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STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistressby Andre Jute and Andrew McCoy
e-book £2.12 & paperback from £3.80
STIEG LARSSON
Man, Myth & Mistress
who created the Millennium Trilogy of
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Is Lisbeth Salander a feminist - or a comic book avenger? Is her creator Stieg Larsson a feminist - or a prurient, violent hack? What is the Millennium Trilogy really about? Is it literature or vicarious violence and sex? Should Eva Gabrielsson be in charge of the Girl franchise? Should there be a second Salander Trilogy? Who built the Stieg Larsson myth, and is any of it true?
Best selling authors André Jute and Andrew McCoy wittily investigate the evidence - and arrive at the correct politically incorrect answers. They fix the blame for the Larsson scandal on - surprising people. Some Millennium fans will riot, most will be riotously entertained.
‘Jute is great - a private godsend.'
Ruth Rendell, The Times
The apartheid regime in South Africa twice sent assassins after Andrew McCoy, claiming his novel The Insurrectionist was a ‘blueprint for black revolution' and a ‘handbook for the ANC'.
Like Larsson, André Jute has been a journalist and graphic designer. His novel Reverse Negative led to the exposure of the spy in the Queen's household, Anthony Blunt. He is an acclaimed expert on the thriller, his Writing a Thriller going into three ever-expanding editions over 25 years.
STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress £2.12 e-book
STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress from £3.80 paperback
THE MEYERSCO HELIXby Andrew McCoy
£2.12 e-book, paperback coming
Genre: Thriller
“Mr McCoy gets on with the job of telling us exactly what it is like in the Heart of Darkness. He has the soldier's eye for terrain and the soldier's eye for character. This has the ring of truth.”— John Braine Sunday Telegraph
CHAOS THEORY
"How the hell did we come to where the President of the United States has two minutes to decide whether he will nuke Boston or kill the world instead?"
An extremely powerful novel of the biowar apocalypse, THE MEYERSCO HELIX traces the frighteningly plausible accidents by which the casual killing of a near-extinct mole escalates inexorably towards where an anguished President's must choose either to let a self-propagating biowar substance to kill the world's population - or to destroy a major American city by nuclear blast.
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS
K116 is the top secret US chemical weapon that spells instant agonizing death to mankind. Self-generating in water, only a nuclear blast can stop the deadly dust expanding.
But when a lethal cloul of K116 escapes from a military research lab, one man survives. Charged with nightmare energy, Ribicoff becomes a walking carnage-machine.
Alive Ribicoff is a lethal liability - but dead his K116-glutted body will unleash chemical slaughter on a scale that will make the Black Death look like a summer cold.
Pursued by the massed might of US security forces, Ribicoff acts with the desperate, ruthless bloodlust of an animal at bay - until they corner him in Boston. Where his fiancé, the biochemist Stella Christopher, certain that he will come to her, is desperately working on a cure, despite the agents of her own government trying to kill her.
But will an American President act with equal ruthlessness? There is only one way to cauterize the city of America's Founding Fathers, and it will be no tea party...
The Meyersco Helix £2.12
A small selection of reviews from the international press for my novels:‘Very rough, exciting, filmic, and redolent of a nostalgie de boue d’Afrique...experienced only by the genuine old Africa hand.’
Alastair Phillips Glasgow Herald
‘Like the unblinking eye of a cobra, it is fascinating and hard to look away from, powerful and unique.’
Edwin Corley Good Books
‘I found this work excellent. I recommend it as a book to read on several planes, whether of politics, history or just as thriller --every episode is firmly etched on my memory. It is certainly a most impressive work of fiction.’
‘H.P.’ BBC External Service
‘Like a steam hammer on full bore.’
Jack Adrian Literary Review
‘Something else again. The author has plenty of first-hand experience of the conditions he describes so vividly.’
Marese Murphy Irish Times
‘Totally convincing fiction.’
Colonel Jonathan Alford
Director, Institute for Strategic Studies
BBC World at One
‘The reader is in good hands.’
Kirkus Reviews
‘Even in an entertaining thriller he makes us see ourselves anew.’
La Prensa
‘Graphic adult Boys Own Adventure.’
The Irish Press
‘Mr. McCoy gets on with the job of telling us exactly what it is like in the Heart of Darkness. He has the soldier’s eye for terrain and the soldier’s eye for character. This has the ring of truth.’
John Braine Sunday Telegraph
You've been reading reviews of the novels of Andrew McCoy from the the quality press around the world.
If you want to contact me, you can post here, or send a private message on Goodreads, or you can reach me through several other places:Website http://coolmainpress.com/andrewmccoy....
Twitter @thrillsmccoy http://twitter.com/#!/thrillsmccoy
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?i...
Or carrier pigeonOr message in a bottle
Or shout really really loudly hehe
Thanks so much for posting such great information about your books, Andrew!
I'm thoroughly interested!
Patti (P E) wrote: "Or carrier pigeonOr message in a bottle
Or shout really really loudly hehe
Thanks so much for posting such great information about your books, Andrew!
I'm thoroughly interested!"
People will find their own way to the new reader reviews here on Goodreads, on Smashwords, and on Amazon, but I thought this was interesting, and flattering:
"... the author writes the female protagonist extremely well. We are with Stella all the way in her fight to discover what has caused her fiance's injuries and to get him to safety."
— from ""Not a Dull Moment", review of THE MEYERSCO HELIX by "Bluestocking Lisa" at http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-revie...
Thank you, Lisa. I always knew I was sensitive about women! I was just waiting for someone to notice.
So I would say, Patti, that if you're going to like my novels at all, you'll like MEYERSCO.
Certainly sounds like!Now I feel guilty for asking for a free copy!
Oh well. I can spend my money on your other books, eh?
Feel no guilt. I have an allocation and I'm delighted to give one to someone from Africa.
Actually I'm 'from' Canada. Married to a Brit. Been an expat in Africa for about ten years now. My guy and I lived and worked in Kampala, Uganda for about three years. We've been in Nigeria for about seven now. We're teachers. No, not missionaries. Private schools. Although now I'm just a pampered expat wife as it's illegal for me to work here. Dave's under contract, I volunteer.I loved being in Uganda. We've explored much of East Africa. We've not made it to South Africa yet, but we will. I feel as if I know it intimately though as I have many close friends from there.
We've not been able to explore West Africa at all, due to security restrictions imposed by our company. Yep. Oil.
The restrictions do generally much very good sense though. I'm sure you're aware of the problems. We're in the south south, as they call it. Locked down compound living for three month stretches.
Its an interesting life....
The daughter of friends in England worked for De Beers in Johannesburg on a contract. They were outraged when they heard she would live in guarded compound and be driven to work in an armoured convoy. They didn't seem to understand it was for her protection. They thought that De Beers should trust the nice local people, then everything would be all right...
Where do your employers send you on your rotations? You should demand Paris, or a bonus to spend in Bond Street!
Sounds a plan, Andrew. We always seem to end up spending at least part of our leave in Wales!
CoolMain Press is conducting a giveaway of The Meyersco Helix on Librarything if any forum member wants a free review copy. It ends just after midnight on October 13th. Get yours at http://www.librarything.com/er/list?p...There's a description of THE MEYERSCO HELIX further up the thread if you took a shortcut here. In a nutshell, violent, sexy thriller of the biowar apocalypse.
From a thread on the Other Place:
"diav says:
I enjoyed the book, very much. Well thought out script, with a few % of the start I was hooked. It could even be my book of the year, my one criticism would be the sex scenes which were not needed. Well done, and I will look out some of your other titles."
It's all that fresh Welsh air that did it to you, Patti.
It ain't the 'fresh' Nigerian air, that's fershure.
It's the broken air conditioning and all that heat Patti !Andrew, who's that diav person? When are sex scenes ever not needed ? Can't believe some people !
"Fresh" is a euphemism for "cold and damp"...I like Diav's review, Lorraine. It hits all the high spots of good plotting, hooking the reader, etc. And it even has controversy, in the remark about the sex scenes not being needed. "Book of the year", golly!
Well I'll just agree to disagree with some of the statement lol !
I presume Andrew has gone bush again and switched off his satellite phone to preserve the batteries or not give advance warning to leopards he wants to sneak up on, or some such excuse.Anyhow (as they say in Australia; don't you say it Lorraine, it sounds illiterate unless you have a certain sardonic intonation), I lifted an interesting article by Andrew off Librarything and posted it to my blog:
“All I ask is one chance” — Andrew McCoy, novelist
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
The sting is in the tail.
Andre Jute wrote: "I presume Andrew has gone bush again and switched off his satellite phone to preserve the batteries or not give advance warning to leopards he wants to sneak up on, or some such excuse."I resemble that remark!
In Oz it's anyhow. In Canada it's any who. Bare with me. I've had a bevvy or three with my Aussie Doc this evening. It's okay tho. He was born in Czechoslovakia. He's a Czech, mate.
I'll bear with you. Sunday. I'll catch up on a little writing. When the sun's over the yardarm, I'll join you in a beverage.
Andre Jute wrote: "Anyhow "Thanks for the tip, don't want to sound illiterate lol ! Not when I am amongst such literate geniuses !
Nevermind, sounded totally illiterate anyway - plural of appendix to me was appendiXES until I got caught and laughed at !I liked appendiXES, it sounded really cute ! Awww... all sad now :(
Hey, Patti, if I'm not too late, make mine gin and tonic.@Lorraine: I wouldn't mind being thought a literary genius. Of course, in my case it wouldn't necessary mean that I was literate. I'm a confirmed, card-carrying thriller reader. I make no bones about writing the sort of book I like to read. They can take literature for the sake of literature and stick it, as long as they leave me the suspense, the thrills and the girl. Of course the girl!
PS Appendixes are what we have in our stomachs, and appendices are thingies that hang off the back of books. Or maybe the other way round. Anyone who tells you different is a poncy pedant.
PSS I used to know a vet who went to Oxford and still for umbilical, which most of us pronounce as "um-billy-kul" as if it is spelt with two Ls, said "um-bill-like-kul". He was the best dangerous animal vet I ever met.
AppendiXES were really appendices... not likely to use appendixes with its real meaning, but I guess I can use it when playing scrabble lol !
Appendices - well, the one that really annoys me is when people start a book with a Forward not a Foreword! What in hell do they think they mean?
Lorraine 110% Pure Sweetness ♥ wrote: "AppendiXES were really appendices... not likely to use appendixes with its real meaning, but I guess I can use it when playing scrabble lol !"I love Scrabble, but people who've played with me before are always trying to ban zoological words.
Ignite wrote: "Appendices - well, the one that really annoys me is when people start a book with a Forward not a Foreword! What in hell do they think they mean?"
Sounds a bit gung-ho: "Forward to a better reading experience!"
Nope, won't get my vote.
Loved scrabble too ! Use to play a few games a day with my grandma when I was on holidays at hers when I was a kid... I couldn't play the English scrabble... I'd make words with Ws thinking I'm gonna score lots of points and I won't :( Because I still think French points !
Lorraine 110% Pure Sweetness ♥ wrote: "I'd make words with Ws thinking I'm gonna score lots of points and I won't :( Because I still think French points !"SCRABBLE would be *very interesting* if they permitted the players to score in their mother tongue!
The Meyersco Helix has many superb reviews. Here's the latest, from Smashwords, which has many others:Review by: Francine Richert on Oct. 25, 2011 :
This is a novel previously released in the 80s. It is truly timeless, as relevant now as it may have been then. The characters are brilliantly written with my favorite being Dr. Stella Christopher, who just so happens to be the gritty, tough, strongly written female lead.
The President is between a rock and a hard place. Should he destroy a major American city, in this case Boston, or annihilate the world's population? Seems like a fairly easy decision...well unless you live in Boston....but it isn't and Mr. McCoy takes you through the whole mindset of the characters as they battle their inner dragons and the outer ones opposing them as well.
Source: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...
Overtaking Lee Child's Jack Reacher is dangerous business!http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbi...
Heh-heh!
"Totally gripping story, I couldn't fault it. Amazing original idea, believable characters, and a really big finish."Lynne (Tigger's Mum) - "Fast-Paced Ficton" - 5 stars - Goodreads
Thanks, Lynne!
Review found on Amazon.4 stars
Holy cow what a ride!
By S. Edwards (Spanaway, WA United States)
(REAL NAME) Amazon Verified Purchase
This book took me for some unexpected turns and the ending was a bit of a surprise. There were a few chapters with more foul language than I would like but by the time I got to it, I was hooked in the story. Well worth the read for sure. I downgraded to four stars mainly because of the foul language.
I read the Kindle versions. There are several typos but they don't detract from the story.
Hi Andrew -A few of your books are in danger of being removed so I did what I could for them. I also found some images for the covers. I couldn't find a description for some though so the information on GR is still a bit patchy.
Thank you, Louise-Lesley. I'm amazed: the books sit on Goodreads for years undisturbed, then I arrive, then they start disappearing... Do you know who's removing them and why? It's amazingly awkward timing, just when they start being reissued!The Goodreads search engine is kookie. Here's one of my books, CAIN'S COURAGE, listed on both Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, complete with image on the UK site, that the Goodreads search engine can't find:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cains-Courage...
Nor will it find AFRICAN REVENGE, which is in editorial at the moment prior to reissuing. Nor LANCE OF GOD. Here's at least one edition of each on Amazon in the US:
http://www.amazon.com/African-Revenge...
http://www.amazon.com/Lance-God-Andre...
What else should I do? It seems a shame to lose the record of those readers.
Thank you for your interest.
STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress, on the bestseller lists for the third year running, now in a fourth country as well. Thank you to everyone who bought it. And thanks also to actress Rooney Mara for raising the profile of our thesis (see http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar... for the amusing details).
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: USA Paid
#4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#5 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#72 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: UK Paid
#11 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
#20 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Technothrillers
#21 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers > Technothrillers
Amazon Bestseller-Rang: DE Bezahlt (Paid)
Nr. 6 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
Nr. 47 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
Classement des meilleures ventes d'Amazon: FR (Paid)
n°5 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
n°23 dans Livres anglais et étrangers > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
n°39 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > European
From Cookie's Book Club http://cookiesbookclub.blogspot.com/2... ***
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
It's Read an E-book Week!
March 4-11 is read an e-book week in Canada!
Here's what I'm reading this week:
THE MEYERSCO HELIX
CHAOS THEORY "How the hell did we come to where the President of the United States has two minutes to decide whether he will nuke Boston or kill the world instead?"
An extremely powerful novel of the biowar apocalypse, THE MEYERSCO HELIX traces the frighteningly plausible accidents by which the casual killing of a near-extinct mole escalates inexorably towards where an anguished President’s must choose either to let a self-propagating bio-war substance kill the world’s population — or to destroy a major American city by nuclear blast.
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS K116 is the top secret US chemical weapon that spells instant agonizing death to mankind. Self-generating in water, only a nuclear blast can stop the deadly dust expanding. But when a lethal cloud of K116 escapes from a military research lab, one man survives.
Charged with nightmare energy, Ribicoff becomes a walking carnage-machine. Alive Ribicoff is a lethal liability — but dead his K116-glutted body will unleash chemical slaughter on a scale that will make the Black Death look like a summer cold. Pursued by the massed might of US security forces, Ribicoff acts with the desperate, ruthless bloodlust of an animal at bay — until they corner him in Boston. Where his fiancé, the biochemist Stella Christopher, certain that he will come to her, is desperately working on a cure, despite the agents of her own government trying to kill her. But will an American President act with equal ruthlessness? There is only one way to cauterize the city of America’s Founding Fathers, and it will be no tea party...
And here with a nice photo of Rooney Mara...How actress Rooney Mara helped create a best seller in four countries!
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php...
Aha. This is the furore Rooney caused that I'm referring to:Can actress Rooney Mara teach Morality to the Limousine Left?
André Jute investigates the volte face on Stieg Larsson
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php...
THE MEYERSCO HELIX by Andrew McCoy is FREE today and through the 16th to use up the Kindle Select free days. Grab a copy, and spread the word liberally.http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005MLA4SK
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MLA4SK
DOWNLOADS 0104am my time, after about 13 hours, 2360. That's just under 400 per hour currently, but these are likely to be the peak hours and rates. The average will be much lower.
We're running the freebie for three days, or four if Amazon doesn't foul up the day they promised to give back for their earlier foulup. I want to see if there is a natural limit, reached on (I suspect) the second day, after which downloads fall off.
RANK
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105
#3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
Get yours while it is free; the most recent price was ten dollars.
If you're inclined to help a British writer, tweet this to your social circle:
#FREE Hypershock #thriller #bestseller THE MEYERSCO HELIX by Andrew McCoy #save $9.99 http://amzn.to/p4zQP8 13-14-15-16 March RT
Thanks for reading.
Andre Jute
Editor to writers who don't switch on their satphones and other undesirables
I'm here, Boss. But you're doing good, so I thought I wouldn't get in the way of a man working. Those are amazing numbers!PS "Undesirable" isn't very distinguished. How about "scofflaw"?
I like that, Andrew "The Scofflaw" McCoy, habitue of The Badlands! Those are indeed amazing numbers.
At 1005am, after approximately 48 hours FREE, the results are:DOWNLOADS:
US 5993 (download rate slowing since yesterday)
UK 270 (disappointing, I was looking for a thousand)
DE 11
FR 6
RANK
US
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38 Free in Kindle Store
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
UK
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #128 Free in Kindle Store
#4 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Action & Adventure
#16 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers
DE
Amazon Bestseller-Rang: #697 Kostenfrei in Kindle-Shop
Nr. 4 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Populäre Belletristik > Action & Abenteuer
FR
Classement des meilleures ventes d'Amazon: n°424 d
n°2 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Mystery & Thrillers > Thrillers
#FREE Hypershock #thriller #bestseller THE MEYERSCO HELIX by Andrew McCoy #save $9.99 http://amzn.to/p4zQP8 15-16 March RT
STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress, on the bestseller lists for the third year running, now in a fourth country as well. Thank you to all the readers who bought it. Thank you to Rooney Mara for speaking out in Paris! US Paid
#4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#5 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#56 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
UK Paid
#6 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
#12 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers > Technothrillers
#12 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Technothrillers
DE Paid
Nr. 4 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
Nr. 50 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
FR Paid
n°4 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
n°61 dans Livres anglais et étrangers > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
n°81 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > European
• Andre Jute is the author, with Andrew McCoy, of the first and only book-length literary criticism of STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress
Great stuff Andre! Congratulations!
Thank you from him, and thank you from him.(Punchline lifted from The Two Ronnies. There are no ladies here old enough to remember them.)
I remember them! I have dvds of them too.
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STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress (with André Jute)
The Meyersco Helix and STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress are already available at £2.12 for e-books. They're described in the next two posts.