Genre: Thriller/Women
Sleuths
Description:
“Is Tom Wyrick Dead? The computer genius is missing. So are his
priceless tech secrets. Time for Lyle to go undercover again.
Tom Wryick’s mind-bending technology will rocket Nostalgia City theme
park decades ahead of the competition. But the computer genius is missing. So
are his secrets. Is he dead? On the run? His billion-dollar, breathtaking
discovery is the Perception Deception Effect.
An FBI agent theorizes the People’s Republic of China is responsible
for the disappearance. The Nostalgia City CEO, however, is convinced a rival
theme park is behind the theft. He drafts ex-cop turned theme park cab driver
Lyle Deming to fly to Florida to find the missing computer scientist and
recover his secrets.
Does this have anything to do with the severed human finger Lyle finds
in his cab?
Back in Nostalgia City, park executive, 6’ 2” Kate Sorensen, a former
college basketball star, is persuaded to investigate the death of an actor
starring in a Vietnam-era crime movie being filmed at the Arizona park.
Nostalgia City is a meticulous re-creation of a 1970s small town.
Shrugging off jet lag, anxiety, and oppressive Florida humidity, Lyle
goes undercover using a parade of false identities to snoop behind the scenes
at another theme park’s engineering and computer offices. He’s forced to jump
from one covert scheme to another as his identity is exposed, his safety
jeopardized.
In the meantime, Kate confronts a mentally unstable actor—fresh out of
rehab. But she may be forced to give up the murder case—Lyle needs help.
Kate and Lyle have little time to explore their nascent romantic
relationship as both their investigations turn deadly, threatening them and the
future of Nostalgia City.”
Author:
“Mark S. Bacon began his career as a Southern California newspaper
police reporter, one of his crime stories becoming key evidence in a murder
case that spanned decades.
After working for two newspapers, he moved to advertising and
marketing when he became a copywriter for Knott’s Berry Farm, the large theme
park down the road from Disneyland. Experience working at Knott’s formed part
of the inspiration for his creation of the Nostalgia City theme park”
Appraisal:
The place most of this story takes place, a
fictional theme park called Nostalgia City, is almost as much of a unique character
as the human characters. The uniqueness of the park and what that adds to the
story, even more so given that the park is being used as the set to film a
movie at the same time, adds a lot of out-of-the-ordinary places, people, and
situations to this story. The story also has multiple people trying to figure
out different mysteries that may or may not be related to the main mystery of
where Tom Wyrick has gone and how to recover the tech secrets he is assumed to
have taken with him. These multiple threads keep things moving along at a fast
pace as the reader tries to figure out, along with Lyle, Kate, the sheriff, the
FBI, and others, how it all relates.
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FYI:
Some adult language.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 80-85,000 words
