The Everman Journal

Cole Everman comes to Trinidad when his father, a Methodist minister, is sent there to pastor the local church. Living with his parents and his seventeen year old sister in a newly built church parsonage, he makes a phone call that turns his life into a struggle for survival. In addition to dealing with the problems that came naturally to most teenaged boys during that time period – parents who marginalize him, girls, first job, signs of escalation of hostilities in a country called Viet Nam, Cole must use his wits and his imagination to survive the terror of The Christmas Club. In part two, the Bossier City, Louisiana, Police are called to a trailer in a mobile home park where the badly decomposed body of a man has been found, in bed, with a bullet hole in his right temple. The laptop next to the body contains confessions in the form of journals that will reach all the way to the FBI field office in Stockton, California, sending Agents Sam Runyan and Monica Sterling on an interstate investigation of murders committed over a forty eight year period. As they work with local authorities to locate and bring closure to the families of victims, Sam and Monica discover that there is much more to learn than the journals reveal, and much more to the corpse in the bed than meets the eye. (Follow the adventures of Sam Runyan, Monica Sterling and John Springer, in "BUTCHER" and "BOOK SALE") After reading THE EVERMAN JOURNAL, follow Cole Everman's further adventures in INDIAN PRINCESS, now available