was so compelling that I read the book in one sitting. I didn't want it to end. Don't miss this one!

[MJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really 3.5 of 5 Stars

[Lani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing writing and characters

A gem of a tale. Nothing superfluous in Eckhart's style Just sit back, enjoy this spellbinding journey of captivating characters and breathe.

[jill johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Smart & creative tail

A story of life lived and how you're never too old for new adventures. Creative, intelligent, and unique story of growing old with time left to learn and love.

[Lauren Bernard · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is an element of fantasy in the book that is just not my thing. I liked the characters, but the fantasy part really took away from it.