Novel Out Soon in Second Edition

Why was Kim Spenser kidnapped? What happened to her? Is she still alive?

These are hooks in "Reversal Point", a thriller that will shortly go onto the market as a second edition paper back and Kindle e-copy.

Action in the novel takes place in France but the main protagonist, James Vallence, is from New Zealand.

His experience of being an artist and living on the French Riviera and in Paris was a dream of mine when I was a much younger.

In reality, his fictional experiences and my real-life ones diverge.

I never had talent as a painter, though I aspired to it, and I’ve never had an American, or French or English girlfriend, or gone through the experience of having a girlfriend kidnapped, or of having to repeatedly defend my life in a vendetta, as James does in the novel.

Like James,I’m not short of hospital experience as a patient. Though he gets badly injured a few times he rises above the odds against him. He’s an every-day kind of guy and not a super-hero but certainly more resilient and courageous than I could swear I would be in his situation.

James knows love and infidelity but since I’ve been married for over 40 years, in the one relationship, I don't have anything in common with him in infidelity.

Some of my readers described the first edition of “Reversal Point” as more raunchy than they thought I would (should?) have written. Sex scenes (still not graphic) remain in the second edition but James, perhaps more noble in this version, exercises a little more self-control so there are fewer of them.

Kim Spenser (an American student), Jenny Costello (an English painter), Anelise Beauvoir (a French fashion model), Fleur Templeton (an English art dealer) and Colette Mauly (a French student at the Sorbonne) all have dynamic roles in James’s life. And there are a couple of villainesses too.

The second edition is different enough, I hope, even to be read with enjoyment by those who bought or borrowed the first edition.
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Published on August 01, 2012 12:36 Tags: france, kindle, new-zealand, paperback, reveral-point, second-edition, thriller, vendetta
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