Pologne

2007 · 77951 — Bloomington IN: Authorhouse 2007. First Printing Stated. Trade paperback. Very good. 10 303 11 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Tom Poland born February 4 1949 in Augusta Georgia as Thomas Mitchell Poland to John Mitchell Poland and Ruth Walker Poland.1 Known as a writer of things southern. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Lincolnton Georgia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and a master's degree in education from the University of Georgia. A frequent contributor to magazines he has written approximately 1200 features. In 2016 he became editor and a contributing writer for Shrimp Collards & Grits a magazine that presents the style character and enchantment of the coastal South. His novel Forbidden Island . An Island Called Sapelo deals with themes of hope and destruction: man's alteration of the Earth and man's efforts to stave off the inevitable loss of family. On the fifth anniversary of his wife's death birthday balloons snag Slater Watts 15th-story office window freed when a killer knifes a mother in an alley. Watts can't save her and a woman dies in his arms yet again on July 2. So begins Forbidden Island a richly textured story woven from threads of actual events. Watts a journalist considers the balloons a defining moment. Sick of Atlanta crime his job and agonizing memories of his wife's death he decides to quit his job. But his editor a treacherous paraplegic gives him the most exciting assignment he's ever had literally changing his life. Watts's mission Go to wild lawless Forbidden Island off the Georgia-South Carolina coast and profile a murderous voodoo priest Rikard who rules the island like a god. Watts eager to escape Atlanta embarks on a suicide mission to Forbidden Island where "death is beautiful where human skulls stare east toward Africa.". Authorhouse paperback