The Revolutionist - Richard Tucker

Book Details:

Book Title:  The Revolutionist by Robert Tucker

Category:  Adult Fiction, 649 pages

Genre:  Historical Fiction

Publisher:  Tell-Tale Publishing Group LLC / Wise Words Publishing

Release date:  12/03/2017

Tour dates: May 27 to June 28, 2019

Content Rating: PG + M (This book does not contain any gratuitous violence. Any depicted violence is relevant to the historical period, as are scenes of white slave prostitution, sexual and physical abuse, and one of an abortion mill. They are written with sensitivity as to time and place and with appropriate literary language.)

Book Description:

Two different families escape from the political tyranny of their respective homelands, the Josephsons from Sweden and Matias and Kurt Bauman, brothers from Germany and Austria Hungary, with the aid of a Viennese opera diva, Sophie Augusta Rose, and Jean Guenoc, a former Jesuit priest, family friend and protector and partisan of the French underground. Their journey brings them to America in the throes of the industrial revolution during the 1890s and early 1900s.

Ingrid and Olaf Josephson settle on a small wheat farm in North Central Minnesota to raise their children, Newt and Julie. Among the Jewish entrepreneurs forced to leave Germany and Austria-Hungary, Matias and Kurt Bauman re-establish their transportation company in Chicago, Illinois. In search of a secret list of insurgent social democrats, the bounty hunter assassin, Luther Baggot, tracks his victims to the American heartland. Following the murder of their mother and father, Newt, Julie, and their friends, Aaron and Beth Peet, hide from the killer in a Northern Minnesota logging camp. Believing the children have taken possession of the list, Luther tracks them down and they are forced to flee again, this time to Chicago where a different world opens up to them as they are thrust into the turmoil and violence of an urban society and economy careening into the new century.

Review:

I didn't read the description, so I came into the book completely cold.  I knew nothing of potential plot lines and so forth.  So had I actually read the description of the book, my initial impressions of the book would have been a lot different than they actually were.

There were times I felt that the book was a bit clunky at times and that the author took too much time to introduce characters that had little to do with the actual plot line.  While those stories were fascinating, I felt that they took away from the main crux of the book and those characters could have had less screen time than they did, as some of them had either very little or nothing to do with the actual story.

As for the main story line, I actually quite enjoyed it and found myself racing through the secondary storylines to get back to the main plot line.  The author did an excellent job of drawing the reader into the storyline, making one care for the characters as they navigated the world they became involved with.  One could almost feel as though they were a fly on the wall as the characters made their way from Minnesota to Chicago and the various other places that the book was set in.

My favourite character was Julie in the book.  I thought the character was well-written and she really captured my imagination and could actually see here at times.

I thought it overall was a pretty good book and with a few editing changes, it could have been a bit better.  Recommended.

Rating: 3.75/5

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Meet the Author: 

 

​Robert is published by Tell-Tale Publishing Group LLC / Wise Words Publishing under a multi-book contract. The author of four previous earlier novels, Robert infuses his books with unique dynamic stories and characters that portray social and cultural conflicts of their time. His career encompasses many years as a business consultant that have given him access to a wide range of organizations and an appreciation for people in all areas of society. His life experience is reflected in the literary quality of his work. Born and raised in the Middle-West, he has traveled throughout the United States and abroad.

Now retired, he resides with his wife in Southern California where he devotes full-time to writing. Robert is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Masters Degree in Communications at the University of California, Los Angeles where he received the Samuel Goldwyn and Donald Davis Literary Awards.

An affinity for family and the astute observation of generational interaction pervade his novels. His works are literary and genre upmarket fiction that address the nature and importance of personal integrity.

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