His Wakeland series includes Invisible Dead, Cut You Down, Hell and Gone, Sunset and Jericho, and the upcoming Wrath of Exiles. The series has been praised for its authenticity and social realism. He’s also the author of Ocean Drive, Last of the Independents, Never Going Back, and A Lonesome Place for Dying under the pen name Nolan Chase.
Wiebe applied the Page 69 Test to Ocean Drive and reported the following:
From page 69:Visit Sam Wiebe's website.“Ivan’ll be by your place in twenty minutes. You got a bat?”Page 69 of Ocean Drive captures the lurking violence and uncertainty of the novel, but not it’s scope. Cameron Shaw, one of the two main characters, is being drawn into a world of gang violence and criminal conspiracies. A test is coming up, and all he knows is that it will involve someone getting hurt.
“Like for softball?”
More laughing, “For softball, yeah. That’s good. Our team plays a lot of night games.”
Cam was out of bed and dressed, guzzled an energy drink, dumped the ID out of his wallet. He waited ten minutes, thinking where he could get a baseball bat at two in the morning.
Cam’s story intertwines with the other main character, Meghan Quick, the small town cop who’s unravelling this conspiracy. Meghan doesn’t factor on this page, but as Cam gets deeper into this world, she becomes his adversary—and possibly the only one who can save him.
My Book, The Movie: Invisible Dead.
The Page 69 Test: Invisible Dead.
The Page 69 Test: Cut You Down.
Q&A with Sam Wiebe.
The Page 69 Test: Hell and Gone.
Writers Read: Sam Wiebe (March 2022).
My Book, The Movie: Hell and Gone.
My Book, The Movie: Sunset and Jericho.
Writers Read: Sam Wiebe (April 2023).
The Page 69 Test: Sunset and Jericho.
--Marshal Zeringue
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