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Angela
Life can be a game of Russian roulette with the Grim Reaper where timing and luck may play a major role in determining fate. Johnny Buck doesn’t understand this. He’s an impetuous kid with a suicidal father who suddenly wants Johnny and his mother dead.
Throughout his life Johnny makes a lot of bad choices based on impulsive behavior and wishful thinking. He finds himself involved with the wrong women while the promising ones seem to slip away. Coincidentally—all of them except one are named Angela.
In his late twenties Johnny finds himself becoming attracted to the spellbinding writing of a mysterious novelist using the pen name Samantha Sommers. He conjures up a stunning image of her to match her prose. Becoming infatuated with her, Johnny decides to write her a long letter expressing his attraction to her captivating writing style and fascinating characters. He reveals his desire to meet her. She replies with a brief letter stating bluntly that it wouldn’t be a good idea. Still he wonders who she is.
Through a course of events that seem to be guided by fate—he’s about to find out.
Throughout his life Johnny makes a lot of bad choices based on impulsive behavior and wishful thinking. He finds himself involved with the wrong women while the promising ones seem to slip away. Coincidentally—all of them except one are named Angela.
In his late twenties Johnny finds himself becoming attracted to the spellbinding writing of a mysterious novelist using the pen name Samantha Sommers. He conjures up a stunning image of her to match her prose. Becoming infatuated with her, Johnny decides to write her a long letter expressing his attraction to her captivating writing style and fascinating characters. He reveals his desire to meet her. She replies with a brief letter stating bluntly that it wouldn’t be a good idea. Still he wonders who she is.
Through a course of events that seem to be guided by fate—he’s about to find out.
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Published January 17, 2010
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Rex Kusler
23 books50 followersRex Kusler was born in Missouri and raised in a small town in Iowa. He spent his most formative years reading Mad Magazine and playing tiddlywinks. His writing began with a newsletter for a beer club he founded in San Jose in 1982. Soon afterward he tried his hand at short stories. After success selling some of them to a few regional magazines he began writing novels. Seven years, four novels, three agents, and a pile of rejection letters later, he gave up--for a while. In 2003 he wrote ANGELA. In 2009 he completed the first novel in his Las Vegas Mystery Series PUNCTURED, based on his experience selling his trailer for cash in an RV storage lot after dark. After success as a self-published e-book, it was re-released in May 2011 by Amazon Publishing. The second in the series is ASHES TO DUST, followed by DESERT DROP, and many others.
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April 3, 2021
Kusler’s first published book, with some of the ironic humour of his later Las Vegas mysteries, Takes us through three periods in Johnny Buck’s love life with a twist at the end.
February 24, 2017
Still my favorite author--
This book held by interest from the beginning to the end-- if you read this book you will not understand what is happening until the end of the book. I finished it at 5:30 AM. An all-nighter but it was worth it. Really a nice story.
This book held by interest from the beginning to the end-- if you read this book you will not understand what is happening until the end of the book. I finished it at 5:30 AM. An all-nighter but it was worth it. Really a nice story.
July 20, 2012
I don't like being mislead and for some reason this book was placed with thrillers and mysteries. In my opinion it is neither
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