Böcker av Robert Flynn

Robert Flynn has gathered twenty-three stories that have hope, faith, and love as their common denominator. They are funny, political, and more than a bit prophetic.

Centers on a fictitious Texas county that embraces its legends, but not its actual history. This book exposes shared myths as lies and the truth, lacking all comfort. It paints a portrait of the denizens of the county who tacitly embrace the legend as all too human and all too frail.

Hyenas are among God's strangest creatures. Both scavenger and predator, they prey on the old, the weak, and the helpless, and even on their fellow predators in the jungle, the lions. Even though they are braver and more dignified, lions must always contend with packs of hyenas that dog their paths. Lions live their entire lives locked in deadly competition with hyenas. Like the lions, the people in Robert Flynn's short stories learn to make accommodations to the hyenas and to a society and culture that tolerates hyenas. Whether they find themselves in Vietnam or rural Texas, Flynn's characters are often heroes in the most personal sense of the word and by standards which matter only to them. Flynn's stories make us look again at ourselves as they probe familiar if difficult subjects - the innate cruelty children inflict on each other, our detached fascination with those who are physically handicapped and deformed, the difficulty of giving and receiving gifts, our intolerance of and lack of compassion for the elderly.

Hunter Jacob Trance is peacefully trapping mountain lions miles away in the Big Bend, Texas, when violent turbulence rocks a DC-10 on a cross-Atlantic flight. The crew is unaware that three Siberian tigers in the hold, being sent to US zoos, have been jolted out of their cages.