THE FROG’S LAST JUMP
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The plight of women vs. the power of women.
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A fascinating spy story that unintentionally turned into a ‘human rights story.’
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A fascinating ‘spy’ story into which the author has embedded women who find themselves involuntarily trafficked in the hideous ‘sex-slave’ trade. Some of these women voluntarily become the conduit as well as the enablers for the main character “Adam,’ a college student, in his search for a treacherous and scoundrelly traitor to the ‘agency’ and then after the women help him find the traitor, help him carry out an assassination. Not withstanding that Adam is, himself, in constant danger of being ‘wasted.’ The story begins in Ohio State U. and progresses to Germany where Adam finds himself engulfed in an earthy, erotic, intriguing, romantic, espionage ring whose female members, including assassins, have ‘World War II’ emotional induced disorders that forever direct their internal sexual desires inwards to their own kind and emotional disorders that turn their long ago and far away normal love for mankind into a venomous dislike for men. The story moves from Germany back to Kent State U. where Adam will assume a new name and begin another odyssey. A ´frightening´ realistic story.
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Dear Al
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It was so funny that you mentioned that one of the Frog’s Last Jump readers got hungry reading the Manuscript. I have been obsessing over pea soup with extra meat flavor ever since I read it. Between that and the herring at the “Party’….a tasty read, I was already well-familiar with the delights of German potato salad and sausages, comfort food. But, I’m sorry I’ve stopped to smell the roses again. On with my task: my opinion on scripting the characters, no more dallying. I think that what you’ve created here is a book with intriguing story lines that one never tires of reading again and again because they are so real. I definitely had fun scripting the characters, and I mean some are truly ‘characters.’ (Who is pulling one over on whom?....and are you sure you know the answer?) The more I read, the deeper I find myself inside the soul, inside the essence of the book, and thusly, the more I love Henrique (to my surprise) and Jacque (because he is just so comical). I love Henrique’s mysterious aura. In my mind’s eye, he resembles Claude Rains in Victor Laszlo’s clothing. While Jacque, on the other hand, is the complete opposite of Henrique—he cannot shut up and his appearance is disheveled, he is the court jester in a hobo’s ‘kit.’ Jacque’s babbling soliloquy, including several jabs at Adam’s expense, is what endears him the most. Hilarious! As for women, Delores is one of my favorites. I love her unusual fantasy confession to Adam and her boldness in begging his assistance in fulfilling it—it shows me how gloriously comfortable she must be in her skin. Furthering that, it mentions the emotional beating she takes from being a Jewess in Germany and to add insult to injury, among Mid-easterners. And then there is my other favorite female—Shadow, ‘well now there’s a real woman….’ Her name is Shadow, but, although it is not poetic enough, she could have been named ‘stealth.’ She hangs around in the ‘shadowy world of intrigue’ having a beer here and a dalliance there through two thirds of the story, just waiting for her cue to step on stage and deliver the K.O. blow to ‘evil.’ She and her pet snake “Ebony” take care of the bad guys before they can ‘waste’ Adam. Ebony incidentally is the only snake I’ve met that paces back and forth in her cage when she’s having a bad ‘hair’ day….I won’t tell them the why or how of the story, they’ve got to find out for themselves….! Apart from the many, many well-crafted scenes that truly make me feel like I was an invisible observer in the room—the teat for any read
