Review:
I really found this book interesting. It started off a bit slow and confusing, but soon had me hooked wanting to know more.
The characters are easy to read, and very easy to get to know.
It literally has you guessing how it is gonna end UNTIL the very end...lol I was on the edge of my seat many times wondering how things were going to turn out and was always wrong...lol
The writer has a way of getting you into the book, really feeling what they do. Making you try to guess what is gonna happen next but you will almost always be wrong...lol
Title:
Covert Dreams
Author:
Michael Meyer
Genre:
Thriller/Suspense/ Mystery
Publisher:
Pacific Books
Release
Date: June 1 2012
Format:
Ebook
Synopsis:
Imagine
waking up remembering intimate details about a country in which you
have never traveled and fluently speaking a language that you have never
spoken. B.J. is living the ideal life. He has a great wife, a wonderful job.
And yet he is experiencing life-like vivid dreams of Munich, a city he has
never visited.
Stan Halsey is a professor in Saudi Arabia, who sends for his wife to join
him. She arrives, and, in the blink of an eye, she vanishes, leaving no trace
of ever being alive in either the United States or in Saudi Arabia.
COVERT DREAMS is a fast-paced international suspense thriller that moves from
Munich to the burning sands of Saudi Arabia. What is real, and who is
responsible for the terrifying nightmare?
Excerpt 1:
The Munich all around her was bustling with activity. She could hear it from
all directions. Munich was a wonderful city, a fun-loving place, the live and
let live ebullience of the city emanating from its every nook and cranny. She
had had a lovely stay here. All of it had been so adventurous, so new, so
unlike life back home in Arizona. She could vividly recall the first time she
had ventured into a Munich beer garden, where the liter mugs had been so huge
that she had had to lift hers with both hands, and the giggles, from him, until
he too had had to use both hands.
The fumbling noises he had been making came to an abrupt halt. He began
stroking her cheek again. Gus looked so happy, so young, so full of life. It
was so hard to imagine that he could be so heavily involved in all this horror.
Gus smiled at her once more. His eyes were soft, so gentle, so caring, so
loving.
Maybe this was some kind of huge mistake. Maybe he wasn't going to kill her
after all. Maybe everything would turn out happily ever after. Maybe. Maybe.
Maybe.
But then suddenly she saw it clearly. It was no fairy tale. There would be no
maybe. This was real, as real as the mixture of sadness and fear that now
flooded her brain.
And then she died, with her eyes wide open, challenging, piercing his to the
end.
Excerpt 2:
Man and woman, husband and wife, person to person—they looked into
each other’s eyes, too scared to verbalize their thoughts. Onwards they
plunged, right into the dark unknown, oblivious to the fact that their lives at
that very moment were intertwined with other lives half a world away, in both
Munich, Germany, and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Time, gradually becoming their enemy, did
a flip-flop, and the now became the then, dying, giving birth to what lay
ahead, way beyond the present, biding its own good time, in total control, much
like a German panzer unit moving across The Netherlands. Just like the power of
Allah under the hot Saudi Arabian sun.
Author Bio
I have
resided in and have visited many places in the world, all of which have
contributed in some way to my own published writing. I have literally traveled throughout
the world, on numerous occasions. I have lived in Finland, Germany, Thailand,
the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Saudi Arabia, where COVERT DREAMS is set. I gained
the wanderlust to see the world, to experience other cultures, at an early age,
and this desire has never left me. If anything, it has only gained in intensity
as I have aged. I try to travel internationally at least once a year. In the
interim, I spend lots of time traveling around both my home state of California
and other nearby states.
I
spent my early years in the small town of Lone Pine, California, the home of
almost every western movie, in addition to a wide variety of other genres, made
in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. In fact, Hollywood still films parts of
big-time movies there today. My dad, the town’s lifeguard at the time,
personally knew John Wayne, Lloyd Bridges, and Lee Marvin, all of whom came to
the town’s pool, the Memorial Plunge, at times to cool off after a hectic day
of working in the sun. I was even an extra in a movie filmed there in 1957,
MONOLITH MONSTERS, a B-cult favorite even today. I was ten years old at the
time. Even though I resided in a small town hours from the big city, I was
exposed to the excitement of action and heroes at a formative age, and, thus,
my interest in writing novels of suspense such as COVERT DREAMS was born.
As
a recent retiree from a forty-year career as a professor of writing, I now live
in Southern California wine country with my wife, Kitty, and our two other
cats.
Places to find Mike
Places to find Covert Dreams
