The novel ‘Reversal Point’, a semi-finalist entry in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, was launched this week in Wellington by its author, Tom Devine.
Tom said, “It was a thrill to get into the top fifteen per cent of award entries from emerging fiction writers worldwide, and I was happy to take up the ABNA offer of publication in the United States.”
The Amazon Top Reviewer praised the novel as “well crafted”. He commented, “I just see the pictures created in my mind, an excellent effect.”
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The character, James Vallence, is a struggling artist living in a rundown villa in the South of France. In a plot the Amazon Top Reviewer described as, “action from the beginning” a young woman shows up at James' door and later reveals she is Kim Spenser, an American heiress, the subject of a well-publicised search. When masked intruders kidnap Kim, James is shot. The story shifts to Paris where James, with few leads to Kim’s fate, goes to look for her.
The Amazon Top Reviewer remarked that the novel “could easily be transformed into a movie script.”
Thomas (Wayne) Devine is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN) Incorporated. He was educated at Marlborough College and Waikato University. A published poet in his teens, ‘Reversal Point’ is his first novel and is now available in paperback from Amazon.com and as an e-book from CreateSpace.com.
