Get an unrestricted peek inside a real life version of the TV show Frasier, if the Cranes were from Mississippi. In a fit of post 40th birthday generosity, displaced Southern Gentleman and Writer, Dusty Thompson, invites his redneck father to live with him in California. Not knowing what to expect as their life-long relationship has been very subdued, if informal, not unlike those of an English Lord and his downstairs staff, Dusty feels sure two adults can be successful roommates. However, when his Dad shows up with the largest La-Z-Boy recliner in America, and a dog named Lulu, in the back of his pick-up, Dusty realizes the only thing they have in common is oddly short legs and the belief he is adopted.

Get an unrestricted peek inside a real life version of the TV show Frasier, if the Cranes were from Mississippi. In a fit of post 40th birthday generosity, displaced Southern Gentleman and Writer, Dusty Thompson, invites his redneck father to live with him in California. Not knowing what to expect as their life-long relationship has been very subdued, if informal, not unlike those of an English Lord and his downstairs staff, Dusty feels sure two adults can be successful roommates. However, when his Dad shows up with the largest La-Z-Boy recliner in America, and a dog named Lulu, in the back of his pick-up, Dusty realizes the only thing they have in common is oddly short legs and the belief he is adopted.

In alternating chapters from past to present, Chance Carter, former general manager of a TV station in Florida, learns about his grandmother Rista, his family's ranch in Texas, and the mysteries and secrets of his family and of their impact on him.

The unearthing of a 60,000 year-old Neanderthal skull brings visions of a brilliant mechanism to one man. But, it opens a doorway from the past and unleashes an extinct species of hominid upon the unsuspecting residents of a small Kentucky town. Now the town's law enforcement and it's terrified citizens must grapple with a time-traveling brute whose only goal is to exterminate the perceived Gods that have entered his Ice Age world!

The hunt for the most dangerous assassin south of the Sahara is underway; unprecedented in the centuries old history of the region, an assassin who uses unconventional methods and has threatened and shaken the very foundations of public order and authority. An assassin that will not stop until the end.A In the center of it all is a young intrepid agent, who is determined to track down this killer. His mission leads him to uncover a horrible crime committed fourteen years ago in a remote village in the Niger-Delta, and the mysteries surrounding the personality of the UNSUB, and most importantly, the motive. He soon realizes that he is engaged in a battle for not just his career, but his own life hangs in the balance. As an act of desperation, the authorities appoint their most ruthless cop; Sergeant Ibrahim, a notorious no-nonsense police officer, devoid of empathy. Newly promoted, he must prove himself worthy of his new position and rank or die trying. With a combination of ruthlessness and cunning, he soon tracks down the assassin to another remote village, where the stage is being set for the assassination of the ultimate target; the president.

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