Bøger af Jerry Craven

Jerry Craven, a writer of literary fiction with a flare the dramatic, presents his best fiction in the 11 stories included in 'Ceremonial Stones of Fire.' Here you will meet Steven Duck, a Malaysian street dealer in coins who is determined to teach an American the way commerce can numb the spirit; Joko, a man in Bali who understands the true danger of magic monkeys and magic pigs; Weng, a man who must contemplate the moral implications of revenge upon a pirate; and other sympathetic characters who deal with what life brings them in what to us are exotic lands and events.

Within hours of arriving in Malaysia, Amarillo cowboy Noland Fritch and East Texas artist Kent Day face both dangerous criminals and over-zealous local police. While some of the thugs who confront Noland and Kent in the streets of Kuala Lumpur seem harmless and comical, others, especially those trafficking in sex slaves and drugs, prove to be serious in planning to murder the two Texans. The "detective" who searches for and follows Noland and Kent is a bumbling playwright who hopes to catch the two by writing and producing a play about them.

In seventeen well-wrought tales, you see people across Texas and around the world. There's an East Texas artist confronting a wild tiger in a Southeast Asian jungle, a child in Port Arthur trying to understand death, a young unlikely pirate saving a woman from slavery in Madagascar, an American soldier in Vietnam struggling with his wife's infidelity, a young couple's courtship as they canoe the Brazos River, a woman in Amarillo breaking away from an abusive husband, a comical gold prospector in Venezuela dealing with bandits, and other vivid characters you will remember long after you close the book.

In an attempt to regain a youthful innocence, Vietnam Veteran Tom Seal returns to El Tigrito, Venezuela, hoping to find his childhood friend, Rosa Rojas, nearly two decades after Tom's family returned to the United States. Tom longs to recreate an adventure he and Rosa shared when they were young and to return to the "Eden of their childhood" they had stumbled upon as children.