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Speedster: A Midlife Crisis to Die For Kindle Edition

by Jonah Gibson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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A Hobby Shouldn't Be This Dangerous!

Jack McCain's ex wife and current girlfriend are both trying to make him into something he doesn't want to be.

When Jack becomes the chance owner of a customized import car—one that reminds him of the high-octane dreams of his youth—he joins a car club run by a bunch of twenty-something tuner enthusiasts who don't seem to know very much about cars—except for their only female member that is. She knows plenty. One night she follows Jack home after a meeting and Jack's staid life takes a sudden and unexpected turn.

Soon, a screwball collection of villains including the owner of a gentleman's club, a Mexican drug dealer, and and a pair of neon-haired slackers conspire to take Jack's life off the rails. They want to establish a black-tar heroin business in the middle of Palm Beach, and Jack's other car, an antique Auburn Speedster his grandfather left him, figures heavily in their financing plan. Their spectacular and often hilarious ineptitude soon mires Jack in a predicament that seems more and more hopeless as it unfolds.

Will Jack lose his car? Will he live to tell the tale? A boatload of guns and the best of intentions may not be enough to win the day.

Speedster is a comedy thriller that runs full-tilt through South Florida. Tensions rise and bodies fall, from the walled mansions of Palm Beach to the mangrove labyrinths of Florida's Gulf Coast, this story will grab you by the belt and drag you into a world where a little fun is way more dangerous than it ought to be.

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September 29, 2013
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Interestingly enough, this book started as a true story. In 2002, I found myself the owner of a turbocharged import car with trick wheels and a custom paint job. To get some help with maintenance and performance issues, I joined a local car club that turned out to be full of young men who didn't know very much about cars. Their idea of a club meeting was to stand around in a parking lot smoking cigarettes and talking trash. They called me Uncle Speed because I was older than most of their dads and my car actually ran most of the time. I didn't have a lot of patience for the group, although there were some fine people in it who were knowledgeable enthusiasts, mostly the young women. I soon quit the club and went about my business, but not before I got a pretty good idea for a funny book peopled with screwball characters. I hope you'll agree.

About the Author

Jonah Gibson lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida with his wife and a retired racing greyhound named Bean. He has been writing since he was a first able to grasp apen, but didn't get serious about it until the economy collapsed in 2008. That seemed as good a time as any for a seismic career change.
When he is not writing, Jonah may be found tinkering at art or thinking about fishing. He hardly ever goes fishing as he hates to get his tackle wet, which is also the reason he doesn't play golf.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FJGKXK2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jonah Gibson (September 29, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 29, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2799 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 263 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,936,237 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,891 in American Humorous Fiction
- #11,856 in Kidnapping Thrillers
- #17,341 in Serial Killer Thrillers

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Jonah Gibson grew up in a one-stoplight town in Western Ohio. Nestled among soy bean fields and overrun with turkey flocks, it had six churches, six taverns, and six gas stations. Jonah got his moral sensibilities in one of the churches, and developed his quirky lens for social observation in the taverns—all six of 'em. Then he gassed up and left town. He still looks back fondly.

Jonah currently resides in Lakeland, Florida with his wife and a retired racing greyhound named Bean. He writes funny books, posts funny blog entries, and tries generally to escape the 'slings and arrows of outrageous fortune' with as many naps as Bean will allow.

You can see details and samples of Jonah's books and writing, view his artwork, and engage yourself reading his ruminations on sundry stuff at:

http://www.jonahgibsonarts.com/

or follow @aimlessjonah on Twitter

or https://www.facebook.com/AimlessJonah/ on his Facebook page.

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Michael T.

I couldn't put this book down until I finished it.

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2017

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This is a fantastic story. The technical aspects that normally slow other authors down by trying to show off their research into subjects that they really know nothing about.
I'm both used to, and tired of obvious errors by other authors that usually only get noticed by the enthusiast.
I would think they would understand that books of this type get read by people in the know more than the casual reader.
This book is one of the very few that can be enjoyed by both.
Sometimes poor research will present itself with glaring mistakes.. (another author's sig sauer silenced revolver comes to mind...doesnt and can't exist on many levels)
I am a car enthusiast, someone who shoots at paper targets for fun, and I lived in South Florida for 9 years before the real estate bubble burst.
I can honestly say I found everything from the locations mentioned, autos used and descriptions of the weapons spot on.
At times obvious errors in other books remove me from the believability of a story and ruin the fantasy. Which is the purpose of reading a work of fiction.
This book doesn't have gangsters shooting endless rounds of ammo, unrealistic bravado, or car chases reaching 200mph.
When a 44 magnum revolver gets fired, the effect on the shooter is real. The violence isn't over the top. It could almost be a true crime novel.
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The import car the hero spends cash money on only gets mentioned in the beginning, breifly. He spent all that cash making it awesome, why not a fall back car chase using it's abilities?
Other than that and maybe stretching my belief that just anyone could get into an Auburn and just drive it away with no prior knowledge of piloting a truly classic car (with spark advance, and fuel trim in the center of the steering wheel) and a slight misspelling of the word heroin, adding an (e). Most likely a autocorrect mistake.
It was as close to perfect grammatically and technically as I've read.
Not only that, but the lack of errors made a wonderful story even better.

Great book! Great job man!

I don't know the author, but I could see him rise to the ranks of Dorsey or Haissan.

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Speedster

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2016

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This is an almost perfect thriller with good descriptions of situations and believable characters, add a dash of humour and excitement for a great read. I enjoyed it.

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Lyn O'Brien

Couldn't put it down.

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2013

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I have a big complaint about this book... it kept me up half the night! I couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next; how they were going to get out of this fix; or what in the world they would do to solve that dilemma. DON'T BUY IT if you want an ordinary thriller - the plot is ingenious and cast includes some very droll characters. I pride myself on figuring out how it is all going to turn out by the middle, but this one just doesn't work that way. It wasn't that it didn't make sense, or was confusing, it was just clever, darn it - I had to keep guessing until the very end. I'm looking for more books by this guy. Surely he can't keep me puzzled through another whole book. But one thing for sure, I will NOT start the next one unless I can sleep in the next day.

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Ordinary man forced to be hero

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017

As a female, if I’d picked up this book in physical form in a shop, I’d have read the first page and put it straight back down again, because what takes place on it is so vile and disgusting and the man doing them such a (insert worst four letter word you personally can come up with) that I certainly didn’t want to know any more. But since I already had this book on Kindle, I didn’t have to decide whether to walk out of a shop with it, so turned to page two. Here you are introduced to the hero and realise that page one is about establishing just how brutal and twisted the villain is. The hero doesn’t seem to have learned from his first marriage – he’s still whining on about both his ex-wife and his current girlfriend. It’s clear he’s emotionally clueless and gone and got himself a carbon-copy of his ex. This hapless hero then proceeds to fall accidentally headlong into a Young Adult novel and enter stage left come two young dudes who are basically Laurel and Hardy in orange technicolor with flames on the side of their car. (Apologies to the American audience – I don’t know who the equivalent of Laurel and Hardy are!). He then proceeds to fall headlong into an unlikely middle-aged male fulfilment fantasy which turns into a gun-toting thriller/adventure with increasingly incompetent and/or decrepit participants turning up to create further chaos. Humorously written with lively dialogue, and a fast pace, this book is basically a black comedy for 70% of the journey, and then just turns black. And then even inkier. I found the first 50% quite amusing and laughed aloud a few times. The second half of this book would probably go down better with a male audience.

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JT

Not all bad guys get what they deserve

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2016

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From the very first page, you are drawn in and wondering what will happen to this bad-ass. You want to see him destroyed but as fate as it, he keeps getting on by the skin of his teeth. What happens? I can only tell you Jonah Gibson entangles you into a mixture of this and that's, teeth grinding madness using his marvelous style of writing. Not all bad guys get what they deserve, or do they? The beauties are sensual, illuminated on the pages, feeding your imagination like the first girl you ever kissed. You will love it. Try it! I can tell you it will grab your attention on every page, starving you out of knowing how and what until the finale. I recommend you read this one without any reservation.

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