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“Cry out to your God … pray for him to save you. Your agony has blurred your senses. Cry louder. Perhaps God can’t hear you.”
In the Chatsworth Reservoir, street workers shoo wildlife from the ragged remains of what was once a middle-aged man. Los Angeles Sheriff Jim O’Brian along with Sheriff-Elect Samantha Pritchard are called to investigate and surprised to learn the victim’s identity as a local U.S. Marshal. The investigation rapidly escalates to the federal level after FBI Special Agents John Swenson and Chris Mantel join in. But the solitary homicide quickly evolves as more victims are discovered, and the hidden lives of those in law enforcement are brought to light courtesy of a cruel and sadistic killer.
Inside Flap:
U.S. Marshal Hal Styles was simply another missing person until his brutalized remains were located in the Los Angeles wilderness. Special Agents John Swenson and Chris Mantel join Sheriff Jim O’Brian and Sheriff-Elect Samantha Pritchard after discovering the victim’s sexual tastes ran to the exotic and included hookups with strangers via personal ads. When yet another U.S. Marshal is murdered and found to have been eaten alive, the four rush to stop a killer with an unfathomable appetite for deviance and carnage … behavior so challenging that it’s not even on the Iron Eagle’s radar.
***Content Warning: While the Iron Eagle Series can be read out of order as a stand-alone book the reader should be advised that backgrounds and details of the characters may be confusing if readers choose to do so. The Iron Eagle Crime novel series contains mature subject matter, graphic violence, sexual content, language, torture and other scenes that may be disturbing to sensitive readers. This series is not intended for anyone under the age of eighteen, reader discretion is advised.***
In the Chatsworth Reservoir, street workers shoo wildlife from the ragged remains of what was once a middle-aged man. Los Angeles Sheriff Jim O’Brian along with Sheriff-Elect Samantha Pritchard are called to investigate and surprised to learn the victim’s identity as a local U.S. Marshal. The investigation rapidly escalates to the federal level after FBI Special Agents John Swenson and Chris Mantel join in. But the solitary homicide quickly evolves as more victims are discovered, and the hidden lives of those in law enforcement are brought to light courtesy of a cruel and sadistic killer.
Inside Flap:
U.S. Marshal Hal Styles was simply another missing person until his brutalized remains were located in the Los Angeles wilderness. Special Agents John Swenson and Chris Mantel join Sheriff Jim O’Brian and Sheriff-Elect Samantha Pritchard after discovering the victim’s sexual tastes ran to the exotic and included hookups with strangers via personal ads. When yet another U.S. Marshal is murdered and found to have been eaten alive, the four rush to stop a killer with an unfathomable appetite for deviance and carnage … behavior so challenging that it’s not even on the Iron Eagle’s radar.
***Content Warning: While the Iron Eagle Series can be read out of order as a stand-alone book the reader should be advised that backgrounds and details of the characters may be confusing if readers choose to do so. The Iron Eagle Crime novel series contains mature subject matter, graphic violence, sexual content, language, torture and other scenes that may be disturbing to sensitive readers. This series is not intended for anyone under the age of eighteen, reader discretion is advised.***
215 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2017
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About the author
Roy A. Teel Jr.
41 books58 followersOn May 11, 1995, at 30, Roy's life was irrevocably changed. After walking into the hospital, he was admitted and later received a sobering and life changing diagnosis - Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. His doctors gave him two years to live, and he left the hospital in a wheelchair. Roy, not one for giving up, and having a, then, three-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son, went immediately into human subjects research at UCLA and spent 12 years (1995-2007) as a human research subject. His experience gave him a unique look behind the scenes of medicine and the processes that are required to get drugs through the research chain, from the animal research phase to using those drugs in humans in clinical trials, and, if successful, on to the FDA for approval. Roy participated in four major experimental drug trials, and one of those ended up giving him thyroid cancer, which was diagnosed in January 2001.
Life as a Survivor
Roy is a proud cancer survivor and has refused to let MS define his life. His dedication to his work and to human subject research both inspired his writing as well as showed the real human condition when laid bare. As an author, Roy A. Teel Jr. is very diverse, and his works include both fiction and nonfiction. He earned his bachelor's degree in Ministerial Studies through Berean University of the Assemblies of God then went on to earn doctorates of Divinity and Biblical Studies through ULC Ministries.
Nonfiction
Roy's first nonfiction book, The Way, The Truth, and The Lies: How the Gospels Mislead Christians about Jesus' True Message, was published in 2005 and is taught in both religious and secular universities in the U.S. and abroad. Against The Grain: The American Mega-Church and its Culture of Control was published in 2008. This second book reveals the unflattering true faces of the "Goliaths of God" and shows religion and churches for what they really are - businesses - very, very lucrative and influential businesses involved in many facets of American society.
Short Fiction
In 2008, Roy published a collection of short stories titled, Light of Darkness: Dialogues in Death. These collected stories were inspired by both his difficult and troubled childhood as well as his years in clinical trials. He met and knew many people, many whom lost the battle due to natural causes, or in some cases, by their own hand, that he felt compelled to fictionalize and share their stories.
Novel-length Fiction
In 2013, Roy released his first novel, And God Laughed, a neoplatonic dialogue between one man and God. Although now a secular humanist, Roy believes in God but rejects all religions as man's folly and wrote a fictional narrative about a relationship with God outside of religion.
Current Project
In 2014, Roy began publishing his latest and largest project - a 40-novel geographically-centered hard boiled, mystery, suspense, thriller crime series: "The Iron Eagle Series." The main character, a former Marine Corps Black Operative turned rogue FBI agent, hunts killers in Los Angeles. Each novel addresses different subjects, and while fiction, all titles deal with real world subject matter. "The Iron Eagle Series" is not about things that can't hurt you. What happens in these novels can happen to any one of us if we let our guard down and/or are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Life as an Author
After battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 16 years, Roy began devoting his energies and passions to the full-time art of storytelling. Although he is no longer able to work in a high stress executive environment, his life has taken on a new mission: to inform and entertain. His disability has brought with it an unforeseen blessing. He can finally take medications to alleviate some of the pain from his MS and focus on the pleasures of character creation and the joys of putting words to paper.
Life as a Survivor
Roy is a proud cancer survivor and has refused to let MS define his life. His dedication to his work and to human subject research both inspired his writing as well as showed the real human condition when laid bare. As an author, Roy A. Teel Jr. is very diverse, and his works include both fiction and nonfiction. He earned his bachelor's degree in Ministerial Studies through Berean University of the Assemblies of God then went on to earn doctorates of Divinity and Biblical Studies through ULC Ministries.
Nonfiction
Roy's first nonfiction book, The Way, The Truth, and The Lies: How the Gospels Mislead Christians about Jesus' True Message, was published in 2005 and is taught in both religious and secular universities in the U.S. and abroad. Against The Grain: The American Mega-Church and its Culture of Control was published in 2008. This second book reveals the unflattering true faces of the "Goliaths of God" and shows religion and churches for what they really are - businesses - very, very lucrative and influential businesses involved in many facets of American society.
Short Fiction
In 2008, Roy published a collection of short stories titled, Light of Darkness: Dialogues in Death. These collected stories were inspired by both his difficult and troubled childhood as well as his years in clinical trials. He met and knew many people, many whom lost the battle due to natural causes, or in some cases, by their own hand, that he felt compelled to fictionalize and share their stories.
Novel-length Fiction
In 2013, Roy released his first novel, And God Laughed, a neoplatonic dialogue between one man and God. Although now a secular humanist, Roy believes in God but rejects all religions as man's folly and wrote a fictional narrative about a relationship with God outside of religion.
Current Project
In 2014, Roy began publishing his latest and largest project - a 40-novel geographically-centered hard boiled, mystery, suspense, thriller crime series: "The Iron Eagle Series." The main character, a former Marine Corps Black Operative turned rogue FBI agent, hunts killers in Los Angeles. Each novel addresses different subjects, and while fiction, all titles deal with real world subject matter. "The Iron Eagle Series" is not about things that can't hurt you. What happens in these novels can happen to any one of us if we let our guard down and/or are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Life as an Author
After battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 16 years, Roy began devoting his energies and passions to the full-time art of storytelling. Although he is no longer able to work in a high stress executive environment, his life has taken on a new mission: to inform and entertain. His disability has brought with it an unforeseen blessing. He can finally take medications to alleviate some of the pain from his MS and focus on the pleasures of character creation and the joys of putting words to paper.
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June 7, 2017
Another outstanding book!
Well, Mr. Teel, you did it again. This is one of a kind, so different, suspense, scary, but very real in life. Rape is very real for women and men. As once a victim, it is now a subject that hurts more everyday for whom has gone through it. Now as for S&M, I for one would not like to go through what these ladies suffered under the hands of vicious women or men.
Anyone who loves to read as much as I do, will love Mr. Teel ' s books and he has not
disappointed me not once.
Well, Mr. Teel, you did it again. This is one of a kind, so different, suspense, scary, but very real in life. Rape is very real for women and men. As once a victim, it is now a subject that hurts more everyday for whom has gone through it. Now as for S&M, I for one would not like to go through what these ladies suffered under the hands of vicious women or men.
Anyone who loves to read as much as I do, will love Mr. Teel ' s books and he has not
disappointed me not once.
July 18, 2017
Praying for Mercy
Loved this book. It was very explicit in presenting the plot but in the same way that Mr Teel always does. Recommend this book to all readers of suspense, mystery and justice served. Gave 5 stars because it kept my attention from front to back.
Loved this book. It was very explicit in presenting the plot but in the same way that Mr Teel always does. Recommend this book to all readers of suspense, mystery and justice served. Gave 5 stars because it kept my attention from front to back.
August 30, 2017
So many dirty bits!
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