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Here’s what The Akron Beacon Journal had to say about West Tech Terrorist in their November 18, 2007 review:

The Akron Beacon Journal
November 18, 2007

World War II Intrigue Fills Cleveland Novel

By Barbara McIntyre

Before and during World War II, Nazi sympathizers in the United States tried to line up support by infiltrating organizations, including those in high schools. Rocky River author Peter Jedick tells of one such effort in his novel, The West Tech Terrorist.

Jedick, himself an alumnus of West Tech High School, begins his story at the 1941 National Air Races at Cleveland’s Edgewater Beach, where three teen boys see a boat approach them on the beach. Some men say something in a foreign language; then the boat disappears. On their way home, they find two men taking pictures of the bomber plant, next to the airport.

The narrator, Victor Blazek, is a sports reporter for The West Tech Tatler, and isn’t too interested when his faculty advisor tells him to interview a school chemistry teacher who’s going to do some work for the War Department. The teacher is tight-lipped and, after the school is shocked by the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Victor becomes obsessed with discovering what Mr. Fleming is hiding.

While writing for The Tatler, working at the grocery store and dating Doris the clarinet player, Victor has to make time to sleuth. But Doris is a good sport, and she helps with surveillance on the suspects. Soon Eliot Ness himself appears to close the case.

Jedick makes no secret of his affection for his alma mater, from its delicious lunches to its larger-than-life principal, C.C. Tuck. The West Tech Terrorist (240 pages, soft cover) costs$14.95 from http://www.westtechterrorist.com.