by Charles BrownPublish: May 10, 2016Crime FictionSuspenseMystery
Book Overview
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
POWER AND GREED Sometimes the two go together. Such is the case when E.W. Thornton decides to use his position as Deputy Sheriff to extort money from businesses in Kirk County, Oklahoma. The more his power increases and the money piles up in his accounts, the more he wants of... both. When Sheriff Arlo Stewart disappears, E.W. is made interim Sheriff, and his hold on the county is secured.
COMPLICATIONS The more people involved in any scheme, the greater the risks and more numerous the complications. Then Evan Pierce, a young lawyer from the back East arrives in the county. In him, Thornton's victims find an advocate, and with his help, they exact their revenge.
CONSEQUENCES An intelligent man can guess the results of his actions, illegal or otherwise, before he even sets his plans in motion. E.W. Thornton pushes any thought of the consequences of his actions from his mind until it is too late to turn back. Straight ahead is his only option, and he is forced to follow the path he has embarked upon to its logical conclusion.
BIOGRAPHY Charles Brown decided to major in English and minor in history in college because he planned to be a writer and thought both would help him. He figured the teaching profession would allow him time to write, but he soon learned that teaching didn't leave much time for writing--not when he soon had a wife and three chi... ldren to support. So the writing was put on the back burner until he retired.
Now the nest is empty and there's time to write. His wife, Carolyn Brown, is a romance author so she understands what it means to have deadlines and characters running around in an author's head.
Brown graduated from high school in Mt. Union, Pennsylvania, from college at Southeastern State University in Durant, Oklahoma and taught high school English in three states, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, before he retired in 2008. He served three years in the Army, spending most of that time in Germany. He and his wife, Carolyn, have three children and enough grandchildren to keep them young.read more