Review: Thomas Gunn Wants to Know Where, What, and Why in a Big Way!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
Millions across the world wake up in the morning wondering if there will be food for the day; if another group, tribe, army will attack; if whatever little that they have and hold dear will remain; indeed, if they will still be alive at the end of the day. Some of the places where these people live have resources others with money and power want; want not for the good of the suffering people, but for themselves no matter how they clothe that greed in nationalism, patriotism, or 'we know so much better what is good for you than you do' hubris. Those who so want it all have no stops when it comes to treason, to murder,  to buying elections, to lying propaganda, to whatever stands in their way.Others wake up, get the kids off to school, themselves off to work; the schedule lessons for the young ones, arrange  who will pick up whom; what will be for supper; what bills can be paid; and wonder if somewhere in the course of a seven day week they can find a few minutes for themselves, or perhaps catch up on sleep. Once in a while they manage a two week vacation.Others wake up in uniform from restless sleep surrounded by their brothers and sisters in arms in far away places with climate extremes in which they are miserable, surrounded by the enemy de jour. When, if, they come home they are plagued by all they have known. Some of them remain in service in many capacities. One of those is Special Services: highly trained, connected, fearless, committed, and to their respective governments, expendable.And then there is the timeless tale of father who has a business and wants his son to follow him in it.The son wants his own life, wants adventure, passion--his own story. But what happens when the son finds that his father has been shot in the head? What if the son has a background in Special Forces and is one who not only can fulfill a seemingly impossible mission, but is one who does not listen when people tell him to back off; leave the huge business to those who know it; go back and sit in the sun on your craft, let it all go, and just keep taking the money from it that you have come to take for granted?Thomas Gunn is not one to let his father's murder go unpunished; he is not one to sit back and let seemingly hidden expenditures in other countries remain a mystery when he can feel that something is rotten in Gunn Enterprises.Can a deceased father have found a way in case of mishap to communicate to his son what he needs to know to follow the trail to truth?Can Thomas rely on his Special Forces buddies to have his back when the mission becomes daily more layered, more complex, leading to higher ups who feel themselves above, beyond, and untouchable?In a time when we grow more aware each day of those who feel so above the rest of us in finance, in offshore accounts, in duplicity, in governments and lobbyists, the Orange Moon Affair is timely, eye-opening, fast paced, and to be taken with an open mind. Who can we truly trust?Who can we trust when we struggle to pay electric bills and mortgages, while they who have so much and want more dine in elegant restaurants, wear elegant clothes, jet about the world, have extravagant multiple homes and could care less about us as they build mega-corporations, overthrow governments; not even really see those who cook for them, serve them their suppers, clean their houses, or are the servants in their exclusive clubs? How stunned would they be if those people who were invisible to them helped to bring their wings to melt?Would these who seek POWER to bring us their version of Utopia be the ones you would trust in this world that grows more dystopian each day? Would they consider undermining a country or three to get what they want? Foment "revolution" of their own making? Murder? Embezzle?And who, disguised in black attire, their bergens filled with what they need to stop such avarice, night goggled and armed go into the night, while you sleep, to stop those so besotted with themselves and their "righteousness". They are men and women like Thomas Gunn and his buddies. If you are wondering if Thomas has met his one and only woman, if she stands by his side, if she can handle what needs to be handled to do what must be done, well, open the cover, look inside--you will find you want to turn the next page, and the next page, and the next....The Orange Moon Affair is the first of the Thomas Gunn series...you don't want to miss them!