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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Evening Edition! Free Kindle Book!

Wow..I’m finding so much cool stuff that I don’t know how I’ll get a chance to read it all! Seriously. I think I’ve become a book COLLECTOR! So many I want to read, and it’s nice to know that since I did “purchase” these freebies, they’ll stay on my bookshelf on Amazon. Forever. Supposedly anyway!

No, I did NOT download any books about HURRICANES!

But this one starts with a different kind of disaster, a collapse of a dam…and the conspiracy behind it---

Vindicator by Denney Clements is free today from the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Description:

Wichita’s struggling newspaper, the Examiner, sends veteran reporter Joe Emery to Colorado. The dam at the Herman Gunderson Reservoir, 60 miles west of the state line, has collapsed, sending billions of gallons of water coursing downstream into Kansas and killing three people. What at first seems a gut-wrenching natural disaster story, however, quickly becomes something far more sinister.
First, the Kansas governor, Mabel Hodge, bullies her way into a press conference aimed at explaining the disaster. She tells reporters that the collapse of the dam is a blessing for water-starved Kansas farmers and ranchers. These tasteless remarks are apparently intended to shore up Hodge’s candidacy for re-election. Election Day is two weeks away and her Republican challenger is ahead in the polls.

Then, a rival reporter for an upstart Internet news service reveals upstages Hodge. He suggests that the FBI’s official cover story for the disaster, that it is an ‘act of God,’ is a sham. He asserts that the dam was sabotaged and demands that the lead investigator for the FBI confirm it. Instead, the investigator shuts the press conference down.

Thrust into what could be the best story of his life, Emery, an old-school ink-stained wretch, learns that the feds not only lied about the cause of the disaster but also have detained three terrorism suspects – members of a radical environmentalist group. With the help of Carol, the lovely embattled sister of one of the detainees, Emery learns that the feds have the wrong people in custody – and know it.

Emery’s story on their deception quickly goes viral, humiliating the FBI. He’s ready to dig deeper for the truth but the Examiner orders him back to Wichita. During the trip home, he survives an attempt on his life. Two days later, the newspaper lays him off, citing declining profits as the reason. Off the story and stripped of his hard-earned identity, he sinks into despondency.

But with Carol’s encouragement, Emery shakes off his funk and starts The Vindicator, a public-affairs blog. He’s back on the story, navigating a treacherous political environment, uncertain who he can trust, trying to fend off goons sent to stop him. He soon learns that telling the story could carry a terrible cost to the people he loves, and that it may already be too late to back off.

I like to read farther down the amazon page too, to see what actual readers think:

Denney Clements, a newspaperman with a long, ink-stained career, has written an intriguing romp across the Kansas heartland, full of double-dealing, cold-blooded murder and political conspiracies -- all evoked with the inside knowledge of a real journalist. Sunny Kansas has never known true noir, but fictional newsman Joe Emery is a classic hard-boiled sleuth on the trail of a story that might cost him his life. If you enjoy mysteries with newspaperman heroes you'll love "Vindicator."

‘Nuff said! Downloaded! I’m picturing Denney Clements as a Robert Redford type Flirt male

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Or maybe…Matthew McConaughey! Now you’re talking! Winking smile

As always, double check to make sure it’s still free before clicking. No affiliation, yada yada, etc ---

11 comments:

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  2. I already posted so I hope this doesn't show a duplicate but my computer started acting crazy. Anyhoo I wanted to thank you for posting these I too am a book collector and wanted to tell you about a great site, www.blog.booksontheknob.org she has tons of freebies listed and updates daily. You will definitely get your fix.

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  3. My Freebies [mostly from you, Bonnie] are piling up in my NookColor Library. :*)

    Thanks, again

    hugs

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  4. Thanks for the info on the freebies! My Kindle is holding all of them until I can find five minutes to myself to read them!
    Donna in NW Fl

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  5. I also wish to thank you for the free kindle books. Do you have a special app for finding these? I know you can't have any time to surf for them as your free time is always filled up with other things.

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  6. Anonymous9:12 PM EDT

    Thanks Bonnie - I just got a tablet appreciate these free book posts. I've downloaded several and really enjoyed them!

    linda-kay

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  7. I am also collecting these free books and I love that I don't have to dust shelves to keep them on. Someday there will be time to read and you can never go wrong with a picture of Matthew McConaughey :)

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  8. Wow!! got the second one also, thanks a bunch. Betty

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  9. After you started with all the free books, I had to get a kindle to put them on. Only, I ordered one, and the hub said "why'd you do THAT, I was going to get you an iPad! Well, I went right in and canceled the Kindle. (No offence to Kindle, of course...) so, I have been downloading books like crazy too, (iPad has 32GB hd) I get the free ones you tell us about, but also the .99ers, and all the classics that I "should" have read and never have. Now I will. I have only ordered 2 that were more, I think, because I figure I would have bought them anyway in paperback. It is SO FUN, and I love to read, but haven't been doing a lot of it lately,(mostly do audiobooks).Thanks for giving me the push I needed to get back into a hobby that I didnt know I missed so much!

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  10. Anonymous5:56 AM EDT

    Read your wonderful blog every day and can't express how much I enjoy it.

    Now you have the free Kindle books posted and I am taking advantage of those, too.

    Keep up the great work!

    Marge R.

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  11. Allana Lake3:15 PM EDT

    I can't stop downloading the free books, even though I only get to read about half of them (so far)...my personal fav is "The Imperfect Enjoyment" by Dewan Gibson. I'll have a look at Vindicator. Thanks Bonnie!

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