In Side Slip: Cops, mobsters and murder all mixed up and no one knows where it will end. But smart, tough and lucky swirl together to push the action through the chilling story of both good guys and bad.

Side Slip: Suspense

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REVIEW: Side Slip

SIDE SLIP — A Sam Deland crime novel. Book III

Mike Fuller

Rating–5

Reviewed by G. Lloyd Helm

Side Slip is not an easy read, but well worth it. There is nothing predictable about this book, but it does have a sort of familiarity. It has everything a crime novel reader could want. There are decent plot lines, but it is character driven all the way, which is why it is sometimes hard to read. Fuller has made the characters so real that the reader sympathizes with them, even the bad guys. And he gives you a wide range of characters to choose from, Pennsylvania State Troopers, Male and Female, Florida Sheriffs, Male and Female, Farmers that used to be Navy SEALS, Dope seller/ murderers, crooked cop/burglars, and dogs.

Side Slip is worth the read.

EXCERPT: Side Slip

The search for a hidden key did not go well. All the usual spots came up empty. Dickie went down the steps to the garage but still no luck and then back up to where Ray stood next to the front door and sighed, “Well, ain’t no key. Let’s get it over with.”

The pry bar didn’t get it done. Ray had to whack the deadbolt a couple of hard hits with the sledge before the door flew inward. Dickie started in and stopped short. He smelled cinnamon. Ray almost ran into his back. Probably one a them plug in thingys.

Dickie held up his hand and then swiveled his head back and forth, trying to adjust to the slightly brighter light inside. Dickie heard nothing except the clicking of a wall clock somewhere. He shrugged and crossed to the kitchen door at the other side of the living room. Ray split to the right and did a quick walk through of the downstairs.

They met at the foot of the stairs and Ray pointed to a metal cabinet next to the cold fireplace, “I’ll start on that, give me the bar, eh?” It wasn’t a real gun safe, just a thin metal locker meant to keep kids away from the guns.

Dickie handed the pry bar to Ray and started up the stairs, shining the flashlight as he moved out of the light cast by the lamp. The cash and handguns were usually in the bedrooms. There seemed to be three upstairs and a bathroom. Dickie had to piss by now and stopped to go. He started and almost pissed on his hand when he realized there was a candle in a glass jar burning on the tub rim. That appeared to be the source of the cinnamon odor and was certainly the source of big trouble.

Ray was pounding loudly on the metal cabinet downstairs, and Dickie almost shit his pants as the figure of a small woman in a bathrobe passed by in the hall just outside of the bathroom. Dickie didn’t even zip up his jeans and stuck his head out of the bathroom and looked down the hall. The small woman was there leaning out to try to get a look at what was making all the noise downstairs. Dickie’s blood turned to ice when she turned toward him, and he saw the black automatic in her left hand.

She hadn’t seen him yet. She just stood there but then turned to go back toward the bedroom. He knew there was probably a phone there, and he couldn’t let her get to it. He tried to melt into the small space between the sink and the door, and as she moved past, he stepped in behind her and grabbed at the gun.

He missed. All that police training didn’t help. She yelped and turned the pistol toward him. It was not quite full dark in the hall and Dickie could see it happening and knew what was coming. Without hesitating, he swung the heavy flashlight and struck her across her left cheek. The blow emitted a sickening crunch as bone gave way to the heavy metal light. She staggered but did not go down. The gun was waving in the short space of air between them and Dickie expected it to spit flame and his death at any moment. He stepped into her and brought the flashlight down with all his strength on top of her head.

She followed the motion of the blow and crumpled onto the hallway floor. Dickie was breathing in gasps by now, but he could still hear Ray pounding metal on metal. He tried to hit the button on the flashlight to see if the woman was still conscious but his finger slipped across. The wetness puzzled him for a moment but he got the light to come on and as he played the beam down on the figure at his feet, he was surprised to see blood dripping off the end and falling through the shaft of light onto the pink bathrobe of the very dead woman beneath him.

ALSO BY MIKE FULLER

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BLURB

Sam Deland, promoted to lieutenant and in charge of a new state police major crimes unit, has to spread his manpower across half the state to go after the killers of a mob wife, a teenager and the horrific murders of the innocent children of Amish farmers. But his troubles soar to a higher level when the FBI and a Texas Ranger descend upon him chasing terrorists into the Pennsylvania hills.

From the arid scrub of south Texas to middle Tennessee and suburban Maryland, murderous terrorists carve a path of death and destruction on their mission to get to the usually serene Pennsylvania Poconos and a strike against sacred American values. Pursued by a determined Texas Ranger, who enlists the help of Sam and his troopers, it’s a race against time and the FBI to find the bad guys before they can kill again.

A story within a story within a story. Real characters, real drama, a bit of humor and what makes men and women men and women. Sam has to keep it all from falling apart around him and deal with the pressure from above, outside and his own inner doubts. Another thrilling Sam Deland Crime Novel by the author of Sink Rate, Rope Break and Side Slip.

REVIEW:

Ground Effect

By Mike Fuler

Five Stars

Review by Greg Didaleusky

Ground Effect (Sam Deland Crime Novel Book 4) by Mike Fuller takes the reader to the evil world of extreme Islamic terrorists, Ghali, a Middle Eastern, and Walid, a Libyan. The two cold-blooded terrorists crossed the southern border between Mexico and the United States without any difficulty, undetected by U.S. border patrol officers. The two terrorists, commit unmerciful murder and death of unsuspecting innocent people in their path across the United States. They were motivated by a plan instituted by higherup Islamic terrorist. The FBI, a Texas ranger, ATF agents, state troopers and Lieutenant Sam Deland and his four troopers join forces to apprehend the two terrorists. It’s a cat and mouse game with deadly consequences along the path of the two evil Arab speaking terrorist. The terrorist seemed to be one to two steps ahead of the pursuing United States law enforcement agencies. Can they catch the terrorist before they reach their final and deadly destination?

The cast of characters in the story are memorable and descriptive. Fuller has become a master of changing point of view from scene to scene, creating a sense that you’re sitting in a theatre and watching an action filled crime/suspense movie, and not wanting to get up from your seat until the end of the movie.

I recommend Ground Effect to readers of crime, suspense, thriller and mystery genre. I look forward to his next novel. Author of mystery/suspense novels.

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