Join Allan Leverone, author of the thriller, Parallax View, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 - June 28 on his third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
ABOUT ALLAN LEVERONE
Allan Leverone is the author of five novels, including the Amazon Top 25 overall paid bestselling thriller, THE LONELY MILE. He is a 2012 Derringer Award winner for excellence in short mystery fiction, as well as a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee. Allan lives in Londonderry, NH with his wife and family, and a cat who has used up eight lives.
Visit his website at www.allanleverone.com.
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ABOUT PARALLAX VIEW
It’s late in the Cold War, and the Soviet Union is slowly disintegrating.
In the midst of this uncertainty and upheaval, a mysterious group of KGB officials has concocted a desperate plan in an attempt to maintain power.
And one beautiful young CIA operative is all that stands between this shadowy cabal and the outbreak of World War Three.
Spring, 1987. CIA Special Operations agent Tracie Tanner is tasked with what should be a relatively straightforward mission: deliver a secret communique from Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
After smuggling the document out of East Germany, Tracie believes she is in the clear. She's wrong. There are shadowy forces at work, influential people who will stop at nothing to prevent the explosive information contained in the letter from reaching the White House.
Soon, Tanner is knee-deep in airplane crashes and murder, paired up with a young Maine air traffic controller and on the run for their lives, unsure who she can trust at CIA, but committed to completing her mission, no matter the cost.
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Parallax View Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule
Monday, May 6 - Book reviewed at Author Rebecca Graf
Wednesday, May 8 - Interviewed at Examiner
Thursday, May 9 -Book featured at Authors and Readers Book Corner
Monday, May 13 - Interviewed at Literal Exposure
Wednesday, May 15 - Guest blogging at Janna Shay
Thursday, May 16 - Guest blogging at The Book Connection
Monday, May 20 - Book reviewed at Vic's Media Room
Tuesday, May 21 - Guest blogging at My Cozie Corner
Wednesday, May 22 - Interviewed at Digital Journal
Thursday, May 23 - Book reviewed at Miki's Hope
Monday, May 27 - Guest blogging at Rainy Day Reviews
Wednesday, May 29 - Book feature at Book Lover Stop
Friday, May 31 - Interviewed at Review From Here
Wednesday, June 5 - Interviewed at I'm Shelfish
Monday, June 10 - Book reviewed at Celtic Lady's Reviews
Monday, June 10 - Book featured at Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews
Tuesday, June 11 -Book reviewed at Mary's Cup of Tea
Thursday, June 13 - Interviewed at Broowaha
Monday, June 17 - Book Featured at Community Book Stop
Tuesday, June 18 - Guest blogging at Allvoices
Wednesday, June 19 - Guest blogging at The Writer's Life
Thursday, June 20 - 1st Chapter Reveal at Gina's Library
Friday, June 21 - First Chapter revealed at Rainy Day Reviews
Monday, June 24 - Book reviewed at Create with Joy
Tuesday, June 25 - Book reviewed at Queen of All She Reads
Wednesday, June 26 - Book reviewed at Review From Here
Wednesday, June 26 - Book featured at Confessions of a Reader
Thursday, June 27 - Book featured at My Cozie Corner
Thursday, June 27 - Book reviewed at My Reading Table
Friday, June 28 - Book reviewed at My Book Retreat
Friday, June 28 - Book reviewed at Must Read Faster
Excerpt:
The car sped around a corner, and a couple of hundred yards away Tracie could see the control tower and FAA base building. She slowed slightly, trying to come up with some kind of action plan, when a side window in the base building shattered. The glass exploded outward as a metal folding chair flew through the window, followed a heartbeat later by a tumbling body. It looked like Shane Rowley.
He dived through the window and landed on top of the chair, then rolled onto his back and looked up at the window. A second man appeared. The man was older, and as he tried to climb out, his body began to stutter as bullets ripped into him from behind, and then he slumped across the frame.
Shane scrambled to his feet and ran along the narrow alleyway between the base building and the control tower. He burst into the parking lot and ran straight into a man holding a silenced handgun. The man was facing away from Tracie, but she could see him raise the gun and shove the barrel into Shane’s forehead.
And she didn’t hesitate.
She drove her foot to the floor and aimed the Datsun straight at the pair. The gunman didn’t seem to have heard the sound of the little car’s engine, or perhaps didn’t comprehend the significance. Shane was facing the vehicle and Tracie hoped he would understand her intent.
The car leapt forward and the two men grew steadily larger in the windshield. The gunman seemed to be talking, asking Shane a question or maybe threatening him. Nothing in Shane’s demeanor gave away the fact that a speeding car was hurtling toward them. At the last moment Shane dived to the side, just as it seemed to occur to the man in the suit that something was wrong.
Shane hit the pavement and rolled. He disappeared from sight as the Datsun plowed into the man with the gun, catching him in the side with a sickening thud. His body flew up and over the hood. He crashed into the windshield and then tumbled over the roof in an ungainly somersault.
Tracie watched in the rearview mirror as the man dropped onto the pavement and lay still. She slammed on the brakes and skidded to a stop just shy of a big vehicle with U.S. Government plates. Then she jammed the car into reverse and began backing up, one eye on the gunman, still crumpled in an unmoving heap in the middle of the parking lot, one eye searching for Shane.
She spotted him crouched between two parked cars just as the base building’s front door crashed open and two more men exited the building at a dead run. The men wore suits similar to the downed gunman and each was holding a gun. They turned right and ran toward Tracie and their injured conspirator.
And Shane.
Tracie leaned across the front seat and shoved the passenger door open. “Get in here, now!” she screamed.
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