Dave Field Reviews

Added April 15, 2008

Profile Three

Author: Dave Field
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
Available At: www.whiskeycreekpress.com
Publishing Date: Available Now
Genre: Fiction: Adventure/Suspense
Format: Trade Paperback and Ebook download in PDF/HTML/LIT
Price: $13.95 print, $5.99 ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-59374-169-3 print, 978-1-59374-168-6 ebook
Author Email/Website:
Reviewer: Kathy Martin
Rating: 7 Gargoyles

Jack Pymble is thirty-six and working at a dead-end job for the Australian government at the Department of Industrial Statistics. He is a man who feels he does not get enough sex and spends a lot of time fantasizing about beautifully built women. Overall, Jack thinks his life is boring and would love to spice it up - especially with a woman.

One day, Jack is handed a file and told to make the quotas "fit". Jack figures he is just doing clean-up work for someone else's mistake. That is until he takes a closer look at the numbers. There are no errors in the quotas. When Jack brings this up with his superiors they don't care. They just want the report adjusted. Jack refuses to falsify records.

Not long after, a stranger walks into Jack's office. He tells Jack to just do as he is told and rig the numbers, or else. The man starts to rough Jack up, and in the ensuing struggle, the stranger is killed.

Stunned and unsure what to do, Jack is surprised by the sudden appearance of Susan Carter. She is the beautiful secretary that sits not too far from his office. Explaining to her what was going on, Susan convinces him to fight back. She sends Jack to her apartment to think about what to do next.

At first, the police think the corpse in Jack's office is Jack himself. It is soon discovered that it isn't and now he becomes the number one suspect in the killing. So he and Susan go to find out what is going on and start running from both the mob and the police.

At times I felt I was in the middle of some teenage boy's wet dream. The opening of the book starts out with an erotic scene from Jack's fantasy world. This theme continues throughout the story. Not that this is a bad thing, as it gives a good view of how dreary Jack feels his life is. It just got old in the second-half of the book when the plot was getting deliciously complicated.

Then there is Jack's perception of Susan Carter. Of course, his first thoughts are of sex. Eventually he starts to appreciate how resourceful she is. It is hard to believe that Jack is that dense. After a few chapters, it is obvious that Susan is not just a secretary, but Jack seems to be oblivious of this fact.

Other than these two things, this story is very real in as far as it depicts how an ordinary person might react when extraordinary circumstances come upon them. The dialogue flowed and read like conversations heard everyday. And while Jack was bit annoying at times with his sexual thoughts, his character changed as the story progressed.

This is a good suspense story. There are many twists and turns that are not all ironed out until the end. This would be a fun book to read while traveling or commuting.

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