https://www.amazon.com/Navigators-Dan-Alatorre-ebook/dp/B01HKF3JGO
‘The Navigators’ is the brilliant adventure of a group of students on an archaeology dig at a Florida mining site.
Basically, it is a time travel story, but so much more than that, in fact it is one of the best mystery thrillers I have read in a while.
Well written, with extremely interesting characters, the pace and tension had me quite breathless, as they hurtled from one disaster to the next.
All the characters are brilliantly portrayed and seem like old friends in no time at all. A likeable bunch, I loved the way they bounced off each other and was hard pressed to say whom I liked the best.
Barry was a firm candidate. As a bit of a wild card, you just knew trouble will find him. I also loved Peeky, the voice of reason, the oldest member of the group who also did most of the narrating. The only girl in the group, Melissa, tries to hold the reins and keep them on the straight and narrow, but she has her work cut out big time.
The use of tension, mixed with the ever present humour makes a winning combination and the weird machine they unearth at the beginning of the story, leads them on a merry dance, as they seem to hurtle from one hair brained scheme to another, some of them getting seriously hurt along the way.
I especially loved the way they had to discover not only what the machine was, but also how it could be used. The technical detailing was cleverly done and totally believable.
My favourite chapter was where Barry gets stranded in a medieval forest with a tiger, so realistic and intense.
This story had me hooked from the start, a well thought out complex storyline that has everything. Mystery, intrigue, betrayal and romance. In addition, enough danger and excitement to sink several ships!
About the Author
Dan Alatorre was born in Hamilton, Ohio, and (after a frustrating year or so of pretending to be an engineering technology student at the University of Dayton) transferred to the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business. A few years later, after taking a sample Mensa test in Playboy magazine, he sat for a supervised Mensa exam, passed, and became a member of Mensa. Thusly inspired, he went on to earn an MBA from Tampa College.
Dan was just a normal guy doing normal things until he and his wife were blessed with a baby when he was about 47 years old. Some will argue he was never a normal guy, but nobody will argue that the addition of a bouncing baby girl changed his life. Savannah and her Mommy, her Daddy, her dog Buddy and her cat Kitty all live together in Lutz, Florida, next door to Tampa.
“My writing is done in a simple, plain spoken approach, and I try to put the reader right in the room with me.
What people have found interesting about my stuff – at least what they’ve told me – is that it’s interesting to hear all this from the dad’s point of view, and not as a bumbling TV sitcom dad, but as a real, thoughtful, functioning human being. My wife had to stop reading my stories because she would cry (in a good way, I think) and her friends who would read it would cry…
It became my goal to have everyone I know cry first thing every morning. Or laugh; I could go either way.
There is a lot of fun stuff in this book and I think you will be touched by it. You’ll re-live memories and remember things that you never thought that you knew. I tell folks that my kid isn’t any funnier or more unique than anybody else’s kid; ALL kids do these things. I just wrote them down. And you’ll know what I mean by the end of chapter 3.”
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