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Review: Beyond Fate is part mystery, part suspense, and part thriller. It tells the story of Tim Storey, a teacher from Port Washington, Wisconsin, who suddenly receives intuitive information that he believes may lead to the whereabouts of four people who have mysteriously disappeared:- A college coed fails to return to her home in Green Bay where her car is later found abandoned in a parking lot.
- A commercial fishing boat out of Port Washington, manned by three men, fails to return to port on a clear day in December after fishing on Lake Michigan. Tim becomes obsessed with the information he seems to have been chosen to receive that may be connected to the disappearances and the mysterious purpose of a strange antenna on the Clam Lake military base in Northern Wisconsin. Equally mysterious is Tim's relationship with Petra, a young waitress in Port Washington, who seems drawn to Tim's new-found psychic ability.
Unsure if the random intuitive clues refer to the missing coed or the fishing boat, Tim begins an investigation of both events that leads him to the upper peninsula of Michigan and several startling discoveries. He meets the enigmatic Palmer, a conspiracy theorist and paranormal investigator who teams with him to solve the riddle of the missing and expose a truth deeper than fate itself. Beyond Fate is the story of one man's redemption from his own dark past with all the threads that stitch a life together. Beyond Fate is set throughout the state of Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan. The beauty and the vastness of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, and the Chequamegon National Forest add to the setting. The main character of Beyond Fate is Time Storey, a junior high school science teacher living in Port Washington, Wisconsin. He leads a solitary existence with only vague childhood memories of lost parents. In his journey Tim will meet and team with Palmer, an enigmatic conspiracy theorist and paranormal investigator whose efforts seem to be funded by some clandestine source. At a time when the search for truth is working to pull him away from Port Washington, Tim meets Petra, an alluring young waitress with an extraordinary knowledge of Tim's budding psychic ability and a force that drives him on. It is that psychic ability that draws Tim to a fourth character and member of the search team who was seemingly stuck in a world within our world.
John Albion has had a successful career in business as a manager, trainer, consultant and a champion of change. He has published business leadership articles for The CEO Refresher (www.refresher.com) and has been a contributor to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business section. This is John's first novel and he is actively working on a second, a murder mystery. John resides in Cedarburg, WI. The concept for Beyond Fate, while fictional, came from similar actual disappearances in Wisconsin for which John has dedicated this book to their memories.
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Summary: Author's Summary
Review: Beyond Fate is part mystery, part suspense, and part thriller. It tells the story of Tim Storey, a teacher from Port Washington, Wisconsin, who suddenly receives intuitive information that he believes may lead to the whereabouts of four people who have mysteriously disappeared: - A college coed fails to return to her home in Green Bay where her car is later found abandoned in a parking lot.
- A commercial fishing boat out of Port Washington, manned by three men, fails to return to port on a clear day in December after fishing on Lake Michigan. Tim becomes obsessed with the information he seems to have been chosen to receive that may be connected to the disappearances and the mysterious purpose of a strange antenna on the Clam Lake military base in Northern Wisconsin. Equally mysterious is Tim's relationship with Petra, a young waitress in Port Washington, who seems drawn to Tim's new-found psychic ability.
Unsure if the random intuitive clues refer to the missing coed or the fishing boat, Tim begins an investigation of both events that leads him to the upper peninsula of Michigan and several startling discoveries. He meets the enigmatic Palmer, a conspiracy theorist and paranormal investigator who teams with him to solve the riddle of the missing and expose a truth deeper than fate itself. Beyond Fate is the story of one man's redemption from his own dark past with all the threads that stitch a life together. Beyond Fate is set throughout the state of Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan. The beauty and the vastness of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, and the Chequamegon National Forest add to the setting. The main character of Beyond Fate is Time Storey, a junior high school science teacher living in Port Washington, Wisconsin. He leads a solitary existence with only vague childhood memories of lost parents. In his journey Tim will meet and team with Palmer, an enigmatic conspiracy theorist and paranormal investigator whose efforts seem to be funded by some clandestine source. At a time when the search for truth is working to pull him away from Port Washington, Tim meets Petra, an alluring young waitress with an extraordinary knowledge of Tim's budding psychic ability and a force that drives him on. It is that psychic ability that draws Tim to a fourth character and member of the search team who was seemingly stuck in a world within our world.
John Albion has had a successful career in business as a manager, trainer, consultant and a champion of change. He has published business leadership articles for The CEO Refresher (www.refresher.com) and has been a contributor to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business section. This is John's first novel and he is actively working on a second, a murder mystery. John resides in Cedarburg, WI. The concept for Beyond Fate, while fictional, came from similar actual disappearances in Wisconsin for which John has dedicated this book to their memories.
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Summary: Beyond Fate
Review: In Beyond Fate, John Albion takes us into a world of exciting possiblities. Missing persons and UFO's combine to make this a compelling story, with plot twists around every corner. Make a pot of coffee, curl up in a comfy chair, and spend a winter's day following the strange and thought-provoking turns you'll find in this book.
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Summary: Beyond Fate
Review: In Beyond Fate, John Albion takes us into a world of exciting possiblities. Missing persons and UFO's combine to make this a compelling story, with plot twists around every corner. Make a pot of coffee, curl up in a comfy chair, and spend a winter's day following the strange and thought-provoking turns you'll find in this book.
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Summary: Finally, A Mystery in the Great Lakes Area!
Review: John B. Albion has taken on the significant challenge of conjecture for unexplained disappearances of four people in his first thriller/mystery novel, Beyond Fate.
With this novel, Albion leads the reader along a new avenue for thrillers. His setting involves Wisconsin, mainly Milwaukee, Port Washington, and northern Wisconsin and Michigan. The Midwest has found its outlet as an intriguing location through this novel. Rather than guns and sophisticated technology, Albion uses ESP and intuition as tools against the "bad guys." This is refreshing and an opening to inform the readers of these true God-given mysteries of an individual.
The main character, Tim Storey (a potential cousin for DeKalb's Dr. Storey?), is a modest Port Washington teacher, who receives intuitive information concerning four missing people: a college student and three commercial fishermen. With his sudden visions, Tom becomes obsessive to find these people.
The winding plot takes the reader to a Clam Lake military base in northern Wisconsin where Storey is captured and interrogated. He finds himself involved in a conspiracy, meeting an enigmatic character named Palmer, who teams with Storey to solve the riddle of missing persons. The plot takes on a Mission Impossible flavor with an unknown benefactor to answer monetary problems. After reading Beyond Fate, one will look at the wandering, homeless people and wonder if they, too, have visited Clam Lake.
As a reader, I wanted to continue with the novel to learn what lay ahead for Tim Storey. As a writer, I see the novel as a tremendous accomplishment for John B. Albion. Though the writing maturity is just above average, that will improve because Albion is dedicated to his profession. As an editor, I see the first half of the novel contains more intensity and stronger writing than the last half. However, those writing blips are Albion's stepping stones to knowledge all novelists must tread upon. And I foresee Albion writing clearer, crisper future novels.
I highly suggest mystery lovers purchase Beyond Fate. It's a good read.
Albion drew his plot from two unexplained Wisconsin disappearances in 1998. He includes an epilogue about these. Amber Wilde, the college student, still remains unfound, while the other, a commercial fishing boat operating out of Port Washington, Wisconsin, was eventually located on June 18, 2000, at the bottom of Lake Michigan. All crew members were presumed dead.
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Summary: great book
Review: john has proved himself as an excellent story teller. this book keeps the reader hooked until the last page. i would and will strongly recommend this book to everyone i know!
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