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Martyr's Creek
by David Chacko
ISBN-10: 0-9789704-3-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-9789704-3-7
About this Book
What do you do when you're named the executor of the estate of your worst enemy? What can he possibly offer that will keep you interested? Find out what the most demonic man in the neo-conservative movement did to cement the deal. It's the same thing he always did, but with a twist.
Dealing with the devil is just a phrase. Find out what it means when it's real.
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About the Author
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I live in Istanbul most of the year. It's a cosmopolitan place that stands on the verge of the turmoil called the Middle East. It's not hard to feel the tremors that occur from time to time, like aftershocks of earthquakes. I try to pass on the reports by keeping an ear to the ground.
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David is the author of fifteen novels. His books have been called "brilliant and scaring" (Kirkus), and "raw-boned and brutal" (The Detroit News). He is known as "a novelist of talent and power" (Playboy), "a writer of power and intensity" (Publisher's Weekly), and his work as "compelling and unexpected" (Newsweek), "a powerhouse charged with artistic and imaginative feats." (Buffalo Courier-Express)
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A Review
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Foremost Press Releases Literary Novel
David Chacko's thirteenth novel, Martyr's Creek, proves that numbers mean little in the life of a writer. After setting his last four novels in foreign countries with well realized backdrops, Chacko returns home with a sharp eye, sorting through American loves and conflicts (politics) with as deft a hand as anyone has shown in some time.
James Pandolph (Panda), the main character and narrator of Martyr's Creek, is an executive on a forced leave of absence who is called back to the United States when he is named the executor of the estate of a man he never wanted to see again. This man, Thomas Powys, was not only very wealthy, but an academic in the forefront of the politically powerful
neo-conservative movement.
The unwinding of the Powys' estate sets the book to proceed like a tour-de-force. Martyr's Creek seems like that for the first three chapters, until Chacko begins to spin its subplots. These turn out to be more
interesting and important than the heaps of money that Powys left to his political causes. It seems everything in this novel is haunted—and tainted—especially passion and the amassing of wealth.
Panda inherits Dana, a woman who has had affairs with the deceased and his executor in the past. A brilliant character, she plays off her close knowledge of both men until the novel finds its secret links to all the sins
and its emotional depth. The question is how much will Panda be able to discover about himself and his tormentor. Is it enough to make sense of their lives?
Panda has to go all the way up Martyr's Creek for the answers. It's a journey into the past—so far into the past that it reaches back to the founding of America. That's where the sins of the past finally dissolve in
swift-running water.
Martyr's Creek was published by Foremost Press. It can be ordered through local bookstores and at ForemostPress.com, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com.
ISBN 10: 0-9789704-3-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-9789704-3-7
316 pp, $15.97
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