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A Mighty Fortress (Milo Porter Mystery Series Book 1) Kindle Edition
A mafia murder. A sex tape scandal. Solving the case will take nothing short of a miracle…
Iraq War veteran Milo Porter thought he finally had a handle on his demons. And his new P.I. gig seems to be paying off, until a subpoena delivery for a Tampa mobster’s grandson comes back to bite him. When the recipient takes a bullet in the head, Milo is pegged for the prime suspect… and the top of the mafia’s kill list.
Determined to clear his name, he follows the clues to a powerful politician’s sex tape and the last person who saw the victim alive—a high-class prostitute who claims she was visited by an angel. But with the mafia breathing down one side of his neck and dirty cops down the other, he’s got little time to puzzle out how her heavenly encounter ties in to his own mystifying visions.
When truth twists with hallucinations, can he find the killer and keep a crook out of public office before he’s brought down by enemies on both sides?
A Mighty Fortress is the first book in the gritty Milo Porter Christian mystery series. If you like damaged heroes, criminal underworlds, and a dash of the miraculous, then you’ll love S.D. Thames’ suspenseful thriller.
Buy A Mighty Fortress to keep the faith with a gripping Christian mystery today!
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 1, 2016
- File size1468 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B01FMWET52
- Publisher : (July 1, 2016)
- Publication date : July 1, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 1468 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 383 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,172,813 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,879 in Suspense Action Fiction
- #5,931 in Men's Adventure Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #6,124 in Men's Adventure Fiction (Books)
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About the author
S.D. Thames is the author of Foreclosure: A Novel, A Mighty Fortress, and other works of crime fiction exploring the dark side of the Sunshine State. Born in Dayton, Ohio, S.D. grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati before his family relocated to Florida’s gulf coast, where he blossomed as a rock guitarist and all around miscreant. He eventually graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in English and law. Since 2004, he's practiced law in Tampa, Florida, where he lives with his wife, daughter, two dogs, and six guitars.
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Milo Porter is a Gulf War veteran suffering from PTSD. He makes his living as a private investigator and process server, working for lawyers in the Tampa area. When not working, he lets off steam doing power lifting at a gym owned by a friend, whose sister is Milo’s girlfriend. He sees a counselor for his insomnia and flashback dreams, but what he really enjoys is taking risks.
One Sunday he’s offered an unreasonable sum to do a special subpoena service on a guy connected to the mob. He figures a way to accomplish this and get out safely, but he still gets ambushed and kidnapped by the target and his henchmen later that night. But that’s the best part, as far as Milo’s concerned. By the end of the night somebody has been murdered.
Milo is compelled to get involved in the investigation, trying to locate a beautiful prostitute whose life is in danger. He encounters crooked politicians, crooked cops, pornographers, an alcoholic ex-judge, a preacher who’s lost his faith, and – a supernatural being. And that’s only the beginning of the weirdness.
The wonderful thing is that author S. D. Thames makes the whole thing work. His prose isn’t fancy, but it’s solid and compelling, highly professional in quality. The characters are interesting, and they often surprise us. Milo himself is a fascinating study.
I found A Mighty Fortress a delight, a little reminiscent of John D. MacDonald in style. I’m reading a previous novella by the author now, and look forward to more Milo Porter books when they come out. Well done. Not for the kids, but for anyone else, I highly recommend it.
Pretty soon he is sucked into something big, very big. Milo will need God's help to make it though this. It winds up with twists and some turns. The ending is a big surprise, which will also lead to more books in this series.
My copy came from Net Galley. I have left this review because I wanted to do so. My thoughts and opinions are my very own.
The summons isn’t easy to deliver, but Milo manages. And then, the mobster’s kin is found dead, and his grandfather wants someone’s head—Milo’s will do. As he tries to find out who did the killing and why, he learns that the only crooks worse than the mob are the police.
A Mighty Fortress by S. D. Thames is the first book in the Milo Porter mystery series, and a promising start it is. The lead character has flaws, like any good PI, but is principled and never gives an inch where those principles are concerned. The author has provided an interesting supporting cast of characters; a girlfriend who can lift more weight than the hero, and a sidekick who is a cable guy. The setting, Florida’s vacationland, is painted in stark colors—this is not ‘Miami Vice’—and the action moves at a varied pace, sometimes slow and languid like the flight of a heron over a placid pool, and sometimes as fast as the strike of a Timber rattler.
This series is going places.