The Silver Hook: A Story of Deception, Love, Greed and Violence Simmering in the Heart of the Deep South

"The Silver Hook" is about life in a small southern town in the early 1960s. This is the environment in which the author spent the early years of his life. The real personalities and events that surfaced under the façade of the pristine external setting of life in this environment provided the motivation for creating the novel. Characters depicting the attempts to relieve the boredom and imposed limitations of life in this environment are fictional. However, the descriptions of events experienced by individuals in "The Silver Hook" mirror reality in that citizens are "hooked" into the consequences of the breakdown in their own moral codes as well as those forced on them by their surroundings. The novel’s cover was chosen for the dual purposes of representing a realistic vision of the specific portion of the Deep South upon which the book was based as well as providing an image which draws readers into the book. “The Silver Hook” offers a vehicle which will carry you safely through the treacherous landscape of false turns taken by its characters in pursuing their hidden desires.