I Dream Of Fathom

About the Book

“Fathom” is a story of well-constructed, vividly portrayed characters, well formed into a complex story of love, loyalty, betrayal, romance and seduction. It tells how small-town America can be taken out of the hands of the people. Most of all, this is the story of a woman, a telepathic woman that has never-ending nightmares about her daughter being brutally abused, abused by a man she thinks may be her own husband. A nightmare where she hears her daughter scream to her for help, help that she searches and searches for a way to give her. From the very first paragraph you will be taken into the gripping, powerful and compelling descriptions of thrilling fast action mystery. Why are so many teenagers becoming pregnant in this typical American town? Why did an abortion go so wrong it nearly destroyed one’s life? Here then, is a novel the reader will find hard to put down, with numerous twists and turns to keep you guessing about the thrilling end before you get there.

This is a novel, not for the timid, but, for the true try to solve it, mystery and thriller reader.

Enjoy.

About the Author

Charles Kelley was born in the Tennessee foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains.  In his younger years, he knew the hard backbreaking work required of the whole family to make their burley tobacco producing farm grind out the just get by living of most of the family owned farms of the era.  As a teenager, he looked to the future and entered a diesel engineering school to prepare himself for what turned out to be a very rewarding, as well as exciting twenty-eight year career in the United States Coast Guard.  Retiring as a Chief Warrant Officer, Grade W-4.  He says the Coast Guard he served in isn’t exactly what he envisioned it to be when he enlisted in the early fifties.  His service placed him aboard seven different sea duty ships, started as a fireman watch-stander and eventually running Main Propulsion.  Some of his foreign duty service even placed him in the Sahara Desert during the Arab, Israeli conflict we know as the “Six Day War”.

Mr. Kelley, in his pursuit of writing as part of his retirement career, feels he owes something to his style to Alfred Hitchcock, whom he emulates.

David Janssen and Charles met on the set of the “Harry O” series that often used the Coast Guard in the segments.  David happened to get a look at a manuscript of Charles’ and told him that he was a hell of a storyteller.  David told him that he would rather read a storyteller’s work anytime than to have to have a dictionary to try to find out what some literary giant was trying to get across to the reader.

Mr. Kelley says some of his fondest memories will always be of his Cherokee heritage in those beloved Great Smokey foothills.  His ancestors came from Ireland some twelve generations ago and either bought or stole Cherokee wives from the Caroline Cherokees.

Charles Kelley says that after you travel around the world a few times and really get to see it for what it is outside the United States, it’s no wonder you feel like getting on your knees and kiss the ground when you finally get back and thank GOD for allowing you to be an American.