Poet Tyler Malone's Insightful Review
If Earnest Hemingway wrote Nick Adams’ stories to commune with nature, No Other Way captures and catalogs what Hemingway’s character found totally holy. Between urban development and the wild; between catcalls, call girls, the cries of ambulances, and the call of the wild is where the reader finds himself in No Other Way, among wet weeds, under the shadows of birds that aren’t found on the lamps in grocery store parking lots. No Other Way is written in clean third-person prose and is satiated with scientific descriptions of what lives in our skies, and written by a man who obviously knows a great deal about our lush world as well as what’s above it, hovering in the skies, what thrives above car roofs, making a reader realize just how little they look up to see what’s looking down at them.
Following a proclamation of a nature-centered novel, what should be mentioned is that No Other Way makes moralizing about our sacred world entertaining. It’s a work that doesn’t resemble an episode of Captain Planet or a high-kitsch early nineteen-nineties’ kids’ movie. No Other Way relates to how its main character, Samuel Leaton, thrives in the outdoors, almost alone. Samuel is a nature photographer, a man willing to live off the grid with no cell phone reception or a prayer against indifferent serpents or accidents.
"He kneeled in the dark space, took the small tarp from his rucksack and folded it atop the layer of pine needles. He tilted the mug, sipping the last of the coffee, including the crunchy grind sediment the filter didn’t catch. Some of it stayed on his tongue, grainy and bitter, before he swallowed it down. He put the empty thermos into one of the compartments before taking out the 200 mm long lens and clicking it onto his favorite camera, an older digital Nikon. The Nikon was a few inches bigger, and heavier than the newer models, and Samuel liked the sturdiness of it. He set the 300 mm lens on top of the pack where he could reach. The two plates of egg-and-bacon that he ate at the hotel would be wearing off soon. He took out two granola bars from the side compartment.
Waiting it out, leaning against the back of the old three-walled hunting station, he was grateful for the half-rotten, weathered structure that stood between him and the ptttt plunk plunk of the rain beginning to fall on the rusted roof.
He sat with his back against the shelter, his arms around his knees so only a few drops of the rain slanting down into the black soil splashed onto his boots. The wind came through in an unsteady whistle. It was high-pitched, silencing all other sounds, and then hesitant but rhythmic. Without the motion of the hike to keep him warm, the photographer of birds rubbed his hands together."
That lengthy excerpt is Samuel’s world: Nikons, cups of coffee and rain drops. Samuel is a man who has lost human interaction after his wife, Lorine, died of cancer. He’s in hiding, in a manner of speaking. After his wife died, Samuel threw himself into his hobby, and embraced his love: nature photography, to seek out the countless mulligans in the form of birds. For Samuel, photography is a means to capture another sort of life, and capturing birds in his camera’s sensor means a life well lived. His main mulligan is the Northern Stilted Curlew, a bird thought to be extinct even by experts. Oh, you haven’t heard of such a thing? Get used to it. Bird names are dropped like famous names in a musician’s autobiography; in all that means a new reading experience: it’s something that most readers aren't challenged with but are introduced to through Samuel’s references as he analyzes warblers, pigeon’s, rails, owls, sparrows, all aves nearly extinct to casually common.
Samuel’s son, Ryan, a college educated blue collar worker, says his father has his head in the clouds (pg. 16). But that’s where Samuel has found his own humanity and passion; this is affirmed by how Samuel studies the world both around and above him. Roger Drouin’s prose becomes encyclopedic as it explains the evolutionary trajectory of birds, and how Samuel feels close to his bird brethren, if only under the skin.
"The bones are thin, hollow inside, filled with oxygen, and supported with trusses that keep them strong. The wing bones are fused to other bones to brace together the moving parts in flight and landing. Look at the bones of a bird and, although all stretched out, they will match a mammal’s skeleton. Side by side, compare those scientific sketches from college biology and see how the wings anatomically correspond exactly to each human bone from arm to the longest finger. But in birds, the bones are simplified, compacted so that the humerus, radius and metacarpals are welded into a single, pivoting elongated bone."
What makes No Other Way a genuinely standout novel is, other than the clean but vibrant prose, the book is written by an actual nature photographer as well as focused on one. Reading with one’s eyes is the great caveat of literature. Unimaginative authors cripple the world they wish to create by a broken vision, but here, the inhabitants of the world, both human and undomesticated are just as vibrant as the colors of birds contrasting in perfect ways. No Other Way becomes the reason why people will subscribe to National Geographic or watch Planet Earth: you want to see nature and have your senses assaulted by the natural world, Sun and all.
"Samuel drank his coffee and listened to a Scarlet Tanager somewhere close by singing his high-pitched song of chip-churr, chip-churr, chip-churrr, chip-churrrrr. He looked up to try to glimpse the brilliant contrast of red and black, but he wasn’t surprised when all he saw was the thick green leaves. Despite the male’s vivid coloring, this tiny guy is difficult to observe because he will perch motionless for long periods of time, hidden deep in trees or bushes.
The morning sun painted the water a softer reflection of clouds and sky as he paddled out past where the water lilies grew by the hundreds, past the second island of trees, towards the eucalyptus strand that looked like feathers growing right up against the edge of the water."
Both Samuel and Ryan deal with Lorine’s death as they both suffer through civilization; both Leatons are as different as the weather can become in a single day: sunshine to sharp rain, a warm morning that dissolves into skin stabbing chill. They are juxtaposed characters: a jaded workman willing to set art aside while he survives his chosen life of manual labor, and his romantic father. Both Leaton’s are opposing characters, until all paths lead to Idaho, where Ryan brings along Karia, a pill-popping, PTSD addled mess, who lets the reader know that Ryan only sees his father’s birds as beautiful myths. In Idaho, there’s Thomas, a park ranger and friend of caribou and wolverines, and his partner, a life-saving mutt named Japhy. Thomas can’t sleep because he dreams of drilling—oil drilling. What he loves most, the Rilla Lakes, is being prepared to be penetrated by No Other Way’s corporate villain: Centur Corp., and its hydrofracking shale drilling methods—the Empire and their Death Star.
No Other Way doesn’t give a voice to the speechless, it sings for itself by capturing the beauty rustling right outside window, away from computer screens. One beautiful thing can stop the world; it doesn’t need protecting. Humans are what need to be protected from themselves and what comes natural to us. No Other Way tells a story of songs and squawks of things that existed before the noise that carries itself across our concrete country. Roger Drouin utilizes intuitive and meditative methods of descriptions to bring our afflicted world to life in text. He creates a world that croons the tunes of what was here before us and what will be here after us—what howls and serenades after our silence, when birds and wild creatures carol the Sun to cold sleep.
If Earnest Hemingway wrote Nick Adams’ stories to commune with nature, No Other Way captures and catalogs what Hemingway’s character found totally holy. Between urban development and the wild; between catcalls, call girls, the cries of ambulances, and the call of the wild is where the reader finds himself in No Other Way, among wet weeds, under the shadows of birds that aren’t found on the lamps in grocery store parking lots. No Other Way is written in clean third-person prose and is satiated with scientific descriptions of what lives in our skies, and written by a man who obviously knows a great deal about our lush world as well as what’s above it, hovering in the skies, what thrives above car roofs, making a reader realize just how little they look up to see what’s looking down at them.
Following a proclamation of a nature-centered novel, what should be mentioned is that No Other Way makes moralizing about our sacred world entertaining. It’s a work that doesn’t resemble an episode of Captain Planet or a high-kitsch early nineteen-nineties’ kids’ movie. No Other Way relates to how its main character, Samuel Leaton, thrives in the outdoors, almost alone. Samuel is a nature photographer, a man willing to live off the grid with no cell phone reception or a prayer against indifferent serpents or accidents.
"He kneeled in the dark space, took the small tarp from his rucksack and folded it atop the layer of pine needles. He tilted the mug, sipping the last of the coffee, including the crunchy grind sediment the filter didn’t catch. Some of it stayed on his tongue, grainy and bitter, before he swallowed it down. He put the empty thermos into one of the compartments before taking out the 200 mm long lens and clicking it onto his favorite camera, an older digital Nikon. The Nikon was a few inches bigger, and heavier than the newer models, and Samuel liked the sturdiness of it. He set the 300 mm lens on top of the pack where he could reach. The two plates of egg-and-bacon that he ate at the hotel would be wearing off soon. He took out two granola bars from the side compartment.
Waiting it out, leaning against the back of the old three-walled hunting station, he was grateful for the half-rotten, weathered structure that stood between him and the ptttt plunk plunk of the rain beginning to fall on the rusted roof.
He sat with his back against the shelter, his arms around his knees so only a few drops of the rain slanting down into the black soil splashed onto his boots. The wind came through in an unsteady whistle. It was high-pitched, silencing all other sounds, and then hesitant but rhythmic. Without the motion of the hike to keep him warm, the photographer of birds rubbed his hands together."
That lengthy excerpt is Samuel’s world: Nikons, cups of coffee and rain drops. Samuel is a man who has lost human interaction after his wife, Lorine, died of cancer. He’s in hiding, in a manner of speaking. After his wife died, Samuel threw himself into his hobby, and embraced his love: nature photography, to seek out the countless mulligans in the form of birds. For Samuel, photography is a means to capture another sort of life, and capturing birds in his camera’s sensor means a life well lived. His main mulligan is the Northern Stilted Curlew, a bird thought to be extinct even by experts. Oh, you haven’t heard of such a thing? Get used to it. Bird names are dropped like famous names in a musician’s autobiography; in all that means a new reading experience: it’s something that most readers aren't challenged with but are introduced to through Samuel’s references as he analyzes warblers, pigeon’s, rails, owls, sparrows, all aves nearly extinct to casually common.
Samuel’s son, Ryan, a college educated blue collar worker, says his father has his head in the clouds (pg. 16). But that’s where Samuel has found his own humanity and passion; this is affirmed by how Samuel studies the world both around and above him. Roger Drouin’s prose becomes encyclopedic as it explains the evolutionary trajectory of birds, and how Samuel feels close to his bird brethren, if only under the skin.
"The bones are thin, hollow inside, filled with oxygen, and supported with trusses that keep them strong. The wing bones are fused to other bones to brace together the moving parts in flight and landing. Look at the bones of a bird and, although all stretched out, they will match a mammal’s skeleton. Side by side, compare those scientific sketches from college biology and see how the wings anatomically correspond exactly to each human bone from arm to the longest finger. But in birds, the bones are simplified, compacted so that the humerus, radius and metacarpals are welded into a single, pivoting elongated bone."
What makes No Other Way a genuinely standout novel is, other than the clean but vibrant prose, the book is written by an actual nature photographer as well as focused on one. Reading with one’s eyes is the great caveat of literature. Unimaginative authors cripple the world they wish to create by a broken vision, but here, the inhabitants of the world, both human and undomesticated are just as vibrant as the colors of birds contrasting in perfect ways. No Other Way becomes the reason why people will subscribe to National Geographic or watch Planet Earth: you want to see nature and have your senses assaulted by the natural world, Sun and all.
"Samuel drank his coffee and listened to a Scarlet Tanager somewhere close by singing his high-pitched song of chip-churr, chip-churr, chip-churrr, chip-churrrrr. He looked up to try to glimpse the brilliant contrast of red and black, but he wasn’t surprised when all he saw was the thick green leaves. Despite the male’s vivid coloring, this tiny guy is difficult to observe because he will perch motionless for long periods of time, hidden deep in trees or bushes.
The morning sun painted the water a softer reflection of clouds and sky as he paddled out past where the water lilies grew by the hundreds, past the second island of trees, towards the eucalyptus strand that looked like feathers growing right up against the edge of the water."
Both Samuel and Ryan deal with Lorine’s death as they both suffer through civilization; both Leatons are as different as the weather can become in a single day: sunshine to sharp rain, a warm morning that dissolves into skin stabbing chill. They are juxtaposed characters: a jaded workman willing to set art aside while he survives his chosen life of manual labor, and his romantic father. Both Leaton’s are opposing characters, until all paths lead to Idaho, where Ryan brings along Karia, a pill-popping, PTSD addled mess, who lets the reader know that Ryan only sees his father’s birds as beautiful myths. In Idaho, there’s Thomas, a park ranger and friend of caribou and wolverines, and his partner, a life-saving mutt named Japhy. Thomas can’t sleep because he dreams of drilling—oil drilling. What he loves most, the Rilla Lakes, is being prepared to be penetrated by No Other Way’s corporate villain: Centur Corp., and its hydrofracking shale drilling methods—the Empire and their Death Star.
No Other Way doesn’t give a voice to the speechless, it sings for itself by capturing the beauty rustling right outside window, away from computer screens. One beautiful thing can stop the world; it doesn’t need protecting. Humans are what need to be protected from themselves and what comes natural to us. No Other Way tells a story of songs and squawks of things that existed before the noise that carries itself across our concrete country. Roger Drouin utilizes intuitive and meditative methods of descriptions to bring our afflicted world to life in text. He creates a world that croons the tunes of what was here before us and what will be here after us—what howls and serenades after our silence, when birds and wild creatures carol the Sun to cold sleep.
Read What Amazon Reviewer Lorena Mateo Thinks About Flowers At Midnight:
I read this book in a single day on the beach and really enjoyed it. The story is gripping and the characters really come alive so that it keeps you turning the page. I also thought London came through well, too. Certainly I could tell that Nick Sweet knows London well, and he also writes good dialogue that has a realistic feel to it. I liked the way he has his upper class British characters talking completely differently from his criminal types; he clearly has a good ear for the vernacular, and that makes the whole thing feel credible. The story is quite involved, and I won't spoil it it for you by going into it here, but suffice to say there are enough murders and clues and red-herrings to keep you reading and guessing. I'll certainly be ordering Nick Sweet's next book when it comes out.
I read this book in a single day on the beach and really enjoyed it. The story is gripping and the characters really come alive so that it keeps you turning the page. I also thought London came through well, too. Certainly I could tell that Nick Sweet knows London well, and he also writes good dialogue that has a realistic feel to it. I liked the way he has his upper class British characters talking completely differently from his criminal types; he clearly has a good ear for the vernacular, and that makes the whole thing feel credible. The story is quite involved, and I won't spoil it it for you by going into it here, but suffice to say there are enough murders and clues and red-herrings to keep you reading and guessing. I'll certainly be ordering Nick Sweet's next book when it comes out.
PRAISE FOR INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM GOD
"... a fast-paced scientific thriller that explores how a world-shattering discovery would challenge not just existing beliefs, but also the power structures of our society."--James T. Downey, author of Communion of Dreams
"...an enticing beginning which instantly drew me in. There is drama, action, romance, and adventure, making this a very enjoyable story."--James Jackson, author of First Contact.
"...a fascinating first-rate novel about how science really works, with believable and very human characters. Highly recommend it to everyone, even those who normally would not purchase novels in the science fiction genre will find this book a good read and worthy of their time."--Joseph Vadalma, author of The Artifact, A Novel of Alien Contact"...a fast paced, one of a kind Sci-Fi suspense thriller. The tension builds from page one, and never lets up as evidence mounts that an object discovered in rock could be the most important discovery of all time. A must read."--Karl Bozicevic, author of Cardinal Hoax
"...a thrill ride with more twists and turns than a Möbius strip with a surprise ending."--Ronald W Hull, author of The Kaleidoscope Effect and Alone?
"...so captivating you don´t want to put the book down for a second." Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Professor of Astrobiology and author of Voids of Eternity: Alien Encounter "...an entertaining stew of a thriller that, once you start, you pretty much have to finish. "--Al Past, author of the Distant Cousin series
"... a fast-paced scientific thriller that explores how a world-shattering discovery would challenge not just existing beliefs, but also the power structures of our society."--James T. Downey, author of Communion of Dreams
"...an enticing beginning which instantly drew me in. There is drama, action, romance, and adventure, making this a very enjoyable story."--James Jackson, author of First Contact.
"...a fascinating first-rate novel about how science really works, with believable and very human characters. Highly recommend it to everyone, even those who normally would not purchase novels in the science fiction genre will find this book a good read and worthy of their time."--Joseph Vadalma, author of The Artifact, A Novel of Alien Contact"...a fast paced, one of a kind Sci-Fi suspense thriller. The tension builds from page one, and never lets up as evidence mounts that an object discovered in rock could be the most important discovery of all time. A must read."--Karl Bozicevic, author of Cardinal Hoax
"...a thrill ride with more twists and turns than a Möbius strip with a surprise ending."--Ronald W Hull, author of The Kaleidoscope Effect and Alone?
"...so captivating you don´t want to put the book down for a second." Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Professor of Astrobiology and author of Voids of Eternity: Alien Encounter "...an entertaining stew of a thriller that, once you start, you pretty much have to finish. "--Al Past, author of the Distant Cousin series
The controversy about global warming or climate change is about as questionable as the belief in green energy. Back when I was in Virginia, I attended a writing group where one member was a James Madison University geology professor named Gene Robinson. Our discussions rarely touched on politics but he did mention his belief that the theory of global warming was bunk. The Earth had seen many warming and cooling phases. Any slight variation of temperature was nothing unusual, the professor told us. Gene has expanded is thoughts into a book called “Global Warming: Alarmists, Skeptics & Deniers: A Geoscientists looks at the Science of Climate Change.”
After Dr. Robinson looks at it, there’s not much left. He has also penned several novels and perhaps his ability with fiction aided his science writing too. Some scientific articles can be so difficult to read it’s akin to hacking your way through a rain forest with a machete. The reader feels he will never get through the dense prose. But Gene writes smooth, easy-to-read sentences and explains in everyday language the foundational science of his views. He also shows how the scientific underpinnings of the global warming theory are actually weak and uncertain.
The book has won any number of compliments from fellow scientists.
Former Vice President Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” was dishonest. His views on global warming were very convenient to a segment of society. They went gaga about it. They loved this news because it provided an excuse for big government to pass and enforce even more regulations. It also gave anti-oil groups the “scientific” facts to attack traditional energy companies.
As noted, we didn’t discuss much politics in the writing group but I suspect Gene’s political views are on the Democratic side of the spectrum but his appreciation of science, true science, trumped politics. George L. Duncan, Kemmerer (WY) Gazette, March 2012
EARLY PRAISE FOR GLOBAL WARMING: ALARMISTS, SKEPTICS AND DENIERS
“Global Warming: Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers is a refreshing read on a topic of great societal importance; refreshing because, unlike many books published on this subject, the authors of this work evaluate key predictions and controversies of the global warming debate using logic and science. Most readers will appreciate the book’s arrangement. Each chapter presents a series of questions and answers that revolve around a central theme. The book is well written and easy to be understood by those with little knowledge or scientific background in the global warming debate.”—Dr. Craig D. Idso, founder and chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
“Dr. G Dedrick Robinson comments in his Prologue that: 'As a geologist, I knew that climate has always changed,' and therein lies the core message of this informative book. Writing in an easily accessible style for all readers, and using Socratic dialogue, Robinson leads us systematically through the simple science information that is needed to answer the question, 'Are human carbon dioxide emissions causing dangerous global warming?' And the more surprised you are that the answer to this question is 'no,' then the more you need to read this excellent book.”--Professor Robert M. Carter, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
“GLOBAL WARMING: ALARMISTS, SKEPTICS AND DENIERS is an excellent, accessible handbook for those interested in the science of global warming. Skeptics have long maintained that the bulk of the science is on their side. Anyone who reads Dr. Robinson's book with an open mind will find it hard not to agree.”--Iain Murray,author of The Really Inconvenient Truths
“GLOBAL WARMING: ALARMISTS, SKEPTICS AND DENIERS is an excellent analysis of the problems of climate science from the perspective of a veteran geologist. Particularly useful are Dr. Robinson's discussion of why climate models often fail, and how today's climate changes, when compared to those of the geological past, are clearly seen as well within natural variation. But there is much more science—enough, I'd think, to persuade all but die-hard global-warming believers that a skeptical position is much truer to the climate evidence than alarmism.”--Paul MacRae, author of False Alarm—Global Warming: Facts Versus Fears
After Dr. Robinson looks at it, there’s not much left. He has also penned several novels and perhaps his ability with fiction aided his science writing too. Some scientific articles can be so difficult to read it’s akin to hacking your way through a rain forest with a machete. The reader feels he will never get through the dense prose. But Gene writes smooth, easy-to-read sentences and explains in everyday language the foundational science of his views. He also shows how the scientific underpinnings of the global warming theory are actually weak and uncertain.
The book has won any number of compliments from fellow scientists.
Former Vice President Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” was dishonest. His views on global warming were very convenient to a segment of society. They went gaga about it. They loved this news because it provided an excuse for big government to pass and enforce even more regulations. It also gave anti-oil groups the “scientific” facts to attack traditional energy companies.
As noted, we didn’t discuss much politics in the writing group but I suspect Gene’s political views are on the Democratic side of the spectrum but his appreciation of science, true science, trumped politics. George L. Duncan, Kemmerer (WY) Gazette, March 2012
EARLY PRAISE FOR GLOBAL WARMING: ALARMISTS, SKEPTICS AND DENIERS
“Global Warming: Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers is a refreshing read on a topic of great societal importance; refreshing because, unlike many books published on this subject, the authors of this work evaluate key predictions and controversies of the global warming debate using logic and science. Most readers will appreciate the book’s arrangement. Each chapter presents a series of questions and answers that revolve around a central theme. The book is well written and easy to be understood by those with little knowledge or scientific background in the global warming debate.”—Dr. Craig D. Idso, founder and chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
“Dr. G Dedrick Robinson comments in his Prologue that: 'As a geologist, I knew that climate has always changed,' and therein lies the core message of this informative book. Writing in an easily accessible style for all readers, and using Socratic dialogue, Robinson leads us systematically through the simple science information that is needed to answer the question, 'Are human carbon dioxide emissions causing dangerous global warming?' And the more surprised you are that the answer to this question is 'no,' then the more you need to read this excellent book.”--Professor Robert M. Carter, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
“GLOBAL WARMING: ALARMISTS, SKEPTICS AND DENIERS is an excellent, accessible handbook for those interested in the science of global warming. Skeptics have long maintained that the bulk of the science is on their side. Anyone who reads Dr. Robinson's book with an open mind will find it hard not to agree.”--Iain Murray,author of The Really Inconvenient Truths
“GLOBAL WARMING: ALARMISTS, SKEPTICS AND DENIERS is an excellent analysis of the problems of climate science from the perspective of a veteran geologist. Particularly useful are Dr. Robinson's discussion of why climate models often fail, and how today's climate changes, when compared to those of the geological past, are clearly seen as well within natural variation. But there is much more science—enough, I'd think, to persuade all but die-hard global-warming believers that a skeptical position is much truer to the climate evidence than alarmism.”--Paul MacRae, author of False Alarm—Global Warming: Facts Versus Fears
PRAISE FOR G DEDRICK ROBINSON'S BIOTHRILER BLOOD SCOURGE:
“An intriguing tale of a deadly virus that hits the world. A page-turner, impossible to put down – on a solid scientific basis.” Clemens P. Suter, Author of Two Journeys, Celeterra and Heavenland
“In Blood Scourge, Mr. Robinson paints a frightening picture of bio-terrorism taken to the extreme. Starting in the final days of the second World War, he meticulously plants the seeds of a global catastrophe before he starts tightening the screws, building up to a crescendo of disaster and hope that will keep you turning pages long into the night. The heroes are strong and the villains are pure evil, yet they are all grounded in reality. These people could be real. Blood Scourge is a must read! ”William Esmont – Author of Self Arrest, Fire and The Patriot Paradox
"An excellent book that combines medical investigative techniques, and wonderful character development. This one will keep you reading!"--Bill Clem – Author of Microbe, Immortal, They All Fall Down, Skin Deep, Bliss, Presidential Donor, Medicine Cup, Replica and Diencephalon
"G Dedrick Robinson has created an apocalyptic story of an unimaginable nightmare unleashed by man himself. The story takes us around the globe as the unrelenting Blood Scourge takes its toll on humanity. Be prepared for an edge of your seat ride."--Victor Grippi, Hollywood screenwriter and Author of The Butterfly Virus
“An intriguing tale of a deadly virus that hits the world. A page-turner, impossible to put down – on a solid scientific basis.” Clemens P. Suter, Author of Two Journeys, Celeterra and Heavenland
“In Blood Scourge, Mr. Robinson paints a frightening picture of bio-terrorism taken to the extreme. Starting in the final days of the second World War, he meticulously plants the seeds of a global catastrophe before he starts tightening the screws, building up to a crescendo of disaster and hope that will keep you turning pages long into the night. The heroes are strong and the villains are pure evil, yet they are all grounded in reality. These people could be real. Blood Scourge is a must read! ”William Esmont – Author of Self Arrest, Fire and The Patriot Paradox
"An excellent book that combines medical investigative techniques, and wonderful character development. This one will keep you reading!"--Bill Clem – Author of Microbe, Immortal, They All Fall Down, Skin Deep, Bliss, Presidential Donor, Medicine Cup, Replica and Diencephalon
"G Dedrick Robinson has created an apocalyptic story of an unimaginable nightmare unleashed by man himself. The story takes us around the globe as the unrelenting Blood Scourge takes its toll on humanity. Be prepared for an edge of your seat ride."--Victor Grippi, Hollywood screenwriter and Author of The Butterfly Virus
WHAT OTHER ROMANCE AUTHORS SAY ABOUT NO TIME TO CRY
"NO TIME TO CRY may be set in 1957 Kentucky , but it’s definitely not Richie Cunningham’s 'Happy Days.' Sue Munroe, a small-town gold-digging Lolita, mistress of the con, wants two things—riches and her own Prince Charming—and she’ll go to extremes to get them. Filled with intrigue, scandal, romance, betrayal and murder, this romantic suspense novel is a sizzling guilty pleasure read.”--Carole Bellacera, award-winning author of Tango's Edge and the upcoming Lily of the Springs
“Rose Campion's fresh and engaging voice comes through loud and clear on every page of No Time to Cry. With its vivid descriptions and fascinating characters, this book grabs you from the start and won't let go.”--Heather Huffman, author of Ties That Bind and Suddenly A Spy
"NO TIME TO CRY may be set in 1957 Kentucky , but it’s definitely not Richie Cunningham’s 'Happy Days.' Sue Munroe, a small-town gold-digging Lolita, mistress of the con, wants two things—riches and her own Prince Charming—and she’ll go to extremes to get them. Filled with intrigue, scandal, romance, betrayal and murder, this romantic suspense novel is a sizzling guilty pleasure read.”--Carole Bellacera, award-winning author of Tango's Edge and the upcoming Lily of the Springs
“Rose Campion's fresh and engaging voice comes through loud and clear on every page of No Time to Cry. With its vivid descriptions and fascinating characters, this book grabs you from the start and won't let go.”--Heather Huffman, author of Ties That Bind and Suddenly A Spy
