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August 2006
A Murder Mystery with a Twist
A dying lover. A brutal murder. A New Jersey
ex-cop and martial arts master fights to solve the mysteries
of both in G. D. Baum’s Point and Shoot
FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY – Set in Fort Lee,
New Jersey, a city where the Korean immigrant community
has gained both financial and political footholds, G.D.
Baum’s worthy first novel, Point and Shoot, is definitely
a murder mystery with a twist—of martial arts.
Hired as a bodyguard to protect the daughter
of a Korean drug lord, during a meeting with the drug lord’s
arch rival, Lock Tourmaline finds himself betrayed when
the drug lord is assassinated. The hit may or may not have
been instigated by either the latter’s offspring,
rival gang members or corrupt officers of the Police Department.
One of those officers is dating Lock’s
ex-wife. Lock struggles to extricate her from a dangerous
entanglement with both her corrupt lover and an addiction
to cocaine. In the midst of all this, the woman he now loves
is slowly succumbing to terminal cancer, and her fifteen-year-old
daughter is sinking more deeply into suicidal depression.
Moreover, everyone seems to want a piece of Lock, from Heung’s
men, who are stalking him, to the cops who seem poised to
either help or betray him.
Fortunately Baum is adept at his craft, never
allowing the plot to grow maudlin or the pace to falter.
Baum’s ear is also finely tuned to the proper balance
of the spiritual inner world of martial arts as taught by
Lock’s mysterious mentor, a man known only as Grandfather,
with the thumping heartbeat of this tautly unfolding murder
mystery. Most notably, the novel’s carefully choreographed
martial arts fight scenes read like some of the best stop-frame
action Chandler himself produced.
For more information or for a free review
copy, please contact the author at gdbaum100@yahoo.com.
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About the Author
G.D. Baum is a graduate of the Sarah Lawrence Writing Program.
He has achieved a black belt in Shaolin Kempo Karate, and
was ranked sixth in the United States in forms for his Division
by the NASKA (North American Sport Karate Association).
In his spare time, he teaches Tai Chi Chuan.
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