Eyes on the World

By John D. Boyden

An adventure begins. Where it will end is anybody's guess. Jake Granger and William Allison are struggling to understand what is happening and why they are targeted. Others become involved as they escape attempted kidnapping, murder, and a destructive force that seems to be tracking them from place to place. There are lies, misinformation and efforts to manipulate everything these two men understand about reality.

Jake and William are both gifted, They do not recognize or understand that they are gifted, or what their gifts may be. They only know the world they live in isn't the world they thought it was. The world is in a real, down and dirty mess and getting worse. Everyone on Earth knows that unless they've been hiding in caves or living in institutions. Even the children sense the wrongness. A secret war is going on. It will grow less secret and more violent if not stopped. Can it be stopped? This war as as old as the human desire for power. Jake Granger and William Allison are being hunted. What will they learn. Will they learn what they need to discover fast enough? They are looking for solutions just to survive. Will they survive?

• Language: English
• Publisher: John D. Boyden
• Release date: Jun 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311689221

John D. Boyden

John D. Boyden was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, in 1950. John grew up in rural Nebraska and lives in Southeastern New Mexico with his wife, Melanie, and their dog, Butterscotch. He has four grown children and three grandchildren, of whom he is exceedingly proud. Eyes on the World (First Edition) is his first Smashwords Publication. He attended Grinnell College in Iowa and several other colleges through multiple summer programs. John earned his Masters Degree in Education from the University of Northern Iowa and taught school in Iowa and New Mexico for many years. .John has completed and been paid for several “work for hire” projects including non-fiction, fiction, news, and editing and has actually received money as a published poet! The poetic pride has endured far beyond that lovely $ 5 payment. He also continues to write annual novels at NaNoWriMo.org in November of each year and recently began playing at the April 2014 Camp NaNoWriMo where he worked on his first story for publication.

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Eyes on the World

The Ladder to Where series

Copyright 2014 John D. Boyden

Published by John D. Boyden at Smashwords

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead in any real or imagined world is purely coincidental. Historical personages, places, and events are referenced, used, and changed as needed for the purposes of the story.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

About the Author

Other books by this author

Connect with John D. Boyden

Acknowledgments!

This ebook is the first publication by (CVN) Collected Virtual News Publications on Smashwords. Formatting and cover by CVN Studios, both are owned by the author, John D. Boyden.

Our beautiful cover page image was created by SUNBIRD on Facebook. A friend of mine named Max, found it. SUNBIRD was asked for permission to use it and gave me permission freely, telling me there was no need to credit them. Their fabulous art certainly merits this credit. If you agree click on the link and like the Facebook page! Thank you SUNBIRD!

Dedication

I cheerfully dedicate this first publication to my wife, Melanie, four grown kids, friends who provided me early critiques on my writing, and our dog Sissy.

Thank you all for your love and support.

Chapter One

The doorbell rang at the large single story white-washed adobe house outside of town. Jake stumbled down the hall. Jake was only five foot seven, but weighed two hundred and sixty pounds. He was ill. He was scared. He was marked for death.

Rimfire, New Mexico, is a small, quiet mining and farming town in New Mexico. The town sprawls leisurely along two miles of Rimfire's mountain peaks. An exhausted Jake Granger answered the door in rumpled black sweats. He looked sickly in the fading light of early evening.

Once William the tech Allison stepped into the hallway, and got closer, Jake looked worse. The sweats were stained and covered with indescribables. Probably food. Jake smelled bad. It was four days of junk food, and no bathing bad. His eyes were bloodshot and his hands shook. William flat out told him so, even as he asked himself if he needed to call the team doctor.

Jake looked up at the big man and, grinning like a fool, shook his head up and down in full agreement. William was blunt and to the point. He was also well over six-four and two hundred-fifty pounds and right in his assessment. His military training showed in his haircut and posture. The old friends shook hands.

Thanks for coming over. I gotta admit, I'm kinda surprised you did come.

I heard something I've never heard in your voice before. You've been mad, bored, happy and sad. In all that time I never heard panic. When I heard that over the phone, it brought me as quick as I could gather my tools. I've got to admit I was worried. You just don't panic. It's not who you are. Besides, William Allison laughed, you do always have weird things happening with your computer. I had to see what happened this time. He would watch Jake closely, assessing medical needs...

Yeah, always something. It's what happens with me and my computers. Anyway, I'm glad you came. Jake took William into the converted guest bedroom that was his computer room. Here's the damned computer. It sat upright on a small table in the middle of the room. The kind of cheap buy and assemble table found at Walmart or K-Mart.

"I can smell something electrical burned,