Bad Radio is an exceptional novel, telling the story of a man who had a mystical encounter during World War II, and was forever changed by it. Sixty years later, those events came back to haunt him, threatening the end of the world, unless he has the strength to overcome his own rage.
For a self-published Kindle title, Bad Radio is a very polished work. It's well-edited, with only a few technical errors (having read a number of amateur and self-published works recently, believe me, you can tell the difference between someone who's done their own editing and someone who's enlisted some professional help), and it's also well-formatted on the page, giving you something that looks like what you'd expect from a commercially published book.
The story is part Stephen King and part H.P. Lovecraft. Unlike some of my other recent reads, Langlois deftly moves the plot along, without having to resort to ham-handed expository devices. The story and dialogue flows naturally, moving things along, making this book hard to put down. The characters, even minor ones, were well-designed and expressive, acting in understandably emotional and logical ways, and that's an important thing. So many of these self-published books feature characters who act irrationally, in the sense that the author has given us no reason to understand why they might be doing the things they're doing - the author needs something to happen, so the characters just do it, despite there being no good reason for them to do those things. That's not a problem here.
There's a ton of backstory that is pieced together to give you just enough so that the conclusion of the story is sensible and satisfying, but as with any good book, leaves you wondering about many other things. I predict that Michael Langlois has a great opportunity to follow up Bad Radio with a sequel (or perhaps a prequel), and I'll be eagerly awaiting it.
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