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Predator Island

Predator Island (2018) is a very different book for me. I describe it as a mixture of The Hunger Games, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Most Danegerous Game a short story by Richard Connell.

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Seven billionaires band together to lease a deserted Brazilian island. After upgrading the island's infrastructure with roads, water, electricity provided by solar panels, and a tunnel through the side of a dormant volcano to build their headquarters on the crater floor, their plan is to populate the island with fourteen of the world's deadliest land predators. With very little game to survive on, it is expected that the predators will turn on each other and it will be a fight to the finish with the survivor earning the title of "The Deadliest Predator." The action will be viewed on television in their headquarters with the cameras on fourteen drones, each tracking one of the predators through a microchip in the napes of the predators; necks. The drones are to be controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence computer named Horus. However, two nights before the predators' arrival a force of mercenaries hired by one of the billionaires invades the island taking control and a fifteenth predator is added to the game. But this predator is a naked unarmed man. The only way that the billionaires can regain control of the island and their program is left in the "hands" of Horus. But what can a computer and a naked man do against an armed force of thirty?

Wings Series

Wings of a Butterfly (2015) is the story of a plot to assassinate the first female president-elect of the U.S.A.

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In Washington, D.C., it is approximately forty-eight hours until a new president is inaugurated. Not just any president but the first female president and a killer stands poised to prevent it. But halfway around the world, a butterfly beats its wings. The impact of one person on another's life spreads around the globe until it strikes one man/woman who gets sudden insight into the killer's plan. But can it be stopped?

Treason (2017) is the story of the kidnapping of the four adult childrean of the first female president of the U.S.A.

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A NATION IN DISTRESS

President Chyrise Elliot's first term of office was completing a fairly uneventful first four months when four simultaneous kidnapping incursions are made into the residences of her children. Twenty-four hours later a ransom video is furnished to the news media revealing the kidnapped children in a desert setting and the beheading of one. The Jihadi John type kidnapper threatens to behead them all in forty-eight hours unless the president resigns from her position. It is up to the Secret Service to locate and rescue the kidnapped children but there are few clues except for the terrorist's ransom film. Will that be enough or will President Elliot be forced to give in to the terrorist's demands?

Up North Mysteries

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The skeleton of a young girl buried for ten years is discovered by Dugal McBruce. The official investigation stalls as there is no DNA match and no young girls have gone missing in the area in the past decade. Not even he National Center for Missing and Exploited Children can help . The discovery of a young girl buried only six months earlier may provide a clue to a kidnapper. Can Dugal and Sheriff Nathanial Jefferson piece together evidence in time to save an unknown third kidnap victim?

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Where better to hide a dead body than at the bottom of a deep lake? A deep lake that is frozen over? The only problem? Ice fishermen. Of course the fishermen expect to catch fish, not parts of a human body. As the saying goes, "The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men." When Zebulah Pyke reels in his fish and finds he has caught a human finger, the mystery begins. Who is the body under the ice and why as the body put in the lake? And who killed the deceased? Cameron's best work to date, The Body Under The Ice has more intriguing questions than answers and it's up to Sheriff Nathanial Jefferson and his deputies to find the answers. The questions are obvious: Is the body male or female? Who did what to whom, why, when and how? Those answers will lead to the totally unexpected sadistic killer who wanted to keep his victim on ice.

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With three confessions to the murder of Pierre LeBeuf (The Body Under the Ice), two of the confessors dead, and the third non compos mentis, Sheriff Nathanial Jefferson was in a quandary - he didn't believe any of the confessions and he had no other leads. Two summer lake deputies patrolling Hibbard Pond sought shelter under the West Branch covered bridge from a sudden downpour. While climbing the dirt embankment to tie a line, one of them unearthed the skeleton of a young boy. When the time of the boy's death was set in the late 1950s, the sheriff and his deputies knew that they have a cold case, one of the most difficult to solve. Nathanial Jefferson believed that even with the most diligent of police work, cracking these two cases was going to require the one ingredient that helps solve many police cases, but yet is the most difficult to come by: Dumb Luck..

Payback Trilogy

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They were leaving. I didn't wave. They didn't wave. They didn't even look back! I guess you don't if you've just killed someone. Especially if that someone is your brother-in-law.

Thus began Stuart Andrews's sixteen-hour survival ordeal in the Caribbean Sea off the island of St. Nantes. He had to stay alive, yet appear dead to the people who had tried to drown him on a fishing excursion while their cruise ship was in port. Once ashore and in the solace of a lived-in yet unoccupied house, he would lay his plans for payback. He was without funds or identification and news reports reveal his wife said he had reboarded their cruise ship and committed suicide three days later and five hundred miles further south. After crafting a new identity, he created a cleverly woven trap to convince authorities that he had been murdered and get the guilty extradited to St. Nantes to stand trial. He could make no mistakes because he must remain below the radar of the law and the conspirators as well as the unknown group for which he had been laundering money -- with him dead and in possession of their funds, they were pretty much hung out to dry. However, the trial would be conducted by a judge whose sardonic questioning would imply that he knew more than he should.

"Cameron's latest entry into the world of fiction, Payback is time to die... again, provides the reader with hours of enjoyment, a mesmerizing sequel to Cameron's best-selling Payback is a Bitch that introduced the public to an unlikely hero, protagonist Stuart Andrews. An excellent read."
Jim Collins, Mid-Atlantic Book Reviewers

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When he had returned to The House at the End of the Road, Dawoh "Daws" Mbayo had become a semi-recluse except for his live-in girlfriend Treshauna "Tres" Jones. Therefore he was surprised when he opened his door and found Judge MIchel Villar on his doorstep. The Judge explained that the Cercle des Frères (Circle of Brothers), the criminal organiztion for which he had once worked, was out to kill him. He had come seeking the aid of Stuart Andrews, the one person who could help him. The only problem was that Stuart Andrews was dead, at least legally. Daws (aka Stuart) knew that by helping the Judge he would put himself and Tres in jeopardy, but as the Judge explained it, he had no option but to comply. This decision would embark the three of them on a harrowing journey in which they would find themselves on the brink of death.

"Payback is Bitter Vengeance is the dynamic conclusion to the Payback Trilogy by Douglas Cameron. A powerful thriller that is a must read to action/adventure/suspense fans every where."
Mid-Atlantic Book Reviewers, January 27, 2015.

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Harriet and Paul Peterson left Philipsburg, St. Maartin aboard their yacht Seventh Heaven with a crew of two on the first leg of their sail around the world. A week later in the Caribbean Sea south of Jamaica, a life ring was pulled from the water. On one side Seventh Heaven had been crossed out and on the other side R.I.P. Zàkpa had been written in felt tip pen.

In Miami, Alan Murphy had Andrews Investment Management on a firm foundation and moving forward with two new hires and potentially a well-to-do client ready to sign on. However, inexplicably after a visit by the new client, the entire floor housing the company was eradicated by thirteen different bombs detonated simultaneously killing all thirteen members of A.I.M.

Stuart Andrews knew that someone was out to destroy everything he held dear. Yet the yacht belonged to someone he didn't know and he had no control over his former company now run by his former partner. Therefore he knew that whoever had perpetrated these atrocities harbored a deep hatred of Stuart Andrews. But Stuart had killed the only person who has a reason to do this ... or did he? Stuart began a race against time to save his friends by finding and stopping the person who wants to exact his bitter vengeance.

Young Adult Books

Muddy Waters

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A most unlikely but extremely strong bond of friendship develops between two two teenage boys of different ethnic backgrounds. Joshua, a young Amish boy of thirteen, forbidden to form friendships with "outsiders," has his live saved by Chris Waters after being critically injured by a wildly careening lumber truck. In turn, "Muddy" - as Chris prefers to be called - is rescued by Joshua. A powerful, inspiring demonstration of how true friendship - although forbidden - can overcome even religious bias and class discrimination. Joyous, exhilarating young adult experiences, top filled with danger and action and crowned with the most unsuspected and unexpected discovery of all.

Angry Waters

This cover was done by a seventh grade student at Alcona Middle School, Lincoln, Michigan

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Muddy Waters and Joshua Beiler find themselves in the middle of an adventure not of their choosing when two different groups of people try to influence the Beilers life in the Amish Negwegon Parish. One group wants them to leave and go back to OH and the other wants to get them in trouble with the sheriff so that Joshua won't testify against the men who killed the farmer. Complicating matters is the release of a menagerie of wild animals kept in a private zoo when the owner dies. Even with some clever detective work on the part of Muddy, Joshua and Miriam Beiler, it takes a chance encounter with one of the zoo animals to reveal the two groups and bring them to justice.

The Witches of Hibbard Corners

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When fifteen-year-old Jennifer Wilson awoke in the middle of the night, she discovered that she was colder than she had ever been before - perhaps because her mother's ghost was standing at the foot of her bed. That night her mother told her three things that would impact her young life: that her mother had died in a freak accident that night during a ritual performed on the late winter ice of Hibbard Pond; that she (Jennifer) was a witch like her mother; and that one of the three other "witches" who had participated in the ritual would try to kill her.

What her mother couldn't tell her was that the ritual had awakened the Ice Bear, a spiritual being created by Gichi-Manidoo, the Great Spirit of the Chippewa. Together Jennifer and the Ice Bear would fight the forces of evil that threatened the tranquility and security of the environs of Hibbard Pond. In their first confrontation, they would discover an unexpected ally: The Witches of Hibbard Corners.