| Soul Intent (Soul Identity) |  | Author: Dennis Batchelder
Publisher: NetLeaves
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 8,563
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B002LH5BOU
Publication Date: August 12, 2009
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Product Description
A VILLAIN’S REQUEST
In 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul’s rebirth.
A GRIM RESISTANCE
Flora, a seventeen-year-old Gypsy girl whose father died in the Dachau concentration camp, is sure that Goering stole the gold. She struggles to persuade Morgan to reject the Nazi’s deposit, but Morgan prevails.
A MYSTERIOUS THEFT
Sixty-four years have passed. A repentant Morgan opens Goering’s collection and discovers the gold is gone. In its place lies a cryptic journal. Morgan asks security expert Scott Waverly to find the thief and recover the gold.
A THRILLING ADVENTURE
Scott must race through Europe to uncover the elusive secrets of what really happened in Nuremberg… secrets that threaten to reopen old wounds, settle old scores, and lead to the gold’s—and his own soul’s—recovery.
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 He Shoots! He Scores! August 28, 2009
evpseeker (Virginia)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
This is the first book review I've ever written outside of book reports for school many years ago. So, this review isn't going to be filled with a lot of fluff, terminology or $25 words. This will be a straightforward review written by your average book lover. So here goes.
After reading "Soul Identity" I had high hopes for "Soul Intent." I am happy to say I was not disappointed one bit. The book was well written, captivating, humorous, thought provoking and emotional. The author does an awesome job of giving you just enough facts and history about WWII to place you there but not bog you down with details that detract from the story. You'll find that you seamlessly travel between the past and the present without confusion. Thoughts of "what happens next?" will keep you turning the pages.
The characters are so well developed you will start to feel as if they are people you know and can relate to in real life. Flora is a fireball. She will have you laughing at her sharp tongue one minute then crying for her the next. Her triumphs are great, her sacrifices are greater.
Archie is a driven man with a vision. He's very by the book and uptight. There will be times you'll want to reach into the pages and smack him then the next thing you know you'll want to hug him. He is a very complex character that tries to hold it together at all times.
Let me ask you a few questions.
What would you do if you had to push aside every sense of right and wrong to follow a set of rules you were bound by? If you didn't follow those rules the price could be your life. How strong are your morals and ethics? Are you willing to die for what you believe is right? Could you deceive the person you love for 60 plus years and still look them in the eye every day? Would you help an evil Nazi that killed some of your family to carry on his Soul Line?
Have you ever had "opal fever?" You might after reading this book. Do you know how to kill a vampire so that it will stay dead? Yeah, you will after reading this book.
Most of all I ask you..... What would you leave in your Soul Line Collection? It's the biggest question I've asked myself at the end of both "Soul Identity" and "Soul Intent." As of right now I still do not have an answer for that question. One of these days I just know I'll come up with something so awesome that others will have Soul Line Collection envy. LOL
Bottom line, this is a GREAT book and Dennis Batchelder has gained a reader for life with me. I would give this book 10 stars if Amazon had it as an option. There's a little something for everyone in this book.
So, thank you for reading my review. Now click on out of here and buy both "Soul Identity" and "Soul Intent." With the very low price point of both you have no excuse not to, unless...... you are afraid to do a little "soul searching."
Even better than Soul Identity August 22, 2009
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been looking forward to this sequel since I read Soul Identity and the author did not disappoint.
We meet the original characters again, but see some of them in a different perspective. The moral dilemma posed by Hermann Goering wanting to join Soul Identity is at the heart of this novel. Both Archie and Madame Flora are involved in the original transaction, and the events of 1946 shaped their lives and haunt them to the present day.
I like the way Mr. Batchelder switches back and forth between the past and the present. He not only keeps the story moving, but gives the reader a lot of insight into the both the characters and the events of the present as well as the past.
I enjoyed Soul Identity, which to me was a crime/caper novel, but Soul Intent has more depth and story than the original. At the end, I asked myself which won out; vision or passion. The answer for me is passion.
Highly recommended.
What can I say.... August 26, 2009
P. Switzer (Indiana)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dennis what can I say? I absolutely loved this book. It was so nice to get to know your wonderful characters from Soul Identity. I felt as though I knew them from Soul Identity but they really came alive in this new book. I have recommended these books to all of my friends and I am sure they will enjoy them as much as I have. Keep on writting you are a wonderful story teller.
Pam S
A powerful and compulsively entertaining novel, but also thought provoking September 26, 2009
Norman Goldman (Montreal)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Here is another author you will wonder why you missed until now. Dennis Batchelder's Soul Intent: a Soul Identity Novel, the sequel to his debut novel, Soul Identity, once again illustrates his mastery of concise and riveting story-telling coupled with the interweaving of familiar themes as personal ambition, deception, revenge, retribution, self-preservation and greed, all mesmerizing his readers from the very first chapter. In addition, with this second novel, Batchelder has certainly grown as an author.
As in the case of his debut novel, Batchelder continues to focus on a company called Soul Identity that can figure out how to identify and track your soul. Moreover, they know how to read it, and after you die, they can find it again when it appears in another body. The company also acts as a depositary where clients can deposit their possessions, ideas, life experiences and other valuables and give it all back to you after they find you in your future life.
As our narrative unfolds, Archibald Morgan, Soul Identity's octogenarian executive overseer once again contacts Scott Waverly and his tiny company requesting their immediate professional security services. Morgan explains to Waverly that during the Nuremberg trials in 1946, he had helped Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, just before he stood trial for his hideous war crimes, establish his soul line collection. Goering was determined to grasp at immortality by handing over his memoirs and his fortune to Soul Identity's depositary in the hope that one day his reincarnated soul would return in a fresh body and take up the Nazi cause. What was noteworthy about his material possessions were gold bars. However, these were not regular gold bars, but gold that was stolen from millions of Jewish and Gypsy bodies as well as others. Now, Sixty-four years later, Morgan discovers that the items he helped Goering deposit are missing. Waverly's task is to track down the culprit or culprits who broke into the company's security system in order to commit their crime.
A carry over from Batchelder's first novel is the beautiful gypsy woman Madame Flora and, as we will soon discover, she will play a pivotal role in the development of this second novel. Flora is the owner of a palm reading enterprise on Kent Island, Maryland where Waverly's company is located. In addition, she recruits members, earning her commissions when they matched existing soul lines. We learn that in 1946 Flora, who was seventeen at the time, was present at the time that Goering deposited his gold and documents. This was the result of a letter she had received from Soul Identity's headquarters requesting that she travel to Nuremberg from Yugoslavia in order to perform the reading as well as assisting in the enrollment and subsequent depositary transfers of an individual, who at the time was not named. If she agreed, the company would aid her and two of her family members to immigrate to the United States. In order to save her grandmother or baba, as she called her and herself, Flora traveled to Nuremberg where she met up with Morgan.
When Flora finds out whom she must help, she becomes extremely agitated , recalling the hideous crimes committed by this monumental brute including the murder of her father at Dachau. Nonetheless, in order to save her grandmother and herself and escape to the United States, Flora acquiesces. Morgan is relentless in his defense of the company's admittance of Goering as a client, for, as he states, it never discriminated against its members no matter how detestable he or she may be. However, as we later realize, Morgan was also more concerned about furthering his own personal ambitions than considering the moral implications of his actions.
Not only is this novel powerful and compulsively entertaining, but also thought provoking, as it involves the reader totally while at the same time presenting it in an economic style that doesn't overwhelm. Using flashbacks, the story moves briskly, effectively employing down-to-earth dialogue. As you listen to the exchanges between his characters, you feel you are actually eavesdropping on real conversations.
To boot, Batchelder's fiction will have you challenging the conduct of his principal characters, Morgan and Flora, as they tangle their lives with those of historical events and rationalize their actions. And although his characters appear strong and spirited, they are still learning, still making mistakes.
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor Of Bookpleasures
Soul Intent October 3, 2009
Jim G11 (New Hampshire)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is not the kind of book I normally read but I had read my son's copy of the first book Soul Identity and it was really well written so when Soul Intent was released I had to order it. This fictional tale is really well done. It uses the characters that you have met in the first book and gives a well done tale of a historical event some 64 years in the past. I applaud Dennis Batchelder for a well written story that holds your interest.
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