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    Fifty Mice: A Novel
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    Fifty Mice: A Novel

    Written by Daniel Pyne

    Narrated by D.W. Moffett

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    What if a man is placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program against his will? And doesn't even know what he supposedly knows that merits a new name, a new identity, a new life?

    Jay Johnson is an Average Joe, a thirty-something guy with a job in telephone sales, a regular pick-up basketball game, and a devoted girlfriend he seems ready to marry. But one weekday afternoon, he's abducted on a Los Angeles Metro train, tranquilized, interrogated, and his paper trail obliterated. What did he see, what terrible crime-or criminal-is he keeping secret? It must be something awfully big. The trouble is, Jay has no clue.

    Furious and helpless, and convinced that the government has made a colossal mistake, Jay is involuntarily relocated to a community on Catalina Island-which turns out to be inhabited mainly by other protected witnesses. Isolated in a world of strangers, Jay begins to realize that only way out is through the twisted maze of lies and unreliable memories swirling through his own mind. If he can locate-- or invent-- a repressed memory that might satisfy the Feds, maybe he can make it back to the mainland and his wonderful, even if monotonous, life.

    Set in a noir contemporary L.A. and environs, Fifty Mice is a Hitchcockian thriller as surreal and mysterious as a Kafka nightmare. Chilling, paranoiac, and thoroughly original, it will have readers grasping to distinguish what is real and what only seems that way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 30, 2014
    ISBN9780698188761
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    Fifty Mice: A Novel
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    Daniel Pyne

    Daniel Pyne is the author of four novels: Catalina Eddy, Fifty Mice, Twentynine Palms, and A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar. Among his many screenplays are Pacific Heights, Doc Hollywood, the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, and Fracture. He made his directorial debut with the independent film Where’s Marlowe? His list of television credits (creating, writing, and showrunning) spans Miami Vice to Bosch. Pyne has worked as a screen printer, a sportswriter, an ad man, and a cartoonist and has taught screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for more than two decades. He splits his time between California and New Mexico with his wife, their two rescue dogs, and a surly turtle.

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    • 5/5
      This was a wild ride. It grabs you at the beginning and keeps you saying what the heck all the way thru. It also has your mind going in so many different directions that you don't see the end coming. I great fast read that is hard to put down. And yeah I can see how this could become a Hitchcockian type movie.
    • 5/5
      I became just as confused as poor Jay as this story unfolded---but it was interesting/intriguing enough to keep going to see if there was going to be some way to get things figured out. One surprise followed another.
    • 2/5
      This could have been a good story, but it was written in such a weird, scrambled, sometimes indecipherable way that it got to be irritating. Jay has supposedly been a witness to "something" (criminal activity) and is taken away from his normal life, against his will, to Santa Catalina Island and put into witness protection. This island is largely home to many people under witness protection and a whole bunch of federal marshals that keep an eye on them. So this is the story of Jay trying to figure out what it is he has seen and his adventures in trying to escape. The whole thing seemed so far-fetched to me that I just couldn't take it seriously. Normally, in these situations, I get aggravated towards the characters - this time, my hostility was directed towards the author. Come on, man, stop living in your paranoid alternate universe, come back down to earth, and write something that us common folk can relate to.
    • 1/5
      so so bad weat