When troubles press in around you, when there is nowhere else to turn . . . who better to cry out for than the likes of Noah Winter?

The novel The Dead Of Winter asks the question: Who would roll Fates dice, wagering his world of luxury, wealth, power and fame, when losing would bring him a lowly and un-heroic death, and winning – nothing but the gratitude of a friend?" And, answers it: Noah Winter would!"

Noah winter has it all: wealth, power, toys, an estate that could contain the whole bloody Olympic Games, and to share it with him, a lovely, scrappy little poet, fluent in the scatology of half a dozen languages. Who could ask for more? Noah Could – and does! Beseeched by a long-time friend to recover her nephew, Robbie, presumably run away to be with his dangerously unstable Uncle Clayton, Noah embraces the challenge without a qualm. Qualms come, though, and aplenty: his first motel room is ransacked (and Robbies photo torn up), the second room bombed. Could someone be trying to get his attention? When he finally tracks down a very drunk Clayton in a skid row bar, he is without Robbie. The boy," he extracts from Clayton, will be sacrificed in just two days." Sure, Clayton knows Robbies whereabouts – if Noah can keep him sober long enough to take him there. Still, even failing that, Noah has had the uncanny feeling, from the beginning, that he is being drawn by mysterious forces that will assure his being there – to bear witness to Robbies bizarre ceremonial demise … and encounter his own frailty in the face of it.

What are readers saying about The Dead Of Winter?

         Charles Blazek, the Author of Passages, calls it Graphic, intense,engrossing and imaginative…"

         This is intriguing, compelling writing. Complex in its prose yet thoroughly readable…" says Darren Laws, author of Turtle Island.

         With realism, detail, and suspense, the author has amply demonstrated his ability to transcend cultures and worlds," asserts Doug Boren, the author of Beyond the Horizons. This is a book that deserves a place in the library of anyone who knows and loves the real Native American."   

The Dead Of Winter is the first in a series of Noah Winter Mystery/Thrillers. A native Californian, Jay Squires has long been a student of Chumash Indian myth and fable. It is woven throughout his novel (with A sprinkling of what ifs" added). Two of Jays short stories and a handful of his poems have been published in The Underground Café." Jay and his wife, Roseana, make their home in Bakersfield, California.

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