Review: Put this one on your MUST READ list!  A history bending biological thriller as intense as it is unnerving.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
John Medler’s “Fountain” is a subtle captivator, one that draws you in and ensnares you long before you realize the hook has been set.  The tale refuses labeling and scoffs at a genre – part history, part medical drama, part intrigue, some biological terrorism and, of course, part legend, this novel is an adventure ride as complex as it is engrossing.We start in the past, enjoying an elaborate expansion of accepted history, looking at events through the eyes of those involved.  The New World is discovered and a new era begins.  America, so ingrained with this folklore can recite the Columbus poems off the tops of our heads, poems that helped many of us pass Fourth Grade History.  John Medler, with the accuracy of a surgeon, takes these well accepted ‘facts’ and twists them into a story that spans five hundred years, numerous Countries and affects countless lives.  Jumping to present day and present events, he conjures moments and scenarios both entertaining…. And diabolical.From a peach throwing College Professor to a soul scared survivor of the Bosnian Conflict all the way back to John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci himself, this is not a story for the faint hearted.  There were moments when my heart beat faster and I actually feared for our present as I imagined a situation like Medler describes, a biological warfare situation that really COULD happen.Detailed in a way that speaks of research hours too numerous to count, “Fountain” holds together with fact, fantasy, fiction and incredibly fluid writing.  I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to think and enjoy it while they do.  Fast paced and gripping, it will keep you on the edge of your seat and should be at the top of your “Must Read” Summer Kindle list.