Desperation Moon | Ken Douglas | Mucho Desperation in this Finely Tuned Thriller

Desperation Moon | Ken Douglas | Non-Stop Action

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Desperation Moon

	Desperation Moon Ken Douglas Bootleg Press, 2003 - 340 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Worry about the approaching custody battle for her niece Kelly with Estelle, her dead sister's rich mother-in-law, causes off road race car driver Sara Hackett to lose control of her car halfway through the Australian Desert Safari, a race between Sydney and Darwin. Out of the race, she decides to go back to Long Beach, California a week early. When she arrives home she finds her niece has been kidnapped. The kidnappers want a million dollars from Estelle who Sara believes won't pay. Sara sees on the news that software magnate Cyril Radoslaw's daughter Paige has also been kidnapped. She knows that Clay, her police officer husband, has been advising Radoslaw on security and figures out that he is behind both kidnappings. The next day Radoslaw is found dead in Sara's bed. Now the police are after her and the message to Sara is clear. Radoslaw wouldn't pay either. Sara is desperate. She has to elude her husband, the police and find the girls before the deadline runs out.

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Mucho Desperation in this Finely Tuned Thriller

In DESPERATION MOON Ken Douglas provides his readers with one of the most despicable bad guys I've come across in a long time. I'm talking about Rice, the aids infected kidnapper of two young girls, who somehow doesn't think he's a pervert, when he so obviously is. Rice is hired by Huntington Beach police officer Clay Tredway to kidnap his wife Sara Hackett's niece along with the daughter of a wealthy software developer.

Sara is a racecar driver and when she comes home early from a race in Australia, she finds a pregnant woman in her house. Apparently hubby Clay is a philanderer as well as a kidnapper. Soon after she finds out about the kidnapping, she figures out what a weasel her husband really is. She sets out to rescue the two girls. But Clay doesn't make it easy for her. He frames her for the murder of the software guy and now she is on the run even as she's running to save the girls.

Meanwhile, Rice, and his not-to-bright accomplice Gundry, have problems of their own as the girls have escaped into an oil field in the heart of California, where the kidnappers had been holding them hostage. Now they don't care about the ransom anymore, they just want the girls dead. Can Sara, and the quirky band of characters she's enlisted to help her, get to them before the killer/kidnappers do?

In a frantic race against time which involves stealing a small plane in the middle of the night, a midnight swim and more tension than you can shake a stick at, Sara finally confronts her bad cop, no good, two timing, kidnapping rat of a husband. And if you're a girl who has ever been two-timed the way Sara has been, you are absolutely going to love the ending of this book as it plays out to the tune of Bob Dylan singing "Tangled up in Blue." This is a thriller.

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Non-Stop Action

What a unique and multi-dimensional character Mr. Douglas has created in Sara. I found myself drawn into her life right from the start. She is a strong female lead, who solves her problems herself. She doesn't go to some man to find her kidnapped niece and some man doesn't come to the rescue when she gets in trouble deep. Sara takes matters into her own hands and all I've got to say is that the guys who got between her and her kidnapped niece got what they deserved. This is a great story with a great female lead and when you throw in the non-stop action you really have a winner.

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A Book I Could Not Put Down

This is a fast paced book about two little girls who are kidnapped and how they elude their captors, while a desperate woman goes the extra mile to try and save them. I read this book over two nights and loved every second of the sleep I didn't get.

A New Fan

I finished the book Desperation Moon and I have mixed opinions about it.
I think it all depends on what a person is willing to read. I did find the language a bit vulgar, but it was meant to be that way. It didn't bother me too much because English is a 2nd language for my dad and cursing is his first. Even so, he is everyone's PaPa in our old neighborhood.

I had a hard time with Rice wanting to rape and touching Paige especially because she was a teenager. I think it could have been easier to digest if it were kept in his thoughts and he never touched her. This is just how I because of what I think about adults that prey on children in this manor.

With the exception of what appeared to be a few typo's and a mistake when you mentioned Sarah parents died in a plane crash then followed it up with them dying in an helicopter cash; I thought the writing was good.

The writing is very discriptive; I found myself in the bar when Rice was coughing, inhaling the red dust during the race in Australia, I saw Carole from behind standing in Sarah's kitchen, and I felt the mud in the ditch and on and on. I think that one of the most important things about writing is that a person should be able to feel and see what they are reading. I have not written much and do not consider myself a writer but as a reader. I have to feel the joy and pain when I read a book or it can take me forever to finish it by force.

I hope that you continue to write and publish new books. I haven't read any of your other books yet but I think I will. I think that in this age of what appears to be a attack on our young people, because your writing is good and very discriptive,some people may not be able to deal with it.
There were periods where I had a hard time with the contents and wondered what some of the women in my book club would think about me choosing this book.

I had thoughts of what kind of person could write in such detail about what Rice wanted to do and did do to Paige.

I was pleased that Rice could not go through with what he thought he wanted to do to Paige. I probably would have either stopped reading the book or skipped that part if he did. I felt like Somewhere in the back of his sick mind, he could not go through with it because she was a child. He felt that this would make him a freak or something.

He said something to the effect that someone who would do something like that to a child was sick earlier when they were all in the car and
he looked at Kelly.

My book club meeting is at 7:30. It takes us about an half hour to get settled. I would like to call you around 8:30 CT if this is not a problem. We shouldn't take up much of your time. to the meeting. We have also listed to a recorded interview of an Author at one
of our meetings. I think that getting to know an author can help with understanding the Author's message. We have a couple of ladies that are hard core readers and will more than likely have a couple of questions. I think this would be good for you as well to get started again.

Last but not least, I wasn't surprised when I saw the picture of you on a boat at the end of the book. At one point during my reading, I saw a connection with you and Seth. There may not have been but I knew that you had to have a boat and either had or wanted to sail the seas and live on your boat.

Alfreda

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Maybe too Intense

This is a very intense read. Sara Hackett is racing across the Australian Desert with her sister as navigator, she wants to win the race, but her car breaks down and she has to come back to America early, where she discovers her husband has left her for a young woman's he's made pregnant. Then she finds out her niece, who she had been raising has been kidnapped. Then her house is burned down and a man is found burned to death in her bed. Now the police are after Sara, but she can't worry about that, because she has to find the kidnappers before they harm her niece.

Okay, there you have the gist of this almost too intense read. The characters in the story are good and I believed in them, but there was almost no breathing space. Between all the troubles that were piled on Sara and the chase scenes and the intense bad guys, there was almost no time to settle back and take a breath. I would have like the relationship between Sara and her no good husband fleshed out a little more. He was a pretty bad guy, but I don't think the readers really find out why. I did like the ending though, I won't say what it was, but it was good.

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