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Maximum Impact

Jack Henderson wrote a book, about one of the most iconic terrorist attacks in history, and bastardised it into fiction whilst shoe-horning liberal doses of paranoia and conspiracy into a tight plot and slightly obscured attack on American foreign policy. Probably not surprising then that no publisher would touch it, even in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech.

So Henderson self published it - on the internet. Long story short, the book was so phenomenally successful in its relatively tiny format that someone sat up and took notice - leading to the eventual publishing of the novel in actual paper and ink format.

And its a cracking book - split roughly into three (no not the start, middle and end smartass) the book takes place over weeks, and feels like it takes place in hours. The cover suggests its like “24 meets Tom Clancy” and whilst it maintains the pace and tension eponymous of 24 there are no stand Clancy plot devices here - the novel lurches unpredictably from start to finish.

A book that’s easy to pick up and impossible to put down, Maximum Impact is a great book and better than 90% of the paperbacks in the bestseller charts that didn’t need to struggle anywhere near as much to get published.

Filed by Kieran at August 27th, 2008 under Books