Unholy Pursuit Book Review

This review of my book,Unholy Pursuit was written by N.L. Snowden, author of In and out of Madness . . .


UNHOLY PURSUIT
By
Jerry Pat Bolton




Jerry Pat Bolton has written a novel that is both entertaining and thought provoking. Written in first person in a memoir style, he takes you on a fantasy journey that is at first quite believable. The protagonist, Joe John Jefferies, a seventy-year-old man contemplating a memory of a girl with no name. Although his was a happy marriage, this girl's memory floated in and out of his conscious mind through the years. They met on a road in Georgia and spent the day in a sexual marathon. They went their separate ways without exchanging names.

After Joe loses his wife of many years and his grieving is done, he decides to set out and find this girl. His friends laugh at him. His mistress, Rita Beaverman, insists on going with him. He feels no love for this woman, only lust. He doesn't want her interfering with his quest. Against everyone's insistence, he heads for Georgia. The first night he stops to sleep in a motel, and who should show up but Rita. Although Rita possessed power over Joe with her undulating sexuality, he rejects her and sends her packing with what appears to be a broken heart.

Something in his subconscious plants the seeds of an Uncle Jack being connected to this nameless girl. In many surreal coincidences, Joe finds there is an Uncle Jack connected to the family that owns the diner he frequents in Georgia. After going on a treasure hunt of leads, he ends up in a nursing home with a very old relative of the family. She predicts her death and leaves Joe with her dying words and a puzzle to unravel.

Joe finds the spot on the road where he and the unnamed girl met and wishes with all his being that she'll miraculously show up. To his delight, she does, and he finds out that her name is Casondrah, and she has been controlling him all of his life since their encounter. At first, he doesn't care, as the sex is once again glorious.

While in his motel room, a man suddenly appears dressed as a Charles Dickens character and calls himself Carlester. He shares a secret with Joe that Bolton so elegantly allows the reader to believe in the fantasy that takes over Joe's life.

In the end, Joe discovers that Casondrah is his enemy, Carlester is his friend. He ends up in Wyoming with Casondrah and Alexandria, a vampire, saves his and a sad waif by the name of Constance's lives. Bolton knows his geography as he places the reader in many locales as Joe discovers he is the one and only one to destroy a world's evil. It's a game of cat and mouse with the loser going to hell. Joe and his comrades battle Casondrah and even Satan himself. The book twists and turns, and every time the reader thinks things are going to work out, he adds another adversary, another battle, another escape only to find Joe worse off than he was. Bolton sends the reader to the climax of the book taking short breaths and hearing their own hearts beating in their chest.

What makes this book even better is that Bolton throws in some philosophy that the reader will ponder and question the Status Quo.

I highly recommend this page tuner and book for people who love constant action.
This book is available at Amazon on the Kindle version: http://www.amazon.com/UnHoly-Pursuit-na/dp/B002KW4SOU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253555150&sr=1-1

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