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Over My Dead Body Kindle Edition

by Bruce A. Borders (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
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“Thought provoking!”

How far will a man go to protect his family?

When the director of Child Protective Services uses his position to exact a personal vendetta in removing three-year-old Ashley from the Blake’s home, Jeff Blake, a financial advisor, responds to the threats in the only way he feels he can – violently. By the end of the short encounter, three people are dead and Ashley, the daughter, is still taken and placed in temporary foster care, so the tragic fiasco gained Jeff nothing. Or, so it seems.

Matters are further complicated when Amy, the wife and mother, winds up for a brief stay in a mental ward due to the trauma she witnessed in her home. It seems as though everything is against the Blakes. Understandably, the police, as well as the Courts, are not too concerned with the needs of the family. Complete with many twists of fate, the story looks at the common problems of a typical family caught between love and the law.

“Exceptional! One of those books you can't put down!”

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"Over My Dead Body by Bruce A. Borders is a fast paced, dramatic and edgy story about how one can abuse the power they have in a legal system which is supposed to be used for the good of the people. I found it hard to stop reading as I really wanted to know what would happen next." - Readers' Favorite

About the Author

Bruce A. Borders was born in 1967 in Cape Girardeau, MO. Bruce's childhood years were spent in a number of states, including Missouri, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. During his high school years, he was a member of the football, basketball and track teams, involved in various non-athletic activities such as school yearbook production and photography, and won numerous awards for his artistic creations. Bruce graduated Valedictorian in 1984. While in school, Bruce held three part-time jobs; a store clerk, a janitor, and a dental technician, working about 60-70 hours per week. After graduation he became employed full time as a dental technician. Other jobs have included restaurant manager, carpenter and grocery store cashier. For the past sixteen years, he has worked as a commercial truck driver, logging more than two million miles. At the age of fifteen, Bruce decided to become a writer. He began by writing songs, news articles and short stories. Eventually, books were added to the list. Over the years, he continued to write and currently has a catalog of more than 500 songs, numerous short stories and over a dozen completed books. He writes on a variety of subjects such as the Bible and politics, as well as fictional novels of legal issues and westerns. Titles include: Inside Room 913, Over My Dead Body, Miscarriage Of Justice, The Journey, and in The Wynn Garrett Series - Mistaken Identity, Holy Terror, Remote Control, Judicial Review, Even Odds, Safety Hazard, and Dark Day.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00J5U2UL8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Borders Publishing (September 1, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 732 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 121 ratings

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Bruce A. Borders was born in 1967 in Cape Girardeau, MO. Bruce's childhood years were spent in a number of states, including Missouri, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

During his high school years, he was a member of the football, basketball and track teams, involved in various non-athletic activities such as school yearbook production and photography, and won numerous awards for his artistic creations. Bruce graduated Valedictorian in 1984.

While in school, Bruce held three part-time jobs; a store clerk, a janitor, and a dental technician, working about 60-70 hours per week. After graduation he became employed full time as a dental technician. Other jobs have included restaurant manager, carpenter and grocery store cashier. For the past nineteen years, he has worked as a commercial truck driver, logging more than two million miles.

At the age of fifteen, Bruce decided to become a writer. He began by writing songs, news articles and short stories. Eventually, books were added to the list. Over the years, he continued to write and currently has a catalog of more than 500 songs, numerous short stories and 14 completed books. He writes on a variety of subjects such as the Bible and politics, as well as fictional novels of legal issues and westerns.

For more information please visit http://www.bruceaborders.com or http://bruceabordersbook.weebly.com.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Shirley Slaughter
5.0 out of 5 stars A Story With A Happy Ending!
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2014
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What a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat story this was! And Bruce knows all the legal jargon that helped me to understand the judicial process. It was easy to follow the characters and the writing was thoughtful and well-written. The plot was exceptional. It was a good read. Once I got into the story it was really hard to put it down because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. It is a triumph of good over evil. Good job Bruce. I recommend this book highly. I really do.
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Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko
4.0 out of 5 stars Book Review of Over My Dead Body by Bruce Borders
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2016
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This is a very fascinating book, with a powerful story line. I couldn’t believe the things the Blakes had to go through, that someone could wield such powers over another, just to bully them into doing what they want. Mr. Clint Parkens came through as the ultimate bully. I was thinking, if he was that bad as a grown up, what could he has been like as a youngster. With all the havoc he caused, I did not read that he was remorseful, rather his twisted mind spurred him to dig deeper into the hole he found himself. What a twerp!

I enjoyed this read, and couldn’t put it down until the end, although, I must say that the style of writing left me a little bit wondering what a bad job the editor did. From the beginning to the end of the story, I encountered too many sentences staring with the “ing” word, and many also starting with “As”. These are things a good editor could have put right. I strongly recommend that the author should do a second editing of this fascinating book so that the book will earn it the high marks it deserves.
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Kathryn Treat
5.0 out of 5 stars Every parent's worst nightmare!
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2014
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Author Bruce A. Borders captured my attention in Over My Dead Body immediately with Jeff Blake being on the receiving end of a barrage of bullets on the first page. "And What are you going to do?" the worried woman asked nervously. "You can't stop them all. Those are cops!"

Jeff Blake is threatened by the head of CPS that if he doesn't give him the inside information on investment trading, he will have Blake's three-year-old daughter removed from the home. Suddenly two police officers are dead along with a CPS worker. This story is every parent's nightmare. How easy it would be for someone to falsify records and suddenly your child is about to be taken away from you.

Mr. Borders takes on the moral dilemma of what a parent might do to save their child from being forcibly removed from its home when they know the charges are false. I have no idea what I would do had I been placed in the same position of character Jeff Blake. I don't think I could just sit back and allow my child to be taken from me.

The book is well written and the characters engaging. This book was a fast read for me. I just couldn't put it down. I wanted to know what happened in the next chapter and the chapter after that. I look forward to reading more of Mr. Border's books.
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Pamela Foley
3.0 out of 5 stars An okay read
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2014
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This is a story of Jeff, Amy and their 3-yer old daughter, Ashley, being manipulated by an overstepping Director of the Child Protective Services. When the CPS and police officers show up to take Ashley away, Jeff is forced to protect his family anyway he can. Due to his actions, he lands in jail, facing a life sentence or a death penalty. The story outlines Jeff’s struggle to win his case in court against all odds.

With my personal experience with firearms and the people who keep firearms, plus the procedures put in place by local police departments regarding the drawing of a firearm, let alone the use of a firearm against a prep or a civilian, I don’t see this scenario as plausible. Now if we were talking about the FBI or the CIA. Yes. Remember Ruby Ridge or Waco?
That being said, I did find the beginning of the story quite dramatic with the slapping of the bullet into the doorframe. I just wish the story maintained that suspenseful pace. But it didn’t Some of the problem was too much passive style writing versus aggressive writing.

The plot was the same little man against the government theme with a few plot twists. Unfortunately, Brue gave so many hints throughout the story, that I had it figured out way before they were revealed. No surprises. And to be honest, I figured them out without the hints.

The settings were mainly in Jeff’s jail cell, Amy’s house or the court room. Amy’s character did develop along the way, but I didn’t see any development in Jeff’s character. Bruce did a decent job of showing the emotions the husband and wife was going through with the numerous trials: the loneliness, despair and feelings of helplessness. The one true emotion he didn’t show at all was guilt/remorse. Unless you are a socio-path or a hardened criminal, you are going to feel guilt/remorse over taking a person’s life. Jeff and Amy were only centered on themselves.

I felt the progress of the story was very slow. Some of the slow pace was the constant jumping back and forth between Jeff and Amy reiterating the same feelings. Also, there was no definition of character between the two. If it weren’t for the dialogue tags, you wouldn’t know which character was talking or thinking at the time.

Bruce has a very good use of vocabulary, and as mentioned in a previous post, no foul language. But there were a few words that jumped out at me like he didn’t know what they meant. Like blind sighted instead of blindsided.

For me, this was a ho-hum read and definitely did not keep me on the edge of my seat. Anyway, I give the book 3 stars.
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Carmen Garant
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read.
Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2018
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This was a really great read. Captures you from the very start and keeps you turning those pages until the very end. Solid storyline. Great characters. Definitely worth the read.
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Deepak
5.0 out of 5 stars Good one, Go for it
Reviewed in India on April 22, 2016
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Good read, Can finish in one go, though u can predict the outcome, Still u ,may enjoy it, Enjoyable, Jj
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Bill
5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting Adventure!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2014
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I really enjoyed this book. It moves at a very fast pace and I was hooked from the first few pages. I found the subject matter very unsettling. I have seven daughters and the thought of anyone wrongly trying to take my children away from me, leaves me angry to say the least and as I read, I was feeling this anger on behalf of the main character. This is testimony to the quality writing of the author.
The dramatic events of the first part of the book are followed by a court case and I love courtroom dramas, especially where an underdog is trying to right an injustice. The writer conveys a good understanding of the legal issues but doesn't drown us in legal talk.
I am a Brit and I suspect reactions from Brits and Americans may be slightly different. We simply don't have the gun culture prevalent in the USA and so the events would seem rather more improbable than to a US audience. There would also probably be intense discussion over the moral implications of shooting innocent police officers no matter the provocation. I prefer to suspend disbelief and remind myself it is fiction, which makes some important points about abuse of power and the importance of family. At the end of the day, nothing is more important than our family and in particular our children.
Personally, as I said at the outset, I loved the book, but given the subject matter, vital to that enjoyment was the fact it has a happy ending!
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Sarah Stuart - Readers' Favorite Reviewer
4.0 out of 5 stars Slightly disappointing from the author of the brilliant “Inside Room 913”
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2015
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The story opens with explosive action, as befitting a thriller. A flashback of a few hours shows Jeff Blake, investment advisor, refusing to comply with a new client’s request that his money should be illegally safeguarded by Jeff’s “insider” knowledge. The client, the director of the county’s Child Protective Services, leaves when his threat to have the Jeff’s daughter taken into care doesn’t force him to cooperate. Incredibly, that is what happened at the start: 3-year-old Ashley was forcibly removed from her home and Jeff, who attempted to prevent it, is soon charged with three murders.

The author held me gripped until he relied on a coincidence. Jeff, in hospital under police guard after surgery on his own wounds, has a nurse, Kari, who became involved with her patient for no apparent reason. At that point I thought I’d guessed the end but I read on, sure I would be proved wrong and it was a clever twist. The book is well-written and much of it is a joy to read. The scenes in court involving Jeff’s maverick attorney are marvellous. Sadly, my guess as to the end of the book was 100% right.
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Stephen W. Douglass
5.0 out of 5 stars AN EXCITING A FAST MOVING THRILLER!
Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2014
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The author has done a masterful job of creating a novel of high a growing tension. I was captivated from the opening chapter, and could not put it down until the last. This is a made for screen play novel.

I look forward to reading more from this author.
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