The Last Professional

A hobo, a wanderer, a madman– three characters hurtling toward a heart-wrenching climax where their way of life, and their lives, hang in the balance.
Lynden Hoover, a young man on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. Help comes from The Duke, an old loner who calls America’ s landscape his home. He clings to an honor code, but in fleeing from Short Arm, his merciless enemy, his code is being tested. The Duke mentors Lynden, enlisting old traveling friends to keep himself and his apprentice just ahead of Short Arm’ s relentless pursuit. When two of those friends are murdered, the stakes become life or death.
Bonds are formed, secrets exposed, sacrifices made, trusts betrayed– all against a breathtaking American landscape of promise and peril. Three unforgettable characters, hurtling toward a spellbinding climax where pasts and futures collide, and lives hang in the balance.

Ed Davis’s Road Stories has recently been an Amazon top ten best seller. Kirkus Review called his novella In All Things, "...powerful; beautifully written, well-observed and effective." His short story "Not For the Last Time" was just published in New English Review, and his fiction appears in Rougarou Journal of Arts & Literature and Gris-Gris Journal Literature, Culture, and the Arts. He produced and directed the documentary Faces of Chidamoyo, was the bass player for Cynthia Carr & The Carrtunes for thirty years, is a runner, backpacker, and world ranked, masters level discus thrower. Colin Elgie is an English illustrator and former member of Hipgnosis. He has worked with progressive rock bands and musicians such as Pink Floyd, The Hollies, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Renaissance, Genesis, Fumble, Peter Gabriel, Roger Cook, Al Stewart, and Roger Taylor.