Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murders edition by David Dagley Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Book Synopsis Cale Dixon, a detective on suspension, is assigned a research case just prior to reinstatement. A South Korean man, the oldest son of the Won family, is found with a mouthful of Moguk rubies and stabbed in the back with an Un Jang do knife that has been discretely passed down though generations of the Cho dynasty women. Cale has nothing to go on so he travels on a scheduled vacation but alters course to Burma to learn about the Moguk Ruby. He, by chance, falls in the right hands and meets up with a major Mandalay jewelry family. While the jewelers do some black market research for Cale, he tours the Burmese countryside somewhere between hiding from the secret police and running from them. After traveling through the repressed land, he returns to the states and gets more turns and twists than he bargains for.
Author Bio David Dagley has been working in the Bering Sea for the last 10 years and traveling through South East Asia in his off time. He resides in Seward, Alaska.
Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murders edition by David Dagley Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
First of all, let me state that I'm borrowing my wife's Amazon log in. Patty consumes books. I, Howard, on the other hand, am proud to say I read one, maybe two books a year. Therefore, I must choose my books carefully. Typically I go for travel/adventure non-fiction, but if reading fiction I always lean toward the mystery genre. In Dagley's first book, I got both!I won't reveal any of the plot, but Dagley has written a great story. As Dixon travels abroad in search of clues to his murder investigation, he spends a good deal of time in Burma. Any good writer must research their subject matter thoroughly, and Dagley shares insightful views into Burmese history and its political and ethnic struggles. That's the non-fiction part woven in, with apt creative license. The story starts in San Francisco and new characters are introduced in Idaho, South Korea, and of course, Burma. It's a page turner that builds and builds suspense. Finally, on the very last page after Cale pieces together most of the puzzle, it is clear that there will be more.
As I write this I am still smiling from the fulfillment of reading Cale Dixon And The Moguk Murder, and anxious to read the continuing story that is sure to come. ~ Howard
P.S. My next read will be Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe...
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Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murders edition by David Dagley Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murders is a stunning work that plums the depths of international criminality, historical conspiracy, and the inner psyche of the noir landscape. Crisscrossing oceans and cultures, author David C. Dagley establishes a shadowy world of scope and complexity, bringing the reader along into lands peopled by the secretive, the dangerous, and the violent— whether it be San Francisco, or the Burmese countryside. The hero of this novel is Cale Dixon, a hardboiled detective in the classic Hammett style. He is a nuanced and engaging protagonist, filled with his own troubles and moral conflicts, thus reflecting and reifying the very troubled worlds in which he inhabits.
Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murders as well manages to paint a layered narrative that ranges from black-market rubies to ancient Oriental knives, from secret police to government oppression, building an authentic sense of danger by the very nature of the landscape, characters, and crisp prose. Furthermore, Mr. Dagley executes the detective-novel tone perfectly, bringing traces of Chandler and even Doyle to the work, while as well maintaining the breadth of an international thriller— thus playing out the murders and intrigues on a global scale, as a universal crisis that knows no boundaries. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it to any fan of the genre.
***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLISHER***
Books like this one are what give independent writers a bad name. Furthermore, books like this should give independent authors pause before becoming contractually tied to a publisher. I found this book (and its “sequel”) to be so bad that I looked into the publisher a little bit. It turns out, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co. (SBPRA) (also known as Author Marketing Ideas (AMI)) is a big-time scam, and I hope any authors who are reading this review will keep as far away from them as possible. If a reputable publisher released this book, it wouldn’t have been nearly as unpolished as this book is. While I’m sure the author thought his story was terrific, I hope he asks for his money back.
Part of the role of a publisher, aside from distribution, is to get a book ready for a broad audience. With Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murders, I’ll show how SBPRA should have presented this book, by highlighting the things they did not do for the author. Let’s start at the beginning the cover. Comprised of a hodgepodge of stock photos and basic word processor fonts, this cover doesn’t grab my attention and instead is hard to look at. Furthermore, if this book were a thriller, it would have been titled The Moguk Murders, since most thriller protagonists don’t show up in the title (i.e., Hard Road, The Tracker, etc.). A professional cover artist and editor would have caught these things before the book was published.
Next, let’s look at what an editor for a publisher should have found in the manuscript itself. It seems to me that whoever edited this book only used spell check, without looking at any context. There are so many homophone and proofreading errors that it was difficult to read, at times pulling me out of the story so hard I almost got whiplash. An editor would have also recognized how much information was redundant or repetitive in the narrative, with nearly every mention of the case to a new character requiring a full recap of everything that had happened up to that point. This editor would have also fixed the pacing issue since most chapters were only a couple pages long, but other chapters comprised up to 10% of the entire book.
Finally, an editor from a publisher would have worked to make the story less cringe-worthy. None of the characters made any sense in their actions, and most were guilty of egregious errors in judgment and protocol. The titular character was probably the worst of them all, exhibiting all the eye-rolling misogyny that seems more forced than natural. The amount of leniency he is given from the police department of San Francisco is criminal. From discussing open murder cases in front of tour groups to withholding evidence and taking said evidence overseas to illegal and black market individuals, the fact that the Police Chief even let him come back on the force from his “suspension” broke every fiber of my suspension of disbelief. By the end of the story, I hated all these idiotic characters, almost as much as I hated the “tag along” chapter that induced a sequel. That being said, a sequel was almost necessary, since there were no answers to any of the questions brought up in this book.
An example of a bad publisher releasing an unfinished work, I give Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murders 1.0 stars out of 5.
Great book - well researched with an intriguing plot.
As well as the interesting mystery, it tells you a lot about life in the area.
A good mystery read. Many layers upon layers that kept me turning the pages. the descriptive narration of far away travels makes me want to be a detective like Cale Dixon.
First of all, let me state that I'm borrowing my wife's log in. Patty consumes books. I, Howard, on the other hand, am proud to say I read one, maybe two books a year. Therefore, I must choose my books carefully. Typically I go for travel/adventure non-fiction, but if reading fiction I always lean toward the mystery genre. In Dagley's first book, I got both!
I won't reveal any of the plot, but Dagley has written a great story. As Dixon travels abroad in search of clues to his murder investigation, he spends a good deal of time in Burma. Any good writer must research their subject matter thoroughly, and Dagley shares insightful views into Burmese history and its political and ethnic struggles. That's the non-fiction part woven in, with apt creative license. The story starts in San Francisco and new characters are introduced in Idaho, South Korea, and of course, Burma. It's a page turner that builds and builds suspense. Finally, on the very last page after Cale pieces together most of the puzzle, it is clear that there will be more.
As I write this I am still smiling from the fulfillment of reading Cale Dixon And The Moguk Murder, and anxious to read the continuing story that is sure to come. ~ Howard
P.S. My next read will be Born To Run A Hidden Tribe...
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