Ultimate Suggestions [Paperback]

Darrell Bain (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 2002

Mystery/Thriller/Suspense: A renegade chemist has discovered a drug which can be given quickly and surreptitiously, and which will convert almost anyone to a state of mind where the merest suggestion becomes an imperative need to obey. Unless the drug can be found and quickly suppressed, society may be changed irrevocably--for the worse!

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Review

Darrell Bain once again shows us his imaginative side in this exciting mystery novel! A brilliant chemist with a dark past discovers a drug that could change the world. Imagine being able to get what you want, when you want it, nothing stopping you? This drug is the answer. One whiff and you're under its spell. ~ Louise Klement, Resident Darrell Bain Scholar

Once you start this book, you won't want to put it down until you reach the final page. 5 Stars -- Martha von Redlich, Sime-Gen

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory (July 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759905916
• ISBN-13: 978-0759905917
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,371,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have read about 20,000 books in my lifetime, much of it science fiction but history, mystery, war, popular and historical fiction as well. I also write and have a variety of books published in print and as e-books. I like to write humor and adventure/mystery/science fiction/suspense/thriller novels and short stories. I have worked in the medical field, am a Vietnam Veteran and currently live and write in east Texas where my wife Betty and I owned a Christmas tree farm until two years ago. I like to correspond with fans and can be reached through my web site, www.darrellbain.com We have two dachshunds that I've written about. I currently have about fifty books in print.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Masterful, January 1, 2008

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This review is from: Ultimate Suggestions (Paperback)

No more whines of "I never win anything." I won this, autographed, so ha!

Science fiction can look so easy, can't it? Think of a great idea and build a story around it, right? Well, it's a bit more difficult than that. Wanna know how many I've written? I lost count. Wanna know how many I didn't throw in the trash? Zero. Be grateful, friends and neighbors. I was doing a public service, for you, when I tossed that rubbish.

The masters create three-dimensional characters and let the story unfold from them. Character drives plot, not the other way around, regardless of the situation those characters are in. Pacing and description matter, and skillful use of language is always preferred. By giving us real people, the story evolves far beyond some guys in a pub or on an Internet forum saying, "What would happen if...?" That initial question or questions are just a convenient little rack to hang the rest of the story on, and there had better be plenty to hang on that little rack or nobody's gonna read it, not even the author's family. Darrell knows all this well, which is why he has so many awards and so many fans. The fans are more important.

This isn't science fiction, by the way. It's mystery/thriller. The only thing about it that doesn't exist in the world today -- I hope it doesn't -- is the chemical that makes anyone who breathes it obey any suggestion. What would such a thing do? Read the book and you'll find out, and you'll still be thinking about it when you're done.

I have the most wonderful and beautiful wife, the ultimate Miss Picasso, and enough money. Maybe I'd use this drug on the folks at Immigration, but that's all I can think of. Ethical considerations aside, I can't think of anything else I want.

The book does deserve better editing. But I immediately knew Dirk Wolf did the cover -- he was one of the best -- and my review did refer to Darrell as one of "the masters," didn't it? Yeah, it did. So that's all good stuff. Thanks, Darrell! I wanna win something else! (Hmm. A use for the chemical after all. In case I'm too cheap to BUY his books...)