Hood No. 1

By J.M. Thomas

A life spent in the shadows, hiding from the forces who would do him harm, leaves Paul Ventura with little to do other than simply survive from one day to the next. He finds no safety in the company of his friend and family. He gives no thought to what a life of normalcy would be like. Fight or flight prevents him from thought of the miracle of his own existence.

The Four Corners breeds the disinterested and the apathetic. Pleasure is nothing more than varying degrees of pain and suffering. Somehow the thieves find a way to take from those who have nothing. This is the twenty square miles in which Paul Ventura exists. In those twenty square miles Paul Ventura will die.

When a robbery goes awry Ventura finds himself at the junction point of his life. He can neither go back to the way things were nor would he do so if he could. He can continue with his friend and live as nothing more than a waste of human life. Or, through the most-difficult choice he will ever have to make, embark on the path to reclaim the Four Corners and find his own soul in the process.

Read the debut issue of “The Hood” and follow along as Ventura finds his way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.M. Thomas
• Release date: Oct 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310121210

J.M. Thomas

Author J.M. Thomas lives and works north of Chicago, Illinois. The one-time screenwriter won multiple awards for his co-written "The Man in the Rearview Mirror," which sold in the fall of 2011. He earned a degree in Journalism from Truman State ( Mo.) University late last century. Thomas can be reached via his Web site at thecosmicempire.com.

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