The Note: A Reality Based Metaphysical Suspense Thriller - Hardcover

Cromwell, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1460246632 ISBN 13: 9781460246634

Publisher: FriesenPress, 2015

Synopsis

Bertrand is a street musician who's often found screaming on the boulevards and squares of Amsterdam. Most chose to ignore him...that is, until his synapses line up giving him the ability to make music that is divined from the ether. It's been said that music is one of the only activities that activates, stimulates, and uses the entire brain. Could Bertrand's music be a conduit to our shared celestial mind-the medium bridging the conscious to the unconscious world? Many of the Gypsies and Street-people who follow him like a God believe so.

What they don't know, is that Bertrand was a child prodigy back in the U.S., a child of wealthy New Yorkers with an inheritance that others want to take charge of. They want him back on his meds that control his schizophrenia and render him docile, meds that close the door to his musical genius...and his ability to touch others to the very core of their being.

Christopher takes you into the depths of Bertrand's world, a world sizzling with music and the characters on the fringe that make it on its most primal level. And alternately, into the world of those that could care less, whose only motivation is money....

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Cromwell
Cromwell is a Canadian of African descent, bornin Halifax Nova Scotia and brought up in small mining community in NorthernOntario, Canada.  His family has been inCanada since mid 1700 coming to Canada via the Underground Railroad to freedomin the Annapolis valley in Nova Scotia.His father came from a family of thirteen that had a strong tradition oforal story telling.  Chris believes thisis where his talent comes from.  He hadthe ability early in life and excelled in script writing while studyingbroadcast arts at Fanshaw College in London, Ontario. 
He worked in communications briefly beforemigrating into business, starting in sales and moving into management and salesmanagement, working in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta.  Regardless of what Chris was doing he alwayswrote, writing everything from songs to poems, and ultimately his first novel,Melody's Fire, based on some of his travels in Canada's far north.  Now retired and living in the Okanogan Valleyin BC, Canada, Cromwell intends to follow his passion and has put out hissecond novel, The Note, and has two more completed, The Mangled Man and TheCrabman.  Watch for them, they'll be outsoon.    

Review

ClarionReview Gives, The Note, 4 out of 5 stars
The Note, by Christopher Cromwell
The Note reads smoothly and effortlessly. The movement between backstory andpresent action is seamless. Even in quiet, reflective scenes, the thriller hasa sinister edge that helps to power the story forward. Jenin is an intriguingfoil to Bertrand, and the two characters closest to Hiram battle in subtle waysthroughout the tense novel. The focus shifts continually between the differentcharacters. Cromwell, instead of centering his novel on the aftermath ofHiram's death, takes the unusual option of depicting the machinations of Jeninas Hiram is ill, adding another layer of tension to the work. 
The Note is a slow-building, tense, and multilayered work that moves betweencontinents and perspectives, all while maintaining its focus on the dynamics ofone particular unusual family. The book will appeal to thriller fans who areinterested in well-drawn characters and taut tales with just a tinge of thesupernatural.
STEPHANIEBUCKLIN

About this edition

• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1460246632
• ISBN 13: 9781460246634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330