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Empire in the Sand Kindle Edition
Throw in a reckless fling with a former colleague, a fire that destroys his retirement property, and a rumour emerging that the drug he helped bring to market years ago may have been responsible for the death of his wife, and Avery’s life goes into freefall.
Does an octogenarian bee keeper living on Vancouver Island hold the key to Avery’s recovery, a man holding secrets that put lives in jeopardy? Avery races across the country to find out, with crooked bosses, politicians, and assassins on his tail.
Joseph spins a cautionary tale of corporate and political greed that is endemic of our times.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 15, 2022
- File size2331 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B0B94PCKGX
- Publisher : Blue Denim Press Inc.; 1st edition (September 15, 2022)
- Publication date : September 15, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 2331 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 215 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,570,995 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #8,323 in Political Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #19,066 in Political Fiction (Books)
- #27,513 in Fiction Urban Life
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About the author
Shane Joseph began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. From an early surge of short stories and radio play scripts, to humorous corporate skits, travelogues, case studies and technical papers, then novels, more short stories and essays, he continues to pursue the three pages-a-day maxim and keeps writer’s block at bay.
His career stints include: stage and radio actor, pop musician, encyclopaedia salesman, lathe machine operator, airline executive, travel agency manager, vice president of a global financial services company, software services salesperson, project manager, and management consultant.
Self-taught, with four degrees under his belt obtained through distance education, Shane is an avid traveller and has visited one country for every year of his life. He fondly recalls incidents during his travels as real lessons he could never have learned in school: husky driving in Finland with no training, trekking the Inca Trail in Peru through an unending rainstorm, hitch-hiking in Australia without a map, escaping a wild elephant in Zambia, and being stranded without money in Denmark, are some of his memories.
Shane is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto and studied under the mentorship of Giller Prize and Canadian Governor General’s Award winning author David Adams Richards. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004. Fringe Dwellers, his first collection of short stories, was released in 2008, and is now in its second edition. Shane’s third work of fiction, After the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, was released in 2009 and won the Canadian Christian Writing Awards best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category in 2010. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the USA, UK, India and Sri Lanka. His blog at www.shanejoseph.com is widely syndicated. His latest novel, Circles in the Spiral, was released in 2020.
After immigrating (twice), raising a family, building several careers, and experiencing life’s many highs and lows, Shane has carved out a niche in Cobourg, Ontario with his wife, Sarah, where he continues to write stories, s
and play his guitar.
More details on Shane’s work, blog and public interviews can be found on his website at www.shanejoseph.com
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Once a senior executive with a pharmaceuticals company, Avery Mann’s career ends abruptly when he finds himself unable to support his new boss in a strategy that demands his company abandon a trusted medication for a cheaper generic version and thereby place profit before integrity.
While he didn’t lose financially, Avery’s dismissal robbed him of much that had been central to his life. And then worse things happen. His retirement investments fail. His wife becomes ill, is prescribed the generic drug he frowned on, and dies. His grandson harms himself in order to seek attention from feuding parents. His best friend suffers a debilitating stroke after learning that his political efforts have been crushed by robocalls that misdirected his supporters to a false polling station. He is lured into an affair with a younger woman who can only bring him misery. He learns that his son, while also filing for divorce, is leading the process by which the shares in the private corporation created to launch the dubious generic drug will be sprung on an unwitting public.
Avery is drawn into the maelstrom in which his private and personal life becomes inextricably tied up with events that directly threaten the stability of Canada’s broader political and moral order through corruption, greed and murder.
Shane Joseph does not shy away from themes that concern us in the myriad roles we play as members of families, friends and lovers, and citizens in a changing country and uncertain world. He shows us that we have no option but to face the recurring challenge of getting through life without causing too much injury to others and without sustaining too many injuries ourselves.
Bombarded by seemingly insurmountable problems, Avery asks Sarah whose path he has fortunately crossed, a key question: “Can one ever go back?”
Sarah’s response suggests that, of all the characters we meet in Empire in the Sand, it is she who is the moral protagonist of this engaging, provocative, and intriguing novel.
Like “Milltown”, Empire in the Sand has the makings of a riveting film or miniseries. Much will be made, and rightly so, of the symbolic liberation of honeybees from a row of hives by a pharmaceutical scientist with a social conscience, finely drawn by Shane Joseph. I hazard a guess that never have bees been used to such dramatic effect in literature since Bernard Mandeville wrote his satire, The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd Honest almost three centuries ago.
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022
Once a senior executive with a pharmaceuticals company, Avery Mann’s career ends abruptly when he finds himself unable to support his new boss in a strategy that demands his company abandon a trusted medication for a cheaper generic version and thereby place profit before integrity.
While he didn’t lose financially, Avery’s dismissal robbed him of much that had been central to his life. And then worse things happen. His retirement investments fail. His wife becomes ill, is prescribed the generic drug he frowned on, and dies. His grandson harms himself in order to seek attention from feuding parents. His best friend suffers a debilitating stroke after learning that his political efforts have been crushed by robocalls that misdirected his supporters to a false polling station. He is lured into an affair with a younger woman who can only bring him misery. He learns that his son, while also filing for divorce, is leading the process by which the shares in the private corporation created to launch the dubious generic drug will be sprung on an unwitting public.
Avery is drawn into the maelstrom in which his private and personal life becomes inextricably tied up with events that directly threaten the stability of Canada’s broader political and moral order through corruption, greed and murder.
Shane Joseph does not shy away from themes that concern us in the myriad roles we play as members of families, friends and lovers, and citizens in a changing country and uncertain world. He shows us that we have no option but to face the recurring challenge of getting through life without causing too much injury to others and without sustaining too many injuries ourselves.
Bombarded by seemingly insurmountable problems, Avery asks Sarah whose path he has fortunately crossed, a key question: “Can one ever go back?”
Sarah’s response suggests that, of all the characters we meet in Empire in the Sand, it is she who is the moral protagonist of this engaging, provocative, and intriguing novel.
Like “Milltown”, Empire in the Sand has the makings of a riveting film or miniseries. Much will be made, and rightly so, of the symbolic liberation of honeybees from a row of hives by a pharmaceutical scientist with a social conscience, finely drawn by Shane Joseph. I hazard a guess that never have bees been used to such dramatic effect in literature since Bernard Mandeville wrote his satire, The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd Honest almost three centuries ago.
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This award-winning author has written a number of books. I am looking forward to reading more of his work.