FATAL ADDICTION

 

 

Title:	Fatal Addiction
Author:	Everett Beal
Grade or Market Focus:	Demographic
No. Of Words:	86,282
Keywords & Market Focus:	Drug addiction, rape, murder, execution, hero, love story, affairs, Lortabs, Oxycontin, Homeland Security, pervasive evil, Holocaust, street drugs, King Pins, junkies, pushers and terrorists waiting in the shadows.
Synopsis:	The book's hero, a local pharmacist named Tyler, inadvertently becomes involved in a thrilling Homeland Security plot to foil the manufacturing and illegal distribution of an altered and super-deadly form of Oxycontin. Along the way he finds love with Miriam, hope, despair, and then hope again. As the book cover promises, it is a tale of intrigue guaranteed to set the reader's mind to thinking about once negligible possibilities, in the new age of international terrorism.
Author Bio:	Everett Beal has lived in the South all of his life. He’s a professional pharmacist, owner of two pharmacies, sportsman, and outdoor writer. He appeared on nine television shows, had his own radio show and acted in two movies. Author of Southern Winds, he had published more than five-hundred stories in newspapers and magazines.  When Dr. Beal retired, he and Judy moved to the northeast Georgia Mountains in Dillard.                                                        Having thirty years of experience in the pharmaceutical field, Doc Beal said, "I want to open the eyes of America and let people know they are in trouble. Drug addiction is happening everywhere. Habit forming drugs are available all over the world. Drug addiction is spreading like the tentacles of an octopus." He has studied addicted patients in Detox centers, mental and substance abuse centers and across the counter patients. Fatal Addiction was written to make the world aware that this generation is exposed to drugs on a daily basis. Drug abuse touches  every family
Other:	Fiction partially based on true happenings. *Fatal Addiction* took thirty months of my life many times spending ten or fifteen hours a day. Accomplishments: Creator of the first Georgia Book and Art Festival, Georgia Outdoor Writers-Past President, Distinguished Service Award- Ducks Unlimited Awards Recipient of the prestigious author award "The Power of Words" (Only a published author whose works are well written is considered for this award. The author must also display a high degree of emotional activity, and be accessible to his reading public.)   Two Rotary Wheel Awards- Service Above Self. First Place Award for Weekly Newspaper Writing. Member of the year for Georgia Outdoor Writers. Eight years of college, two degrees.  Owned The Merry Christmas Shop in the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains.   Edited by Lynda, a New York University Professor of Journalism Writers Literary Services Critique Administration