Moths to Flame Fredric Maffei Books
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Days from receiving his inheritance, young Nick hops in his truck and is California bound. Starved for a mentor/hero in his life, Nick hooks up with as canny a secret predator as ever was. One sizzling night on the town with babe-magnet Henry, and Nick flutters about him like a moth to flame. Enter Bunny! Smart and gorgeous, she's an African-American filmmaker intent on making a documentary about Nick's deceased dad, a little-known novelist of a bygone day. But when Bunny and Nick strike up a flame of their own, a jealous Henry looking on -- there's death to pay! Now Henry has not one but two moths to play with, to seduce, to cause to breathlessly hurl themselves against the deathly white heat of him. One delicate-winged little moth will break the cycle and fly away. One won't.
From Kirkus Indie Review
"A gripping thriller with as many twists and turns as a cross-country road trip."
Moths to Flame Fredric Maffei Books
The moth we follow in this novel is Nick. He's off to California to claim his fortune. Along the way he picks up Henry who describes himself as a soldier of fortune. It's an ominous clue Nick misses, probably because he's haunted by symbolic flames -- a field of sunflowers fertilized by his father's ashes. But unlike Nick, Henry doesn't miss much. He sizes up people pretty fast. In fact, he warns Nick to never play poker because he has too many "tells." Nick doesn't realize he's already in a high stakes poker match. Neither does he realize he's the only one gambling. Henry knows a sure thing when he sees it.Henry is the real flame in this novel. He dazzles everyone, including the reader. He's lover, father, brother, handyman, barterer and even doctor -- whatever it takes to work things to his advantage. But to Nick he's mostly a teacher. Henry's lessons are tough. Real tough.
The plot thickens with the introduction of Bunny almost midway through the novel. In an honest moment Henry tells her, "You're a pretty girl in the company of a-holes." She's a new flame for Nick and a new moth for Henry. It's with this trio we find out how cynical and dangerous Henry can be, dangerous as wolf to willing bunnies.
There's a moment early in the novel when a nymph offers Nick a peach -- a fruit the color of flames, btw. Right before he accepts, she takes a huge bite out of it then hands it over. You've got to love that sort of mouth-watering temptation. This is a novel meant not merely to be consumed, but digested. I highly recommend it -- especially for those who like their peaches a bit on the tangy side.
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Moths to Flame Fredric Maffei Books Reviews
I have to call this one a crafty psycho-thriller of a novel. In this one, the interplay between moths and flame well-nigh creeped me out. What most fascinated me about this book was its villain, truly an original. Subtly nuanced in his appetites, our villain Henry somehow manages to dish up for himself one delicious plate after the other, each containing an alive little delicacy only too primed and eager for Henry's gobbling them down. But what creeps me out most about the book (and yes, I realize full well how many times I've used that word here, unavoidable as it is) is how inevitable it is that Henry will have his way. As inevitable, in fact, as the rabbit's making of the fox - a hunter. For this, in a sense, is the theme of the book that while the hunter derives a good deal more satisfaction in their relationship than does his prey, it takes two to tango. And so a strange dance of "fox" and "rabbit" throughout, and then the sheer creepiness of witnessing rabbit after rabbit willingly and even eagerly offering its soft throat for the piercing and drinking. Now that's creepy.
Moths To Flame a journey into evil as low as it gets, carried out to violent termination by a super-predator who drinks-in and shares life with a passion, yet is more than willing to take your money and your soul, to glory in your losses, and then murder you.
Reading but a few pages in, I found myself not so much reading as sharing space with two men brilliantly brought to life, their depth of character growing richer with each page turned. I do not recall another example in my life whereby an author drew me in so deeply into a single character. That character's name is Henry. Is Henry handsome? I don't see him as such, but he oozes the kind of animal magnetism and strength of will that finds the chink in any woman's armor, and the door open, he successfully plies his seductively autocratic will to draw them into peaks of sexual frenzy, and it all happens because he doesn't care. How he deals with women is much how he deals with men--in particular, one man. His name is Nick, and he's a lost one--lost until Henry shows up and suddenly, "Nicky boy" is led to believe he has a father figure in his life--an influence sorely lacking in all the years behind him. Nick begins to evolve under Henry's tutelage. Nick meets drop-dead gorgeous Bunny. They're young, full of life and life's potentials--a relationship in the budding. Henry's take on it(?)...pick up this book. You'll love to hate him.
The moth we follow in this novel is Nick. He's off to California to claim his fortune. Along the way he picks up Henry who describes himself as a soldier of fortune. It's an ominous clue Nick misses, probably because he's haunted by symbolic flames -- a field of sunflowers fertilized by his father's ashes. But unlike Nick, Henry doesn't miss much. He sizes up people pretty fast. In fact, he warns Nick to never play poker because he has too many "tells." Nick doesn't realize he's already in a high stakes poker match. Neither does he realize he's the only one gambling. Henry knows a sure thing when he sees it.
Henry is the real flame in this novel. He dazzles everyone, including the reader. He's lover, father, brother, handyman, barterer and even doctor -- whatever it takes to work things to his advantage. But to Nick he's mostly a teacher. Henry's lessons are tough. Real tough.
The plot thickens with the introduction of Bunny almost midway through the novel. In an honest moment Henry tells her, "You're a pretty girl in the company of a-holes." She's a new flame for Nick and a new moth for Henry. It's with this trio we find out how cynical and dangerous Henry can be, dangerous as wolf to willing bunnies.
There's a moment early in the novel when a nymph offers Nick a peach -- a fruit the color of flames, btw. Right before he accepts, she takes a huge bite out of it then hands it over. You've got to love that sort of mouth-watering temptation. This is a novel meant not merely to be consumed, but digested. I highly recommend it -- especially for those who like their peaches a bit on the tangy side.
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