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Author: Michael Mehas

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 978-0-595-43571-5

Michael Mehas worked as the associate producer on Alpha Dog, a major film that starred Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone. In 1988 Michael received his Juris Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law and later graduated from the Academy of Justice School of Advocacy. Michael had a brief period with the Public Defender’s office and private practice where he researched, prepared and tried felony criminal matters which included a death penalty case.

Later in the 1990s Michael tried his hands at both screenwriting and also international freelance journalism. In 2003 he got involved in and co-founded an international news and feature Internet magazine called The Inquisitor.

Michael currently lives on California’s beautiful Central Coast.

Stolen Boy is represented as a fictional novel however it is actually based on a real event, the case of Jesse James Hollywood who is the youngest man ever on the FBI's Most Wanted List. Also it is the story that is still happening in the Southern California court system.

Michael has used the background of Los Angeles for Stolen Boy - a novel about confused teens struggling to make sense of reality amidst booze, drug schemes and fast cars.

Pot dealer Micky Youngblood wants to find Rick LeBlanc, a mate he once shared a friendship with making a career in the drug business together. However that turned sour over the debt of $2000 and now Micky wants to make him pay.

Revenge is high on the list with property damage and threats to families a reoccurring theme throughout this book.

When Micky and his friends go out on a search party for Rick, they spot his fifteen-year old younger brother, Bobby, and kidnap him as a ransom. This should get Rick to sort this money business out with Micky shouldn’t it?

Bobby wants freedom but promises he won’t tell a soul about the kidnapping if he is let go. But when faced with tough decisions, Micky makes some poor choices.

Things are not always as they seem in this story and the tragic outcome the teens never saw coming is one that will leave an imprint on your mind forever.

This compelling novel is very much a read that tackles the problems that today’s teens have to deal with in everyday life. Michael has a great understanding of the problems young people face having worked for 20 years practicing Criminal Defence and Family Law.

The characters are so strongly written and the environment so real you can almost touch it, feel it and smell it. It may seem like an ordinary book with these main characters as teens but it is very different and much more realistic than anything in this type of genre I’ve read. It is a tragic tale about these youths from broken homes that eventually lead from brainwashing and revenge to murder.

The vulgar dialogue did put me off a little, it seemed that almost every sentence consisted of swear words but some may think this makes these characters more convincing and life-like. Read this page-turner and find out for yourself. A wonderful, heartbreaking story that is just un-put-down-able.

Michael hopes his book will help people learn to love and appreciate everything we’ve got in life, he also hopes it will open more people’s eyes that sometimes teens are not really guilty of anything and that if we only listened to them and their side of things more often, we’d see most of them as Michael does.

Let’s hope Michael produces more brilliant work like this again and raises more awareness that sometimes young people aren’t always to blame. I cannot recommend this enough.

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