Bøger af Michael Loyd Gray

In King Biscuit, Michael Loyd Gray returns once again to the fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, (the setting of his novels Well Deserved and The Last Stop), to tell a coming-of-age story set in 1966. With the Vietnam War hovering in the background. Seventeen-year-old Billy Ray Fleener, frustrated by the narrow confines of Argus, seeks adventure and a look at the wider world in a novel that puts him on a collision course with the famous as well as infamous.

The folks of Argus, Illinois, from the small-time dealer to the returning Vietnam vet, the townie grocery clerk and the new sheriff, all know what they want out of life, but the paths to their desires are conflicted and unclear. In a narrative with all the clarity and determination of a prophecy, Well Deserved chronicles the struggles of these four people as they come to the stark realization that their paths are not solitary, but entwined, and their very lives hinge on one shared moment.

Set in Gray's fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, Police Chief Art Millage faces one last manhuntAs Art prepares to step down after 15 years as Chief and pursue a new life running the local marina, a mysterious figure from his past returns to Argus-Nathan Bedford, the son of Brant Russell, a desperate criminal Art was forced to kill in the line of duty years before.The troubled young Bedford, never having known his father, begins stalking Art. Tensions rise and suspicions grow. When Bedford assaults one of Art's deputies and flees into the same fateful woods where his father died, Art realizes he must confront this threat to the town he has sworn to protect.Armed and on edge, the weary Chief pursues Bedford deep into the dark forest, unsure of the young man's intentions-or his own resolve to take another life if he must.Masterfully blending a tense crime story with poignant character drama, The Last Stop is a riveting exploration of duty, morality, and one man's search for meaning and redemption after a life in the long shadows of tragedy and dedication to the law.

The Armageddon Two-Step is a novel about reality and truth built for the Age of Trump; a comedic farce tinted with magical-realism about a young man named Shelby Albert Goddard who saves the world and then must live with the consequences.