Jake returns to his home town to meet the Sheriff and dig up the body of his father who has lain in an unmarked grave for twenty years. We return to the summer Jake turned twelve and begin to learn the truth.
Jake’s uncle Al has returned to town. His affair with Jake’s mother years before tore the family apart. With Al’s return the passions are all rekindled and Jake tries to take advantage of the situation to rid the family of his father who may murder them all.
He saves his grandfather and mother. And he learns that there are parts of us that are inescapable.
Professional Reviews
No Country For Young Boys
By R. Shirk "RS"
I thoroughly enjoyed this mythical confrontation between a 12 year old boy and his father. The tough-minded writing, as when the father Stacy is lying in wait for his brother..."His shirt had dissolved into paste long ago, the vinyl of the seat was sticky and hot. His neck had hardened into wood...Taking careful aim at his brother's head ... Stacy would squeeze the trigger. Like going to the refrigerator for a slice of cheese. Then why was he so nervous?" And the difficult choices this boy must make in the eddies of an unpredictable and murderous adult triangle remain believable as any horror story we have avidly listened to about neighbors or friends. Not Hollywood, the violence is normal, expected, unacceptable but untimately forgiveable. Read this book...for the redemption. RS
This was no mere illusion. Colin Chase Rand, pulled through a magical portal, landed in 1935 where the dust bowl and the Great Depression was destroying lives, and a serial killer was in their midst
The FBI Inspector (380 pages) is a collection of 25 short fiction crime novellas involving the law enforcement services of FBI Inspector Joe Giralo along with his three government agents, Sal Velardi, Arthur Orsi and Dan Blachford.
