Forward to Camelot by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn excerpt, giveaway,

Forward to Camelot

by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn

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WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED?

On the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003 with a new Afterword from the authors.

On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK’s own Bible. Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price.

In the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this Bible—while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President’s murder, with one unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.

Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both.

History CAN be altered …

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Excerpt 

The man in the doorway was yawning, and his bright chestnut hair, flecked with threads of gray, was tousled. He wore half glasses down on his nose and held a thick typewritten report in one hand. His navy silk tie was pulled down, his white shirt was rumpled. His eyes, though bloodshot, focused on us politely.

    

I was face to face with President John F. Kennedy.

    

He looked at us, puzzled, and glanced around the empty hallway.

   

I knew if I didn’t speak that I’d never have another chance, but I couldn’t think of a thing to say. The President looked at us, raised an eyebrow.

    

Quick, Cady, say something. “Mr. President, my name is Cady Cuyler.” Beside me, I felt Lee start at the words. “I’ve come a long way to speak to you. Please, it’s very urgent.”

    

He was still puzzled. “Where’s my Secret Service detail?”

   

I took a deep breath. In for a penny, in for a pound. “They’re out drinking at a nightclub called The Cellar, here in Fort Worth. They left some Fort Worth firemen to guard you. They’ll be pretty hung over in the morning.”

    

Kennedy looked down at me. His eyes were a bit brighter, though it was now close to 2:00 a.m.  He looked over at Lee, who gave him a tense smile, and stood almost at military attention. He looked back at me and asked quietly, “And how do you know this?”

    

It was time. His hand was on the doorknob. Almost imperceptibly, he was inching it shut.

   

I took a deep breath. “I’ll tell you, but you’re not going to believe me.” I waited; he waited too. But he was listening; I still had a chance.

   

“I’m from the future. I don’t live in Dallas in 1963. I live in New York in the year 2000. I’m here to warn you, sir, and save you if I can. If you don’t listen to me now… you’re going to die in less than 12 hours.”

Oswald had turned to me in alarm. Kennedy’s gray eyes never left my face while I spoke. When I stopped, hoping, praying I had reached him, he glanced down for a moment, then down the hall. All was quiet, the annoying yellow lights still burning overhead. Like casinos in Vegas, it was impossible to know from the artificial light in the hotel whether it was noon or midnight.

    

“You’re right,” the President said in that distinctive accent. “I don’t believe you.” He started to close the door in my face.

    

Before he could, I was talking again, as quickly and persuasively as I could. “Why would I make up a story like that? It makes no sense. Unless it was true!”

    

His gaze was even and noncommittal, but at least he’d stopped closing the door. “Can you prove it?”

Susan and Kevin will be awarding a $25 Amazon Gift Card to a randomly drawn commenter during this tour and their Virtual Book Tour

WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED?

On the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003 with a new Afterword from the authors.

On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK’s own Bible. Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price.

In the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this Bible—while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President’s murder, with one unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.

Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both.

History CAN be altered …

Susan and Kevin will be awarding a $25 Amazon Gift Card to a randomly drawn commenter during this tour and their Virtual Book Tour

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Luthecker by Keith Domingue and Character guest post

About the Author:

Keith Domingue is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, and has written scripts for MGM Studios, Dimension Films, and Village Roadshow Pictures. His first original screenplay ONE THIRD, is being produced by Safady Entertainment and Lions Gate Films, and is scheduled to begin production in 2014.  LUTHECKER is his first novel.

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About the Book:

ALEX LUTHECKER lives off of the grid. He prefers the comfort of the night. He avoids the crowded and chaotic daylight hours, because the relentless anxieties of the multitudes overwhelm him. This is because Alex has a rare gift. He is a pattern reader. Patterns in nature, patterns in social groups, patterns in individual behavior, he can recognize them all. With one conversation, he knows all of your secrets. He can tell you exactly who you are. He can tell you exactly how your life is going to end.

For Alex, it’s not magic. It’s math.

NICOLE ELLIS works in the energy business. She trades futures in the lifeblood of civilization: crude oil. With the help of her patented pattern recognition software, PHOEBE, she has the uncanny ability to predict trends in oil production and consumption. And at the tender age of twenty-five, she is recognized as one of the best in the business, with the bank account to show for it.

For Nicole, who grew up with nothing, the world is hers.

RICHARD BROWN was a highly respected intelligence officer during both Gulf Wars. He oversaw rendition squads, making sure that his interrogators didn’t cross the line into torture, and if they did, that no one would ever be the wiser. The only thing that mattered to the government was that Brown always got his man. His track record of success allowed his move into the private sector, eventually heading the corporate entity known as Coalition Properties, the largest military contractor in U.S. history.

For Brown, the commodity he trades and sells is power.

A terrorist attack on a Saudi oil refinery sets the paths of all three on a collision course, an encounter that threatens to upset the balance of power in the world. Alex must learn to forge relationships and become a leader in order to save the lives of not only himself and Nicole, but also those of his loose band of allies, as he becomes one of the most sought after fugitives in history.

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 Character guest post

My name is Alex…

And the first thing I knew about him was that he wasn’t from here.   It wasn’t because of his race, because in Los Angles there’s every kind.  It was his clothes.  The style, the thread origin, the stain pattern, even the smell all indicated to me that he hadn’t been in the states for very long.  That was the first clue.

His forehead had beads of sweat, and his movements were small, erratic, and unsure.  He was nervous. 

It was at that point I wanted to stop.   I wanted to stop cataloging every nuance of behavior and detail about this man who I’ve never met, but simply saw standing on a street corner, but I couldn’t stop.  Not now. The patterns were already in my head, the conclusion regarding his choices already formulated.   He was going to leave a pipe bomb in the L.A. Metro, and he was going to do it tonight.  I was sure of it.  It was a mathematical certainty.

The question was no longer about what was he going to do, but what was I going to do.

What people sense but do not grasp is that the universe consists of countless patterns, some that intersect and some that do not, but all of which are related. 

What I can do, is see those patterns.  And how they relate to one another.  Particularly when those patterns involve human behavior.

Most people realize a man carrying a shotgun through a shopping mall is a threat.  But few are capable of seeing, or more accurately wanting to see, the anger in the eyes, the resignation in the posture, the degradation in hygiene, the increased social detachment, the growing frustration brought on by the constant reinforcement of a negative belief system that along with countless details, doomed this man’s fate from the beginning. 

It’s all just simple mathematics.  And I can do the math, see if all very clearly, before the man every picks up the gun.  It’s not perfect.  It’s not perfect because occasionally, people can change.  But the more dogmatic the life, the easier it is for me.  And most people are set in their ways before the age of thirty.

But none of that answers the question in front of me right now.  Do I stop this man, from doing what I know he is about to do?  Do I report him to the authorities? 

Because once I do, once I step into the Momentum, it changes everything.  For everyone.   And even I don’t know what happens after that…

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My Review:

I really liked this book. I wish that I knew math as well as Alex. I enjoyed that the author used "book smarts" as a super power. I hope there are more in this series and I would love to watch this as a movie. I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.