Say My Name (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly) (Kindle Edition)
January 28th, 2010
Product Description
Mild-mannered newspaperman Stanley T. Branford plays by the rules. He worries about his children, about global warming, about being a good husband and father.
Then Stanley comes home to find his daughter sitting at the computer in tears, stunned by a relentless slideshow of internet pornography. “What is all this, Daddy?” she cries as she runs from the house.
By the time Stanley’s wife gets home an hour later, his marriage is all but over. His bank accounts and credit cards have been hijacked by a faceless criminal who seems determined to destroy Stanley’s life, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. By the next afternoon he is in state prison, framed in the theft of millions of dollars and unable to make bail. In less than 24 hours he has been abandoned by friends, family, and everyone he knows. Everyone but Amy Tuckerman, a young protege of his who has her own reasons for believing in his integrity.
Steve Holt is the former fiction editor of the Harvard Advocate.
Then Stanley comes home to find his daughter sitting at the computer in tears, stunned by a relentless slideshow of internet pornography. “What is all this, Daddy?” she cries as she runs from the house.
By the time Stanley’s wife gets home an hour later, his marriage is all but over. His bank accounts and credit cards have been hijacked by a faceless criminal who seems determined to destroy Stanley’s life, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. By the next afternoon he is in state prison, framed in the theft of millions of dollars and unable to make bail. In less than 24 hours he has been abandoned by friends, family, and everyone he knows. Everyone but Amy Tuckerman, a young protege of his who has her own reasons for believing in his integrity.
Steve Holt is the former fiction editor of the Harvard Advocate.
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“Mild mannered” is an understatement! The guy is a total wimp! He lets life just roll around him and does little to help himself out of a bad situation. He lets his wife leave him without saying a word in his defense. His daughter runs out and he doesn’t say a word. Sheesh!
Where is the action? Maybe this introspective, touchy-feely stuff plays in Harvard, but not in fly-over country.
The guy is in newspapers. Doesn’t he have sources? Doesn’t he have some snitches that he met while covering the crime beat?
The premise is good and would have made an interesting novel. Heck, I could see this being a series with Branford being the central figure, but who cares about the “hero”? Not me.
I could go on and on, and I hate to give this only one star, but it needs a lot of work, IMHO. The author can email me if he wants more specifics…
BTW, there is at least one instance of “of/or” and “as/if” being interchanged.