Bøger af David Boyer

It's really ironic, isn't it, how we spend our youth tossing caution to the wind at every turn, believing we will live forever?I know I did.I think we all do, when we are growing up. I grew up in the baby boomer generation, for example, and the only cares we had was going to school, riding our bikes around the neighborhood until dark, going home to eat dinner at the family table, then TV and bedtime.Then, on weekends, we'd be up early, eating a bowl of cereal and watching Saturday morning cartoons, then out to meet up with our friends for a long day of creating new adventures, and some more great memories, of course.We all unknowingly took it all for granted, never having any inclination that we'd grow older by the day, month, and year. Graduating from highschool, getting a job, starting a family.Growing up.The whole time, as we moved on, growing older and hopefully wiser and happier, never having any idea that someday, whether it be a few years from now or decades from now, we would eventually have to face our own mortality.In my case, it was in the form of a cancer, that invaded my lymphnodes, and moved on to my chest.It's funny - well, ironic, that is - how your own mortality tends to show you just how vulnerable you really are, and at a time when you thought that your life was going pretty well, despite your other recent disappointments - and heartaches.When the old grim reaper came to visit me - in the form of squamous cell carcinoma - I had just gone through the death my beloved cat, Toby, my best friend friend from gradeschool, Phil, and my mother, who had spent the last two years in a nursing home until she had mercifully passed away in her sleep.My mind, heart, and soul had already been torn asunder, and I was just barely getting back into the swing of things when my body began to betray me in the form of the "Big C."

Radio personality Paul Harvey once said, "If you want to get away with murder, just go to Knox County, Indiana."Between the years 1974 and 2004, for almost three decades, his words, although not very flattering to our local authorities, rang true.Then, in the late 90s and early 2000s, through more advanced DNA technology, seasoned police and detectives's determination, and, in some cases, even willful confessions to the crime, our community had begun to see more positive results, and the closing of cold cases that had laid dormant for too long.The cases profiled here are THOSE cases, some solved, some still dormant, but all of them too close to home.

In COLLISION COURSE, author David Boyer takes the reader on yet another journey into a world where seemingly normal people are suddenly thrust into a collision course with fate - or destiny.In "Creepy Crawl," a master cat burglar finds himself stuck inside of a home with three members of the Charles Manson family - with no way out; in "Reflections," a career cop who has been forced to take another man's life in the line of duty, finds himself racked with guilt over whether or not it was a righteous kill; in "Poor Larry," a man who dying from cancer enlists his best friend to rob a local drug dealer, only to find himself trapped inside the stash house with a vicious dog that intends to tear him apart; in "Sara Has A Monkey On Her Back," a female rookie cop with a drinking problem gets a second chance at life from the most unexpected source; and in "Jack and Norma Jean," a retired assassin, hiding out on a tropical island somewhere, reflects back on whether it was really his bullet that killed JFK, or someone else's, and he was just a patsy used by the government to take the blame.

Upon his release from prison for involuntary manslaughter, Billy Blackhawk came home to nothing but scorn and ridicule, being made to feel like a traitor to his community - and his heritage - for having killed a fellow Native American - even if it was in self defense.When he finds out his beloved wife, Wanda Lone Dove, was killed in a mysterious "accident," while he was incarcerated - and the local Sheriff has been doing his best to cover it up - Billy embarks on a personal quest to find out what really happened to his wife, and God help anyone who got in his way.Will Billy be able to find the redemption for his crime he so desperately seeks, if he has to take another life to solve the mystery? Only time will tell...