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Review: 2008-07-19

WHOA!
I thought reporters all wore fedoras as they sat smoking Old Golds at their Underwoods. Jack Engelhard, who knows the newspaper game inside and out gives us a fascinating peek into a modern newsroom.

At the same time....reading this book I could almost skip reading the morning paper. The story line reads like the headlines of today.

Really good...really entertaining.


Review: 2008-03-09

TIMELY...TIMELESS...ANOTHER ENGELHARD CLASSIC
I enjoyed Linda Shelnutt's story about her husband at the breakfast table. That's been my experience as well...at each sitting, I was unable to put The Bathsheba Deadline: An Original Novel down until I had read at least twelve-fifteen chapters. It's that good....it's better. TIMELY, TIMELESS, FAST-PACED, TRAGIC, CONTROVERSIAL TRIUMPHANT...ITS ALL OF THOSE AND MORE BESIDES.

Thank goodness for self-publishing...the traditional New York houses would NEVER let this one see the light of day.

The characters are entertaining, authentic, larger than life yet so very human. Jack draws on his years of experience as a journalist to recreate the excitement, forbidden desire,ambition and backstabbing of the newsroom of the MANHATTAN INDEPENDANT [circulation close to half a million]. The story combines the fast-paced Manhattan scene and the terrorist-infested world in which we live here and now with the ageless story of fatal attraction between a tough,if pleasantly self-critical, successful man and tough, successful, gorgeous woman.

In the background throughout are several subplots spinning their way to masterful conclusion....all as seen and told through the eyes and agendas of truly first-rate characters, from the protagonist Jay Garfield, the zealous and sad Sam Cleaver, through the 100% all American Arab Jimmy Smokes and the scheming Peter Brand to the unfathomable,nutty and fatally-charming Lyla Crawford. BATHSHEBA DEADLINE is the story of something unusual and exciting for most readers, a newspaper in the thick of controversy, yet something as timeless as a steamy love-triangle...a love triangle in which the two willing members may have a way of getting rid of the third.

Jack Engelhard has another classic here...a controversial politico-romantic thriller of the first water. Beautifully populated with great characters and a story line, as Cinnamon Stillwell writes, "right out of the headlines"...and the Bible. Five Stars! John W. Cassell

John W. Cassell is the author of six novels on the American Counterculture of the 1960's-1970's and a politico-military thriller: Uncertain Paradise: 1973

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