Old Hap

by Mark Giaconia

Old Hap is the story of a selfless old disabled war veteran named Hap, and his quest to save a brutalized girl with bizarre eyes after witnessing her rape in the woods behind his old New England house. Hap's quest is against all odds, and culminates in a shocking, almost supernatural experience when identities are revealed.

87 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 22, 2018

About the author

Mark Giaconia served 20 years in the US Army Special Forces and Retired in 2011. He was born and raised in eastern Connecticut. He holds a B.A. in English Lit, and an M.S. in Software Engineering. Mark served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, and Iraq, and after his postwar intellectual evolution he spent his last 8 years in the Army as what might be the world’s first Active Duty Green Beret Computer Scientist. Mark holds two awards for valor from combat actions in Iraq and Kosovo (Bronze Star with “V” and an ARCOM with “V” respectively). He successfully completed some of the toughest military training in the world, such as the Special Forces Qualification Course, Ranger School, Airborne and Jumpmaster School, Mountaineering schools, three different Sniper Schools, ASOT, and many more. Mark is also an accomplished Flamenco Guitarist, impressionist oil painter, woodworker, computer programmer, data scientist, and loves studying philosophy.

Reviews

[Random Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was amazing, i couldn't put it down. It was brutal almost like "Revenant" meets "the mountain between us" .. er .. kinda without the love stuff, but the ending is insane and relates to something the author has firsthand experience with ( I don't want to spoil it, because it's VERY unexpected).
ANother thing i really liked about it, which initially made me skeptical, was the length. But, I was able to read this thing in one sitting, and that made the experience even more nonstop than if I would have had to put it down.

Bravo again mr Mark Giaconia