SYNOPSIS:
Cole Sage, a once brilliant journalist, has just about reached rock bottom. Haunted by the longing for the woman he lost, Cole is jarred to a crossroads when an elderly woman shoots and kills a hostage negotiator in front of him.
A while later, Cole is stunned to receive a one line cry for help from his one great love. He is face to face with his past and an uncertain future as he tries to find her estranged daughter.
The path to keeping his word is blocked at every turn by the husband who has abandoned her, his shady real estate deals, violent con men, street thugs and the lure of a fortune in diamonds that bring them all together.
The anger, sorrow, and crippling guilt of twenty years fires Cole’s drive to keep a promise, that in the end, will heal and return the soul to the great journalist.
Beaten, bloody but determined, Cole Sage conquers greed and hatred with a strength that only love and a will as hard as diamond can achieve.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Micheal Maxwell was taught the beauty and majesty of the English language by Bob Dylan, Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens and Leonard Cohen.
Mr. Maxwell has traveled the globe, dined with politicians, rock stars and beggars. He has rubbed shoulders with priests and murderers, surgeons and drug dealers, each one giving him a part of themselves that will live again in the pages of his books.
Micheal Maxwell has found a niche in the mystery, suspense, genre with The Cole Sage Series that gives readers an everyman hero, short on vices, long on compassion, and a sense of fair play, and the willingness to risk everything to right wrongs. The Cole Sage Series departs from the usual, heavily sexual, profanity laced norm and gives readers character driven stories, with twists, turns, and page turning plot lines.
Micheal Maxwell writes from a life of love, music, film, and literature. Along with his lovely wife and travel partner, Janet, he lives in a small town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
MY REVIEW:
What urged me to read this book was the sparkly gems:
diamonds. I was able to find many more gems in this story.
Story line sounded a bit different than what I've been
reading lately and it turns out it's a well written story.
This story starts out with Cole and he's getting hate from
every which way he turns. He is a writer
at the Chicago newspaper.
They give him a story and he has to investigate and research
it and then write about it. He's been all over the world in his lifetime.
The woman he loved got away from him as he left to cover a 3
year story in Asia. He is contacted that
she is in trouble and he finds out she is in a nursing center or sorts.
He heads to CA where he and she grew up and finds her, in a
broken state. ALS and she just wants to find her daughter. He is able to reminisce
with her about the old days, so many laughs and tears.
He researches with help from a cop in Chicago and he travels
around to meet the new spouse who had her sign away her parents property and
POA. She wants it for her daughter.
He finds out so much more and diamonds are involved. I'm
hoping the spouse gets clobbered not only business wise but personal for just
dumping Ellie in the center to die there.
Love how the rest of the story goes for Ellie. Kinda had a
hint or two along the way as to her father but was surprised how it came out
and who it was.
I love daisies, Leonard Cohen, and CSNY-treasured gems and
more are found in this book.
Like travel, romance, long lost love found, and making
things right, learning new words.
Excerpt of the next Cole book in the series in listed at the
back along with the author's works and about the author.
Received this review copy from the author and this is my
honest opinion.
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