Dragged Down Deep: Book Giveaway
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dragged Down Deep
Written by Michael Okon
Ages: 15+ | 286 Pages
Publisher: Chelshire Inc (2024) | ISBN: 978-1-950080-14-4
Publisher’s Book Summary: Logan Osborne has spent his life chasing the shadows of the past.
As a child, he watched helplessly as his father was snatched from a fishing boat by what he swore was a mermaid. No one believed him then. No one believes him now.
Determined to prove that mythical creatures exist, Logan is drawn back to the small coastal town where his nightmares began after another mysterious disappearance stirs the waters.
Teaming up with his pragmatic colleague Elliot Sheppard and his fiercely loyal friend Penny Swanson, Logan dives headfirst into an adventure packed with danger and deception. As they dig deeper, the trio faces resistance at every turn—a secretive agency with its own agenda, a suspiciously unhelpful police force, and Logan’s old flame, who may know more than she’s letting on.
What they uncover is far darker and more terrifying than Logan ever imagined: the truth about his father, the secrets of Minatuck, and the horrifying reality of the Mermaid of the Hamptons.
Will Logan and his friends expose the lies that have haunted him for years, or will they be Dragged Down Deep into the swampy, secretive underbelly of a town that guards its mysteries with deadly intent?
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MY REVIEW
Logan Osborne is dedicated to proving the field of cryptozoology is a legitimate science. He travels the world during summer breaks searching for the truth of legends and rumors. He has gone “looking for chupcabras in South America, mermaids in the middle east, dragons in China,” and climbed the mountains of Turkey looking for Yeti. At one point he explored with his colleague Elliot and the woman he thought was the love of his life, Aimee. But when Aimee left to work for a big corporation, Logan continued with only Elliot’s support. And on his latest mission to find proof of the Thunderbird from Native American legends, he was totally on his own while Elliot was tending to wedding details. Now his childhood friend Penny has called asking for his help. It seems the Mermaid of Minatuck, which everyone insists was a figment of his imagination, has now claimed more lives. To help Penny and uncover the truth, Logan will have to return to the town where he lost his father twenty years ago. He will have to face the resistance of the locals, the hostility of the police chief, and try to sort out his own memories. Did he really see some watery creature steal his father away, or was it all PTSD as the authorities repeatedly assured him? And will Logan and his friends survive the investigation? The author has created a complex character caught up in complicated relationships and his desire to “validate a new field of science and vindicate his father’s reputation.” Readers will be carried along through one dangerous situation after another, while also rooting for Logan to discover the truth. If a young Indiana Jones hunted for cryptids rather than historical artifacts, he would probably be either a coworker or a competitor of Logan Osborne.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Michael is a lifelong movie buff, a music playlist aficionado, and a sucker for self-help books. He lives on the North Shore of Long Island with his wife and children.
For more information, visit www.michaelokon.com.
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