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After witnessing a brutal attack on his sister, aspiring young pastor Jacob Carmichael is troubled by why there is so much evil in the world. His journey of self-discovery takes him out of the comfort of his small town in South Carolina, to Gulf Coast City, Florida. Rather than a safe place to begin a new life, Gulf Coast City proves to be a town steeped in human trafficking, greed and vice.

Jacob is swept up into an underworld of depravity he hadn’t known existed. As he becomes acquainted with criminals and their victims, his first instinct is to rescue those who are being destroyed. But first, he needs to come to terms with his own desires, sobriety and crumbling faith.

When beautiful Karina from Belarus arrives, Jacob’s life becomes hopelessly complicated. Just when he realizes he’s fallen in love with her, she becomes the prey of the human traffickers who are destroying so many lives. Will Jacob be able to find the courage necessary to take a stand against them? And if he does will it be in time to save Karina?

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 3943 KB
Print Length: 358 pages
Publisher: Premier Press Publishing (18 December 2016)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B01N0SNUZ4
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DWP

Twist-filled and Entertaining Look into a Common Man's Descent into Depravity

2 January 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Gulf Coast City starts off with a bang, when a young by-the-book pastor, Jacob, experiences a violent crime where his family is the victim. From here on, this action-packed novel follows Jacob into the seedy underbelly of Gulf Coast City, which contains all the sins imaginable and houses the most dangerous or conniving criminals.

The fascination for me was reading as the simple-minded Jacob descends into the madness of his new surroundings, and how what at first glance looked so foreign and beneath him became an area where he soon learns to not only survive in, but become one member of the community.

This story starts at 100 mph and doesn't let up, with a healthy dose of shady characters and plot twists to keep the reader holding on for the ride.

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Jean

This is a great book. Fast reading and exciting

2 March 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a great book. Fast reading and exciting. Well done David

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Suspense thriller with religious messaging

14 January 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

Jacob Carmichael, a 21-year-old pastor in training, struggles to make sense of the brutal attack on his sister by a schizophrenic drifter. The attack occurred during a robbery at the church where Jacob was interning. Jacob was late to meet his sister at the church, having lingered in the arms of a girlfriend. It wasn’t the first time Jacob’s temptations with wine, women and song contributed to a family tragedy. His parents were killed in a car accident on their way to bring Jacob home from a night of partying.

At the advice of his pastor, Jacob decides to leave his quiet South Carolina town and travel to Gulf Coast City, Florida. His primary reason for the trip is to speak with the wife of the drifter, hoping to better understand what motivated the drifter’s evil behavior, and in the process, learning what influences the actions of those engaged in violence and greed.

If Jacob wanted to learn about violence and greed, he traveled to the right place. He quickly finds himself immersed in a human trafficking and prostitution ring. Jacob innocently takes a job as operations manager for an employment agency, which turns out to be a front for identifying young immigrant women to serve as exotic dancers and prostitutes. He’s eventually blackmailed into supporting their human trafficking business. Jacob searches for a way out and a way for his faith to be put to use.

Gulf Coast City by David Lloyd is about Jacob’s gripping voyage to understand evil and to balance his faith with his temptations. I found the book fast-paced from the beginning. It has all the elements of a suspenseful crime novel. Most of the dialogue flows naturally, even bringing dialects and slang into the conversations, but there are elements of the book I found distracting.

In my opinion, the frequent Bible verses and Commandments appearing in Jacob’s italicized thoughts detract from the book’s suspense genre and put Jacob’s thoughts at odds with his actions. Jacob’s character and the novel’s suspense genre could be more consistently maintained with fewer biblical references. Still, I found the book a fast read, constantly keeping my attention. There is plenty of intrigue and suspense throughout, and the conclusion has the element of surprise.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

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A young man surrounded by bad guys.

15 June 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

Title – Gulf Coast City
Author – David Lloyd
Genre – Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
347 Amazon Pages
Rating 3 stars out of 5 Posted 6/14/17
No 40. - 2017

My impressions: Naive, gullible, immature, simplistic, repetitious, corruption, evil characters.

Main Characters:
Jacob Carmichael – Twenty-one year old studying to become a Baptist preacher who becomes a drunken wimp.
Tamar Carmichael – Jacob’s sister.
Karina – student from Belarus who becomes Jacob’s girlfriend.
Mustapha – Libyan owner of Gulf Coast Jobs placement agency.
Yousra – Mustapha’s niece who travels to the US after being led to believe she is Jacob’s fiancé.
Suma – Turkish friend of Jacob’s who owns a restaurant in Gulf Coast City Fla.

Gulf Coast City begins in Tinsley, South Carolina. Jacob is late meeting his sister as he’d promised because he is dallying with a girl who wants to rape him.
While he fights his carnal urges, Jacob’s sister is physically attacked by a sociopath and roughed up but not sexually abused. Jacob accepts the blame for his sister’s dilemma and turns into a drunken looser, drops out of college and moves to Gulf Coast City to search for answers as to why God let Tamar suffer at the hands of her attacker.
Throughout the story, Jacob is portrayed as a gullible wimp who can be manipulated by the many corrupt people he meets in Florida. I grew tired of his naïve character and never developed the empathy for him the author obviously intended me to. His continued soul searching over his rejection of God and his acceptance of situations frowned upon by his religion was the main conflict of the story. Gulf Coast City has no mystery or suspense and is certainly not thrilling. It’s more of a coming of age genre as a twenty-one-year-old searches for maturity and to regain his faith in his religion.
There is a large cast of characters, too many to list here. Most of those not listed are bad, corrupt individuals trafficking in drugs and forced prostitution.

The book’s editing has issues with missing, misspelled and wrong words used. There are also comma issues and too many conflicts with past and present tense in the same sentence or paragraph.
Sentence structure in several instances needed to be rearranged for clarity.
Character development was meager except for Jacob.
The plot was weak and at times felt contrived.
Dialog, discounting foreign characters speaking broken English, seemed clumsy and unnatural.
Changes in scenes need a blank line between them to denote the new setting.

This review was provided in exchange for a free book.
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Susan Day (Author/Blogger Astro's Adventures)

An honest and well-thought out book of faith

28 December 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

Our story depicts the journey of discovery of Jacob Carmichael, a young pastor, who is trying to find the balance between the temptations of modern life and a devotion to his faith.
After his own temptations lead him astray there is an attack on his sister and the robbery of the church funds. From this point, he knows he needs to do a lot of soul searching.
Jacob wants to know why so many people turn to violence, greed and sex. So, he goes to the one place where these things are in abundance: Gulf Coast City, Florida. And, Jacob is not disappointed. From his safe and cosy hometown, he is plunged into a world of crime and depravity.
This is a well-thought out book which offers the point of view of someone who has to tread the well-known path between faith, and living in the modern world. The author tackles some tough issues with honesty and a clarity of purpose.
If you are a person of faith I am sure you will identify with Jacob’s situation.

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