Matthew Brooks, a young rookie journalist working for the Portland Herald, along with his beautiful photographer partner Kelly O Hara, run head on into the mystery of their lives. As they pry open this mystery, that has been purposely kept a secret for thousands of years, they discover that knowing the truth about the past, could very well cost them their lives; the disappearance of the dinosaurs and the ancient story of a global flood, to the real identity of Jack the Ripper and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, to the kidnap of Charles Lindberghs son and the assassin of John F Kennedy, to the Hindenburg and the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion disasters, all possess one common thread of truth. Come along with me! Unearth the hidden secret about our past. Learn the real truth behind the history of mankind, and the truth about the Fathers of Myth.
AN ENTERTAINING READ - SOMETHING DIFFERENT! 
All in all, this was a rather enjoyable read. This is the type of book/story where it is rather difficult to discuss the plot without giving a whole group of spoilers. I will try not to do so. Briefly, a young, new to the job, reporter and a talented photographer, Kelly, find themselves caught up in mysteries within mysteries. As the story develops they find that there is a common connection between many of the great myths and mysteries throughout the ages. In following their news stories, they find they are haunted or followed by a dark stranger. Danger abounds and the adventures are many.
Always in the past there have been major genre such as mysteries, science fiction, action/adventure, western, etc. etc. There has, of course, always been sub-genre, such as fantasy being a sub-genre of SiFi. Recently this has been taken to new levels. The most common, and quite the most popular at present, is the "hard" science fiction and romance, which combined have gathered quite a following. To me, this mixing is great as it increases availability to more readers and creates more reader interest.
This particular work is very difficult to classify. I would place it in a science fiction/action adventure/light romance and mystery category. The author has done this well. The plot of this story is not only interesting, but displays quite a vivid imagination. The author is a very good story teller and has a very good command of the English Language. The story is fast moving, easy to understand and above all, for me, entertaining. This is one of my first qualifiers for a good read, i.e. entertaining, and this one fills the bill quite nicely.
I would have enjoyed seeing a bit more character development. The author has his story telling abilities down quite well, but is just a bit on the weak side with his characters. Also, like another reviewer here, I found the habit of the primary protagonist constantly calling Kelly, the girl photographer, "honey" and "beautiful" not only a bit condescending, but down right annoying. I simply ignored it after awhile and it did not really distract from the story.
The author has obviously put in quite a bit of research on this work and has done his job quite well. As I said, I enjoyed the book, think it a good read and do recommend it
Fathers of Myth 
Matthew Brooks is a new reporter for the Portland Herald. He is not very happy with his boss, Lloyd Hatch, an obnoxious demanding editor. However, he is very happy to have Kelly for his photographer. But if he calls her honey or sweetheart one more time, she should clobber him. He worries about his father who is widowed and lives in Florida. At times he acts a mite juvenile and he drinks too much. He doesn't seem to have any close friends except his parrot, Cashew.
Kelly, is a wonderful photographer, but doesn't seem to have had very good luck with men. She might like Matt but has no desire to find that she admires him enough to start to see him as a person and not just another man. Both she and Matt become a bit paranoid because of the things that keep happening to them. Especially when someone tries to kill Matt on top of the Space Needle in Seattle.
Matt and Kelly become caught up in a bizarre affair that starts out with an air crash and a man who runs into Matt at the site. From there the story jerks our hero and heroine from one news story to another. Each time leaving questions in their minds about the identity of a man they keep seeing in a coat and hat. Someone thinks they know something that is to be kept secret. Suddenly accidents start happening to them and they are sure these are attempts on their lives. But who would believe them. From slashed tires on their ride that leaves them stranded in the desert in Montana, to a bomb in Portland he traverses a world filled with questions and danger.
I found the plot fasinating, well developed, but the storyline felt contrived. The fact it is written in first person doesn't allow for the information and narrative that would bring a cohesiveness to the story. It felt fractured and the characters never became three-dimensional.
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