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Black's Spot
A fast-paced psychological thriller that finds John Hart needing to join forces with his most powerful friend Mr. Black. As they begin John wonders:
Even with Black’s help can they find a way to protect their most important resource when Hell comes to take it.
John and the members of the Hart Group understand it will take every one of them functioning at their professional best to survive what is coming for them. Most members of the group never spent much time thinking about what lives in the valleys of the earth…soon they will be thinking of nothing else.
Lou Berthelson presses the suspense and mystery as he continues the fast-paced action. This great storyteller grabs the reader and creates moments in Black’s Spot that takes the reader by surprise.
Even with Black’s help can they find a way to protect their most important resource when Hell comes to take it.
John and the members of the Hart Group understand it will take every one of them functioning at their professional best to survive what is coming for them. Most members of the group never spent much time thinking about what lives in the valleys of the earth…soon they will be thinking of nothing else.
Lou Berthelson presses the suspense and mystery as he continues the fast-paced action. This great storyteller grabs the reader and creates moments in Black’s Spot that takes the reader by surprise.
346 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 17, 2021
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About the author
Lou Berthelson
4 books24 followers Winner American Fiction Awards for Cross-Genre August 2019
FINALIST AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS 2018-2019 FOR THRILLERS
FINALIST BEST BOOK AWARDS FOR THRILLERS 2018-20
This award winning author, did his graduate and undergraduate studies at the University of La Verne. He finished with credentials in Biology, PE, Business and Teaching.
Lou then took employment in the Aerospace Industry, he spent 18 years dealing with top secret projects and technology. This gave him expertise he has added to his writing.
During a break, he wrote two books that were non-fiction commentaries. The first, Holiness For These Awesome Days, published in 1991,is now a rare book and is much sought after. The second book, Paradox in Paradise, was just published December 21, 2018. Chosen as 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist for Christian Fiction
After the break, Lou spent the next twenty plus years working with students from the Foster Care System; most were youth gang members or from group homes. His program received National recognition. From his experiences Lou has built characters that are real and sometimes really broken.
Now retired, Lou has started to write again. His thriller, Cold Spot, was first conceived in 2010 from single thought. This fictional work is now published, and was released March 17th 2017. It received the Award of Finalist in the 2018 American Fiction Awards. An additional Best Book Award in November of 2018 has been added.
In Cold Spot, the characters are not people whom others might think would become successful. Lou takes his favorite quote at face value, he honors what the man in the movie said, ,“Sometimes, it’s the very people whom no one images anything of, that do the things that no one can imagine.”
Now in August of 2019, Lou has published the follow-up to Cold Spot Spot Thru the Hart, and has already been Selected as Winner in the Cross-Genre category at the American Fiction Awards,
FINALIST AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS 2018-2019 FOR THRILLERS
FINALIST BEST BOOK AWARDS FOR THRILLERS 2018-20
This award winning author, did his graduate and undergraduate studies at the University of La Verne. He finished with credentials in Biology, PE, Business and Teaching.
Lou then took employment in the Aerospace Industry, he spent 18 years dealing with top secret projects and technology. This gave him expertise he has added to his writing.
During a break, he wrote two books that were non-fiction commentaries. The first, Holiness For These Awesome Days, published in 1991,is now a rare book and is much sought after. The second book, Paradox in Paradise, was just published December 21, 2018. Chosen as 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist for Christian Fiction
After the break, Lou spent the next twenty plus years working with students from the Foster Care System; most were youth gang members or from group homes. His program received National recognition. From his experiences Lou has built characters that are real and sometimes really broken.
Now retired, Lou has started to write again. His thriller, Cold Spot, was first conceived in 2010 from single thought. This fictional work is now published, and was released March 17th 2017. It received the Award of Finalist in the 2018 American Fiction Awards. An additional Best Book Award in November of 2018 has been added.
In Cold Spot, the characters are not people whom others might think would become successful. Lou takes his favorite quote at face value, he honors what the man in the movie said, ,“Sometimes, it’s the very people whom no one images anything of, that do the things that no one can imagine.”
Now in August of 2019, Lou has published the follow-up to Cold Spot Spot Thru the Hart, and has already been Selected as Winner in the Cross-Genre category at the American Fiction Awards,
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August 8, 2021
Yet another cracker in this series of genre splicing fare. More demons, more tech and more thriller esque senarios. I highly recommend these books from Lou Berthelson if you are after something a little out of the ordinary. Big plus points for me in this third book were the demon/angel scenes and I loved the interaction between them and the humans/insects. A slight grudge with this book was perhaps too many human characters, after loving the step up in book 2, they became a little overwhelming at times, but the general plot and aforementioned creatures more than made up for this.
June 17, 2021
Another great addition to the John Hart series. The thrills continue when John & his group slowly realize that there is an extremely evil & powerful entity still out there threatening them, the doctors they are trying to protect & innocent women across the world. This is well written with witty dialogue & humor among the loyal members & family of the Hart group, sprinkled with the deeply creepy horror that has been around for ages.
June 18, 2023
This author knows his audience and gives them what they want. Action, high tech, and an approachable writing style. He takes things up a level by introducing the politics and relationships between characters who were just alien, unknowable antagonists before now. Seeing them actually get their hands dirty in a very personal way was certainly a satisfying payoff to all the hints in the previous books.
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