Desperate Times eBook Nicholas Antinozzi Sue McInnis Steve Peterson
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Imagine waking up to the horrific news of an economic cataclysm. Around the globe, investors have panicked and the markets are on the verge of collapse. The unthinkable has happened. There is a run on the banks and the dollar is in a free-fall. With time running out, you rush out the door and try to prepare for the worst-case scenario; only to learn that hyperinflation has arrived and prices have already begun to skyrocket. This is the sad beginning of Desperate Times.
The tale is told through the eyes of an average Joe, Jimmy Logan. Jimmy’s employer, Ken Dahlgren, is waiting for him at the time-clock as he arrives for work. Jimmy is blissfully unaware of what is happening in the outside world, but Ken orders him into his office and gives him the bone-chilling news. Ken and his wife, Patty, own a lake home in northern Minnesota. For years, Ken and Patty have secretly prepared their northern retreat for this looming crisis. Ken invites Jimmy and his live-in girlfriend, Paula, to join a select group of close friends to ride out the storm. After quickly explaining his plan to Jimmy, Ken hands him an envelope filled with cash and the keys to the company truck. He then orders Jimmy to head into Saint Cloud and buy whatever he can lay his hands on. He allows Jimmy enough time to make a quick pit-stop at his trailer home, to explain the situation to Paula and for the two of them to pack their clothes, just as fast as they can.
Jimmy decides to give Paula the news in person, before driving to Saint Cloud, but his plan quickly unravels and Jimmy is forced to make some hard decisions. Ultimately, when he arrives to join the caravan that has assembled at Ken’s, Paula isn’t sitting next to him. But that doesn’t mean that Jimmy has arrived alone. Jimmy’s unemployed neighbor from the trailer court, Bill Huggins, and Bill’s daughter, Cindy, are ill-prepared for the future and Jimmy doesn’t have the heart to leave them behind. Ken and Patty are devoted Christians, knowing this, Jimmy gambles that they won’t turn them away. When they arrive, Jimmy sees that Bill and Cindy aren’t the only people seeking refuge from the storm. He soon learns that Patty has quietly spent the day on the telephone, extending invitations, which infuriates her husband. There is an argument, but Patty stands her ground.
Reluctantly, Ken is forced to accept the fact that plans have changed. The departing caravan is many times larger than he had envisioned, but conditions are rapidly deteriorating and not everyone will survive the trip.
Bordering Ken’s lake property is a resort which has been dormant for many years. Sally, the old woman who owns the resort, still lives there and she has invited up a group of her own. Sally’s people continue to pour in and soon outnumber them. While Ken strictly rations supplies and immediately puts his people to work, Sally’s group acts as if they’re on an extended vacation. The party next door never seems to stop, and it isn’t long before some of those inside Ken’s camp begin to question his authority.
Crisply rewritten in December of 2012, Desperate Times introduces a diverse cast of characters to one of civilization’s worst nightmares. This powerful story is both thought-provoking and hauntingly realistic. Initially, the issues raised are seemingly black and white; but friendship and loyalty, moral convictions and survival, slowly become gray areas as the story unfolds.
Desperate Times eBook Nicholas Antinozzi Sue McInnis Steve Peterson
I disagree with those who thought the premise of the book was unrealistic. It's far more realistic than zombies. (Not that I don't like zombie stories). If you know much about what's going on in the world right now, and economics, you know how very possible the scenario in this book is.As others have noted, this book could have used a good editor, but I believe that is a fairly inherent problem in self-publishing. However, this book was far better than many others in the editing department.
I really enjoyed the book and found it to be absorbing and a page turner.
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Desperate Times eBook Nicholas Antinozzi Sue McInnis Steve Peterson Reviews
I enjoyed the story enough to finish reading the book; however, it could have been so much better. One of the things I really enjoyed was that human nature seemed pretty accurate for the circumstances. However, there were so many typos and poor use of punctuation that I wondered if anyone had even proof read it. The historical blurbs were interesting, but I found them a bit sensationalized when I did a little research on them. Plus, some were used multiple times within the book as if the author didn't realize he had already used them. There were places where foreshadowing gave away things by which it would have been fun to have been surprised. At one point, we were told people were about to die, before the event that killed them even started, which eliminated some of the tension that would have been fun wondering what was going to happen. The phrases "Jimmy was sure of it" and "he was sure of it" were used so many times that, at first it was laughable, then eventually became annoying. I also had trouble with inconsistencies in the behavior of some of the characters. At one point a character is so distraught that she can't even function, then suddenly is laughing, joking and talking about getting married. It also would have been nice to have had a time frame for how much time was passing throughout the story. My copy was free. For free, I definitely think it is worth reading, but I won't be buying any of the sequels.
This novel staggers under the ideological weight the author throws on it. Each chapter beings with a little anecdote or factoid related to the government or hyperinflation. We know, right from the beginning, we’re in the hands of someone who wants us to see the moral of the story. That would be okay except his writing skills aren’t nearly strong enough to do what he wants to do.
The story is simple. Jimmy (who is supposed to come across, I think, as an average working class guy, but more often comes across as intellectually challenged) shows up to work one day and is pulled aside by his boss. Ken, who has always had a soft spot for Jimmy, warns him that the country is about to blow up due to an economic crisis. He wants Jimmy to take a truck, fill it up with food and supplies, and meet him and his wife at the compound they set up for this purpose. How Ken knows all this is about to happen is never fully explained. He just knows. Jimmy agrees to take the truck and they make it to the compound just as American society breaks down. We don’t get to see much of this because they focus stays very close to the compound. It blunts the potential impact of the book a great deal.
The writing is . . . not that great. And it’s further hampered by the fact that it appears no editing of any type was done. There are distracting errors on almost every page of the book. Aside from the editing, the characters are very simplistic. People go bad almost immediately. While it makes sense that a biker gang would quickly resort to violence, having otherwise ordinary people go kill-crazy one or two days after martial law is declared makes much less sense. A more talented author might bridge the gap and help us see why National Guardsmen would shoot hospital patients after a day or two of civil unrest, but Antinozzi isn’t that author. Unless you share the author’s view that this is just something that people associated with the government would do, you’re going to have a lot of questions. There is over-reliance on foreshadowing – things like “Jimmy didn’t know it then, but from that point on his handgun would be his constant companion.” And sometimes the foreshadowing isn’t even accurate (Jimmy doesn’t always have his gun when he needs it), so you’re left wondering why it was even there.
I disagree with those who thought the premise of the book was unrealistic. It's far more realistic than zombies. (Not that I don't like zombie stories). If you know much about what's going on in the world right now, and economics, you know how very possible the scenario in this book is.
As others have noted, this book could have used a good editor, but I believe that is a fairly inherent problem in self-publishing. However, this book was far better than many others in the editing department.
I really enjoyed the book and found it to be absorbing and a page turner.
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