Dead Checks: A Novel of a Post Office Bomber

by Jonathan Lowe

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188517313X
• ISBN13: 9781885173133
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Write Way Publishing
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Probably on Postal Inspection Service Top Books List

This book was a real page-turner, with non-stop action page to page. Hard to put down. Realistic portrayal of the lives of postal workers and postal inspectors, faced with what we would now call acts of terrorism. Contains everything you want from a novel: action, mystery, suspense, romance, insanity, mayhem, good guys, bad guys. A recommended choice for postal inspectors to read.

Excellent, well wriiten thriller!

Postmarked for Death is a well written story of a man unraveling. Jonathan Lowe does a wonderful job with details, drawing the reader into the world of Calvin Beech, a postal worker with a political manifesto and a penchant for explosives. It's a great ride as Calvin sets his trap for the inspectors, and it leads to a terrific, tense climax inside an abandoned missile silo. Highly recommended!

Counter Attack

Since the supposed "postal inspector" who wrote another review to my first novel has his own motivations, and can't even spell, I'm responding to his attack. First, it was not my intention to write a book specifically about the postal inspection service, but an entertaining suspense novel about a postal clerk with political obsessions--a man who crosses the line and starts mailing letter bombs. A postal inspector DID, in fact, read the novel prior to publication, and enjoyed it. It is amusing to me that someone who can't even compose a paragraph would take the time to advise others against buying a first novel on the basis that he's a postal inspector and I'm not. This is similar to an incident when someone came to my first signing and pointed out to me that the highway to Tucson from Phoenix is west, not south. Well, maybe I-10 does start out going west, but Tucson is south of Phoenix, is it not? If I had said west, many more people would have complained, would they not? Since anyone can express their opinion, given the policy here, I'll remind that unnamed reviewer that Clive Cussler called my novel "a class performance, powerful and accomplished. . . mystery at its best," and that it won an award on audio under the title "Postal," as read by the celebrated Frank Muller. Maybe it didn't sell many copies, because both were small presses not able to stage massive advertising campaigns, but I hope that readers check out the novel on audio from Audible.com, and decide for themselves. My next novel is titled "Awakening Storm," and will be available in hardcover and on audio in Sept.. Thank you.