Readers’ Favorite 2017 Gold Medal WinnerGoodReads BOOK of the MONTH February 2015“intense & thought provoking, taking storytelling to another level”“brings to mind such greats as Clancy & Forsyth… would not be surprised to hear one day it is being made into a film”“A fast-paced thriller full of surprises and intrigue that never let up”“be prepared: if you pick the book up you won’t put … surprises and intrigue that never let up”
“be prepared: if you pick the book up you won’t put it down”
What’s the most dangerous gift a fan could send to an author?
And if that fan was a professional assassin?
New York-based writer Nic Stiles receives a strange package in the mail. It’s not long before he realises what it represents will change his life… with deadly consequences. Others want the package’s contents too, including a high-tech Intelligence agency who will stop at nothing to obtain it.
…and the sender wants it back!
This fast-paced SUSPENSE THRILLER from Eric J. Gates will make YOU question your Destiny!more
Outsourced
by Eric J. Gates
I received a complimentary copy and am voluntarily leaving a review.
A jury finds Robert Polanski not guilty of several premeditated, multiple murders after a very public trial. Even though he is acquitted, the public decides he is just the opposite. They decided his guilt and wanted him in jail with the key thrown away! Unfortunately, he is guilty. Not of just one murder, but over 217 deaths covering a period of 23 years! He had already chosen to retire from his killing rampage, passing his prized possession to another who he deems worthy to receive it.
Nic Stiles is a struggling author fighting to write a book that he thinks is “ the one “, digging for the bestseller inside of him. He has done it in the past but needs this to happen now. Stashed away in his cabin, he lives as a recluse. He is clutching at straws, struggling in the hope of enlightenment when he receives a package containing a wooden box. The box holds a pen, an ugly, mishmash of a pen, looking as if someone had fit parts together but yet retained an aura of mystery. And the message that comes with it only confuses him more.
“The trick isn’t what you use but what you intend”
What follows is an exciting nail-biting novel that has you gripped from the first page.
This is a unique mystery thriller constructed around an object that is passed from person to person. An object possessing the ability to warp the future, but it isn’t as simple as it first appears to be. The consequences are many and more deadly than can be imagined.
This is an exhilarating and stimulating read that throws punches from the beginning.
After reading Eric J.Gates’s bio, I am not surprised at how detailed and intense Outsourced is! He has an amazing background, full of experiences to draw upon, and it is clear the amount of research he has undergone to complete certain details mentioned in this novel.
The characters are well-defined, especially Robert Polanski, who acts as a conniving and calculated character. He always appears one step ahead of everyone else, after working out all the possibilities and outcomes of every situation. The book flows at a steady, thrilling pace, with events unfolding one after the other, culminating in a hair-raising climax. The final few pages are satisfying with the tantalising possibility of more to follow.
I rate Outsourced 5 out of 5 stars.
Outsourced, by Eric J. Gates, starts at the end of a trial. Robert Polanski, accused of being a serial killer, has been found innocent. He has been accused of murdering over 200 people but the evidence for each was circumstantial. On the way out of the courtroom, his lawyer, feeling guilty himself for defending a man he is certain is guilty, asks him if he is. Polanski coolly announces that the real total is closer to 400, and walks away. Soon after, the lawyer dies, his car having been sabotaged.
It’s an excellent way to set the scene. We have a villain who is very villainous, indeed, resourceful, intelligent and entirely without a conscience.
The scene then shifts to Nic Stiles, a writer of mysteries and thrillers, who has been thrust into a trumped up competition with Grayson Fallon, another writer, whose career has paralleled his own. Nic wants nothing to do with the feud, particularly since he has lost his will to write, but he feels beholden to his publishers and his own sense of pride.
Polanski, it seems, owes much of his success to a mysterious artifact, a pen that grants wishes. What is written, comes true, though often in disquieting ways. Polanski wants to retire and decides to send the pen to his favorite writer, Nic Stiles. The US government, however, is aware of the pen, and is desperate to get their hands on it.
What follows is a fast moving, engrossing thriller. There’s a lot of action, a lot of complications and it all rushes to a conclusion that makes satisfying sense. This is the first book by Eric J. Gates that I’ve read. It won’t be the last. Highly recommended.
A friend persuaded me to read ‘Outsourced’, and I’m so glad he did. It was thrilling, topical, unpredictable and after the dramatic climax; an immensely satisfying read. Eric Gates succeeded in taking me to that rare place–the suspension of my disbelief–by making the effort to substantiate his rationale for the deadly artifact at the center of the plot. Without slowing the page-turning high-tempo pace of his thriller, Gates provides a mind-bending primer on quantum mechanics! From that moment I was hooked.
The villain was venal, the authorities were untrustworthy, the leading lady was enigmatic and independent, and the two authors (apparently bitter rivals!) grew in stature and guile as the plot deepened. Gates also succeeded in getting in a few licks against interrogations without due process, unfettered intrusion by the security apparatus in our lives, and a dig or two at the suspect ethics of the traditional print publishing industry. These real world observations grounded ‘Outsourced’ further, feeding this reader’s sense of reality despite what was in fact a deadly pursuit for a mystical device! In short, author Eric Gates provides a thrilling literary twist to the belief that the pen is mightier than the sword….literally!