Doctor Quincy Quick is helpless to stop a raging plague called the twitch from consuming the company mining town of Thurber, TX during the winter of 1919. But can he still save his family?
Mad Max in a Model T, the not so good Doc is willing to bury men to save his wife and daughter. Trouble is, he's carrying secrets about the plague the company responsible will kill to bury. In Doc's own words, "When everything's come out sideways, there ain't nothing but to take what's left and get clear. But when a man ain't got nothing left, what then?"
Raised in Central Texas, David Mark Brown learned to ride horses at a young age. Then learned to hate them after a disastrous attempt to impress a girlfriend. He was five.
Turning instead to a life of poetry and prose he eventually migrated north to the University of Montana (the Berkeley of the Rockies) and became the Redneck Granola.
Falling in love a chainsaw wielding mountain woman forced him to reconsider his chosen career path--Hemingway on a sailboat. Instead he illuminated the path of life to college students as a spiritual guide for over a dozen years while his wife (now a pharmacist) squirreled away enough acorns for David to embrace the sultry world of commercial fiction.
After legally snatching a little Vietnamese boy and creating another son via more natural means, the happy family settled in Idaho. David still rides horses, but only in black and never for fun.