Innocents Beware

Innocents Beware

Lester Earl Shanks was twelve years old, without a father, or now, a mother. He was totally devoid of any feeling of loss for either parent, as he stood over the lifeless, bleeding body of his abusive, alcoholic mother, whom he had just pushed down a flight of stairs. He had initiated and completely enjoyed the death of his mother and had accidentally entered into an unknown state of being that was full of pleasure and power, and he desired this feeling again. And on that day, a killer was born.Tralee Isbell Krider (Tik) was born to the west of Ripley, Tennessee. His mother died months after he was born, and he spent a great deal of time raising himself, developing insights and powers of observation that border on paranormal by the time he is sixteen. When his girlfriend, Anne is kidnapped, he begins working with Agent Dent of the FBI to recover her, but ten years end up passing. Then, Hannah, the daughter of one of Tik’s childhood friends, is kidnapped by Shanks and two destinies collide, with explosive results. Join us for a nail biting thriller, from the author of “Vengeance and Grace” and “The Long Run.” Daniel R Holladay DVM is a native Tennessean, a multi-degreed historian, mathematician, chemist, Veterinarian, Public Health Officer for the USDA, ex law enforcement, Federal Investigator and full-time author. He worked as a cancer researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN, then spent 20 years as a Federal Investigator, and eight years as a Deputy Sheriff. He has been a hunter, a tennis player for more than thirty years, and a University Tennis Coach. Daniel has traveled extensively in the United States and Western Europe. His many life experiences, his childhood in the countryside of West Tennessee and his extensive formal education have provided him with the expertise to write this book, to entertain, teach and involve the reader, with accuracy, emotion and wit. Holladay has one son, who works in the Department of State and a wife of nearly 50 years. He considers the writing process a pleasure and hopes to enlighten and entertain a broad demographic with his work.