Unquiet Mind

by Simon Gray

Overview

cayden callejon (pov) - two years since the murder of his girlfriend in trinidad. his disillusionment deepens when child suicide bombers, attack three schools in england, putting his brother’s youngest son in hospital with a coma.
sly williams, a miami based homeland security agent involved in the failed attempt to free his girlfriend, contacts cayden with news on maalik, the man responsible for his girlfriend’s murder.
three al-qaeda operatives arrive in the peruvian rainforest, to negotiate with the deranged drug smuggler who has developed a method of hypnotising local boys into suicide bombers. He sees himself as the new inca king, exacting vengeance on behalf of his ancestors by turning the west against their children.
cayden’s animus to the world results in a snap decision; he gets on a flight to miami.
quantico; the u.s. marines’ base in the united states, is targeted. The u.s. authorities become frantic. all leads, no matter how tenuous must be investigated. Assets are stretched - sly williams is forced to commit cayden to peru.
cayden meets jess babbacombe. a filmmaker and conservationist, younger than cayden by ten years. a mutual attraction develops, but cayden realises he can never move forward until he deals with the past. He has no choice but to follow sly’s plan to go after maalik.
however, sly’s plan is ill conceived. maalik is waiting for him. cayden survives by the timely intervention of the cia but the u.s. government have not given up on using cayden as bait and encourage his further involvement by pushing jess back into his life.
maalik’s people trafficking and smuggling skills enabled him to ship the children from the amazon. but he has double-crossed the insane Inca, and as cayden, sly and jess get closer, he is torn between a desire to escape or finally kill cayden.
cayden, controlling his fear, pushes onward. deep in the amazon jungle, his consuming desire to sluice away the detritus from his past, gives him the courage to finally kill maalik, in the process saving jess (who produces an internationally successful film) but unfortunately too late, to save sly.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032881704
Publisher:	Simon Gray
Publication date:	11/21/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	548 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Simon M. Gray’s multidimensional journey to the world of thrillers
What to do if your boss is telling you that he does not want you to work for him any longer? Is it a failure or just on the contrary, a reason for joy (overall, you hated him)? Simon M. Gray’s answer to a bad boss was to write a thriller.
After losing his job, Simon had very strong feelings about his former employer: “I was crushed, my plans devastated. I considered what type of person could be so indifferent to another’s fate and how many people’s lives had been ruined by others’ blinkered self interest. Was it really him or had business made him that way? So I started writing.” In this way, he turned from a trainee of a powerboat company into a writer. His adventure with literature started in 2008 with Blinkered, a thriller where one of the main characters is an owner of (what a surprise!) a powerboat business. Later Simon created Unquiet Mind, a sequel to Blinkered. His latest work Time Stops Ticking is about to be published.
At the time of writing Blinkered apart from his negative experience of working in the motor boat industry Simon had already behind him some practice as a yacht master. A journey - on the sea and across different continents - was an inseparable part of his work and his life. No wonder that travelling is also one of the themes of his books. This experienced traveller takes his readers on a journey to the exciting places that he has visited, from the United States to the Caribbean, from Peru (with the Amazon jungle and the Inca villages in the Andes Mountains) to Trinidad, China and Hong Kong.
Through his books, Simon also takes his readers along for the ride across current affairs. The background of the events which Simon’s characters are involved in consists of the most burning phenomena on the political and social global scene: an Al Qaeda-like terrorist organisation and its global network, China’s emergence as a superpower, an under-age suicide in Gaza, the glamorous but bloodthirsty world of business.
Although Simon’s novels are classified as thrillers they inspire readers to deeper reflection. They are also a journey into the world of human feelings in search for answers to everyday questions. Ways of dealing with life’s challenges, a reflection on loneliness experienced even in the group of seemingly close people and the importance of friendship are amongst the more serious themes he tackles.
Simon’s novels are more complex than one could expect from thrillers and reflect the author’s multifaceted nature. Born in South Africa, Simon currently lives in Arundel, UK, but has spent some time working in the US. He openly admits that his professional life has been “wobbly and bumpy” and that writing is much more to him than just another rung in his career’s ladder – it is the “paracetamol to the headache” of his past professional experiences.