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Love stories that are also a thriller! Thrillers that are also a love story! A hybrid: each element could stand alone—but belong together!
FEAR
Imagine being travel-phobic, almost unable to get onto an Amtrak train, and suddenly you’re the only human able to prevent a bomb from being exploded by a terrorist standing two feet away! Can you stop him or will you freeze as you did boarding the train?
And then what if the FBI suspects you’re one of the terrorists, forcing you to remain involved in what terrifies you, to search out that missing man who can both exonerate you and reveal the real mystery—a person whom the authorities don’t believe even exists.
You’ve tried to hide your fearful self your whole life. And whom do you meet in the middle of this humiliating crisis – the women of your dreams. Don Fenn explores the horror of an ordinary person whose deepest fears, and his shame of them are laid bare, challenged beyond his wildest imagination. Fenn reveals the multi-layered complexity of this awesome emotion in all of its dimensions, in both terror and in love. In such hazard can love even happen, let alone flourish or survive? Will love undermine or support what must be done?
Damian Waverly is an insurance salesman, a seller of security who can’t even arrange his own. He meets Rachel Brooks, a psychotherapist who struggles with grief over the death of a very special person. Yet she brings Damian recognition, kindness and understanding. But can he share his shameful fears with someone else for the first time in his life? And can she tolerate in her condition the wild uncontrolled experiences of his dangerous adventure to clear his name? Will she be able to accept and understand the bizarre extents to which he goes, both to hold onto her and to remove a death sentence from his own life?
This romantic thriller follows the path of the Amtrak train between Denver, Colorado and the Bay Area, California where both protagonists live and work. It partakes of the threat of terrorist attack, exploring the motives of terrorists from other countries as well as those who have grown up as Americans. But most of all it reveals the ways in which fear undermines the integrity of ordinary people required by life to do extraordinary things—made possible by the power of love fully developed as a romantic story along side of this mystery-thriller.
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IDENTITY THEFT
Imagine walking through a casino where you’re been many times before. It’s a place where you meet your boss, who happens to like gambling too much. Suddenly bullets start flying everywhere! You crash to the floor as glass shatters all around, shards pelting your body. You’re terrified you might not live a moment longer!
But then suppose you are mistaken for one of the shooters, and arrested for robbery! Branded as a criminal everything you say becomes implicitly bogus. Because of the seriousness of the charges against you your company insists upon an indefinite separation, removing you from your professional identity as a high level corporate executive. Such is the fate of the principle protagonist of Identity Theft.
Already three kinds of crisis have shattered his man’s legitimacy and confidence, the fear of dying at any moment, the fear of sudden and precipitous loss of credibility, and the fear and shame of complete helplessness, unable to fight back without further compromising his already precarious position.
Identity Theft expresses the view that it could happen to any one of us at any time. Each person’s identity has many complicated parts – what we are to the ones we love, to the children we nurture, whether they make us feel like good parents, how work satisfies our desire for accomplishment, how much money have we’ve got invested, how fulfilling has our life proven to be, how we feel about ourselves when we’re alone. Shatter the structure of that very complicated special entity and life has thrown us outside of ourselves. It’s called Identity Theft and it comes in many forms.
Drake Wentworth must find a way to resurrect his reputation as an extremely talented and reliable person. But that means to rebuild something already achieved. He hasn’t the slightest idea of how to proceed. He’s always had it. How can he recreate something perhaps forever lost?
Enter the most unlikely woman one could imagine to connect to this ex-corporate scion – Rebecca, a politically radical firebrand who gets herself arrested on behalf of the dispossessed and the homeless—the environment in which she’s grown up. They meet as both are released from jail. Is it possible that she could include among her clients one who symbolizes everything she hates? How could these two humans possibly attract each other?
Such are the unlikely imponderables of this gripping story of intrigue, terror and love.
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AMBIGUITY
Drama…murder…love…all come together in this gripping San Francisco psycho-thriller. Don Fenn weaves a tale of intrigue—part mystery, part romance—that will keep you up into the early hours of the morning.
The intense relationship between Rhett, Susan and Rhona sizzles with steamy, hot sex…creating a deep psychological understanding of how people cope in a life-threatening crisis. A story that stays with you—profound, simple, moving, very suspenseful, but most of all perceptive.
In an effort to save Susan from being kidnapped, Rhett and Rhona race to intercept, only to be cornered in Susan’s empty house by several men with automatic weapons. Barely escaping by the resourcefulness of Rhett, a children’s storywriter, but also a man by friendship connected to the underworld, they are chased, and then chase the kidnappers to a San Francisco mansion. In every sense the Bay Area fog becomes a character. You will think twice the next time you drive through the mist over the Golden Gate Bridge into the Marin headlands.
What follows is a series of burglaries, entrapments, capturings and torturings that strain the survival of life, as well as the tendrils of love and friendship that hold these three together.
The villain, John Venable, is an enormously talented and politically powerful man, who to protect and facilitate the vast information empire he has constructed has corrupted several policemen—recalling the police corruption of the 1980’s in San Francisco. He is almost invulnerable…except to the simplest of moves.
The climax and its resolution is unusual and unexpected, reflecting that when love is truly present it can reveal itself vividly even through the factual testimony of a murder trial. This is a novel about love as much as it is a novel about danger and thrill. Love propels it, interrupts it, and sometimes betrays it. This is two novels in one a romantic story and a life-threatening thriller-mystery.
Yet how does a harmless children’s story become reason to kill?
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LOVE VS. FEAR
The traditional competitor with love is hate. But hate and its destructive aggression is a charade masquerading as a villain—a mask behind which fear hides and dominates. Those who hate do so out of cynicism that comes from, to a child, terrifying abuse. That produces hate’s envious, secretly helpless attempt at invulnerability—unbending mistrust. Hate tries hard to be huge and dreadful, while fear, the real villain smiles with satisfaction at being so well concealed. What happens when fear prompted by terrorism and torture intrudes, overcoming love with its treacherous demands? In Love Vs Fear this crisis happens not just between two people deeply in love, but also between two loving female friends, between a mother and daughter, a father and son, and two middle-aged men who have been lifetime companions. In the unfolding of this most fundamental competition, all are caught up in the terrorism. Which will prevail, fear or love? Is fear too big for love to master? Can the threat of death make love run for cover, or even destroy it?
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copyright© 2007, 2008 Don Fenn. All rights reserved.
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