Literary Awards for Hazardous Material - Winner of the
2012 Hackney Literary Award for an unpublished novel - First Place, Novel of
the 2013 Year, Public Safety Writers Association - The 2012 Dana Award –
Finalist.
My Review
Bucky Dawson has a nose for trouble, literally. After seeing a woman he thinks might have
been his sister at a trailer suspected of being a meth lab just before it
exploded Bucky Dawson sets off on a journey that threatens to end him and gnaws
at the very threads of emotion that hold him together. Battling an increasing addiction to Percocet
Bucky, a Hazmat Officer, searches for clues to the past life of his sister
Brandy and her involvement with a biker gang named the Vagos.
The story takes place in the Mojave Desert, a place Kurt Kamm
seems very familiar with. As the plot twists Bucky heads into battle multiple
times only to return to his home bruised and battered. With no one to talk to
except a detective named Mike and his pet lizard named Zol Bucky sinks toward
desperation with only his increasing dependence on Percocet to bolster him. On
leave from his job and expecting to loose it Bucky pushes forward and suspects
the Meth lab activities of the Vagos are some how tied to an egocentric
Aerospace Engineer with a degree from MIT who makes drones for the USAF.
Kamm’s characterization is well thought out and the reader is
quickly drawn into the challenges and torments his protagonist, Bucky Dawson, faces. A villain named the Dwarf, who is the seven
foot tall Sergeant at Arms of the Vagos gang, is a menacing challenge for
Bucky’s clouded brain, and he and his brethren keep Bucky on his toes.
The book is well researched and Kamm has done his homework on
biker gangs, methamphetamine, secret air force military bases, and drones.
The plotting is well thought out and the story reads quickly
during its short 218 pages.
If you’re looking for a quick paced Thriller that will entertain
and educate you Hazardous Material is the one.
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