Real Deal Productions is proud to announce that S. S. Wilson’s novel, Tucker’s Monster, won the prestigious Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards, May 23 in New York.
The best action adventure novel I have read this year (of course it may be the only one as well).
Finished reading this book a few months ago. It is a fun fast read. S.S. Wilson is a screenwriter. He has written such films as Tremors and Short Circuit. He also wrote Ghost Dad but I have never seen that film. I have also never seen the film Heart and Souls either which stars Robert Downey,Jr.
This is his first novel. It is a period piece that takes place in the early 1900's. It follows a cattle rancher who searches the world trying to find a living dinosaur. It has lots of the fun elements that I enjoyed in the Tremors movies. The book is a page turner that makes it hard to put down. It goes from one adventure to the next and he really captures the time period with lots of details.
The book follows Harold B Tucker, kinda a Burt Gummer type(if you know Tremors and If you don't what is wrong with you) at least as far as guns go. He's a man who knows what he wants and isn't afraid to go after it. Of course his obsession in trying to find a living dinosaur leads him to make some questionable decisions, but then flawed characters are the most interesting.
I'll stop there. No spoilers!
If you are looking for a fun, fiction book I recommend Tucker's Monster.
\I should put in the disclaimer that I know S.S. Wilson. We met on the set of Tremors 4. He is a great guy, who I ended up marrying. Well he has been a great guy so far.
Oh, and if you want to be considered arealdeal,you must have been born a "Deal"
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