The Hoard eBook Neil Grimmett
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Inspired by the massive explosion that killed six men at the ROF Bridgwater facility, The Hoard is a thriller set in the secretive, dangerous world of an explosives factory.
The story begins in 1951 when the nitration house explodes in a fireball killing the entire crew. Gunner Wade, who is sent by the nitration crew for help, knows this was no accident the men were murdered and Wade is branded a coward.
Thirty years later, Byron, the son of one of the victims, enters the sprawling top-secret compound to discover the truth about his father’s death. But what he finds in the dark heart of this world is a hidden hoard of super-high explosives; illegally produced and drenched in the blood of those killed to conceal its existence.
As the threat of discovery mounts, Byron finds himself at the centre of a struggle to prevent a destructive force from being unleashed again and to bring the original perpetrators and their new legion of evil acolytes to justice.
The Hoard eBook Neil Grimmett
This story starts with a countdown to a massive, and deadly, explosion that will rest uneasily for nearly thirty years. It takes place in an ordinance manufacturing complex in England not long after the end of WWII. Obviously, constructing explosives is a dangerous business, but this incident has nothing to do with danger and everything to do with murder. And on the night of this disaster one young man will die violently just before his first child is born. Eventually his new son, Byron, will grow into a young man who wants answers. He wants to know why his father died.This is a thriller in the best sense of the word. There is little doubt that three of the characters are ruthless, evil individuals, but the other players are cyphers at the beginning. As Byron talks his way into a job at the factory and begins to meet others, he has to be constantly vigilant. He can't appear too educated, curious or ambitious. He must figure out where loyalties lie and unbeknownst to him, there is very little time before history attempts to repeat itself. It's not until the very end that all of the pieces of what happened to his father and the other men who died with him on that day nearly thirty years ago fall into place, and the last piece is dark indeed.
Good stories make you want to read them. Really good stories take you away from the everyday world into whatever alternate reality they are providing for a bit. Great stories don't give you a choice- they keep you up all night for just one more page because you need to know what happens next, and tomorrow is too far away to wait. And while I am typically a very quiet late night reader, there were times when an "Oh, Crud" or "What?!" slipped out earning me a couple of semi-dirty looks from my sleeping husband (fortunately he doesn't remember- or he's just being nice). So you've been warned. This is a great story that might just keep you up all night too.
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The Hoard eBook Neil Grimmett Reviews
NOTE The author graciously provided me with a copy of the book and requested that I write a review.
I'm always interested in books that take me someplace foreign and provide me with a new experience, but I've never experienced anything like Neil Grimmett's suspenseful "The Hoard." Oddly enough, the book isn't set in some out-of-the-way third world venue or remote island, but in rural England, yet the setting in many ways seems as bizarre as the far side of the moon.
While the geographic location of "The Hoard" isn't unusual, its environment definitely is. It's a top secret high explosives facility where apparently a substantial portion of the military explosives used in the UK are manufactured. For obvious reasons the place is extremely dangerous and spread out. They don't want a fire or other ugly thing spreading from one location to the next. And there's a ton of safety and security rules in place, some common sense and some rather bureaucratically silly.
Under any circumstances, the place would be strange and dangerous enough, but Grimmett sets an intricate conspiracy in place at the facility. The book begins in 1951 when several employees are killed in a freak explosion. Apparently, similar to nuclear facilities, high explosives can suffer a meltdown of sorts and build up a chain reaction that eventually explodes unless it's extinguished in a "drowning pit." Except this time the drowning pit didn't work and men died. Fast forward to the 1970s and many of the people who were working at the facility earlier are still there in more senior positions. Enter one Byron Kerslake, a new employee who readers know is the son of one of the victims. His goal is to get to the bottom of what happened to his father. Here's a nonspoilerish hint it wasn't an accident.
"The Hoard" is a slick standard conspiracy thriller whose dials have been turned up to eleven because of the unique setting. As in most books of this type, Grimmett drops hints to readers about what's going on, so that they are about a half step ahead of Kerslake but still pretty much in the dark. And Kerslake doesn't know who he can trust and who his enemies are, both the original conspirators and new recruits they've added in more recent years. Grimmett takes his time in telling the story to let the bizarre mood and sense of uncertainty build. Plus, the physical setting of thefacility naturally leads to characters finding themselves in quite remote locations that could literally be blown to bits in seconds, and there are a number of mysterious figures skulking around the premises as well.
The book's unique setting sets it apart from most thrillers, but at times makes "The Hoard" a bit hard to follow. Instead of giving readers a massive information dump in an early chapter, Grimmett doles out his description of the facility and its operation in bits and pieces, which made things a bit hard to follow at time. I'm still not sure exactly sure some of the characters were doing in some of the chapters or what the various job titles meant. And Grimmett mentions some key plot points merely in passing as well.
Despite this occasional confusion, "The Hoard" is a compelling thriller that magnifies the usual feelings of paranoia in books like this. There is a high level of danger inherent in the setting, and Grimmett's conspiracy adds a few more layers. As a result, readers and Bryan himself are often unsure whether he is being told what to do as a sensible safety precaution or part of the plot itself. And, needless to say, some characters are not who they appear to be at first. Grimmett also has created a couple of highly complex, intriguing characters, including one man who survived the blast years earlier and whose guilt has played games with his sanity.. the question being just how much of what he's apparently experiencing is real or not. The result is a complex, psychological thriller with a great deal of suspense. In literary terms, it's pure dynamite.
Byron Kerslake never knew his father, who was killed in a massive explosion at a Royal Ordinance Factory in England in 1951. Twenty-nine years later Byron sets out to discover what really happened. Was his father's death an accident, or was it premeditated mass murder?
At its heart, The Hoard, by Neil Grimmet, is a murder mystery with a difference. Unlike the typical detective story, The Hoard blends fantasy and reality in equal measures. It is a "noir"; that is, the story is dark and brooding throughout. The cast of characters are real or fantastical. The action is believable or strains credulity. One thing is certain, Neil Grimmett has a special talent for creating a wide variety of characters who come alive for the reader in a dark and dangerous world.
When Neil Grimment asked me to review this story I immediately read the reviews and found them to be not simply positive, but often enthusiastic in their praise for his work. I am going to take a middle ground. I was by turns interested in Byron's investigation into his father's death and frustrated by the many twists and turns of the plot and the host of real and fantastic characters that populate the novel. At times the story is real and gripping, but just as often surreal, like a Tolkien adventure in middle-earth. At least some of The Hoard has that "middle-earth" feel as Byron descends into the nightmare world of the high explosives complex to gather the clues he needs to resolve the mystery of his father's death.
Those readers of this review looking for a straight forward murder mystery should look elsewhere. Those who want fantasy blended with reality, who want to descend into the world of "The Pit and the Pendulum," have come to the right place.
This story starts with a countdown to a massive, and deadly, explosion that will rest uneasily for nearly thirty years. It takes place in an ordinance manufacturing complex in England not long after the end of WWII. Obviously, constructing explosives is a dangerous business, but this incident has nothing to do with danger and everything to do with murder. And on the night of this disaster one young man will die violently just before his first child is born. Eventually his new son, Byron, will grow into a young man who wants answers. He wants to know why his father died.
This is a thriller in the best sense of the word. There is little doubt that three of the characters are ruthless, evil individuals, but the other players are cyphers at the beginning. As Byron talks his way into a job at the factory and begins to meet others, he has to be constantly vigilant. He can't appear too educated, curious or ambitious. He must figure out where loyalties lie and unbeknownst to him, there is very little time before history attempts to repeat itself. It's not until the very end that all of the pieces of what happened to his father and the other men who died with him on that day nearly thirty years ago fall into place, and the last piece is dark indeed.
Good stories make you want to read them. Really good stories take you away from the everyday world into whatever alternate reality they are providing for a bit. Great stories don't give you a choice- they keep you up all night for just one more page because you need to know what happens next, and tomorrow is too far away to wait. And while I am typically a very quiet late night reader, there were times when an "Oh, Crud" or "What?!" slipped out earning me a couple of semi-dirty looks from my sleeping husband (fortunately he doesn't remember- or he's just being nice). So you've been warned. This is a great story that might just keep you up all night too.
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