Mirror Image

About the Book

It is often said: "Everyone has a "double" out there, somewhere.”

What would happen if a persons "double" actually interfaced with the "Other Doubles Peer Group"  and do it so perfectly,  no one could tell the difference?

Nick Bogart is about to find out.

On a chilly afternoon in 1962, Nick Bogart found little amusement in his favorite Saloon across the state line of Iowa/South Dakota in North Sioux City.

Bogie wandered across the street to see if the entertainment quotient was any better over there.  

Somewhere in the distance of 150 feet, “Bogey” stepped into the world of  "Gary Luther".  It may just as well have been a pathway to a corner of Hell.

It did not seem that way at first.  When Gary Luther’s drop-dead gorgeous girlfriend climbed on to Bogey’s lap in a burst of passionate familiarity,  Bogey decided it might be OK to stay as “Gary” for "just a little while".

Bogie stayed "Gary" too long.

There was “baggage” with this relationship.

This woman was woefully underage, and had a lunatic estranged husband chasing around looking for her.  Gary also had enemies, and a mysterious existence.  No one knew where he came from, or what he did for a living. All anyone knew about him was that he had lots of  "Charm."

It is also a time of discovery of the differing depths and heights of romantic realities for Bogey, as well as the existance of worlds he is not familiar.

Things are happening he cannot explain, and people around Gary were disappearing, and dying out there.

Bogey finds himself captured in an ever-tightening spiral of confusion, danger, passion, violence, mystery, the supernatural,  and heartbreak; trying to understand what is going on, and trying to get back some semblance of normalicy in his life.

About the Author

Richard Flewelling; a retired, disabled combat veteran, college educated, former business owner and consultant, has been accused of being a perfect model for the feature character in the popular movie "Big Fish". (he wasn't, really)

Born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1941 and raised by a workaholic father, Richard learned how to do a great many things at an early age. But not told why.

Believing the tales told by others what the real world was all about, he left home at 18 to discover his destiny. Now, nearly 50 years later, he is still looking.

Those years were spent discovering that often what appears behind the window while you are looking in, does not necessarily depict what you will be experiencing once you are on the other side of that glass, looking out.  As a consequence, Richard went through a lot of doorways, saw and experienced a lot of things.

Now there is a deep well of experience across a broad spectrum of places to be fictionally woven into (hopefully) reading entertainment. 

"Flewelling! where the hell do you come up with all that B.S. anyway?"  a common remark from his peers. To which he often says, "What possibly could I gain by lying about these things? Everything I have told you I know from personal experience or know to be a verifiable fact!" 

Most of that was regarded as fiction too.

Flewelling has been told many times to write these stories. "If you can write it as well as you can tell it, you should do OK."

Well, moving beyond past magazine stories and newspaper articles, comes the Premier Book. "MIRROR IMAGE".

Much of this book is based upon actual happenings but in this genre, he can lie all he wants, make it fiction, and most likely, more believable.