The Beautiful Ugly

After the sudden death of both her parents, a runaway girl goes in search of her missing brother.
After the sudden death of both her parents, a runaway girl goes in search of her missing brother.
Three escaped convicts and a runaway girl search for a hidden fortune of stolen military payroll, while being pursued by a nationwide police manhunt, an enraged ex-husband, and a psychotic prison investigator bent on revenge.
The breathtaking odyssey of Paul Brett, from the 1960s gangland slums of California, into the darkest underbelly of a covert war, until his final one-way descent deep within the Dantean bowels of the Prison of Hell.
From tragic to comic and in-between, short stories exploring the zeitgeist, the spirit of our age, which was the late twentieth century.

“Nothing is Impossible to Gods & Authors.”

Will Durant
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The story of

James Snyder

James Snyder was born in Memphis, Tennessee and lived in many parts of the United States before settling with his family in Napa Valley. Among a variety of careers and occupations, he was a soldier with a tactical mobile operations unit in Germany, as well as an executive for a Fortune 500 company.

As a writer of upmarket, cross-genre, literary fiction, he has published short stories in the Houghton Mifflin Black Mask anthologies, the Ginosko Literary Journal, and was a finalist in the New Letters’ Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction. His literary works include the military thriller AMERICAN WARRIOR, the suspense thriller DESOLATION RUN, the literary coming-of-age THE BEAUTIFUL-UGLY, and the short story collection TALES OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

He currently lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country.

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