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Glass House 51 Kindle Edition

by John Hampel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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What is Alphabanc’s evil corporate agenda? Can it be the presidential elections themselves? Can our precious democracy be so conveniently compromised

Richard Clayborne must find out – to save his life, his love, and ultimately America itself.

Though a tiny cog in the vast Alphabanc financial empire, ambitious Richard gets the unusual assignment to chat up the glamorous Christin, a relatively new employee, in a carefully choreographed exchange.

But all he is being told doesn’t seem to add up. Why Christin? Why him? Is there another, hidden agenda he isn’t seeing?
With the help of Blair, a hard-bitten ex-detective with a rocky past he’d rather forget, Richard begins to discern the dark outlines of a conspiracy that appears so vast it could change the future of America and the rest of the world.

And try as he might, he can’t help falling headfirst in love with Christin, whom, he discovers, has a dangerous secret which he begins to unravel – until she suddenly disappears.

Horrified, Richard suddenly finds himself in too deep to extricate himself from Alphabanc’s dark web of intrigue, plus he desperately needs to find and save the life of the missing Christin – and perhaps his own – before their evil plan comes to fruition.

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John Hampel was born in a small town in Pennsylvania in the 50s, rompedthrough the60s watching "Leave it to Beaver," and "Sky King" (and Penny, oh God ... Penny!), stumbled through the 70s (surviving somehow), gotintocomputers in the 80s (it was the thing to do) along with an MBA inthe90s (it was just (sigh) the thing to do). Since then he has movedtothe Pacific Northwest, and now, mostly on dark rainy nights, hewrites.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BFFYQMM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bzff Books (February 11, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 11, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1137 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 434 pages

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Hampel (left), with his late happy hound, Wylie, R.I.P., late of the Great Midwest and Pacific Northwest, now living in the Great Southeast, where he ruminates and writes, God help us.

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Bill Gonch

A Good Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014

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This year has seen a number of good novelistic treatments of the implications of the loss of privacy in the age of technology. John Hampel has created a good crime drama about a bank that tries to take over the world. The characters are well crafted and plot twists abound. Like me, Hampel spent decades working in IT. He draws great portraits of the eccentrics and occasional sociopaths that field tends to attract.

A good read.

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Lyn Meadows

Glad I stumbled on this one.

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2013

Recently I stumbled across John Hampel's book Glass House 51. The premise for this story centers around Alphabank, the largest financial institution in the U.S. The powers that be at Alphabank have picked two of their employees, Richard (no last name) and Cristin Darrow to be bait in their quest to draw out Norman Dunne, a reclusive computer genius who is a former employee, and a suspect in a series of murders of young women.

What unfolds is a captivating story about power, greed, and control in the same vent as the classics dystopian novels like 1984 and Brave New World. In fact, the publishing blurb for the book states, "Glass House 51 is humbly dedicated to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley,,,,,,They saw it coming; they saw it first; they warned us. We learned nothing." In fact, the story that John Hampel weaves in this book is a first rate story that combines all of the best elements of the classic Big Brother stories of the past. Reading the book was like reading 1984, Brave New World, Animal House, and Fahrenheit 451 all rolled into one, with the addition of an exciting thriller threading through the story. I loved the way that the author referred to these books throughout the story, but I also loved the way that he updated the themes presented in the classics to make this book relevant to the current times. The addition of a thriller story line only added to the suspense in the book and really kept me turning the pages.

The main characters in the story were also masterfully done. I love books where the characters continually surprise me, and that happened in this books in many ways. At times I would think that I had a character figured out, only to have them do an about-face. This propensity to change and challenge my thinking of the characters really kept me interested to see what was going to happen next. I loved the way it also blurred the lines between the good and bad guys, and kept me on my toes trying to figure out who were going to be the eventual heroes.

Unfortunately, this book has not gotten a lot of either press or exposure, which is really sad. It is a top-notch story with well developed characters that deal with important issues for our times. Is the story entirely plausible....probably not, but it has a lot to say to us about the information intensive age that we live in and lessons that it would be better to learn through fiction than through real life. Since neither of my sons were required to read 1984 OR Brave New World, I am going to direct them towards this book and hope that is sparks some great discussions among us.

A big thanks to Bzff Books and Netgalley for giving me the chance to read and review this book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2014

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The storyline is fine but repetitive to the point of reading like a Batman comic. Badly needs editing to reduce its length and side plots. Pages of excruciating dialogue ruin what could be a great plot.

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PAULA LYONS

This book would make a great movie!

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2013

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Couldn't put it down! In light of recent events, subject is timely and scary as can actually see something like this happening. Would translate so well to the big screen.

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Cheryl M-M

They are watching us, but who is watching them watch us?

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2013

The concept is one that our society needs to be aware of.
At the moment most of us spend our time on the periphery of technology and its true capacity for Big Brother like surveillance.
The majority choose to ignore it or accept it as part of our era and the unstoppable advancement of science and technology. Then there are the others that are paranoid to the point of delusion about what exactly the upper echelons are doing with it. Then in the middle we have the people who do know and are at the heart of the wave of development.
If you just take a step back for a moment and think about what it would mean or does mean that the powers that be have the right to look into, listen to and watch every aspect of your life if they choose to do so.
In this book the author looks at what happens when someone abuses that surveillance system for their own nefarious purposes.
Concept is interesting, but I found the actual presentation in regards to flow of the story lacking.
When it came to the villains the author was evasive to the point of not enough info to follow the clue. It needed more clarity and structure. The sub-plot of the murders became stronger than the main one, which then begs the question is this a book about someone getting their rocks off by killing or about the subversive dangers of surveillance in the wrong hands.
I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley.

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