Crisis

Sam Collins, at fifty-four, is struggling with the untimely deaths of two close friends, while he is facing a decision of early retirement without the support of a successful wife who has no interest in retiring. His marriage ends in divorce and he and his new love are shot and seriously wounded after a late dinner in Little Italy area of Baltimore,Md. Although they seek refuge in Florida as they recover and until they can be assured that any danger to them has dissipated, Sam learns, on their return, that a new and greater threat has them in it's sights. "Adult readers may enjoy this very adult story. The author hits home runs with sentences like this one : The bullet entered my back up high, went downward through my lung, waved hello to my heart as it passed within a half inch of it." Foreword CLARION Reviews

R.C. Shields lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Jackie, and is currently at work on his second novel.