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The Stopover: Tangled Business: Book Six: A 21st Century Historical Fiction
A Deposed Business Magnate's Tale of Ambition, Unpredictability, and Redemption
The sixth volume in this exciting Mid-West saga of ambition and corruption.
After grappling with a major setback, English tycoon Greg Mitchell, a courageous and self-reliant man, seeks refuge and a new opportunity in the USA. Confident in his abilities, Greg recognizes the groundbreaking opportunities unfolding with an emerging US company and is poised to seize them, knowing he must succeed or there will be no way back to big-time business for him.
But then Mitchell's journey takes an unexpected and intriguing turn.
When he accidentally lands in the peculiar town of Bamptonville in eastern Nebraska.
He learns that sometimes life in a small town can be unpredictable and disrupting.
“His disappointment welled into anger, not for Jess, but for the rednecks gaping at him, and those others in town who had cast him out as a pedophile on the strength of an unfounded malicious rumor. The refusal of these people to accept the wholesome evidence of his true purposes for staying irked Greg like a persistent itch. In a gesture of defiance, Greg acknowledged the rednecks’ presence with a splayed two-finger salute, then spun on his heel, showed them his back, and strolled into the stable with a swagger of casual indifference.”
Having navigated the waters with business sharks for years and heard numerous racketeer stories, he believes nothing and nobody can thwart his success.
He discovers, the hard way, that Bamptonville is no ordinary town.
What followed was a shattering blow that could change everything.
With time ticking away,
Will he be able to get back on his feet and reemerge?
The sixth volume in this exciting Mid-West saga of ambition and corruption.
After grappling with a major setback, English tycoon Greg Mitchell, a courageous and self-reliant man, seeks refuge and a new opportunity in the USA. Confident in his abilities, Greg recognizes the groundbreaking opportunities unfolding with an emerging US company and is poised to seize them, knowing he must succeed or there will be no way back to big-time business for him.
But then Mitchell's journey takes an unexpected and intriguing turn.
When he accidentally lands in the peculiar town of Bamptonville in eastern Nebraska.
He learns that sometimes life in a small town can be unpredictable and disrupting.
“His disappointment welled into anger, not for Jess, but for the rednecks gaping at him, and those others in town who had cast him out as a pedophile on the strength of an unfounded malicious rumor. The refusal of these people to accept the wholesome evidence of his true purposes for staying irked Greg like a persistent itch. In a gesture of defiance, Greg acknowledged the rednecks’ presence with a splayed two-finger salute, then spun on his heel, showed them his back, and strolled into the stable with a swagger of casual indifference.”
Having navigated the waters with business sharks for years and heard numerous racketeer stories, he believes nothing and nobody can thwart his success.
He discovers, the hard way, that Bamptonville is no ordinary town.
What followed was a shattering blow that could change everything.
With time ticking away,
Will he be able to get back on his feet and reemerge?
482 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 15, 2024
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April 9, 2024
Continuing the captivating story of Greg Mitchell.
Tangled Business is the sixth book in the ‘Stopover’ saga of deposed tycoon, Greg Mitchell’s fall from grace that landed him by accident in the backward town of Bamptonville in rural Nebraska.
And what a disentangled mix it is.
There is so much detail here that surely explains the lapse in time since the fifth volume- Dark Diversions- appeared on our bookshelves. Time needed for extensive research that encompasses : tax, law, planning, election and the multitude of everyday matters affecting citizens lives.
Thankfully, the problems with the first issue of the ebook version have been swiftly sorted out with its replacement by a new edition.
The book takes us more closely into the lives and activities of the many supporting characters that Greg Mitchell’s arrival has affected. Yet there is no doubt that Greg remains the principal character.
There are joyful moments tempered with stressful and less than happy moments. IT is the life of the town and county and the playing out of the power struggles that were brewing before Greg’s arrival that he appears to have been indirectly associated by blame, or directly affected by the majority of the townspeople’s repugnance of him.
Yet a bare handful of them remain as his stalwart supporters.
We are reminded that this is the year 2007. The year before the major financial collapse engineered through avarice by the introduction of the hateful sub-prime mortgage scam.
Noxious events that really happened, and are happening still in some places, are played out in the lives of the characters who come across as real in the writing.
Any town has good and bad citizens and Bamptonville is no different to any other. The activities of the town’s gangster cum pimp cum pornographer are there in the text , but tastefully reported such that none but the most sensitive of readers should be offended.
There are indications that the series is closing in toward its finale. This book ends on the promise of big changes afoot for Fishers, the green energy ‘power from poo’ enterprise that Greg and Wayne Fisher are planning open and offer participation to the public through a forthcoming IPO.
Will it happen, or won’t it? Will Greg survive? Will Jess fall into the machinations of the evil Gleitner? Will Fawley become mayor? And so many other questions remain, yet to be answered - in future volumes.
This book covers most genres other than speculative fiction. It is more like a soap opera in writing. Whatever label it actually carries - it is a great read.
Tangled Business is the sixth book in the ‘Stopover’ saga of deposed tycoon, Greg Mitchell’s fall from grace that landed him by accident in the backward town of Bamptonville in rural Nebraska.
And what a disentangled mix it is.
There is so much detail here that surely explains the lapse in time since the fifth volume- Dark Diversions- appeared on our bookshelves. Time needed for extensive research that encompasses : tax, law, planning, election and the multitude of everyday matters affecting citizens lives.
Thankfully, the problems with the first issue of the ebook version have been swiftly sorted out with its replacement by a new edition.
The book takes us more closely into the lives and activities of the many supporting characters that Greg Mitchell’s arrival has affected. Yet there is no doubt that Greg remains the principal character.
There are joyful moments tempered with stressful and less than happy moments. IT is the life of the town and county and the playing out of the power struggles that were brewing before Greg’s arrival that he appears to have been indirectly associated by blame, or directly affected by the majority of the townspeople’s repugnance of him.
Yet a bare handful of them remain as his stalwart supporters.
We are reminded that this is the year 2007. The year before the major financial collapse engineered through avarice by the introduction of the hateful sub-prime mortgage scam.
Noxious events that really happened, and are happening still in some places, are played out in the lives of the characters who come across as real in the writing.
Any town has good and bad citizens and Bamptonville is no different to any other. The activities of the town’s gangster cum pimp cum pornographer are there in the text , but tastefully reported such that none but the most sensitive of readers should be offended.
There are indications that the series is closing in toward its finale. This book ends on the promise of big changes afoot for Fishers, the green energy ‘power from poo’ enterprise that Greg and Wayne Fisher are planning open and offer participation to the public through a forthcoming IPO.
Will it happen, or won’t it? Will Greg survive? Will Jess fall into the machinations of the evil Gleitner? Will Fawley become mayor? And so many other questions remain, yet to be answered - in future volumes.
This book covers most genres other than speculative fiction. It is more like a soap opera in writing. Whatever label it actually carries - it is a great read.
April 18, 2024
With Tangled Business, author Peter Thomson progresses the saga of English businessman Greg Mitchell in a small US town, trying to use his expertise to help the townspeople improve their lives, while also searching for something in himself.
Bamptonville may be a small town, but the author has populated it with a full set of rounded, intriguing and diverse set of characters, each with their own aspirations, needs, hopes and fears. Some are good people, trying to make the best of a hard life; others are more than prepared to break the law and ride roughshod over the others to achieve their illegal goals. The large cast includes a judge, sheriff, mayor, local business owners, international corporations, truck stop and motel owners, porn film producers, high school students, poor farming families, financial market gurus, the unemployed and the poverty stricken. At the centre stands outsider Greg Mitchell, trying to bring hope and some prosperity while battling prejudice and bias, and, all the while, wanting to do the right thing, not just for the people, but on a wider scale too – environmental and socio-economic issues are addressed and harsh macro-financial realities are not shied away from.
But that’s not to say the hero is a sanctimonious or self-righteous do-gooder. He can be short-tempered, impatient, brusque, forthright and ruthless in pursuing his goals.
Peter Thomson’s saga (this is book six) is epic in scale and a masterpiece of tangling a web of plots with Greg Mitchell at its centre.
I hope book seven is in the pipeline, we need to find out how the ‘tangled business’ is untangled and whether Greg Mitchell achieves his aims, as well as fulfilling his own soul-searching.
Bamptonville may be a small town, but the author has populated it with a full set of rounded, intriguing and diverse set of characters, each with their own aspirations, needs, hopes and fears. Some are good people, trying to make the best of a hard life; others are more than prepared to break the law and ride roughshod over the others to achieve their illegal goals. The large cast includes a judge, sheriff, mayor, local business owners, international corporations, truck stop and motel owners, porn film producers, high school students, poor farming families, financial market gurus, the unemployed and the poverty stricken. At the centre stands outsider Greg Mitchell, trying to bring hope and some prosperity while battling prejudice and bias, and, all the while, wanting to do the right thing, not just for the people, but on a wider scale too – environmental and socio-economic issues are addressed and harsh macro-financial realities are not shied away from.
But that’s not to say the hero is a sanctimonious or self-righteous do-gooder. He can be short-tempered, impatient, brusque, forthright and ruthless in pursuing his goals.
Peter Thomson’s saga (this is book six) is epic in scale and a masterpiece of tangling a web of plots with Greg Mitchell at its centre.
I hope book seven is in the pipeline, we need to find out how the ‘tangled business’ is untangled and whether Greg Mitchell achieves his aims, as well as fulfilling his own soul-searching.
September 8, 2024
I am fortunate to have met Captain Peter Thomson, and his lovely wife too.
During this time I was able to hear many hilarious stories about his life, but when I found out that he was a published Author I knew I would have to read his books.
Oh boy, and i was disappointed. Book 1 of The Stopover series had me hooked, so much so that I couldn't put it down and finished the first day.
Peter then gave me a few more to get my teeth into, the characters are believable, and the books leave you wanting to know more about them all, and the eventual outcome .
I highly recommend all of Peters Thomson work, and look forward to Book 7.
During this time I was able to hear many hilarious stories about his life, but when I found out that he was a published Author I knew I would have to read his books.
Oh boy, and i was disappointed. Book 1 of The Stopover series had me hooked, so much so that I couldn't put it down and finished the first day.
Peter then gave me a few more to get my teeth into, the characters are believable, and the books leave you wanting to know more about them all, and the eventual outcome .
I highly recommend all of Peters Thomson work, and look forward to Book 7.
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