The Bookseller
by C. Robert Cales
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Pub Date Jan 12 2015 | Archive Date Mar 09 2016
Smith Publicity | ScaryBob Productions LLC
Description
Stephen King Fans Rejoice!
NEW CRIME THRILLER IS A PAGE-TURNER TO BE READ WITH THE LIGHTS ON
The Bookseller, the latest paranormal horror novel from author C. Robert Cales, weaves together the intersecting stories of a rare book that precipitates a long-awaited reunion between old friends, a violent South American drug cartel with a creative new idea for moving its product, and the pending demolition of a 200-year old structure with its own scary, storied past into a riveting, impossible-to-put-down tale.
In The Bookseller, George Saunders, a rare book dealer, and his college sweetheart turned wife, Elizabeth, live above their bookstore, The Bookseller - a wedding present from Elizabeth’s father thirty years earlier. At The Bookseller, George buys and sells rare literary gems and Elizabeth operates a coffee parlor. They are about to be reunited with an old friend, Frank Richter, a former high school basketball star and all-round chick magnet with poor study habits who found his sports eligibility slipping away when his coach recommended bookworm George Saunders as his tutor. That relationship was the beginning of a life-long friendship that included Richter acting as best man at George and Elizabeth’s wedding. Richter is now a funeral director who, having received a rare book from a former client, is on his way to Boston with a gift for his old friends.
John Stoner, the point man for one of the largest construction companies in the country, is on a current assignment that brings him to Freetown, Massachusetts, where many residents are terrified by a crumbling structure within the woods -- which is about to be cleared to make way for Stoner’s new shopping mall. The old place, known simply as The House, has been the source of local legends for well over a hundred years. Jimmy, a Freetown football legend, meets John at a local tavern and explains the town’s morbid fear as well as his own story about the old place.
Carlos Ramirez is the head of a South American drug cartel. A government raid destroyed the submarine he had under construction and killed a number of his men. In response, he ordered his best men to develop a new smuggling technique, something that could slip right under the collective noses of the DEA and offer them security far into the future. Carlos has never been as happy. His men have just developed a process for infusing liquid cocaine into the pages of books and withdrawing it at the destination point. He has sent a team of lawyers out in search of a bookstore in the perfect location for acquisition to complete the next step of his plan.
NEW CRIME THRILLER IS A PAGE-TURNER TO BE READ WITH THE LIGHTS ON
The Bookseller, the latest paranormal horror novel from author C. Robert Cales, weaves together the intersecting stories of a rare book that precipitates a long-awaited reunion between old friends, a violent South American drug cartel with a creative new idea for moving its product, and the pending demolition of a 200-year old structure with its own scary, storied past into a riveting, impossible-to-put-down tale.
In The Bookseller, George Saunders, a rare book dealer, and his college sweetheart turned wife, Elizabeth, live above their bookstore, The Bookseller - a wedding present from Elizabeth’s father thirty years earlier. At The Bookseller, George buys and sells rare literary gems and Elizabeth operates a coffee parlor. They are about to be reunited with an old friend, Frank Richter, a former high school basketball star and all-round chick magnet with poor study habits who found his sports eligibility slipping away when his coach recommended bookworm George Saunders as his tutor. That relationship was the beginning of a life-long friendship that included Richter acting as best man at George and Elizabeth’s wedding. Richter is now a funeral director who, having received a rare book from a former client, is on his way to Boston with a gift for his old friends.
John Stoner, the point man for one of the largest construction companies in the country, is on a current assignment that brings him to Freetown, Massachusetts, where many residents are terrified by a crumbling structure within the woods -- which is about to be cleared to make way for Stoner’s new shopping mall. The old place, known simply as The House, has been the source of local legends for well over a hundred years. Jimmy, a Freetown football legend, meets John at a local tavern and explains the town’s morbid fear as well as his own story about the old place.
Carlos Ramirez is the head of a South American drug cartel. A government raid destroyed the submarine he had under construction and killed a number of his men. In response, he ordered his best men to develop a new smuggling technique, something that could slip right under the collective noses of the DEA and offer them security far into the future. Carlos has never been as happy. His men have just developed a process for infusing liquid cocaine into the pages of books and withdrawing it at the destination point. He has sent a team of lawyers out in search of a bookstore in the perfect location for acquisition to complete the next step of his plan.
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About the author:
C. Robert Cales was born with a triple dose of imagination. A horror-genre addict from an early age, Cales was sixteen when his vivid imagination, demanding an outlet, led him to begin putting pen to paper. Cales helped hone his writing craft by studying the works of two of his favorite genre’s most-noted authors, Stephen King and Anne Rice. The culmination of this creative outpouring was Cales’ first original novel, Devil Glass. His imagination continued telling him stories, the next of which is his most-recent novel, The Bookseller. Though two independent novels, Cales in currently writing a third book, Reincarnology, which will tie the three into one trilogy.
When Cales takes a break from writing he picks up his video game controller and indulges his second addiction. He takes credit for leaving countless alien and zombie bodies face down in the dirt.
The Bookseller is available for purchase in e-book format on Amazon and iTunes.
C. Robert Cales was born with a triple dose of imagination. A horror-genre addict from an early age, Cales was sixteen when his vivid imagination, demanding an outlet, led him to begin putting pen to paper. Cales helped hone his writing craft by studying the works of two of his favorite genre’s most-noted authors, Stephen King and Anne Rice. The culmination of this creative outpouring was Cales’ first original novel, Devil Glass. His imagination continued telling him stories, the next of which is his most-recent novel, The Bookseller. Though two independent novels, Cales in currently writing a third book, Reincarnology, which will tie the three into one trilogy.
When Cales takes a break from writing he picks up his video game controller and indulges his second addiction. He takes credit for leaving countless alien and zombie bodies face down in the dirt.
The Bookseller is available for purchase in e-book format on Amazon and iTunes.
Featured Reviews
Ruby B, Reviewer
I read this book when it first came out in 2011 and was blown away at the detailed accounts and the stunning way the author weaved this story. We have our likable Bookseller and his wife, their neighbors and friends... and then we have the drug cartel who worked to destroy the very fabric of this delightful place. An idea to smuggle cocaine in books becomes the backdrop for a very informed Bookseller who just might give the team from Supernatural a run for their money. An exquisite story that will keep you up way past your bedtime...
aurore p, Reviewer
We have our likable Bookseller and his wife, their neighbors and friends... and then we have the drug cartel who worked to destroy the very fabric of this delightful place. An idea to smuggle cocaine in books becomes the backdrop for a very informed Bookseller who just might give the team from Supernatural a run for their money. An exquisite story that will keep you up way past your bedtime...
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