CADILLAC'S COMIN' [Kindle Edition]

Mike Dennis (Author)

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Product Description

A young, headstrong performer with white-hot talent.
A president of a small record company with big ambitions.
A nervous nation coping with a new, dangerous music.

It’s Memphis, 1958.

It’s rock & roll, brother!

It’s CADILLAC’S COMIN’ !

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 397 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Mike Dennis (June 8, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003QP4F98
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,179 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

After thirty years as a professional musician (piano), Mike Dennis left Key West and moved to Las Vegas in 2006 to become a professional poker player, but turned to writing when his first novel was published.

SETUP ON FRONT STREET is his second published novel, now available in ebook and paperback. It's the first in the Key West Nocturnes series of noir novels which lift the veil on Key West, revealing it as a true noir city, on a par with Los Angeles, New Orleans, or Miami. The next book in the series, THE GHOSTS OF HAVANA, is currently available in ebook and paperback. The third book, MAN-SLAUGHTER, is coming soon.

Mike has also begun the Jack Barnett / Las Vegas series, about a reluctant ex-private investigator in Sin City USA. The first entry in that series, TEMPTATION TOWN, is now available in ebook and paperback..

In addition, Mike has had short stories published in Powder Burn Flash, A Twist Of Noir, Mysterical e, Slow Trains, and the 2009 Wizards Of Words Anthology.

In December 2010, Mike moved back to Key West, where he enjoys year-round island living.

Other titles by Mike Dennis:

THE TAKE / A novel of human desperation, the ebook and paperback are now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble online, Fictionwise, and All Romance.

BLOODSTAINS ON THE WALL / A collection of three short stories from the dark side, the ebook and paperback are now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

CADILLAC'S COMIN' / A hard tale of a one-hit wonder in the early days of rock & roll, the novel is now available in ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE EYES / Las Vegas noir short story shows Sin City USA at its darkest. Ebook now available on Amazon.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rearview Mirror Clearly, February 5, 2011

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Chris Christon (San Ramon, CA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: CADILLAC'S COMIN' (Kindle Edition)

I don't know much about the music industry, but I grew up in the '50s and '60s. This book captures the essence of being a teenager and young adult in middle-class America during those decades. It effectively illustrates the cultural tension between the structured values inherited from our depression era families and the exciting opportunities offered by relative prosperity, mobility and mass communications. It conveys this message while being most entertaining with all the essential elements: pace, color, sex, surprises and gut-level rock and roll.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Love Letter to Rock'n'Roll, September 28, 2011

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Heath Lowrance (Detroit) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CADILLAC'S COMIN' (Kindle Edition)

CADILLAC'S COMIN' is Mike Dennis' love letter to rock'n'roll, that's what it is.
Memphis, 1958, and rockabilly piano stomper Ike Thacker is on the verge of the big-time. A sort of cross between Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Gene Vincent, Ike has just released his hit single "Cadillac's Comin'" and the world is opening up to him. Until a horrible and tragic accident derails everything...
The story picks up in the eighties, with a wanna-be musician whose life spirals out of control when he gets involved with the wrong people and finds himself immersed in the world of the Dixie Mafia. Ike Thacker, now an old, largely forgotten has-been, appears in a peripheral role.
I found the second part of CADILLAC'S COMIN' just a little bit weaker than the first, even though the actual crime story happens there--I just got so wrapped up in Ike's career, and the wonderful atmosphere Dennis created. It felt very historically accurate, with appearances by real-life characters like Sam Phillips and Gene Vincent. Still, Dennis does a great job of weaving the two stories together so that by the end everything comes together nicely. I'd recommend this one, especially if, like me, you have a soft spot for roots music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really Liked This Book, September 14, 2011

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P. Hobbs "Gidget" (South Daytona, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CADILLAC'S COMIN' (Kindle Edition)

I really liked this book. I love the blues and stories of the blues trail etc., so this was a great read for me. A little hard to follow at times but if you hang in there you'll enjoy it. I don't pay much for my Kindle books so I give them a few chapters and if I can't get into it I just move on.

I hope you enjoy it too.