The Permanox Redemption emerged months before our media began its expose on today's shocking proliferation of pedophelia. This novel's precognitive capacity is apparent throughout. Most fiction about evil illuminates the darkness, rendering us victimized and terrorized, and we are left with an increasingly debilitating belief in our own powerlessness. An inspired novel will draw the reader into a potent scenario for altering one's capacity to deal with pain, rage and endless suffering. It is the rare bereaved parent who is aided by full-throttle fate to move on with his/her life. Emaly does that and even more, giving us a taste of some possible alternative choices for human destiny.
Keene's writing alone is worth the read. Many modern authors play to the level of the mass mind and vocabulary, leaving the reader unchallenged. Not Keene. His gifts to the reader invested in her own growth are prodigious.Delving into a variety of sub- plots, Keene brings you back to center in a timely manner. Philosophy, metaphysics, social justice and a touch of sexuality are all part of the intrigue of this, his first novel. Keene's fluidity of tale will pull you into a personal space most often missed, a place you may not have known exists. This is a book that will create a long-term memory pocket in your psyche. Don't miss it.

This novel tackles a subject of serious and timely concern, the menace of predacious pedophiles. Keene has done a masterful job of storytelling by using fiction as a vehicle to express the collective rage we all feel about social injustice, while at the same time using his informed science background and grasp of Eastern philosophies to make some sense of a sometimes senseless world. By tapping into the timeless realm of the collective unconscious, where archetypes of light and shadow engage in the eternal struggle between good and evil, Keene has personified these forces in the fully developed and complex characters of Emaly and Roger, bringing them to life in the readers imagination. The author successfully juggles multiple plot lines, while simutaneously weaving narrative and dialog in a seamless flow of ideas, images,emotions and action that carry the reader aloft on the white wings of redemption and across the black abyss of the Permanox.

Anyone who has been frustrated with the legal system and how it often deals with the perpetrators of unspeakable crimes against children, should read this book. Keene reaches into the preternatural for an effective remedy to deal with the evil, bypassing judge and jury. As such, the mother/heroine does not avenge with the kiss of death but with a non-negotiable offer of redemption only fiction has the authority to allow.

As reference material relating to biking, I have come across few better than this book. It gives a good feel for what you can expect area by area, is written by somebody with obvious passion and an understanding of the variety of people and capabilities off road biking attracts and really does cover the whole of Scotland.

Down sides are: poor referencing to maps, especially first map of Scotland with routes (this should be tied in to page number). Some of the route descriptions are innacurate and start points are difficult to find (best advised to take a map and compass, even for the apparently obvious routes).

The book is value for money with out doubt.

I would like to see a book that covers biking routes with walks.

Pleased to see my book in your web site - It's a hard-back though not a paper-back - personally I think it's the best Scottish biking guide Harry Henniker