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Published January 1, 2020
About the author
Laurence O'Bryan
18 books700 followersThere are five novels in my Puzzle thriller series, three in my series about the life of Constantine the Great and three in my Conspiracy thriller series.
My roots go back to a small estate deep in the Mountains of Mourne, near the Silent Valley, in County Down, Northern Ireland.
I went to school in Dublin, drank way too much, studied English and history, then business, then IT at Oxford University. While a student, I worked as a kitchen porter in a club near the Bank of England.
After that I spent ten years working in the City of London, the creaking hub of world finance.
Now I have three kids and a day job helping writers & publishing companies with their social media and digital marketing.
In 2007 I won the Outstanding Novel Submitted award at the Southern California writer’s conference. That helped.
I founded the Dublin Writers Conference in 2015. My research has taken me all over the world, from San Francisco to deep in the Arab world. I like looking at the stars and listening to the stories of strangers.
My roots go back to a small estate deep in the Mountains of Mourne, near the Silent Valley, in County Down, Northern Ireland.
I went to school in Dublin, drank way too much, studied English and history, then business, then IT at Oxford University. While a student, I worked as a kitchen porter in a club near the Bank of England.
After that I spent ten years working in the City of London, the creaking hub of world finance.
Now I have three kids and a day job helping writers & publishing companies with their social media and digital marketing.
In 2007 I won the Outstanding Novel Submitted award at the Southern California writer’s conference. That helped.
I founded the Dublin Writers Conference in 2015. My research has taken me all over the world, from San Francisco to deep in the Arab world. I like looking at the stars and listening to the stories of strangers.
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August 15, 2020
This was a very solid and enjoyable read. It was right off of the headlines and news reports, dealing with the outbreak of Covid-19 and the struggle on the part of China and Russia to get a jump start on a vaccine to deal with an anticipated stronger NEW form of the virus.
There were lots of twists and turns and even though I sense it may be part of a series, it has an ending and can be satisfyingly read, as a stand alone.
I had not read anything else by this write, but would not hesitate to read another of his works.
I was allowed to read an ARC version of the book. There was no requirement to post a review but I am happy to do so. The version I read had a number of minor typos but since this was an ARC, I would expect most of those to be cleaned up. They did not detract from the enjoyment of the story.
There were lots of twists and turns and even though I sense it may be part of a series, it has an ending and can be satisfyingly read, as a stand alone.
I had not read anything else by this write, but would not hesitate to read another of his works.
I was allowed to read an ARC version of the book. There was no requirement to post a review but I am happy to do so. The version I read had a number of minor typos but since this was an ARC, I would expect most of those to be cleaned up. They did not detract from the enjoyment of the story.
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