Surely, We Can't All Be Stupid

Keller Boyle is a failed museum curator, he believes he is responsible for his daughter's horrific accident. Whilst he is at the hospital awaiting her surgery she is kidnapped from the operating theatre, and shortly after, Keller himself is captured. Cahan O'Malley is a ruthless felon and IRA supporter, he is convinced Keller is the only man that can find an invaluable artefact smuggled into the country. Keller has no choice but to accept Cahan's terms and work with three strangers to seek out the item that will change Cahan's future.

Desperate to save his young child and constantly haunted by memories of having been a bad father, Keller lies to his new 'friends' to keep them on track with his secret mission. But they have reasons to be suspicious, Keller's layers of lies and the unbearable of truth that he is hiding from everyone is catching up to him, and everyone around him is getting caught in the net. Nothing anyone says or does is quite as it seems in Keller's world, and no one can be relied on to help him save his dear child.

Auteur

Jason Shield has been writing stories for many years, he has studied character development, scene development and the story-telling art form for longer than Mother Theresa has been a Christian. Jason is an exceptionally jovial individual to go to parties with, because he also holds an accolade in truth-bending in the manner in which Uri Geller bends spoons.

Jason holds a BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies and specialised in Human Resources Management, he likes to regularly remind people of this information as if he were the only human ever to gain a certificate. After a few years of working in the HR field he wished to work in more creative industries where he could experiment with his imagination, mainly making stuff up. So he travelled to the film industry.

Jason started off with screenplay writing, taking several courses on storyline development, character development, plotting (not plotting to kill people), and he even completed a comedy course. The best joke he ever wrote was about a chicken with no legs that couldn't cross the road. He has now progressed on to writing fictional novels and hopes to dedicate his life to writing engaging stories that are heart-breaking, yet funny, tragic, yet fun to read. Use your reviews to let him know if he has succeeded.