Fred,
I wanted to thank you for your vote and your review. I really liked your comment about respecting my readers intelligence with regards to the characters and story lines, because that's how I was trying to write the book. I'm like you in that I hate an oversimplified, dulled down book that assumed I'm too stupid to figure out where they're headed in the first few pages, so I was attempting to make mine a little more complex than that, and I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and found it entertaining.
Rick