THE
DESCENT FROM TRUTH
By
Gaylon
Greer
BLURB:
Alex
Bryson is patrolling Rocky Mountain backcountry in his job as a
security guard when he discovers a woman with a baby wandering alone
in the snow far from the nearest road. He takes them to shelter in a
weekender cabin and sees a newscast that suggests the woman, Pia
Ulmer, kidnapped the baby from its rightful parents and that it is
the sole heir of Peru’s wealthiest and most corrupt family. Pia
claims that she is the baby’s mother, and Alex doesn't know what to
believe. After turning her in, he continues to struggle with his
budding feelings for her and remains unsure of the true story. He
becomes more and more involved until finally there is no turning
back—lives are on the line. He helps Pia get free from a brutal
world that values money over life, and together they devise a plan to
reclaim the baby. Just when it looks like they might succeed, they
discover an international conspiracy that changes the game entirely.
EXCERPT:
“Please,” she said, her voice as rough as sandpaper and barely above a whisper. “Please, do not give my baby to those people.”
“Are we back to that? First you're his mother, then you're his nanny. Now you're his mother again?”
“They took him from me. Look at him, Alex. Both Mr. Koenig and his wife are blondes.”
“Koenig’s an old man. His hair's white.”
“Study Frederick's face. Do you not see me in his eyes? His chin and his mouth?”
The similarities were uncanny, he'd grant her that. Good enough to get away with claiming to be the kid's mother if Alex hadn't learned the truth. The way she had attacked him, trying to kill him with that skillet, she clearly didn’t want to go back to civilization and prove who she was. He turned away, tossed Frederick in a maneuver that brought a cry of delight, and stuffed the boy's blanket-clad feet through the leg holes in the backpack. With his parka snapped around both of them and the diaper bag tied to his waist, he gripped his rifle in one hand, his snowshoes in the other, and headed for the porch. At the door, he turned for a final glance at Pia.
She had set her mouth in a stubborn line. The eye that had been plastered shut was closed. She stared at him with the other. When she saw him looking at her, she spoke again. “Watch over him, Alex. Someone wants to harm him. Don’t let them.”
A new tack, another lie. He stepped onto the porch and strapped on his snowshoes. That should have been the last he saw of her, but the specter of her ravaged face and defiant expression stayed with him as he trudged across the sunlit expanse of glistening snow that sloped gradually toward the Warrior River Gorge.
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AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
Working with
traveling carnivals and itinerant farm labor gangs during his teen
and early adult years took Gaylon Greer up, down, and across the U.S.
and introduced him to a plethora of colorful individuals who serve as
models for his fictional characters. After several years as an Air
Force officer and then a university professor with a Ph.D. in
economics, Greer developed an interest in writing fiction and
attended workshops at the University of Iowa, the University of
Nebraska, and Bryn-Mawr College. He also studied with the U.C. Davis
Extension program and the Algonquian Writers Group. His most recent
novel, THE DESCENT FROM TRUTH is available at www.Amazon.com
and other e-book retailers. Please visit Greer at www.GaylonGreer.com
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