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Waypoint
You’ve been abducted from your home. You wake in a strange hotel room to make a terrifying discovery – there’s a bomb strapped around your chest. You have 24 hours to travel a thousand miles and find a code that disarms the device. Or die. You have no money. No cell phone. Nothing but the clothes on your back and one other, sinister object – a loaded gun. Through your mounting panic, you wonder what this is all about. It’s about one How much do you want to live?
440 pages, Paperback
Published March 11, 2016
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April 30, 2016
How would you handle this situation? You are kidnapped from your home, wake up in a hotel room, no phone, no money, and you have a bomb strapped to your chest. I know what I would do, I’d freak the f*#@ out! We meet Julie, one of the main characters in this fascinating thriller, in exactly this way. When the phone rings, the adventure begins. Julie must get to the coordinates given on the phone within 24 hours, or else the bomb goes off and her life ends.
Matthew Howe, the author of this story, creates a frightening situation that makes your own imagination run wild. Mine did, picturing myself in this same situation, cringing at some of the scenarios, I do think I would have behaved pretty similar to Julie. Despite what this situation drove her to do, the author painted Julie in an honest light, and you couldn’t help but forgive her for any transgressions, and you certainly rooted for her. Other characters are introduced into the story, creating a psychological mind game, pitting good versus evil, friend vs. foe. Who will win? You need to read this book to find out!
Matthew Howe crafted a well written, thrilling story, part Hunger Games and part La Femme Nikita. As with Katniss, Julie is the type of female character I love to root for, strong, intelligent, and most importantly, she has the will to survive!
Thank you, Matthew for reaching out to me on Twitter and giving me the opportunity to read your book for my honest review.
Matthew Howe, the author of this story, creates a frightening situation that makes your own imagination run wild. Mine did, picturing myself in this same situation, cringing at some of the scenarios, I do think I would have behaved pretty similar to Julie. Despite what this situation drove her to do, the author painted Julie in an honest light, and you couldn’t help but forgive her for any transgressions, and you certainly rooted for her. Other characters are introduced into the story, creating a psychological mind game, pitting good versus evil, friend vs. foe. Who will win? You need to read this book to find out!
Matthew Howe crafted a well written, thrilling story, part Hunger Games and part La Femme Nikita. As with Katniss, Julie is the type of female character I love to root for, strong, intelligent, and most importantly, she has the will to survive!
Thank you, Matthew for reaching out to me on Twitter and giving me the opportunity to read your book for my honest review.
May 1, 2016
WAYPOINT is a fast-paced thriller with smart, unexpected twists that reveal ever deeper layers of the novel’s terrifying world, a world not so different from our own. Riveting!
Julie LePlant is a mousy, young photographer living in a nowhere town. She has a dead-end job at a coffee shop where her prints hang endlessly for sale. But the night a creepy customer buys one of her photographs for quadruple its going price, her life changes, if you can believe it, for the worse. Drugged and kidnapped from her own apartment, she wakes the next morning terrified and alone in a strange hotel room—with a bomb strapped tightly to her chest.
Julie has 24 hours to travel a thousand miles where she’ll find a code to disarm the bomb before it kills her and anyone who might be nearby. Her wallet is missing, her keys are gone, and her cellphone is nowhere to be found. The only other object she finds in her own jacket pocket is a loaded handgun. For Julie LePlant—the shy, artistic barista who had been slowly going nowhere—nothing matters now but doing whatever it takes to find the waypoint fast.
An ambitious debut, Matthew Howe's thriller hits raw national nerves, such as domestic terrorism, surveillance, and the dubious manner in which public policy is made.
Julie LePlant is a mousy, young photographer living in a nowhere town. She has a dead-end job at a coffee shop where her prints hang endlessly for sale. But the night a creepy customer buys one of her photographs for quadruple its going price, her life changes, if you can believe it, for the worse. Drugged and kidnapped from her own apartment, she wakes the next morning terrified and alone in a strange hotel room—with a bomb strapped tightly to her chest.
Julie has 24 hours to travel a thousand miles where she’ll find a code to disarm the bomb before it kills her and anyone who might be nearby. Her wallet is missing, her keys are gone, and her cellphone is nowhere to be found. The only other object she finds in her own jacket pocket is a loaded handgun. For Julie LePlant—the shy, artistic barista who had been slowly going nowhere—nothing matters now but doing whatever it takes to find the waypoint fast.
An ambitious debut, Matthew Howe's thriller hits raw national nerves, such as domestic terrorism, surveillance, and the dubious manner in which public policy is made.
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