Meet author Frederick H. Crook
Bio
Frederick was born in Chicago in
1970 and now lives in Villa Park with his wife, Rae and their three miniature
dachshunds. He began by writing fictional works all through high school, earned
an Associate Degree of Applied Science in Electronics in 1994 and the Bachelor
of Science in Technical Management from DeVry University in 2005.
In 2009, Frederick began writing his
first novel, The Dregs of Exodus, which was self-published in late 2010. This was followed up with another novel, The
Pirates of Exodus in 2012.
Throughout that year and early 2013,
he continued writing and published four short stories in eBook form for Kindle
and Nook. All of these stories share the same premise, but all are independent
from one another, though the short eBook, Campanelli: The Ping Tom Affair
and his third novel, issued by Solstice Publishing, Campanelli: Sentinel,
share the same main characters.
He loves writing and enjoys meeting
and talking to readers at book signing events.
Blurb
It is 2110 and migration to the colony planet,
Alethea, has depleted Earth of billions of people. As a result, migration has
been declared illegal by all world governments. Human trafficking becomes
highly profitable for organized crime and their influence reaches beyond the
Earth’s atmosphere. Many starships returning from Alethea are diverted from the
scrapping process and secretly refurbished, allowing the population to shrink
further.
Frank Campanelli is a blind Chicago Police
detective who depends on his fully functional bio-electronic implants to see
and do his job. After assisting on a botched infiltration of a top human
trafficking network, he and his partner Marcus Williams are transferred into
the CPD’s Organized Crime Division to head the newly formed Sentinel group and
bring down the Ignatola family business.
Excerpt
Frank took
manual control of the car and set its alert status to ‘Condition Two’. The
car’s computer sent out its signal to traffic lights and other computerized
vehicles, clearing the way for them. The blue lights flashed and the siren
whooped and warbled to warn pedestrians and non-computerized vehicles of their
presence.
Campanelli adjusted his lenses to
zoom in just enough that he saw the leading edge of his vehicle’s hood and
beyond. This gave him advanced warning of upcoming pavement hazards. He kept
his thought commands on visual adjustments, putting them back to default when
the car was in traffic and zooming forward again once the road was clear ahead.
Frank’s full-service lenses had an advantage over the standard bio-electronic
breed. His fully encompassed the surface of the eyes to give him the benefit of
peripheral vision. When he magnified his view, it was not merely like looking
through binoculars, it was akin to being physically thrust forward a few feet,
albeit with some distortion at the edges of his field of view. With this
advantage, Frank Campanelli had the reputation of being a rather insane driver,
but from his point of view, he simply saw more detail than others and drove to
match.
As it was Saturday morning, the
traffic was light. As a result, Frank could get the car up to eighty miles an
hour at times, broken up by sudden slowing and lane changing to avoid a vehicle
or road hazard. This unsettled Marcus Williams to no end, forcing the veteran
to increase his serotonin levels as he held on to the door handle and center
console while plastering his feet into the floorboards.
The engine whined and whistled with
acceleration, alternating with the crying of rubber whenever the brakes were
hit hard or the steering yoke was twitched to go around something.
Marcus was just glad they were not
in pursuit, otherwise Frank would be in a real hurry.
Campanelli slowed at the corner of
State and Madison and hung a tight left. The powerful car accelerated like a
shot, but the siren went quiet. Marcus dared to open his eyes and saw that the
road ahead was deserted of pedestrians, cars and potholes.
The siren sounded again as they
approached the intersection at Dearborn. Dodging around a CTA bus, Frank made
the turn and accelerated again, though only briefly as they were close to their
destination.
Suddenly, the siren quieted and the
motor wound down to its near-silent normalcy. Marcus opened his eyes in time to
see the blue lights cycle one last time before going out. The light at West
Washington Street still turned green for them, indicating that Frank had set
the car to ‘Condition Four’: ‘No lights, no sirens, just an officer in kind of
a hurry’, as it had been explained to him once by someone he could not
remember.
Marcus took in a deep breath of
relief when the cruiser approached the security gate at the entrance to the
underground structure of the Daley Center. Campanelli slowed the car even
further and both policemen could see that there was already a gathering of
citizenry in the plaza, spotted with uniformed and police officers armored with
riot gear.
Links
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