Adult Romantic Adventure
Date Published: February 2022
AN ADVENTURE LIKE NO OTHER.
One part, exotic, jungle setting, one part romance, two parts gripping, heart-pounding suspense
Jake Bennett knew a couple of things for sure: he needed a job, he didn’t want to die in the jungle… but he’d never met anyone like nurse Brockman.
The two clash when Jake discovers that Katherine Brockman’s mission has nothing to do with checking the condition of malaria in native villages.
The possibility of saving tens of thousands of lives unites them as they venture into the steaming jungle to discover if the “Legend of the Riverman” is true.
Soon, the dangers of the jungle wrapped in the unforgiving heat, threatens to end, not only their mission, but their lives.
But nothing can prepare them for what they discover, hidden deep in an unexplored jungle basin.
A new, action-packed, adult adventure
Is there
anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
That first time that I
sit down to begin chapter one, page one is the toughest. I’ve already roughed
out the story and the characters over the past year, so it’s not that I don’t
know who or what it’s about, but rather it’s this overwhelming act of
commitment at that moment, to this huge project that is going to take over a
good chunk of my life for the next many months or years.
How many books have you written and which
is your favorite?
Expedition Borneo is my sixth novel: the
most challenging, the longest and hopefully the best of what I have written. As
far as a favorite, I think, perhaps like many, my first one, The Reedsmith
of Zendar, will always hold a soft spot for me. Like most first novels,
there is a lot of me in there: the main character, family, influences of other authors
from my early reading. There’s also lots of feelings and emotions of that
period of my life injected into the writing.
If
you had the chance to cast your main character from Hollywood today,
who would you pick and why?
Well if we’re talking
about Expedition Borneo, as I wrote it I envisioned Ryan Reynolds as the
main character, Jake Bennett. He could bring the right mix of physicality,
sense of humor and swagger to the role.
When did you begin writing?
I guess I lied because
I actually wrote my first book with my cousin at age eighteen, one of many
schemes to make a lot of money. Before the age of computers, it was written on
typewriters using carbon paper. He wrote one chapter and I wrote the next. An
English murder mystery, strangely enough, it was ignored by the writing world.
Can’t imagine why.
How long did it take to complete your first
book?
Well, if we don’t count
that first teenage attempt and consider The Reedsmith of Zendar as my
first, it took me four years. At the time I was still teaching full time,
finishing the interior of the log house I had built and raising three boys with
my wife. There are four parts to the journey quest novel and I wrote one part
each year.
Did you have an author who inspired you to
become a writer?
I think you would have
to single out Edgar Rice Burroughs as my first inspiration: not necessarily to
start writing, but to fall in love with characters and story – all of them very
adventurous for a young teenage boy. Tolkien and Terry Brooks continued my
adventures, as well as Michael Crichton, and Robert B Parker.
What is
your favorite part of the writing process?
When I’ve finished the
first draft I actually love the first edit. I like seeing what I have done, how
I can improve it. Just like when finishing the first draft, finishing the first
edit gives me a great sense of achievement.
Describe your latest book in 4 words.
A classic, romantic,
adventure.
Can you share a little bit about your
current work or what is in the future for your writing?
My latest goal with Expedition
Borneo was to write a classic adventure story, along the lines of The
African Queen, King Solomon’s Mines, Treasure Island or Raiders of the Lost Ark:
a story with regular characters, facing incredible odds on a mission not of their choosing.
It’s 1941 on the island of Borneo in the South Pacific, two weeks after
the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. She’s on a mission and needs him. He
doesn’t realize it, but he needs her. They are characters
in trouble that you will care about and root for. He’s not perfect and neither
is she, but the attraction is inevitable as they learn about each other and
find an unbelievable discovery deep in one of the world’s last unexplored
jungles .
One part, exotic, jungle setting, one part
romance, and two parts gripping, heart-pounding suspense.
About the Author
An avid reader as a youngster, Daniel began a teaching career at twenty, peppering his life with trail rides on his horse Kelly, scuba diving in the murky Great Lakes of Ontario and taking fencing lessons.
He married Lynda, five months after they met in a bar on a Thursday night. With her, he raised a family, wrote and produced school plays, built their log home, restored a classic Mustang, a '69 Mach 1 for enthusiasts, and took their three boys on many canoe trips in northern Canada.
Twenty years later, unable to find a science fantasy adventure he liked, with encouragement from Lynda, he wrote The Reedsmith of Zendar. Expedition Borneo is his sixth novel.
His books are varied, but whether suspense, a thriller, or an adventure story, all contain characters in trouble that you will care about and root for. He's never perfect and neither is she, but the attraction is inevitable as they learn about each other on an adventure seldom of their choosing.
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