About
My published work includes a short story collection, TALES FROM THE TINKER'S DAM, a soon-to-be-released novel, TWICE A FALSE MESSIAH, and over 200 stories and articles appearing in 8 countries. I am statewide Director of Arts Programming for COMPAS, and a lifelong vagabond traveler who has taken camelback, tramp freighter and third class train through 100 different countries (often with my wife, Judith, and my sons, Alex and Evan).
Description
<p>A Serial Killer Plagues an Island Paradise<br /><br />Vigilante detective Emily Stone continues her covert pursuits to find serial killers and child abductors, all under the radar while shadowing police investigations.<br /><br />Emily searches for an abducted nine-year-old girl taken by ruthless and enterprising slave brokers. Following the clues from California to the garden island of Kauai, she begins to piece together the evidence and ventures deep into the jungle.<br /><br />It doesn’t take long before Emily is thrown into the middle of murder, mayhem, and conspiracy. Locals aren’t talking as a serial killer now stalks the island, taking women in a brutal frenzy of ancient superstitions and folklore. Local cops are unprepared for what lies ahead. In a race against the clock, Emily and her team must identify the killer before time runs out.</p>
Story Behind The Book
In the fall of 1978, my wife and travel partner, Jude, and I were in the midst of a nearly 2 year-long trip. We set off up the Nile in tandem with an historian friend of ours, naively interested in exploring Egyptian history. Two months later we were outside the Mahdi's tomb watching rogue dervishes whirl against the fading sun. The genesis for False Messiah, and its setting, were in my back pocket, though it took many years to tease out the tendrils of theology that were needed to undergird it.
