{"product_id":"the-last-three-minutes-paperback-4","title":"The Last Three Minutes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Nicholas Datesh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cyber-ghost story, a thriller based on a real, unexplained and unsolved time glitch that haunted the author's own laptop. That time gap was exactly...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is how long it took Julian to cook the perfect soft-boiled egg. It was, by then, the only thing his wife Leigh could eat. Leigh even setup an egg-timer app on her laptop, in large part to torture Julian over his poor sense of time. \"Ding, Julian!\" On that day, he got it just right. A perfect three minute egg, done just as he heard \"Ding, Julian.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt took those same three minutes for Leigh to die. Alone. The one thing she dreaded: Dying alone. Julian almost made it with the perfect egg Leigh would never eat. In her last three minutes, she only had her laptop for company. Probably, the last thing she heard was \"Ding Julian\" while he was a flight of stairs away, getting it right. And so horribly late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian carried on, if not well, for the next months. Without Leigh, without having been there with her. He couldn't bring himself to turn off her laptop. It helped that its egg-timer and Leigh's suicide-by-meds recipe file had disappeared on their own. Good riddance. He heard \"Ding, Julian\" enough in his sleep, increasingly as the anniversary approached.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, Leigh's laptop inexplicably lost time. Three minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdequately tech-savvy, Julian knew a routine glitch when he saw one. But as he tried one thing after another to restore those minutes, he came up empty. No fix held. Nothing worked. Then, just as suddenly, with a \"Ding, Julian,\" the cursed egg-timer reappeared. Julian was stunned. Once the recipe file reemerged, Julian began to wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a previously unknown video popped up - her final message - Julian was sure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeigh was giving him an another chance to join her for those Last Three Minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1950, John Nicholas Datesh lived in and around Pittsburgh until 2009. At Brown University, he took writing courses as a justification for doing just that. At Boston University Law School, he learned to insert phrases like \u003ci\u003eIt Depends\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHereinafter\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2009, he moved cats Lila and Lucy Liu to a condo near the east shore of Florida's Naples Bay, leaving behind a Pittsburgh career in law, product development and business in favor of fiction, happy hours and beach chairs, presumably in that order. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He began writing fiction with a pencil, publishing on paper and ink, novels: SF\/Mystery \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Nightmare Machine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e; Soft-boiled Detective \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Janus Murder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e; and International Suspense \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Moscow Tape\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published in Naples are short stories \u003ci\u003eThe Pro Station\u003c\/i\u003e (WWII), \u003ci\u003eThe Final Equation\u003c\/i\u003e (SF) and \u003ci\u003eReruns ad Infinitum\u003c\/i\u003e (SF\/Fantasy). He concocted a satiric blog at EmptyGlassFull, a collection of which is grandly entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Very First Blog Posts of All Time\u003c\/i\u003e. The author's harrowing, wry Christmas short, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou Could Call It a Christmas Story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e was first published as a post. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 2013's epic \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Girl in the Coyote Coat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e burst out of its original Mystery genre and page count. No one would call it a Romance, either. With its real estate and finance backdrop, the novel exposes how love, sex, money, scams, drugs, house-breaking and -shopping and fur coats can affect the lives of intriguing characters and even kill a few. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Girl in the Coyote Coat\u003c\/i\u003e was rebranded in 2016 as \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Need Apart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, with identical content and a sedate, more \u003ci\u003eLiterary\u003c\/i\u003e cover, featuring the same model and coyote, to reposition the novel as decidedly literary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e November 2016's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Body in the Bog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is the first \u003ci\u003eSunset Noir\u003c\/i\u003e mystery novel of the planned \u003ci\u003eDeath by Condo\u003c\/i\u003e series, starring prematurely retired lawyer Ian Decker. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His 2009 screenplay-turned 2016 novel \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Last Three Minutes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a partly true ghost story, written partly on the beach and entirely on Naples East Bay, although it is set in Pittsburgh where its central true incident occurred. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All current covers adorning the author's works were designed by the author. The novels are available as ebooks and trade paperbacks, with those covers. The other works, and their covers, are available as ebooks.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48875293442297,"sku":"9781940227139","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Doca9URZrs9781940227139_879df653-5a5c-438c-b59f-de693c29d69a.webp?v=1787333714","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-last-three-minutes-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}