With Island Adventure Boiling & Roiling, Who Needs Paradise?

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	• Birth of a (Small) Nation Part 1: We'll Remember Always Independence Day John W. Cassell Amazon, 2007 - 35 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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With Island Adventure Boiling & Roiling, Who Needs Paradise?

We've now got a boiling, roiling island adventure, up and running, with every type of intrigue imaginable, from the political machinations of a new nation being born, the romantic conflicts between Cassell's old and new life, the sub-cultural interests within a variety of native lifestyles of interestingly primitive ways which make an intriguing type of sense within the context of the novel.

Oh yeah, and we also find out how Cassell has earned a magic touch with Nat Webster, the leader of the communist NLP; and how Colgate, the current leader of the soon to be born new nation, is planning to make political use of that "magic touch."... with Cassell, of course, at pivotal points of all vortices of the coming storms, brewing through human strife, and through the nature of an island in an Uncertain Paradise: 1973 (the title of the novel telling the whole story behind this and three other Amazon Shorts series).

The opening paragraphs of, "We'll Remember Always Independence Day," reminded me how effectively and efficiently all of Cassell's novels recap previous plot action and time-frames; and how well he balances the home fires scenes with the adventure machinations. Most novels seem to favor either cozy scenes or frenzied momentum, aiming toward a female or male audience. Those rarer novels which successfully capture both genders seem to launch slowly and steadily into the mainstream reading audiences, then to endure on bookshelves through ages and millenniums. That timing is in contrast to the blockbuster hit which flies into oblivion without pause, at the same speed as its launch.

Also of highly effective regularity in Cassell's novels is his quick, easy establishment of the setting and theme for the current chapter.

These skills seem to require an intuitive mixing of a Right-Brain capacity for inspired storytelling, into a trained Left-Brain-focus of precision prioritization and logistical organization. Here again, in this Amazon Short, the reader receives that rare wholeness which makes a good tale into a live-in novel for a variety of reading tastes, thereby capturing a large portion of the novel-buying marketplace.

Here's an example of the above observations:

>> Sybil and I had been enjoying an afternoon swim at our beach house. I was scheduled to report to the 'airbase', as the old Hayes Airstrip was now somewhat hopefully called, at 1600. First the mission, then the court-martial had caused me to be out of touch with the frenzy of pre-Independence Day activities that had gripped the island in the past month. A lot had changed...

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Must Read

John W. Cassell proves once more that he is a very gifted writer. I love reading his work. And as always, I was not let down. Five stars!

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The Tension Builds...

Independence day is getting close and the Militia "is taking a hard look at its deployment in anticipation of heavy fighting". Combining both humor and drama, Cassell paints a vivid portrait of the island and its political and military personalities standing on the cusp of a dream that makes you feel, first, that you're standing in the mud of New Britain, the Malaria capital of the Caribbean, then sitting in Norbert Perkins' posh library on Mantilla Heights,then at John and Sybil's fabulous beach house in New Gatwick.

Wonder if they sell Kifo anywhere?

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The continuing story of a young American living as a fugitive on the Isle of St. Margaret's, he has survived the court-martial (?The Flight Lieutenant's Court Martial - Part 2?) and is freed from its burdens in time to resume his duties with the Air Militia on the very eve of Independence. This story follows the island and its people through Independence Day (April 15, 1973) and beyond. Everyone expects all out fighting from the Communist guerrillas to commence as the last strains of the new nation's anthem ?O Fair St. Margaret's Island Home? die away at the Mahali?but the days pass without a shot fired. The military cannot detect them and nerves are rubbed raw waiting for them to strike. On a routine flight from New Britain back to the capital, the young man and Lieutenant Colonel Romulus Augustulus Jones (third-in-command of the Militia) spot what looks like a secret base on the island's uninhabited south coast. Efforts by the protagonist to get something done about it meet with frustration?frustration made worse by Jones suddenly denying they saw anything. Convinced there is a Communist somewhere above him in the Government, and that the nation's survival is at stake, the young American risks imprisonment?or worse? seeking outside help.

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