The Mystery of the First to Find Society

By Mark Hall

A drowning at a local state park goes unsolved for months until a local teenager gets trampled by a large bull. How are they connected? Join U.S. Marshal Mark Hall as he recounts his experiences with Chris Calhoun as they attempt to find the person setting geocache traps throughout Middle Georgia. Will they find them before someone else is injured or worse?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Hall
• Release date: Nov 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370855513

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The Mystery of the First to Find Society

By Mark Hall

Copyright 2016 74Blues Publishing

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Acknowledgements

Ms. Joyce Wilkes, Fullington Academy Librarian, retired. This wonderful young lady fed this kid books until he couldn’t consume any more.

ONE

I took the fishing rod from Chris with a look of aggravation. I looked down at the Abu Garcia bait casting reel and the unbelievable bird’s nest tangle of line coming from every direction. With a sigh, I took out my knife and just started cutting away at the line. Normally, I would try to work out the backlash but this very well could have been the worst I’ve seen. It was terrible.

This is terrible I said.

Well, you know he said, I just don’t get the thumb thing.

Look, I said, just pick up that 33 and use it until I get this straight.

But that’s Brad’s he responded.

Brad isn’t with us and that was Brad’s when he was seven. It is almost impossible to get it to hang up or backlash or break.

He picked up the rod and brushed off the old cobwebs that were there from the rod sitting in the garage for several months. It hadn’t been used much since Brad was now sixteen and using a bait casting reel like the one I was working on. It sat in the garage through winter and now we were sitting in a boat outside of Marshallville at my Uncle Danny’s pond. It was early March and I was trying to coach Chris on the finer points of bass fishing. Apparently, fishing was not in his upbringing wherever that had been. He had been dropped into my life a couple years ago as part of the witness protection program. I am a US Marshal based out of Macon and since he was my charge, I set him up near my own home in Warner Robins and got him a job down at Ace Hardware in Perry but that hadn’t lasted long because we discovered he had talents.

These talents or gifts or training had been unbelievable at first when he started helping out law enforcement around the area. He was amazing in his ability to see things that might have happened, especially in that mess with the dogfighters and again with the copper thieves and their operation down on Echeconnee creek. We have kept him out of the news but it has been difficult given the number of calls we keep getting from law enforcement friends needing help. His reputation was getting around in sheriff departments and the GBI and I was more and more concerned about keeping his identity secret. Marshals don’t handle witness protection but that night he got delivered was unique; more like protecting a person than witness protection. No paperwork, no names, just a call from my boss directing me

Reviews for The Mystery of the First to Find Society

[bege · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Geocaching is an outdoor game, where it is interesting/important to be First to Find.
Here Chris, the mysterious man on witness protection but with knowledge of amongst other things crime, helps prevent death from occurring.