The Blackbird Papers : A Novel

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Summary: MUST BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: I bought this book with a couple of others a few days ago and I picked this to read first and couldn't stop turning the pages. The synopsis is below:

Professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he encounters a broken-down pick-up on the secluded country road to his home. He instinctively stops to help, calling his wife, Kay, to let her know he'll be late. When the delay stretches to hours, Kay frantically contacts the local police and Wilson's younger brother, Sterling, an FBI agent in New York. The next day, the discovery of the Professor's body with a vicious racist epithet carved into his chest leads to the quick arrest of two loathsome white supremacists. Sterling, however, is not quite ready to buy into this pat solution. A look around his brother's lab and brief interviews with his students, colleagues, and the college's distinguished president pique his curiosity about Wilson's current project, a nearly completed paper on the mysterious deaths of hundreds of local blackbirds. But Sterling's search for answers takes a dangerous turn when a security tape sent to Quantico for enhancement incriminates the agent himself.

I don't want to ruin the story from here. Read it and you'll join me and everyone else in believe that this a great book and this author has the goods!!!!!

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Summary: Excellent Summer Read!
Review: I finished this book at 2:50am and it was well worth the time I spent enjoying it. This was my first book (suspense thriller) in this genre so I must admit, I had a few preconceived notions about the book...but after the first few pages...I found myself not being able to put the book time. It's a definite page turner and keeps you on the edge of your seat. The book is very well written (in my opinion) and I love the descriptions used by Ian...which in some cases were bits of humor as well. I figured early on who MIGHT be the killers in the novel but even with thinking I knew, the way in which the book is written, kept me very much interested and reading.

Ian, you did a GREAT job...and to think this is the 1st fiction novel you've done. I know we will hear more from you and Sterling...so please keep writing.

Never mind the negative reviews and cruel remarks posted..it's obvious that amazon does not monitor the reviews anymore so anybody and anything can post/be posted.

I enjoyed your book as I've read..others have too. In life, you will always have haters...let them be your motivators. Keep writing Dr. Ian.

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Summary: The Best Book of The Summer
Review: This is a MUST read. You will be reading this book and not be able to put it down. The story goes something like this:

Professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he encounters a broken-down pick-up on the secluded country road to his home. He instinctively stops to help, calling his wife, Kay, to let her know he'll be late. When the delay stretches to hours, Kay frantically contacts the local police and Wilson's younger brother, Sterling, an FBI agent in New York. The next day, the discovery of the Professor's body with a vicious racist epithet carved into his chest leads to the quick arrest of two loathsome white supremacists. Sterling, however, is not quite ready to buy into this pat solution. A look around his brother's lab and brief interviews with his students, colleagues, and the college's distinguished president pique his curiosity about Wilson's current project, a nearly completed paper on the mysterious deaths of hundreds of local blackbirds. But Sterling's search for answers takes a dangerous turn when a security tape sent to Quantico for enhancement incriminates the agent himself.

Determined to clear his name and bring his brother's killer to justice, Sterling eludes the local police and makes his way back to New York City, where he pulls out every trick he knows to stay one step ahead of the FBI and the NYPD. As he calls in favors from long-time friends at the Bureau and checks out leads from scientists familiar with his brother's work, Sterling realizes that Wilson's murder is part of a sinister scheme that reaches from the Dartmouth campus to big-money interests in the Midwest, to the offices of some very influential people in Washington.

Buy this book now!!!! You'll be loving every page of it!!!