Book Review: Taken Boy By Michael Mehas
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- August 4th, 2009 |
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Taken Boy is billed as a activity of fiction, however it actually explores a real event, and that event is allay development in the Confederate California court group. Jessie James Hollywood faces the potential of the trip to lethal injection for his actions. So real is Michael Mehas’ book that he actually was subpoenaed double as a attestant in the attempt, and forced to hand over his notes and tapes of interviews he had conducted.
With a background of Los Angeles, Taken boy is about drugs, booze, fast cars, and adolescent people. With that combination you will immediately believe gangs. But gangs are not involved, the individuals are mostly from regular middle class, tho’, highly dysfunctional families.
Mickey Youngblood and Rick LeBlanc are adolescent people that have begin on money making careers in the drug business, both have carved out lucrative existences, but a deal between them that went wrong has fermented their relationship. So much so, that a $2000 outstanding debt, creates a verbal action, that in activity becomes a physical action of property damage, and threats towards families.
Mickey is to have the least a hot head, and when the windows of his house are splintered out in a late night raid, all rules of right and wrong exit finished the empty frames. Revenge is a alcoholic emotion and Mickey is hell bent on solid his hunger for it.
His first idea is to find Rick LeBlanc and have it out with him. $2000 after all is chump change in the drug class. In a curve coincidence it is not Rick they accompany walking down the street, but his 15 year old younger brother Bobby. Once again tho’, Mickey lets his rage rule his brain, and persuades the kids with him to firstly beat the kid up “as a warning,” however 2nd thoughts enter the displeased and coiled mind, and instead they kidnap Bobby.
It is not the classic kidnap fib, in fact it is anything but classic. Bobby for the most part is free to leave at any time, but he prefers to ‘party’ with his captors, drugs and booze abound! Even alien thither is no attempt made to conceal the fact that Bobby is a hostage. In what has to have been the bottom kept arcanum in the analyze that is the LA abdomen, the entire connive starts to disentangle as more and more people become involved.
Once again the demon Mickey makes poor choices, faced with the potential of exposure by Bobby he must now make a real hard decision. Does he believe Bobby when he says that thither is no harm done, and that he will not talk to anyone about the kidnapping? Or is a different course of action needed?
This is a real powerful book, and one that deserves a attack on the coveted ridge area of your local bookstore. It has also cost author Michael Mehas a great deal to compose this book, being so close to the factual case he finds himself in a ‘no gain’ situation. The real Mickey faces the possibility of the death penalty. What Michael knows could component him, or could seal his fate. In many distance, Michael has become Mickey, he holds the key to life or death. This is not a situation I would deprivation to be in.
This is not your typical novel, even tho’ the main characters are mere teenagers, they cover the entire gamut of today’s elite, the good, the bad, and the real, real ugly!
Taken Boy is available finished Amazon, and Michael Mehas also has a real informative site where you can learn more about this account that merges fact with fiction.