Bøger af Henry D Terrell

It's the spring of 1987. Damian is a rough-edged loner who lives on the margins as a small-time drug dealer and smuggler. When events go horribly, murderously wrong, he flees into the remote wilderness-the only place he can feel at peace-to hide from the outside world and the people hunting him.Connie is a low-rent, small-town former beauty queen who married into a pool of Texas new money. Despite her social status and lavish lifestyle, Connie is tortured by recurring visions of a dark, sinister force that threatens her, her husband, and their only daughter, a brooding teenager. Connie seeks out professional help from of a psychotherapist with highly unorthodox methods and mysterious motives, who helps her delve into a disturbing past that may, or may not, be real. A shocking scandal erupts in the small town of Duro, where a large, popular church with a charismatic preacher finds itself the focus of vicious, unspeakable rumors. A gentle and well-liked youth minister, suddenly finds himself a suspect for crimes and despicable acts he could never have imagined. As he starts to doubt his own faith and sanity, he is stunned to learn the identity of his accuser.An ill-fated cross-country airplane journey puts them all onto an unlikely common trajectory. In his second novel, West Texas native Henry D. Terrell tells a story that flies from the gleaming high rises of Dallas, to a corrupt and played-out boomtown, to the frozen heights of the New Mexico mountains.

It's the fall of 1974. Kerry Hendrix is eighteen, and all he wants is out of here. Out of high school, away from the decaying West Texas town of Duro, and off this desolate desert plateau called the Caprock. His friends harbor dreams of breaking in to the local music scene, or finding a future in community college, jobs and marriage. Others dive into the blissful but deadly relief of drugs and needles. Kerry wants nothing more than to vanish from this town in a cloud of dust, "like the roadrunner in the cartoon," he says, until a strange and beautiful girl arrives from nowhere to knock him off his feet and send his world tumbling out of control -- and land him squarely in the no-man's land between a brutal drug dealer and a sadistic lawman. In this first novel by oilpatch business writer Henry D. Terrell, the author reopens and mines his own past growing up in West Texas to spin a rough-edged story of official corruption, betrayal, murder and, most terrifying of all, True Love.

Mayhem at the Desert''s EdgeIt''s 1972. A former ''60s pop star arrives in a small West Texas town, desperate to make a comeback record at a tiny music studio run by an eccentric producer. With determination and gall, but very little budget, he cobbles together a ragtag band of local musicians.Meanwhile, a young female filmmaker is in town trying to make a documentary about an unsolved disappearance. Getting zero police cooperation and running out of time, she decides, instead, to make her film about the little studio and the struggling musician.The projects soon fall into turmoil, beset by insanity, supernatural events, and untimely death. In the midst of this madness, all they can do is press "RECORD" and roll tape.

It's 1970 in the small West Texas city of Duro. Andy is a twenty-three-year-old classical musician who moves around in all strata of society, from the elite to petty criminals. One night, he is attacked and beaten unconscious by young men who think he is gay, and he sustains a serious brain injury. As he gradually recovers, he is changed. He has difficulty speaking and is subject to terrifying nightmares and vivid musical hallucinations. Andy’s roommates, Douglas and Reed, are trying to grow a successful marijuana crop on a barren vacant lot despite the desert heat, the police, the marauding deer, and their own ineptitude. A millionaire oilman stages the kidnapping of his wayward grandson to "deprogram" him, only to have the plan go horribly wrong. Two teenaged girls vanish under strange circumstances, and some suspect Andy may be involved. Meanwhile, the young musician observes it all with his damaged but still brilliant mind.Henry D. Terrell’s quirky yet believable characters blur the lines of class and order, and his story remains tense and propulsive throughout a complex and freewheeling plot.