Thursday, March 6, 2014

Book Review: Just By Chance By J.D. Cannon

Print Length: 260 pages
Publisher: CyberMedia Press (December 12, 2011)
Kim Carter is a high-priced escort for a mob guy. The next day he’s murdered and she didn’t do it, but she was the last person to see him the night before, screams the newspaper headline. Now the mob, and the police are after her.Somehow you and your beautiful, blond friend Nikki, an amazing computer hacker, escape to Florida to find the answers.
I loved the story.
I also learned a new word: “fetulent.” Cannon writes that anyone loathes the mob and the world would be a better place with one less piece of s—t in the world. “…but the word that stuck in his mind was fetulence. “Why use a one-syllable vulgarity when a three syllable, more socially-acceptable word fit even better?”

Try googling fetulence or fetulent. It apparently comes from the Latin verb Fetulentum meaning full of; prone to; rich in; abounding in. I did find one other use of the word in "The Eagle and the Sword (The Perilous Order of Camelot" by A.A Attanasio: “At the spot where the illusory chestnut had stood, miasmal haze rots the air with a fetulent stink.” 


Now I want to know when does the next J.D. Cannon book come out?

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