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The Hunt
The Hunt is a 107,000 word, 355-page manuscript written by Stephen Cheek. The novel scrapes the edges of truth as it describes criminal activities in central Mississippi during the early 1980’s.
In rural Attala County, Mississippi, twin brothers have bootlegged most of their lives and have a reputation as hard criminals. One of the twins is finally incarcerated for income tax evasions. The other, with the help of his son, turns the family’s distressed moonshine business into a profitable drug trafficking operation while the brother is gone.
Once released from prison, the three continue to expand their business statewide through gambling, counterfeiting, and night clubbing. They fall in uncharted waters when a plane loaded with cocaine, which was intended for them, crashes. They scurry to remove the debris and bodies from their property before authorities arrive.
Trailing not far behind is a burned out FBI special agent, on the verge of losing his family. He is accompanied by a high-tech protégé who recently joins him for the hunt. The two have jetted through numerous airports and commandeered a corporate helicopter to backtrack the missing plane. The protégé shows his genius to unravel and hack mind-boggling computations as he skillfully operates the FBI prototype computer.
On Thanksgiving Day, two more brothers and a young black boy, decide to take a hunting trip. The three embark on a-once-in-a-lifetime adventure floating down the snow-covered banks of the Lobutcha River. The Lobutcha has a reputation of its own. It is great for hunting and a great place to get lost. The planned five-hour hunting trip turns into a fourteen-hour nightmare, nearly costing the three boys their lives when they happens upon the plane crash.
The story increases with speed and intensity as the FBI closes in.
The story, although fiction, has true accounts as described by a former sheriff and a special FBI agent assigned to the case. The twins are real people, the brothers are real people, and their dog is real. The plane did crash. All names are changed and the timeline moved forward to current times.
The novel is action packed and filled with suspense.
This is my second novel and one I have much interest in . . . because I was one of the two brothers.
In rural Attala County, Mississippi, twin brothers have bootlegged most of their lives and have a reputation as hard criminals. One of the twins is finally incarcerated for income tax evasions. The other, with the help of his son, turns the family’s distressed moonshine business into a profitable drug trafficking operation while the brother is gone.
Once released from prison, the three continue to expand their business statewide through gambling, counterfeiting, and night clubbing. They fall in uncharted waters when a plane loaded with cocaine, which was intended for them, crashes. They scurry to remove the debris and bodies from their property before authorities arrive.
Trailing not far behind is a burned out FBI special agent, on the verge of losing his family. He is accompanied by a high-tech protégé who recently joins him for the hunt. The two have jetted through numerous airports and commandeered a corporate helicopter to backtrack the missing plane. The protégé shows his genius to unravel and hack mind-boggling computations as he skillfully operates the FBI prototype computer.
On Thanksgiving Day, two more brothers and a young black boy, decide to take a hunting trip. The three embark on a-once-in-a-lifetime adventure floating down the snow-covered banks of the Lobutcha River. The Lobutcha has a reputation of its own. It is great for hunting and a great place to get lost. The planned five-hour hunting trip turns into a fourteen-hour nightmare, nearly costing the three boys their lives when they happens upon the plane crash.
The story increases with speed and intensity as the FBI closes in.
The story, although fiction, has true accounts as described by a former sheriff and a special FBI agent assigned to the case. The twins are real people, the brothers are real people, and their dog is real. The plane did crash. All names are changed and the timeline moved forward to current times.
The novel is action packed and filled with suspense.
This is my second novel and one I have much interest in . . . because I was one of the two brothers.
358 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2010
36 people want to read
About the author
Stephen Cheek
3 books8 followersBorn in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 1950, Stephen Cheek finished high school in 1968, later attended Mississippi State University and graduated in 1972 with a degree in landscape architecture. For sixteen years he was in private practice designing commercial and residential projects throughout Mississippi. In 1988, he joined his father’s highway construction firm.
He lives with his wife Sherrie in their turn of the century colonial style home in the downtown historic district of Kosciusko. His handiwork is seen in the home’s beautiful New Orleans style courtyard surrounded by an eight-foot brick wall. They have three grown children, Corey, Megan and Logan, all of whom live in Mississippi.
Cheek began writing when he was in a rock band during his high school years. He discretely kept a detailed diary of the band’s performances and years later when the band reunited, he picked up his pen again and resumed writing. In 2000 he astonished all of the band members with a copy of the journal. With their encouragement that he should write a REAL book, he decided to try his hand at it. At that time, he had already written one children’s book, a compilation of stories he had made up for his own children. That early book was Catfish Cowboy and Mr. Turtle.
“Cane and Able was easy to write. The cleaning up was what was so difficult; it took forever. I was told by someone to just write the story and not worry about the grammar. I did just that. When my wife finished editing it with her red ink pen (English teacher trait), I could hardly read the manuscript. I really thought I had done a good job. Now I know how terrible it was.”
Cheek has been a storyteller for the four and five year olds at First Baptist Church in Kosciusko for over twenty-five years. He loves working with children and plans to continue as long as he is able. With the Sunday school, he is carrying on a tradition begun by his mother when he was a youngster.
He states that his next novel, The Hunt, which will be out in late 2010, will be a true thriller.
He lives with his wife Sherrie in their turn of the century colonial style home in the downtown historic district of Kosciusko. His handiwork is seen in the home’s beautiful New Orleans style courtyard surrounded by an eight-foot brick wall. They have three grown children, Corey, Megan and Logan, all of whom live in Mississippi.
Cheek began writing when he was in a rock band during his high school years. He discretely kept a detailed diary of the band’s performances and years later when the band reunited, he picked up his pen again and resumed writing. In 2000 he astonished all of the band members with a copy of the journal. With their encouragement that he should write a REAL book, he decided to try his hand at it. At that time, he had already written one children’s book, a compilation of stories he had made up for his own children. That early book was Catfish Cowboy and Mr. Turtle.
“Cane and Able was easy to write. The cleaning up was what was so difficult; it took forever. I was told by someone to just write the story and not worry about the grammar. I did just that. When my wife finished editing it with her red ink pen (English teacher trait), I could hardly read the manuscript. I really thought I had done a good job. Now I know how terrible it was.”
Cheek has been a storyteller for the four and five year olds at First Baptist Church in Kosciusko for over twenty-five years. He loves working with children and plans to continue as long as he is able. With the Sunday school, he is carrying on a tradition begun by his mother when he was a youngster.
He states that his next novel, The Hunt, which will be out in late 2010, will be a true thriller.
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