Böcker av Donovan Harrison

To kill a man is a hell of a thing. When you kill a man you stop a world. If you kill a man then you can damn well go to his funeral and look him in his cold dead face. Anyway that's the way Billy Harshburger feels about it as he drives to the funeral over at Buffalo, Oklahoma. If you're man enough to do it, then you should be man enough to witness the pain you have caused. It doesn't make any difference how worthless the man is nor does it make any difference how much he deserves to die, when he is gone he leaves behind people who love him and people who grieve for him. Even though Bill has started to college to get a degree in agriculture, he ends up working for the Tri-County Sheriffs Association and helping them catch a serial killer who has been on the loose for eight years. The murderer who specializes in the rape and death of young women. To him death is like a drug and like any addict, he needs more and more of it and closer and closer together. Follow Billy's exploits as he follows the serial killer into shadow land of a deranged mind while at the same time trying to balance his life with his school work and his family life.

What is it like to grow up on a farm in Western Oklahoma shortly before during and after World War II? What's it like to be dirt poor and the youngest of five brothers? What's it like to chop cotton in the hot July sun and then pick cotton that fall when it is cold and windy and your back and legs hurt and your knees are raw from crawling on them? Ask Billy Harshburger, he can tell you.Billy can tell you what it's like to fall in love with the neighbor girl whose father hates all Harshburgers and then face the father and tell him that you must get married.

When the rustlers are caught and turned lose by Sheriff Barlow, Mr. Payne decides a new sheriff is needed and asks Billy to run. To get his father-in-law off his back, Billy finally tells him he