Strix

by C. Howard Rieling

Victoria Strix is eight and a half months pregnant when she learns her husband has been killed on his way home from active duty. While on the beach in Atlantic City, she is attacked, gang-raped, and murdered by a vicious gang. The Ancient One, who most call God, is tired of the screams that have been reaching his ears since the dawn of humanity. Victorias child, born in the ocean as she is dying, is transformed into the first human vessel of divine wrath. With powers and the help of Micky, an archangel in training, Victorias son James will lock horns with some of the most heinous villains imaginable, including an incarnation of evil deep in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

310 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 30, 2018

About the author

C. Howard Rieling has a way of writing that makes people ask his wife if she’s safe being married to him. Two words that have been used to describe him are “talented…and sick.” Retribution fiction is what he calls his genre, and Rieling draws inspiration for his writing from a childhood of traumatic altercations as an inner-city kid living in Jersey City, New Jersey. Unable to escape bullying and beatings, Rieling would imagine himself to be imbued with powers like his comic-book heroes. His stories are rich in recompense and travel down dark roads, employ supernatural forces, and dish out overflowing portions of whoop-ass against carefully crafted villains.

City life led Rieling to become a lifelong practitioner of Chinese and Okinawan martial arts and he has been awarded three black belt ranks. He is also an avid collector of fossils and is happy digging and sinking knee-deep in sticky mud in bug-infested streams in search of specimens. He loves music and has two awesome and accomplished teenagers - a daughter with an angelic voice who is destined for greatness, and a son who is an animal on the drums.

Reviews

[Darleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blown away by this original story

This author is my new favorite, ple was e




This is my new favorite author. Don't want to spoil anyone's pleasure just trust me and read this If u like original stories where the good guy wins. Ghost on the Left was his first book I came across before reading this and I highly recommend after reading that first I was very hungry for more and found Strix . I want more please HR Reiling . I never write reviews and have read hundreds and these books couldn't not be bragged about. Wish I could figure out how to find download if short story I was gifted. Anxiously awaiting MORE-QUIT YOUR DAY JOB AND WRITE FULL TIME PLEASE