Ken Carman

Broschiertes Buch

Autocide

Beschreibung

Autocide is an alternative timeline murder mystery with a heavy dash of humor and absurdity where the automobile industry is different from how we know it today. Our detective is a curmudgeon who likes to make dated jokes and annoy people to get what he wants out of them. Ben has a past that was brutal and sad. He also dislikes corporations that survived due to bad business practices, deceit and sabotage. This is during a more libertarian time where the practice of prosecuting businesses for anything has mostly been banned via several Patriot Acts. Ben does mostly domestic violence cases, and those murders that are domestic-related, but he is given the assignment of investigating a murder at the local carmaker that is the second biggest carmaker in the world. A company he has a personal reason for disliking due to how his father almost destroyed the family. Our murderer is very odd and leads Ben on a chase where the murderer seems to want to get caught. Autocide is filled with puns and character development during chapters labeled as interludes. We come to understand the motives and the lives of all those who surround Ben, as well as what happened to alter society, like a presidential assassination. Dramatic walls are also broken down from time to time and the characters seem to be aware there's an author writing their story. A fun, and funny, read.

Autor

Ken Carman is a retired entertainer and educational service provider who has been writing a political/social column called Inspection since 1972. He also writes columns about beer as a beer judge and homebrewer. Ken is a 1972 graduate of Town of Webb Schools, and a 1976 graduate of the SUNY college system in New York State. He worked in the music industry in Nashville before his 30 year tour life entertaining children and adults. Ken is married to Millie Jenny Carman originally from New Hartford, NY. They live in Nashville, TN, Beaver River and Eagle Bay, NY. Ken has been writing since Kindergarten when Mrs. Failing asked the class to write a book, including pictures of their family and their lives. Instead Ken wrote a short book which has long since gone out of print. Probably because it never was "in" print. His first book was an E-book, oddly with the same name and mostly the same content. Yes, his first teacher was named "Failing." Do you find that funny? Ken does. The cover of Autocide was the grand creation of Aloura Smith, airbrush artist extraordinaire, from the Nashville area. And that IS a skeleton smoking a cigar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781667802817
• ISBN-10: 166780281X
• Artikelnr.: 63092256