With Charles' blessing. . .
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:21 pm
Charles has graciously allowed me to pitch my latest novel, Above Reproach, here on the forum. In its first seventy-two hours, the book went international with sales happening in Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, the UK, France, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. At last report, we've recorded sales in South Africa, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Costa Rico, Honduras and Panama.
An e-mail I received from an Australian reader told me he was putting it on his gun club's must read list as it is a "blueprint for what could happen in Australia as easily as it happened in America" and that "every member of the Australian parliament should be required to read it--right after every member of the American government read it."
Borders/Australia then picked up the book and is selling it on their website.
My background--I served in the USAF then later in federal law enforcement, and after graduate school (post law enforcement), I went to work for Ackerman McQueen, the ad/pr agency who did the lion's share of work for the National Rifle Association in the late 80's and 90's. During that time, I developed, wrote, contributed to, worked on and was involved in a host of ILA activities and projects. My fondest jobs and memories were of writing speeches for Wayne LaPierre, James Jay Baker and Charlton Heston. One of the highest honors I've ever experienced was for Mr. Heston to refer to me as his friend. Like all gun-owners, his death saddened me beyond words.
Above Reproach is a thriller set throughout the United States, but unlike typical thrillers written by my favorite authors (Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, et al), my thriller does not have a CIA/SEAL/Delta/Recon Marine super-hero bullet-proof antagonist as its hero who saves the day and saves America.
Instead, the hero is the average ordinary American who exercises their Second Amendment rights, and in particular by being a CHL holder.
Here is the description found the description pages:
The e-book version is $5.99 and is available in epub format through Sony E-Bookstore, Mobi format for the Kindle and is available through Amazon. The book is also available through Kobo and Borders/Australia. I believe that Kobo will also download you a PDF if you do not have an e-reader. You can download Calibre for free and it will convert any format to any other format and turn your computer into a true e-reader complete with flipping pages, scrolling text, text to speech and more. In the upcoming days, it is being picked up by the Apple iBookstore and Barnes & Noble. The print edition will be $15.99 and will be available by Memorial Day weekend.
Thanks and best regards,
J.D. Kinman
Dallas, Texas
An e-mail I received from an Australian reader told me he was putting it on his gun club's must read list as it is a "blueprint for what could happen in Australia as easily as it happened in America" and that "every member of the Australian parliament should be required to read it--right after every member of the American government read it."
Borders/Australia then picked up the book and is selling it on their website.
My background--I served in the USAF then later in federal law enforcement, and after graduate school (post law enforcement), I went to work for Ackerman McQueen, the ad/pr agency who did the lion's share of work for the National Rifle Association in the late 80's and 90's. During that time, I developed, wrote, contributed to, worked on and was involved in a host of ILA activities and projects. My fondest jobs and memories were of writing speeches for Wayne LaPierre, James Jay Baker and Charlton Heston. One of the highest honors I've ever experienced was for Mr. Heston to refer to me as his friend. Like all gun-owners, his death saddened me beyond words.
Above Reproach is a thriller set throughout the United States, but unlike typical thrillers written by my favorite authors (Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, et al), my thriller does not have a CIA/SEAL/Delta/Recon Marine super-hero bullet-proof antagonist as its hero who saves the day and saves America.
Instead, the hero is the average ordinary American who exercises their Second Amendment rights, and in particular by being a CHL holder.
Here is the description found the description pages:
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin)
An exiled Iranian operating out of Damascus is taking aim at the one thing the United States holds most precious—her freedom. Launching a blitzkrieg of mass shootings in cities across the country, Muhannad Qasim knows the urban dwellers and the media will blame the Second Amendment for the carnage and then relentlessly pressure lawmakers to stifle Americans’ right to arm and defend themselves. The master terrorist understands that a citizenry unarmed is at the complete mercy of its government—and he has spent years carefully seeding the U.S. Media and government with influential officials sympathetic to his views.
Qasim’s plan is working beautifully until one of his cells runs headlong into the wrong man.
Dillon Cole is a combat veteran and former U.S. Marshal who became a legend in the law enforcement community. After marrying, he hung up his guns and began a new career as a business executive, never looking back. But when he finds himself suddenly caught in the middle of a shooting inside a college student union in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dillon fights back, killing three of the terrorists and saving untold lives.
His heroics ignite a nationwide firestorm of resistance to the ongoing attacks as well as the attacks on the Constitution. But as Americans begin to fight back, Dillon now finds himself in a fight for his own life as the terrorists will stop at nothing to kill him, including going after his wife and newly adopted daughter. No longer constrained by the rules of his former profession, Dillon Cole takes the fight to the attackers, turning the hunters into the hunted.
The e-book version is $5.99 and is available in epub format through Sony E-Bookstore, Mobi format for the Kindle and is available through Amazon. The book is also available through Kobo and Borders/Australia. I believe that Kobo will also download you a PDF if you do not have an e-reader. You can download Calibre for free and it will convert any format to any other format and turn your computer into a true e-reader complete with flipping pages, scrolling text, text to speech and more. In the upcoming days, it is being picked up by the Apple iBookstore and Barnes & Noble. The print edition will be $15.99 and will be available by Memorial Day weekend.
Thanks and best regards,
J.D. Kinman
Dallas, Texas
But I knew THAT was going to happen. . .