The Dream Ender (A Dick Hardesty Mystery) [Kindle Edition]

Dorien Grey (Author)

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Product Description

When rugged construction worker and biker Cal Hysong is killed, Dick knows the reason?Cal was widely suspected of deliberately spreading AIDS to other gay men. Like the rest of the gay community, Dick's initial reaction is ?good riddance.? But when Jake Jacobson and Jared Martinson, two of his closest friends, become suspects, the case turns personal, and Dick sets out to clear them and find the real killer. His search takes him into the unfamiliar world of gay bikers and leathermen, and through a labyrinth of suspects, motivations, blind alleys and memorable characters.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 376 KB
• Print Length: 224 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Zumaya Boundless; 1 edition (July 17, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001001J5Y
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,485 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

I've always resented reality. It is far too capricious and too often unkind and unfair. I avoid reflective surfaces whenever possible. Being a writer allows me to create my own reality, and worlds over which I have some degree of control.

I'm an incurable romantic. I believe strongly in things which reality views too often with contempt, such as happy endings, true love, and the baic goodness of people.

The one personal characteristic in which I take great pride, and which has been my rock throughout life is that I never, ever, take myself too seriously. If one has a choice between positive and negative, why would anyone (though too many people do) opt for the negative? Life is not always kind, but it is a gift beyond measure, and one which must all too soon be given back. I really try to enjoy and be thankful for ever single day allotted to me.

For most people, children are their posterity. For me, as a gay man, it is my words which will, I hope, stand as evidence that I was here (albeit, no matter how long I may live, never long enough to suit me).

And because written words are nothing unless someone reads them, I am heavily reliant on my readers. I sincerely look on every reader as a partner and traveling companion on every journey my writing embarks on.

I invite you, individually and personally, to join me.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Exceptional Reflection, August 26, 2007

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J. Hartfield (Largo, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dream Ender: A Dick Hardesty Mystery (Paperback)

For Dick Hardesty fans, this book will add another chapter in the maturing family life of the heroes. However, the most significant and chilling part of this novel is the reflection on the emergence of HIV/AIDS and how our community responded...not very proudly at first, but in light of current management, the past expectations have been justified. The latest resurgence of the disease, based in part upon a smug confidence in therapy, makes the retelling of this early story very timely. Dorien is to be congratulated for tackling a difficult subject and weaving it around his usual community snapshop of characters.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Sobering Look Back, August 8, 2007

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Rick R. Reed "Author of IM and Orientation" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dream Ender: A Dick Hardesty Mystery (Paperback)

In many ways, Dorien Grey's The Dream Ender is a fairly typical, workmanlike mystery, but Grey gives it a twist that sets it apart from other mysteries: he sets it in the early 80s, when AIDS was a horrifying plague on the gay community. He takes it one step further by imagining a very real villain, who is deliberately spreading the virus to others via a popular leather bar's back room. The murder in the book almost takes a back seat to the intriguing--and horrific--prospect of a very deliberate grim reaper moving through the gay community of an unspecified American city. A very moving and satisfying read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Ender, August 2, 2007

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G. West (Downers Grove, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dream Ender: A Dick Hardesty Mystery (Paperback)

The best book in the Dick Hardesty series. A very moving and profound gay mystery centered on the beginnig of the AIDS crisis. It's astonishing how Mr. Grey lets his characters grow from book to book.