Six Days of the Pigs
A Tale of Greed, Power, Corruption and Lust
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Chapter 1
Midway between dawn and sunrise the Tuesday morning air,
heavy with nature's fog, reeked with the acrid odor of pig feces as the skinny
white man stood at the edge of the front porch, listening to Addie cry. . . . The water that had poisoned Addie, little, helpless five-year-old Addie,
now stopped crying, only giving out a raspy, pitiful breath, breathing made
harder by the sickening odor, laden with ammonia rising from the hog houses,
from the lagoons where feces and urine were stored, and from the fields upon
which it was sprayed, that would stifle even those with clear, healthy lungs.
Chapter 7
Tuesday morning at
Chapter 25
Once they spotted the Nissan at the
Chapter 28
After Gray Glaxdon left the Hog Callin' Contest he headed for the three-room upstairs
apartment of twenty-five-year-old Kim Copley in Clansaw
at the Pigadilly Apartment Complex, a low-income
development owned by Glaxdon. . . . Maybe, thought Glaxdon, a little loving and a fancy night out in
Chapter 39
By eight o'clock National Guardsmen, official federal, state
and local law enforcement officers and self-appointed lawmen --- in all some
250 men and two women, an FBI agent and a Sheriff's deputy --- ringed the
Grover's Crossroads Community Center. . . . Darkness was complete - - - no moon
was up yet - - - as the men crouched along the woodsline
and in ditches to the east, south and west. On the north side of the building,
where the highway ran, they concealed themselves as best they could behind
vehicles parked along the road or at the corners of the fire station building.
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About the Book
A story about the people of
Six Days of the Pigs is based on events that could have
happened in a real atmosphere and environment. All characters, while fictional,
could have existed, and many undoubtedly did.
The plot was set in a real time of events. The story depicts the
interaction between power and money seekers and those average folks who kept
functioning routinely each day. Interspersed are a few average leaders of
uncommon spunk who tried to buck the system. The tragic ending could well have
happened – and may yet actually happen.
About the Author
Except for well-known, usually senile, writers of books who have ceded their writing to ghostwriters but whose inane books still sell because of the author’s reputation, it is better to say little or nothing about the author of a book, but simply let the prose do the talking. However, to provide a wee bit of information, for whatever it is worth, the author of Six Days of the Pigs is well versed in the subject about which he writes. He lives in North Carolina, the setting of the novel, with his wife of thrity-five years, and has two sons and two granddaughters. He is a college graduate, a journalist and is self-described as functionally literate.