The Tempest Trilogy is a collection you read with the lights on. Goldberg is a literary magician who has written a chilling trio about good turned into consummate evil – it scared the bejeesus out of me – which is at the same time, wise and compassionate. -- John Dufresne, Author, Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps The Mind A Little, Deep In The Shade Of Paradise, The Lie That Tells A Truth – A Guide To Fiction Writing W.W. Norton & Company.
A villain we both love and hate, two mentally challenged children in distress and the four friends who set out to save them, amidst the swirling terror of Hurricane Andrew, kept me reading into the night. -- Michael W. Sasser, Author, Pocket Books' Last American Heroes and Pocket Books' Fire Cops
Goldberg’s expedition into group madness by way of the Spanish Inquisition and today’s vengeance via-vampire is an enthralling meld of two dissimilar genres.-- Winona Sullivan, Author, A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Café, Dead South (St. Martins Press, Ballantine Books, Ivy). Winner, St. Martin’s Press, Private Eye Writers of America, Macmillan London Ltd., Best First Private Eye Novel Contest.
Five hundred years ago Tempest was a Dominican prior. A school friend, Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor for all Spain, invited him to Castile. There, a tortured old woman accused him of being her warlock. And, so, it began. Tempest was placed on the Santa Maria, was abandoned on Hispaniola, and there the cacique of the cannibalistic Caribes transformed him into something not human.
From that time forward, Tempest has hated the church and its succession of popes, because of the Dominicans’ leadership in the Spanish Inquisition.
Cindy hated it when the other boys called me Dummy. I have Down’s like the other boys at Cindy’s Kids, but she said I was not as bad as the others.
I go to school and get okay grades. I’m a good guy. Cindy says I’m slow to anger and quick to love. Even with my nickname, everyone at the home cares for me. And I wear my name like a badge of honor.
I was just starting my construction business, when I got a call from Tempest. He wanted me to build this bizarre theme park, with Hurricane Andrew barely hours away. But the money... I couldn’t turn it down. Besides, he introduced me to Pam.
For that I’ll be ever grateful.
Tempest brought Hunter and me together. That was his mistake.We made the perfect team. Hunter saved my life on several occasions in SatanWorld and IceAge. And Larry? He’s like family to us.
At first they all thought of me as another Cuban street gang punk. I guess they were right. But these people, they really turned my life around. You could say I’d walk through fire for them and really mean it. Because I did.
Hard to believe, before I met Tempest, I was a good-looking, undercover Miami-Dade police detective. Tempest did this to my face, with fingernails that grew into thick yellow claws, sharp as razor blades. He enjoyed every slice.