TSB Magazine Celebrates the Fifth Anniversary of the Best Selling Book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists with 31 Day Challenge.

June 4, 2010- TSB Magazine announced that in honor of the fifth anniversary of Neil Strauss’s bestselling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, they are offering their subscribers a chance to participate in the 31 Days to Better Game Challenge.

“We decided that since Neil Strauss’s book ‘The Game’ was so instrumental in our early rise to become one of the leading reporters of the pickup artist community, that we would honor the anniversary of the book by offering our subscribers a special free promotion.” said TSB Magazine’s Managing Editor Bobby Rio.  “We figured the best way to honor the book was to continue in its tradition of helping me improve their dating lives.”

The book, which was released nearly five years ago, became an almost instant best seller.  It captured the spirit of an entire underground community, commonly referred to as “the seduction community.”

Neil Strauss, a New York Times reporter, spent several years within the community as research for an article.  However, during that time, he dramatically changed from self proclaimed “average frustrated chump” to a “pickup artist.”

TSB Magazine is giving its readers an opportunity to celebrate the 5^th anniversary of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by participating in a 31 days to better game challenge.  The challenge will offer subscribers a chance to get 31 lessons, delivered daily via email, each teaching a fundamental lesson on how to improve your dating life.

“We truly believe that every guy deserves an opportunity to achieve the same level of success as Neil Strauss,” said Bobby Rio.  “Our 31 Day Challenge is geared for both beginners, as well as long time students of the game.”

When asked if prior knowledge of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists was necessary to participate in the challenge, Bobby Rio said “Even if you’ve never read the book, all it takes it a firm desire to improve your ability to meet and attract women.”

TSB Magazine is an online men’s magazine covering dating, relationships, fashion, and lifestyle advice.

Having reviewed the prequel to this book called Smoke and Murders (March 2009), I was pleased to have a chance to read and review Three Trailers Down. The prequel fictionalized the true story of the Hodges family, brutally murdered in Vinton, Virginia in 1994. Three Trailers Down picks up the story in the months following the conviction of Adam Bracket for the slayings.

Author Douglas Chandler Graham spends the first dozen or so chapters introducing us to new characters and reacquainting us with a few from Smoke. There is no clear protagonist or villain as this is truly an ensemble cast of intriguing, well-developed players.

We return to small town Virginia near Vineyard, a resort town called Bondurant where the Bondurant family serve only the wealthy elite in the Bondurant Lodge. Some twenty years previous, a hit man killed three people there, and sixteen year-old Amanda Bondurant ran away, never to be seen or heard from again.

From the well-to-do of the Lodge, we visit Newberry Suggs and his rundown trailer park. Despite the reputation of trailer parks and the people who reside in them, Suggs does his best to keep respectable tenants in and the police out.

Vineyard Police Lieutenant Bill Kenny has just been fired after years of illegal and corrupt practises. After the suspicious death of his wife, he finds his way to Bondurant Lodge for the possibility of work. State police inspector, Bernard “Bear” McNutt, the cop responsible for the arrest and conviction of Adam Brackett in the prequel, is investigating the death of Bill’s wife, Camilla Kenny.

This book could have easily been called Sex and Murder, as so many of the players are either sleeping with someone or killing them. Bill Kenny is hired to find Amanda Bondurant and her jealous husband is set on finding her as well. A restaurateur with mob connections puts a hit man on Kenny’s tail. All the players make their way to the Suggs Mobile Home Village where Amanda has been in hiding as she considers contacting her nearby family.

Author Graham sets us up for a gripping climax at the trailer park and doesn’t disappoint. He uses tension, conflict, realistic dialogue and a captivating collection of unique characters to weave an entertaining and satisfying, quick read. I recommend Three Trailers Down. If you enjoyed Smoke and Murders you won’t want to miss the exciting conclusion.

http://www.threetrailersdown.com

978-1-4415-5755-1

November 2009
Xlibris

By William R. Potter for Reader’s Choice Reviews