22: The Biography of a Gun

By Christopher Geoffrey McPherson

More than 30,000 Americans are killed each year with a gun. According to FBI statistics, 70 percent of those murders involve a handgun.

22: The Biography of a Gun takes place in the very near future, when guns are strictly controlled in the United States. It focuses on one specific gun and the people who touch it. One young girl finds it and sells it; a man steals it hoping to make some fast cash; one woman uses it to get revenge against the man who made her get an abortion; a woman is gunned down when a robbery goes wrong; and a man uses it to end the suffering of his beloved wife.

Here then in one novel are twenty-two stories of people whose lives are changed by a single gun: some for the better, many for the worse. For some, this gun is the last thing they touch in their lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher Geoffrey McPherson
• Release date: Apr 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370924158

Christopher Geoffrey McPherson

In more than three decades as a professional writer/journalist, Christopher has covered myriad subjects and interviewed thousands of people from the famous to the unknown. He brings these years of experience to each of his novels.In his career, his work has appeared in daily newspapers, monthly magazines, extensively on radio and the occasional dalliance with television. He has written advertising copy and radio commercials – and continues to write.Prior to this new novel, "Sincerely, Dina Lamont," Christopher wrote novels about the most famous cat in ancient Japan who had special powers in “A Cat in Time,” and “22: The Biography of a Gun,” a tale set in the near future where guns are strictly controlled yet where one manages to make its way into the hands of those who want it. Previously, Christopher spent more than five years creating a series of novels that take place in 1930s Los Angeles called “The James Murray Mysteries.” Books in the series are "Murder at Eastern Columbia," “Sabotage at RKO Studio,” “Abduction at Griffith Observatory,” “Blackmail at Wrigley Field,” and “Haunting at Ocean House.”Other writing featuring his byline includes "The Babi Makers" – a science fiction tale about a world where the most important resource is babies; "Sarah & Gerald" – a novel about Paris in the 1920s; "Forever - and other stories" – a collection of short stories; "The Life Line" – the novel of the big one that levels San Francisco; "News on the Home Front" – a novel of two friends during World War Two; and "Mama Cat" – a book for children. Also, several short plays, a few radio plays and a boatload of radio documentaries.

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