Unsettle the Score - Softcover

Hollman, Jeffrey L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494738708 ISBN 13: 9781494738709

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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UNSETTLE THE SCORE tracks what happens to Maureen Jasper after husband Tom, the Kiwanis Club Man of the Year, hits and kills a beautiful naked girl running drunk on their street at night. For Maureen, an educator herself, the incident marks the start of her own re-education, a new set of lessons where she will learn that her husband is a criminal, that the police and FBI are not only useless but dangerous, and that to save her own daughter, she has to take criminal action herself against the dead girl’s father, a little old man she has seen walking dogs around the neighborhood. Problem is, he’s a major crime lord. At first, Maureen sees the accident as a tragedy she will have to help Tom overcome emotionally, but the girl’s father, Dmitri Mason, a violent criminal who takes pleasure in slaughtering animals as well as people, begins to pull the Jaspers into a long and elaborate drama of revenge culminating in the kidnapping of their daughter, a college freshman. Suave, smooth, the ultimate puppet master, Dmitri Mason recruits a brilliant serial killer, a North Korean agent, and a corrupt cop to bring about a string of final violent acts to settle scores against his enemies prior to his retirement from a life in crime. That retirement is forestalled, however, because he never reckoned that a quiet second grade teacher could be as violent, as determined, and as harsh in action as himself. After her daughter is made a sex slave, Maureen takes action to “unsettle the score” and revenge herself on the man who has wreaked such damage on her family. “It’s clear from the start that Dmitri is…an indelible villain.” –Kirkus Reviews “An ambitious thriller, successful in nearly every respect.” –Kirkus Reviews

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Following thirty five years in education (English teacher, high school principal, assistant superintendent), JEFF HOLLMAN began writing full time, for the most part plays. In February 2006, Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) staged his full length one-act play, REAL DANGER, in a one month run as an Equity Showcase. The following year, EAT also produced his short play, FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION. In 2009, his play, BIRD WATCHING, was runner up out of 38 entries in the Strawberry One-Act Festival and was subsequently published in THE BEST PLAYS FROM THE STRAWBERRY ONE-ACT FESTIVAL, Volume Seven. In September 2011, his play, OWA-TODO-PIAM was produced in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival by the Secret Room Theatre, and in October 2012, Play Club West in Hollywood held a staged reading of REAL DANGER. In 2014, his one-act, 49 years, received a staged reading at Tada Theatre in Manhattan, NY. His novel, UNSETTLE THE SCORE, has been called “an ambitious thriller, successful in nearly every respect” by Kirkus Reviews. A sculptor for thirty seven years, Jeff has exhibited works in numerous galleries and shows on Long Island and in Summer 2014 will be mounting fifteen wind sculptures at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, NY.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1494738708
• ISBN 13: 9781494738709
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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