Gold Rush 2000

Rating:
Summary: Excellent plot, characters, & surprises!
Review: "I did not put the book down for two days. I highly resented things such as fixing dinner, answering the door, washing clothes, etc. I wanted everybody to just leave me alone so I could read !!!!!!!! I was right there with the characters from chapter to chapter !!!!! Step down Sidney Sheldon, Nora Roberts, Sue Grafton and John Grissom and bow to ED MITCHELL " THE NEW KING OF MYSTERY AND ROMANCE. " Barbara H., Housewife Muphys, CA.

"This is a great book! It's done in the best "Clancy" tradition, but even more so! You've out Clancy'ed, Clancy. You are to be congratulated on this well written, exciting, fast paced, and entertaining literary achievement. I'm heading for the hills to find my gold. Steve S, Proposal Consultant

"It's your fault I have a sunburn. I couldn't put the last three chapters down and stayed in the sun too long." Carol D., Business Operations Manager

"Just finished the book last night. If I had to choose one word that would describe the book it would be 'Fabulous'. The more I read, the more I felt the pain and success of Nolan Martin. My question is, when are you going to do another book?" Dave K., President, Minnesota Gold Prospecting Association

"I received your book and am now having a wonderful experience reading it. It has a great story line and I am having a hard time putting it down. I was reading it this a.m. in the restaurant. My eyes were so full of tears! Such a great story!" Grace V., Housewife

"Friends, the title is Gold Rush 2000 and I can't stop reading it. If you like the Tom Clancy Red October type story, you will love this book. Normally I don't share things like this unless I feel strongly about it." (E-mail message) Bruce V., Product Assurance Engineer

"There were so many twists that at one moment I was angry that all Nolen's and/or Digger's efforts were going to be wasted and the next chapter or two, all that was turned around.  It was great to use an innocent older lady, Hilda, to play against Nolen. Good luck with becoming a best seller.  It's bound to happen when you have such a piece of art!" Laura G., Executive Secretary

"You plot better than most well known authors. You hooked me. I'm cheering for the good characters to not be hurt and for the bad ones to be punished." Larry M., Senior SW Designer

"I loved the hero, Nolen. He's the type of man any woman would want to marry." Brenda C., Medical Assistant

"I thoroughly enjoyed your book from cover to cover. I read it in two days which is fast for me. To me it was every bit as good as The Firm." Dan D., Proposal Manager

"At first I was skeptical (after all, it's a Mitchell not a Clancy) and expected it to be second rate. Then I was swept up in the triangular tension. The ending was terrific!" Bob T., Manager Aerospace Compan

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Summary: Gold Rush 2000
Review: Book review by G. Browning Bordages

Gold Rush 2000 by Ed Mitchell. Salinas, CA, California Coast Publishing, 1999. 386p., ISBN 0-9668447-3-4. $24.95.

There is nothing wrong with this book that a good editor could not have mended. However, because present-day publishing houses have become too timid to nurture new authors, self-publication has become the norm for those who can afford it.

Be that as it may, Gold Rush 2000 is one whale of a page turner ... a saga of corporate greed, government corruption and fall from grace. A vivid illustration of how "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

The tale begins with the dilemma of a modest, unassuming man named Nolen Martin who must find a way to obtain decent medical care for his cancer-stricken foster mother. He learns of a new gold field in California and sets forth on his quest of mercy.

Yet, when he has enough gold to pay for the care of his foster mother several times over, he chooses instead to first use it to seek revenge on his enemies and amass a fortune.

As he sinks lower and lower into the ooze of amoral rapacity and violent retaliation, becoming that which, initially, he claims to despise, the reader finds himself mesmerized by the process, and unable to toss the book aside in disgust.

The plot is fresh, rich and complex, peppered with memorable characters. It portrays a world to which few of us will be exposed, yet find too fascinating to ignore. Perhaps because there a bit of Nolen Martin in us all. One hopes this will not be the last we hear from Ed Mitchell's fertile imagination, and that next time he has as good an editor as he is a writer.

------------ G. Browning Bordages is a free-lance writer and newspaper columnist living on Galveston Island, Texas.

Rating:
Summary: A good read, in spite of minor flaws
Review: Book review by G. Browning Bordages

Gold Rush 2000 by Ed Mitchell. Salinas, CA, California Coast Publishing, 1999. 386p., ISBN 0-9668447-3-4. $24.95.

There is nothing wrong with this book that a good editor could not have mended. However, because present-day publishing houses have become too timid to nurture new authors, self-publication has become the norm for those who can afford it.

Be that as it may, Gold Rush 2000 is one whale of a page turner ... a saga of corporate greed, government corruption and fall from grace. A vivid illustration of how "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

The tale begins with the dilemma of a modest, unassuming man named Nolen Martin who must find a way to obtain decent medical care for his cancer-stricken foster mother. He learns of a new gold field in California and sets forth on his quest of mercy.

Yet, when he has enough gold to pay for the care of his foster mother several times over, he chooses instead to first use it to seek revenge on his enemies and amass a fortune.

As he sinks lower and lower into the ooze of amoral rapacity and violent retaliation, becoming that which, initially, he claims to despise, the reader finds himself mesmerized by the process, and unable to toss the book aside in disgust.

The plot is fresh, rich and complex, peppered with memorable characters. It portrays a world to which few of us will be exposed, yet find too fascinating to ignore. Perhaps because there a bit of Nolen Martin in us all. One hopes this will not be the last we hear from Ed Mitchell's fertile imagination, and that next time he has as good an editor as he is a writer.

------------ G. Browning Bordages is a free-lance writer and newspaper columnist living on Galveston Island, Texas.

Rating:
Summary: Gold Rush 2000
Review: I was very pleased with this author's first book. Being skeptical about new authors, I was pleasantly surprised with Gold Rush 2000. Ed Mitchell was able to hold my interest throughout the entire book. The story included attributes one sees everyday - corruption, greed, honesty, struggle, and love. I can't wait for Mitchell's next book!