Moving Day

By Jonathan Stone 

A Review for Amazon

By Richard S. Trogdon

It is the classic struggle between good and evil.  It is the struggle for power between two men who are similar in many ways.  Both men have fought for their success, have known true hardship, but have responded to their struggles with dramatic and diametrically distanced lives.  For neither man is the struggle about the stolen items.  Stanley Peke, as a child, escaped the Nazis in Poland, came to this country, built a business, married, and raised a family.  His adversary Nick rose from the roughest of slums to build a successful life of crime.  He has built a criminal business that is solid, intelligently constructed and meticulously managed.  

Whether you see this novel as a thriller or a character study may depend on your age.  It will probably be seen as a character study by someone looking forward to the prom, but as a thriller by someone with an AARP card.  I view this book as suspense, not thriller, but I have an AARP card.  If you have lived in the same house for twenty years, are approaching retirement and are dreading that change in life, this story may mirror your fears and even your nightmares.  The younger you are the less of a thriller this book will be.  However, the intense competition between the protagonist and the blind determination of each to prevail, make this a novel that can be enjoyed by most readers. 

The repetitious descriptions of Stanley Peke’s emotions were tiring and, at time, reading became a chore.  If something like this had been submitted to me as a college paper, I would have assumed that the repetition was an effort to meet the required word count.