Above Beyond delivers a unique take on the age-old good against evil theme in a very refreshing, surprisingly uncommon, and perhaps controversial way. As the Fallen One uses children as pawns to convert and control perniciousness, the heavenly bodies must step in for the first time in 2015 years to interrupt the evil process. Both the Angel of evil and God of holiness recruit and show the way. The fray and the sub-plots are stunning, and read as no story ever told or read before. Biblical verse and passage are sensitive and sensible in presentation, and prop-up the profound novel throughout.
In a global competition between continued harvesting of fossil fuels and the slower-paced exploitation of renewable energy, which side will win, and how? In a dangerous world of big business, big government, and greedy scoundrels, up against a decades-long march of peaceful activists for renewable energy, who arises as the resolute savior? Book “The project is not about renewable energy; it is, instead, as it is named, about advanced energy.” Landry doesn’t miss a detail of Mack’s top-secret work on a team of experts trying to solve the energy problem. The ultimate result is eco-fiction with a streak of activism. Landry generates urgency to act and speak out against those sacrificing the earth to gain profits and power. book review by Michelle Jacobs The US Review of Books
The Jim Landry book, titled Fool Star is a seventy-one-thousand-nine-hundred and forty-five-word work of Pulp Style Contemporary Fiction. It is a tale of a traveling musician and performer named Tony, whose undiagnosed tendencies toward a sad psychosis and schizophrenia eventually spawn action fitting for the sociopath few know, exists. Jim Landry is a native of New England, a published musician/songwriter, author and computer software architect. He enjoyed a career as a professional musician from 1966 through 2012 before settling in San Antonio, Texas to write. A busy mind, a tremendous long-term memory, adventures in music and life, years of travel, experience and meetings provide the story-telling and faction for Fool Star and provide ingredients for a reader to enjoy. While Tony reflects on his life, after a nasty confrontation leads to a beating, the reader examines the connection between Tony's stolen childhood and the man he is sorely becoming. His own thoughts corkscrew through relationships and dissect experience. Conflict, constituted by his diligence, street-smart intelligence and high emotional quotient, against the questionable path down which he trod, unwinds in the end to offer both a finish and a new beginning.
