Tom Brewster Livres

Only Paralyzed From The Neck [Paperback] [Jun 24, 2013] DAN, BREWSTER

There are few things that occur in a flash that change our entire soul as a nation. One of those was the 9/11 attack on the World Trade center. In a surreal moment, even the least concerned about world affairs became totally irreversibly involved. Terrorism was instantly front and center to everyone around the globe. To some it was more personal. Many of whom lost loved ones in the inferno at ground zero, could not rid themselves of the need to "even the score". The Road to Floradixie is traveled by a magnificent man of superior intellect and strength, one who became part of the secret organization borne out of the many survivors/relatives to "always remember". To fight terrorism in the shadows. Along come two old unsuspecting retired cops who wander into the secret war. Completely out of their element, ill-equipped for little more than a fishing trip, they embark on a path that ultimately destroys a sinister plot to kill every tourist on Hollywood Beach, Florida. The battle culminates at the Floradixie truck stop, the bloodshed second only to loss of life since 9/11.

Like so many novice writers, Tom Webster felt sure he could write the great American novel. After all, he had been in law enforcement all of his adult life and could spin a story with the best of them often based on some of his more unusual experiences and interesting background. He was drawn to the idea of testing his writing skills. He had a good place to start. His grandfather had been involved in a gunfight when his mother was a child, although the matter was whispered behind closed doors and details were scarce, conflicting, and then long forgotten. The victim who caught the bullet in his gut was able to struggle into the yard falling at his mother's feet. The mystery lingered in Tom Webster's curiosity and imagination for the bigger part of his life. He was not a stranger to secrets. He had his own that haunted him. He felt like he could unburden himself by putting word to paper. He and his skeptical wife, always up for an adventure, decided to take a road trip down a path that would eventually uncover a series of surprising details and events surrounding the incident, which would shine the light of truth on an infamous secret awaiting an author's pen. But when all was said and done, he left the secret lie. The pages blank.

In the mid-seventies Roderick Constance, much like many college freshmen out on their own in a world without parental constraints for the first time, late second semester was a time of disappointment and turmoil with the direction of how his life was headed. His academic and social failures were always someone else's fault, his trouble with the law a matter of a conspiracy of misunderstanding his right to do as he pleased without consequence. The primary difference between this 19-year-old's self-absorption and most others was that he carried out his savage revenge without regard to humanity and what was known in those days as common decency. He methodically murdered people who got in his way and those who were only pursuing their lives in an honest, purposeful way. In 2011 retired police officer Morgan Cooper reveals the recurring nightmare and lingering memories that haunted him for the last 35 years, surrounding a routine shoplifting misdemeanor case in which he had been the arresting officer. The mystery unfolds and details unravel in a terrifying look into the darkest recesses in the mind of a young man without a soul.