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title: "Dire Means Paperback – October 12, 2009"
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# Dire Means Paperback – October 12, 2009

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## Customer Reviews

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    Make time. This book is completely engrossing and addictive!
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 13, 2010*

It's been a long time since a book hooked me like Dire Means did. I read it over a weekend, with no urge to skim any part. A friend recommended it, we're having lunch tomorrow and I will thank her. It's a rare and wonderful thing for me to find a gem written by a new author and this book is that.Dire Means is a fantastic story woven with strong social implications and high-tech suspense that even non-techies can enjoy. No matter your view on the homeless, this book will affect you. Its vivid imagery and the feelings it evoked have stayed with me long after finishing it. The plot was poignant, current and completely engrossing.After Mark Denny, a computer support guy, has a run in with some street thugs, he is forced to experience public disdain (with body and ego bruised) while temporarily stranded on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, an outdoor shopping center located in the affluent southern California beach city. While working toward financial and physical recovery, he performs a heroic act caught by local news television cameras. This attracts not only national attention, but the attention of a crazed vigilante who has been terrorizing the city of Santa Monica, CA and finds Mark to be a perfect addition to his bizarre mission. Lured into the vigilante's secret confines, Mark pretends to buy into the mission as a matter of survival. Soon he is trapped with some tough decisions to make over the best way to thwart the villain who is terrorizing Santa Monica.The ending came a bit too quickly for me. It seemed the author wanted to wrap up the story and I wish events could have tapered a bit more. In any case, Geoffrey Neil can spin that small criticism into a compliment because it probably means that I wanted more -I wanted the story to continue. Get Dire Means; it's a safe bet. And I can't wait for Neil's next book.

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    Dire Means
  

*by M***  on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2022*

Usually I have the stories figured out pretty quickly, this one armored me and held me captive, pun intended. It is an interesting take on homelessness and curing it, I will agree with Mark, it was doomed to fail. The story was gripping and kept me reading to the end. Thank you for an education in dire means for the benefit of all who could learn valuable morals and ethics from this story.

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    Dire Means and My Take on This Book
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 6, 2013*

Yet another book I could not stop until I had finished. To be honest, I debated getting this book but something, and I am not sure what, told me to get it. I am not sorry I did either. In reading the "From The Author" I see this is a "First" novel. Way to go Mr. Neil! You've hit the ball right out of the field!This book is about the plight of the homeless across the USA and why there are still homeless. The book starts with us learning about one good man and how he feels about the homeless and his thoughts and actions on helping them. Then comes "Poppa".  Poppa is a misguided control freak (totally my own opinion here) who has his visions as to how to eliminate homelessness by punishing those who have not helped the homeless, or even been compassionate to them. What Poppa does to 'punish' these unkind people will knock your socks off folks. Nothing really full of gore or anything, just so against our base civil liberties it is amazing he can not see he is an evil man.Also in From The Author, he mentions brotherly love is spoken of weekly from the pulpit. I stand to say, not from all pulpits Mr. Neil. Sad, but true. In the northeast, where I am from, 'Fire and Brimstone' sermons are few and far between. This few and far between is why we still have homeless. But, I digress.If you like mysteries, tech thrillers, altruistic reads, you will love this book. If you like a work of fiction which uses a real world existence of some people here in this country, you will like this book.Well worth the read.

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