Driven To Kill

About the Book

Set in Dallas Texas, this is the story of a billionaire industrialist whose family is very close knit. They experience bizarre situations due to his daughter’s infidelity to her husband. China and her younger sibling Chandler have been at war with one another since childhood. She being the CEO of her father’s company, abuses her position especially toward her younger brother. Chandler is learning to be a corporate attorney at his father’s company. He exhibits high standards, morals and integrity, traits he owes to his mother and father along with his brother-in-law Nicholas who is also an icon in his eyes.

China’s attitude about her latest fling with an airline pilot, who later saves her husband’s life during a near fatal plane crash, is quite cavalier making numerous attempts plotting to kill the pilot in order to keep her husband from discovering her infidelity which would most certainly end in divorce. Numerous twists and turns bring the characters closer because the bizarre behavior China exhibits which ultimately brings about her demise. The characters are loyal to one another, witty and steadfast in protecting each other, especially the black housekeeper Dixie Lee who is like a mother to the younger son and his brother-in-law. Emotions reach every level from love and hate, to desire, passion and deception.

About the Author

Hunter is a native Texan born and raised in Houston. In 1981 he moved to New Orleans where he spent three years. Then he moved to Orlando Florida in 1984 where he currently resides with his three Great Danes. Hunter has written four novels and three short stories. One of his short stories was published in the February 2000 issue of Men Magazine.

He is passionate about his writing expressing his thoughts and innermost feelings through his characters. All of his short stories are to some extent, are an extension of personal experiences in his life. In his opinion you must be willing to be taken into the characters to understand who they are and what they are feeling to fully appreciate any novel.

Hunter is an avid animal activist feeling very strongly about the inhumane treatment of animals. He is a long time member of The National Wildlife Federation and Defenders of Wildlife. Hunter has always had a love affair with cars, especially fifties and sixties models and likes to attend classic car shows whenever possible. Classic cars have so much more character than the new cars, he says.

His greatest hope is to reach a wide range of readers who understand his thoughts and feelings able to relate to this book through their own personal experiences.