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Lucifer’s Fire – A Ryan Mitchell Thriller by Richard Turner

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1715 – Captain James Lucifer and the survivors of a doomed ship washed ashore in West Africa wait for the coming dawn and their fate. Handing off a fabled and priceless diamond to a lowly young boy, Lucifer sets in motion a chain of events that will reverberate in the Twenty-First century with deadly effect.

In the present, Ryan Mitchell and his team of former special operations soldiers are sent to find and rescue a group of schoolteachers who have gone missing in war-torn Liberia. Quickly moving into the jungles of Liberia, Ryan Mitchell soon discovers things aren’t going to be as simple as planned, when rival factions from outside of Liberia quickly complicate matters when they compete to find the fabled treasure buried by James Lucifer before he met his end and will do whatever it takes to get their hands on the prize.

I believe this novel will appeal to those readers who enjoy fast-paced adventure stories in the tradition of novels by Clive Cussler, Andy McDermott and James Rollins.

About the Author:

richardturnerI proudly served in the Canadian Army for more than thirty years. Starting my career as a private and finishing it off as a senior officer in Kabul, I consider myself fortunate to have lived and served all across Canada. I had numerous overseas deployments that took me to many varied locations throughout the world, including: Germany, Cyprus, Croatia, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Egypt, Israel and finally two tours of Afghanistan. Wanting to try something new, I now spend my time writing. I am an avid reader and enjoy getting to know other indie writers out there.

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Goliath

  Incursion3  Last Eagle1400  A Fragment of Destiny2

  Devils Path(1600)  Scorpion2  Black Dragon_RTurner

From the desk of Richard Turner:

Good day Readers,

 

First of all, I would like to acknowledge Debra for giving me this opportunity to highlight the launch of my latest thriller…Black Dragon.

 

I proudly served in the Canadian Army for more than thirty years. Starting my career as a private and finishing it off as a senior officer in Kabul, I consider myself fortunate to have lived and served all across Canada. I had numerous overseas deployments that took me to many varied locations throughout the world, including: Germany, Cyprus, Croatia, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Egypt, Israel and finally two tours of Afghanistan. Wanting to try something new, I now spend my time writing. I am an avid reader and enjoy getting to know other indie writers out there.

 

My novel, Black Dragon, is a sequel to Goliath my first Ryan Mitchell adventure. 

Black Dragon_RTurner1945 – With the Soviets preparing to invade Japan’s northern islands, a top-secret military installation rushes to erase any sign that it ever existed. Only they aren’t through enough and a secret from the past returns to threaten the present.

Present day, a routine close protection assignment for former special operations soldier Ryan Mitchell and his team suddenly turns deadly. Drawn into a lethal game in which the balance of power in the world hangs by a thread, Mitchel races to stop shadowy forces and their murderous agenda before all is lost. From war-torn Japan, to Mongolia, to Texas the fight for survival is on.

I believe this novel will appeal to those readers who enjoy fast-paced adventure stories in the tradition of novels by Clive Cussler, Andy McDermott, Dan Brown, and James Rollins.

 

All the best!

 

Richard


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Goliath

  Incursion3  Last Eagle1400  A Fragment of Destiny2  Devils Path(1600)  Scorpion2

This is clearly a book NOT designed for the squeamish but instead for the readers who love their daily dose of graphic, disturbing, sadistic adult horror, blood and murder, mixed up with a potent vidu_gilesandersonsyringe of hard drugs and alcohol – handed to them on a tray full of human skulls and gunpowder.

In this gritty dark tale, the main character awakes with a huge hangover, soaked in blood, and holding a gun he doesn’t recognise. We are then taken on a journey of self discovery as, via phone calls, dead bodies and bizarre rendezvous with a stranger, he pieces together a past that he has been trying so hard to suppress.

Indeed, it reminded me of an old James Herbert novel mixed with a bit of early Stephen King. My disappointment was that this plot has been done so many times before and this version didn’t offer anything new to keep me turning the pages. Despite being well written, it suffers from far too many annoying references to hangovers, blood and darkness as if I, the reader was some sort of horror virgin.  Perhaps to improve the readers experience, the writer could employ a wider variety of descriptions to avoid tempting the reader to become annoyed with the repetition.

Again, definitely not for the faint of heart, young and squeamish but, if this is your type of book , I personally recommend that instead of purchasing this, you go up into the dark attic with your fading torchlight, walk across those creaky floorboards and get all those old Stephen King novels out you haven’t read for a few decades.

3 Stars out of 5

~~~~~~~Review written by Roger Gerald Scott, best-selling novelist, author of 5 short stories, voted “Most Promising New Author 2012″ at EKAP and recently received “Clean Slate’s Most Promising Breakthrough Short Story 2013″ for “The Strange Case of Will Newman”. You can view his blog at http://rogerrgeraldscott.blogspot.no/  Also a team member of theprobookeditor.com, offering formatting and book cover design services for indie eBook publishers and a professional editor.

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