Dire Means

A City Held Hostage By a Vigilante's Twisted Moral Code


The sun-kissed shores of Santa Monica hide a city gripped by terror. Beneath the picturesque façade, a relentless vigilante known as "Pop" unleashes a reign of twisted justice, forcing the citizens to confront a deep moral dilemma. He embarks on an ingenious mission to end homelessness, but his methods are anything but virtuous. With an icy determination, he wages a gruesome campaign to force compassion from a callous world, effectively blurring the lines between justice and revenge. Random citizens who exhibit cruelty to the homeless are secretly recorded and then vanish—until their corpses soon reappear one by one, randomly deposited in the streets bearing a macabre message: Be kind or face the same horrifying fate. The city descends into panic, kindness transforms from a virtue into a flagrant, desperate act of self-preservation.


In this lethal game, where love is both a currency and a weapon, Mark Denny, an unassuming computer technician, becomes the unwitting pawn. With a risky opportunity to stop the carnage, Mark grapples with the weight of a city's fear-fueled generosity, knowing that his solution could cost him everything.


Dire Means is a dark thriller that probes the depths of human empathy, and the lengths one man will go to enforce a twisted brand of justice. Can love be extorted? You'll question the true meaning of kindness in the face of dire consequences.

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Dire Means

A City Held Hostage By a Vigilante's Twisted Moral Code


The sun-kissed shores of Santa Monica hide a city gripped by terror. Beneath the picturesque façade, a relentless vigilante known as "Pop" unleashes a reign of twisted justice, forcing the citizens to confront a deep moral dilemma. He embarks on an ingenious mission to end homelessness, but his methods are anything but virtuous. With an icy determination, he wages a gruesome campaign to force compassion from a callous world, effectively blurring the lines between justice and revenge. Random citizens who exhibit cruelty to the homeless are secretly recorded and then vanish—until their corpses soon reappear one by one, randomly deposited in the streets bearing a macabre message: Be kind or face the same horrifying fate. The city descends into panic, kindness transforms from a virtue into a flagrant, desperate act of self-preservation.


In this lethal game, where love is both a currency and a weapon, Mark Denny, an unassuming computer technician, becomes the unwitting pawn. With a risky opportunity to stop the carnage, Mark grapples with the weight of a city's fear-fueled generosity, knowing that his solution could cost him everything.


Dire Means is a dark thriller that probes the depths of human empathy, and the lengths one man will go to enforce a twisted brand of justice. Can love be extorted? You'll question the true meaning of kindness in the face of dire consequences.

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by Geoffrey Neil
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A City Held Hostage By a Vigilante's Twisted Moral Code


The sun-kissed shores of Santa Monica hide a city gripped by terror. Beneath the picturesque façade, a relentless vigilante known as "Pop" unleashes a reign of twisted justice, forcing the citizens to confront a deep moral dilemma. He embarks on an ingenious mission to end homelessness, but his methods are anything but virtuous. With an icy determination, he wages a gruesome campaign to force compassion from a callous world, effectively blurring the lines between justice and revenge. Random citizens who exhibit cruelty to the homeless are secretly recorded and then vanish—until their corpses soon reappear one by one, randomly deposited in the streets bearing a macabre message: Be kind or face the same horrifying fate. The city descends into panic, kindness transforms from a virtue into a flagrant, desperate act of self-preservation.


In this lethal game, where love is both a currency and a weapon, Mark Denny, an unassuming computer technician, becomes the unwitting pawn. With a risky opportunity to stop the carnage, Mark grapples with the weight of a city's fear-fueled generosity, knowing that his solution could cost him everything.


Dire Means is a dark thriller that probes the depths of human empathy, and the lengths one man will go to enforce a twisted brand of justice. Can love be extorted? You'll question the true meaning of kindness in the face of dire consequences.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940149015962
Publisher: Priorities Intact Publishing
Publication date: 10/12/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 314
File size: 644 KB

About the Author

Geoffrey Neil and his family live in Los Angeles with a useless, ungrateful fish that Geoffrey threatens at least once daily.

Writing novels has proven to be a grueling process for Geoffrey, but he can't break the obsession even though he likes sleep, TV and people more than keyboards. His stories favor disturbing implications over graphic depictions to provide a satisfying thrill with little blood --a tactic many readers find equally assaulting on the senses. Geoffrey's overactive imagination and genuine fear of almost everything are tools that help him write novels, but also get him wound tighter than an eight-day clock. His wife calls him the mayor of Stress Town.

Geoffrey is busy working on his fourth novel. Go try one of his books. It will make the poor guy feel better ... and that could save a pathetic fish.
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