Showing posts with label Ian Ludlow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ian Ludlow. Show all posts

Saturday, March 02, 2019

Killer Thriller--Review



Killer Thriller is Lee Goldberg's follow up to True Fiction.  It contains a huge surprise in the  middle of the story.  It takes Ian Ludlow and Margo French across Asia and France in another rollicking adventure.
After turning down an offer to join the CIA, Ian Ludlow returns to his normal life of writing for TV shows and novels.  One of his novels of action hero, Clint Striker, is being turned into a movie.  Ludlow is invited to travel to Hong Kong to observe the project.
While preparing for his trip, he encounters a desolate Margo French, who because of their thrashing of a house and stealing (actually borrowing) a car in their last adventure, has lost her dog walking business.  Feeling guilty, Ludlow offers to bring Margo on his trip to be a research assistant.
Meanwhile, there is upheaval in Hong Kong, as a series of businessmen have disappeared, one of them is the father of an actor in the Striker movie.  The Chinese government, seems to think that Ludlow is a US operative doing espionage and want to find out what his real motives are in traveling to Hong Kong.
Killer Thriller is available on Amazon. 

Monday, April 23, 2018

True Fiction--Lee Goldberg Tongue-In-Cheek Thriller

Readers can have fun figuring out what is truth and what is fiction in this crazy romp by TV writer author Lee Goldberg.  Goldberg used his former pen name, Ian Ludlow as a writer trying to escape what he believes is a government plot to destroy him and his unwitting accomplice.
Much of the action takes place in Seattle, but moves down the West Coast as Ian and Margo French try to escape their hunters. 
There are inside jokes such as Ian and Margo (a Seattleite originally from Walla Walla) hiding out in a house in the Laurelhurst remarkably similar to one owned by the author's uncle. 
The book seems to have a moral that today's social media and electronics can make life easier and connect us, but can also surrender our security and privacy.
There is plenty of the Goldberg observational humor employed in books by both Lee and his brother, Tod.  Both authors can see things that places and situations that most people can not.
According to Lee, the book hit the top of the  Washington Post Best Seller list.  I would highly recommend it. Click here to order.