Altared Ego

by H. Adrian Sexton

Xavier Alonzo Gambol is a 16 years old high school sophomore, National Honor Student and All-State Baseball Player with an 85 mph fastball. His family and friends affectionately knew him as Xavy. Sunday morning he was baptized. Sunday night he went to the movies with friends. Monday morning he came home ... dead! Xavy Gambol's was a young life full of potential, tragically cut short. His death ... the death of a teenage boy; would spark a shockwave of activity throughout the city. The police need the cooperation of the citizens in the roughest housing projects in the city to help bring justice to the family. Cooperation they will never get because where they live, street justice is more feared than the police. Thelonious Uriah Gambol is now a Preacher. His family and friends know him as TUG. He is a now father, a husband, a brother and a son. He is now a man with a job and a family to care for. This is now! Back then, Tug was known in the streets as ThUG. Tug needs ThUG to find Xavy's killer and bring justice to the family. The police either can't or won't do it. So ThUG has to do it himself ... As only he knows how. The good news for the family ... is that Tug was Xavy's favorite uncle. The bad news for the killer ... is that Xavy was ThUG's favorite nephew! Xavy's death must be avenged. Justice must be served. In order to find a killer, a Preacher must go back. Back to the person he thought dead and buried. Back ... to an Altar Ego!

396 pages, Hardcover

First published October 13, 2010