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Chameleon War

Literary pop-cult fiction has a new hero! Disquieting in a way that will haunt readers long after they've finished reading, Chameleon War by Andrew Crone is a rare blend of subtle nuance and flagrant aggression. This altogether original debut tethers a dark comedy, a mystery and a love story.
The reader is taken on an unnerving ride from a tranquil seaside bar in Belize into the depths of an erotic and violent underworld in the jungles of Central America. When a novelist becomes embroiled in a secret battle between a drug lord and a renegade CIA agent, his fate slowly becomes indistinguishable from the obscure past of an international arms dealer and the amusing fictional constructs of his own mind. The divergent yet fiercely taut storylines deliver an incredibly satisfying journey into a surreal world governed by greed and deception where the stakes are high and the rules keep changing. Nothing for granted in this wild, mind-altering escapade that seems destined to end in tragedy.

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Product Details:
Author: Andrew Crone
Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: February 22, 2008
Language: English
ISBN: 1419683152
Package Length: 8.0 inches
Package Width: 5.25 inches
Package Height: 0.61 inches
Package Weight: 0.75 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 3 reviews
 
 

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Average Customer Review:4.5
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5A Thrilling Ride  Oct 17, 2008
This book knocked my hat off. It's an exciting vividly drawn chase through the Islands. The characters were compelling from the get-go and I was really drawn into the story. In fact, there were times when I simply could not put the book down. The plot twists and weaves in mind bending ways that not only grasp you by the ankles but tickle your funny bone.
All in all I highly recommend this.

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5Show us More!  Sep 30, 2008
I just got done reading Chameleon War and I was thoroughly impressed. I was expecting some light reading, but it turned out to be one of the best books I've read in a long time. Imagine the Coen Brothers channeling Tom Robbins--the settings, sounds and even the weather are almost characters themselves.

The protagonist, Hagen (is Crone a Wagnerian?) is just living the Caribbean drifter life, bumming around in the barrier islands of Belize, when his life gets entangled with some bad news people with their own strange hang-ups.

Without going into a lot of detail (and to not risk spoiling any of the awesome plot twists) I'll just say that it is ultimately a story of how the good things in life persist through everything. It's a totally unique story that left me grinning from ear to ear when I finished. Yet it also stuck in my mind for a few days while the magnitude soaked in. I'll definitely read this again to catch all the subtle detail that Crone scattered throughout. Please write more, Mr. Crone!

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4A Belizian adventure for the strong-stomached   Jul 14, 2008
I thoroughly enjoyed this story of a ported wanderer who finds a home on the pier of Caye Caulker, easily finding a home as an ex-pat local. The characters were well-developed and I felt a kinship with main character Hagen after developing a deep-seeded jealousy for his daily routine at the surfside bar. Before long he becomes entangled with a huge cartel, rougue CIA agents, and a strange woman who seduced me as well as Hagen.

Full of strange recountances of unadulterated experimentation, passion, and oddities that must be read to give any justice to their strangeness, this was a great summer getaway book!

Hopefully Crone will not keep us waiting for another adventure.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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