The Imam By Kim Piermattei (K.A. Pierce)
The Imam is a mainstream 95,000 word thriller, the first of a trilogy.
Combine the steady increase of terrorist activity on US soil, with the author’s 20 years of courtroom experience to create a novel that would engage most mainstream fiction readers with the background expertise to make the details believable. It’s a fast-paced battle of wits set against the backdrop of a budding romance.
Two Muslims’ related by blood, bonded by religion, are diametrically opposed in their beliefs. The Imam, religious leader of the local Muslim community, preaches following a religion of peace, mercy and forgiveness. Conversely his cousin Jamaal, declares war on America denouncing that westerners are an abomination who hold nothing sacred but lust and greed and must be destroyed. Who meets with an untimely death? Who is innocent and who is guilty?
“ Terrorism! Ever since 9/11, Americans have been waiting for the next shoe to drop. The novel “The Iman” provides a frighteningly imaginative look at what a dedicated terrorist could dream up, in his effort to destroy the American way of life.” Allbooks Review,” a real page-turner with bad guys who think they are the good guys and heroes who don’t wear uniforms.
Highly recommended by Reviewer: Peter Klein Allbooks Reviews”
Synopsis –
D.C. lawyer Jason Wells is a seasoned litigator fast-tracked for a seat on the Federal bench. A clandestine twist and turn of events gives him a client that will either make him or break him and in either case the powers that be tell him that he can not refuse. His client is the Imam.
The Imam, with his cousin Jamaal Shakr, runs an Islamic center in the back streets of San Diego that the government believes is funneling money from abroad to operate a terrorist cell. An FBI team, headed by FBI agent Charlotte (Charlie) Lowry, captures the Imam but his dangerous and elusive cousin, Jamaal is on the run and quickly demonstrates that he and his cousin differed in their beliefs.
Jamal begins to wreak havoc executing a series of long planned and well funded attacks leaving a trail of death and destruction. Families watch the TV with horror as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade turns into deathtrap when a series of detonations erupt along the parade route.
The Bureau desperate to do anything and everything to stop the carnage initiates the roundup of three thousand suspects in New York City based solely on profiling, and illegally copies the hard drive of Jason’s computer.
A confrontation with her boss leaves FBI agent Charlie Lowry with an ethical dilemma that forces her to work outside the Bureau and form an unlikely alliance with Jason. Jamaal unleashes the second wave of his assault as his soldiers randomly deliver package bombs on both coasts that appear to come from major online retailers. Phony delivery trucks armed with GPS detonating devices race to populated areas to deliver Jamal’s Armageddon.
Jason and Charlie are beaten, crushed and humiliated at every turn by Jamal and his army of sleeper cells. Desperate to put an end to the chain reaction of violence and destruction that threatens to destroy the entire country, they turn to the only power on earth that can help them; the Imam..
Review
Quote from William G. Thompson,(Grisham and King’s early editor) “ I’ve been an editor long enough to know what’s expected of me—find out what’s wrong and how to fix it. Occasionally, I’ve worked on a non-fiction manuscript that was edit-proof, but I’ve never worked on a novel that couldn’t be improved in some way. Until now. “
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Greed and Dreams
This book, in many ways, reads as a script. Bearing a likeness in its moral examination and social frankness to American Beauty and The Insider, it retains a self-sacrificing, gossip-ridden humor that is reminiscent of Thank You for Smoking and Hollywood Babylon.
The story issues perspective on many levels:
The social keyhole that we look through, which underlines the desire and significance of examining wealth in our culture;
The study of iconic figure John Z. DeLorean, who went from a giant among men to some kind of ethical abomination in the public eye;
And one man’s trying (if not sharply ironic) struggle, to take hold of his life and stop it from getting in the way of really living.
SYNOPSIS GREED AND DREAMS
(The central character Rex, is the author H.H. Chandler)
The central character of the book is the author himself. Once a financial wheeler-dealer, Rex Roberts was able to turn sewage into vanilla; spin adversity into advantage, he is now on the verge of losing it all. The sheriff is serving him foreclosure papers' his beloved Mercedes is being repo'd, and his wife who's come to realize she didn't grab the brass ring wants a divorce.
One of his last remaining assets is an insurance policy that guarantees income in the event of debilitating illness, including nervous disorders. Rex already stressed to hysteria easily complies; hoping the game will last until he finds a deal that will make the cash register ring.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel, he finds a deal still in utero, one even the bottom feeders won't nibble on.
All he'll have to do is find $50 million to re-launch a discredited, reclusive former tycoon. Like Rex, the tycoon needs to bail himself out of foreclosure and crippling legal bills.
The mere mention of the tycoon’s name sends investors laughing or running for cover. But to Rex, his client’s dazzling rise and even more spectacular fall, rival the sagas of Robert Maxwell or Howard Hughes; he is the sizzle on the steak. He is Rex's deal; a gift from the gods.
The clock is ticking, and every day brings this odd couple closer to complete financial ruin. They are two desperate men, fighting back to back, not just for their financial survival, but to win and beat the bastards.
Their schemes are constantly crushed by a string of hucksters and scam artists, but at last, there might actually be a deal. It's at this point that Rex finds himself in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital where his now separated wife and shrink want him to stay indefinitely.
Will the deal get done? Will Rex provide his friend with a magnificent comeback, and incidentally save his own hide as well?
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Whisper Story is not a quiet story. It is a growl, a snarl and a roar of a family in a small southern town with a legacy of drunkenness and cruelty that has left only one survivor.
It begins with a suspenseful portrait of an amoral woman totally unaware of her own self-destructive demons, complacent about who she was and what she did, impervious to scorn or criticism. Sure of her power over men, rich or poor. It’s also the story of a man impaled by the shame, guilt, and anger he felt toward this woman who bore him.
But periodically, this woman, his mother would appear. She was instinctively, carelessly seductive, and men of any stripe were instantly aware of it.
Charlie, felt that he too was prey for his mother to feed on. His fear and anxiety were not helped by the disappearance of his sister Jewell, a fact that was treated by his mother as a natural course of life.
Charlie’s fight for freedom from the chains of an abused childhood leads him to examine the truth of not just his existence, but those around him. His life takes on a dream like quality as he realizes that each person in his life was a metaphor for someone in the past or what could have been.
When someone blows his mothers head off with a shotgun, it not only made sense to Charlie but it was a long time coming. But it did stop there? What happened to his sister Jewel? Was he next?
There was something going on in the small southern town where Charlie’s sister disappeared and where he mother was murdered. Everybody knew, but no one wanted to be the one to tell the whisper story.
Writing from the heart, H.H. Chandler creates the people and places that marked Charlie’s wrenching journey toward a justice tinged with a kind of sorrow.
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