Thomas W Sherwood

Mourning in Their Tribe Thomas W Sherwood

Mary Paulson had been down this road all too often. She cowered on the floor by the refrigerator in the kitchen of the two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a complex named Bayview, east of downtown Grand Junction. The view didn't exist, but neither did the bay... Ben would start drinking at the Main Street Saloon after a day of being a Roustabout on the big oilrigs that shimmered mirage-like in the high desert sun. Quenching his thirst, as Ben called it, not dream chasing, which is what it was, he would come home bitter and full of anger. Mary would walk softly and make sure that his supper was prepared just right. Any little thing would set him off. But nothing set him off like their son Horace... What happens when domestic violence becomes a murder scene, and the son finally emerges from the cocoon of depression and hypersomnia caused by growing up with the daily verbal lacerations of an abusive father, and worsened by a football injury that left him listless and detached from the world? The revenge he plots to avenge his mother's bizarre death at the hands of the police takes over his life, and he pledges to, as Kit Carson described retribution, "Leave mourning in their tribe."Horace's revenge quest intersects with the designs of a small band of urban terrorists deep within Utah's Wasatch Mountains at a lonely retreat called Scare Canyon. Hell bent on derailing America's bicentennial celebration, the secretive group-inspired by the psychotic Jonathon and led by Beatrice and Chrissy-plan to bomb the Freedom Train in the name of the LTE, la Ligue des Terroristes Environnementeaux. They are not about to allow an avowed cop killer to disrupt their scheme. Unwittingly, the detective team of Reynolds and O'Brien, known simply as Mo and OB, stumble through a murder investigation of a fallen police officer and fall into the valley of horror in Scare Canyon.