- Taschenbuch: 232 Seiten
- Verlag: CreateSpace (26. Mai 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1449974902
- ISBN-13: 978-1449974909
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,3 x 20,3 x 1,2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.281.544 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Cecil Clemenzi grew up in a Cleveland suburb where he was taunted and bullied from early childhood through adolescence. By the time he graduated from NYU and landed his first job as a runner for the New York Commodity Exchange, he was on his way to becoming an emotionally fragile yet surprisingly determined floor trader. One morning, following a freeze in Florida that sends the price of Orange Juice futures sharply higher, he loses everything in just one trade. Cecil blames another more successful floor trader for his loss and is determined to inflict as much retribution as possible on him. First, through one of his 'connected' relatives, Cecil tries to have the trader's daughter killed. Then he goes after some of his closest family friends. Finally, consumed with paranoia once he realizes his nemesis is now ruthlessly seeking his own revenge, he embarks on a desperate yet somewhat comical road trip that takes him to Laramie, Wyoming, where he unsuccessfully tries to start a new life. Alone, confused, and very afraid, he decides to go back home and meet his fate.
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Frank Drury is the author of AN EMPTY SKY, published in 2010. Midwest Book Review called it “a fascinating and thought provoking read”. He spent the early years of his career as a struggling screenwriter in California before moving to the East Coast and finding success in the high risk world of futures trading, which is where he gained the inspiration for AN EMPTY SKY. He currently lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado with his wife and daughters and continues to write fiction. A DREAM AWAY was his second novel, published in 2011. Midwest Book Review said, “Learning the value of family and what it all means.” Another reviewer wrote, “The reader will not welcome real life interruptions!” COLORED FLOODLIGHTS, is his latest novel. His books are available through Kindle, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Booksamillion.com, Powell’s Books, Tattered Cover, and Boulder Bookstore. They may also be purchased through your local independent book store. You may contact the author at frankdrury@gmail.com or, visit his website at www.frankdrury.com to read some of the reviews of his work.
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11 von 12 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
A fascinating and thought-provoking read
8. September 2010
Format:Taschenbuch
Vengeance only inspires more vengeance. "An Empty Sky" tells the story of neurotic trader Cecil Clemenzi as he digs his own hole of paranoia when he has a rival trader's daughter killed and soon finds himself on the opposite end of the revenge game. Fleeing and starting over are not things easily done, and makes "An Empty Sky" a fascinating and thought-provoking read.
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RUNNING ON EMPTY
4. Mai 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
When I began reading An Empty Sky, I was truly intrigued with the premise of a story built on a foundation of greed and revenge. We have the man, Cecil Clemenzi, a young commodities trader whose promising future is supposedly destroyed in one trade and who blames his misfortune on another trader named Kevin Kepler. I say supposedly, because Cecil has rebounded and is not exactly living in a ghetto waiting for his next welfare check to arrive. He is relatively comfortable, which makes his ability to hold a grudge for more than a decade come across as rather immature and childish, and the nature of his revenge against his "enemy" can only be described as over-kill. (sort of like using an AK-47 to eliminate a mosquito that is annoying you.)
Rather than recount the entire story for you let me just outline some of its pros and cons. First, although the story initially draws the reader in, it fails to captivate and hold your interest. While some chapters are compelling and really flow, other portions of the story are choppy and distracting because they are interrupted by scenes which literally have no significance and are not integral to the forward momentum of the tale. For example, Cecil's sexual encounter at the motel seems to have just been inserted just for its prurient value and not because of any viable purpose in advancing the storyline, as were the comments relating to our protagonist moving back to the D.C. area and making visits to the nation's capital to show his support for the President and his policies. (While these feelings may be relevant to the author, they are certainly out of character for the protagonist who up until that point had been only interested in revenge and survival, not politics.) Finally, the epilogue was reminiscent of Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol with the ghost of Christmas past (being played in this scenario by an ex-body guard) giving Cecil a glimpse into the present-day life of one of his victims.
Overall, this first attempt is not really bad - it's just not really good. Mr. Drury has managed to create characters that hit two of the three dimensions required to provide his readers with individuals that are fully fleshed out and believable. I would like to care about the people in the stories I read......love them, hate them, have their actions drive me crazy, produce some sort of visceral reaction. None of the folks in this story got my juices flowing one way or the other and for me that's not a good sign.
Rather than recount the entire story for you let me just outline some of its pros and cons. First, although the story initially draws the reader in, it fails to captivate and hold your interest. While some chapters are compelling and really flow, other portions of the story are choppy and distracting because they are interrupted by scenes which literally have no significance and are not integral to the forward momentum of the tale. For example, Cecil's sexual encounter at the motel seems to have just been inserted just for its prurient value and not because of any viable purpose in advancing the storyline, as were the comments relating to our protagonist moving back to the D.C. area and making visits to the nation's capital to show his support for the President and his policies. (While these feelings may be relevant to the author, they are certainly out of character for the protagonist who up until that point had been only interested in revenge and survival, not politics.) Finally, the epilogue was reminiscent of Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol with the ghost of Christmas past (being played in this scenario by an ex-body guard) giving Cecil a glimpse into the present-day life of one of his victims.
Overall, this first attempt is not really bad - it's just not really good. Mr. Drury has managed to create characters that hit two of the three dimensions required to provide his readers with individuals that are fully fleshed out and believable. I would like to care about the people in the stories I read......love them, hate them, have their actions drive me crazy, produce some sort of visceral reaction. None of the folks in this story got my juices flowing one way or the other and for me that's not a good sign.
6 von 7 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
A Perfect Beach Read!
5. Juli 2010
Format:Taschenbuch
A fast paced, well plotted book, An Empty Sky, that keeps your turning pages. Well developed characters - some you love, others you're glad don't live next door. A splendid offering from a new author. James Patterson, watch out. I'm looking forward to Mr. Drury's next novel.
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