An Abe Stroud Archeologists-digs-too-Deep novel by Robert W. Walker writing as Geoffrey Caine. This is the fourth in the Abe Stroud/Blood Screams Series, begun with Vampire Dreams, Werewolf's Grief, and Zombie Eyes. When the Louisiana Bayou folks calling themselves members of the Bayou Wulf’s Clan turn out to be real werewolves, it’s a bit late in the day for archeologist Abraham Stroud, whose bayou dig puts him and his people directly in harm’s way. In fact, this wulf coven has created a safe haven for their kind - Oasis, Louisiana, an entire town filled with Bayou Wulves, many fathered by Bayou Wulf itself - their disputable and dubious leader. Ever imagine a werewolf having a penchant for reading the classics and naming his progeny after the Christian heroic figure of Beouwulf? Bayou Wulf knows what terror mankind can wreak on were-creatures. He is wise enough to fear us, and in particular one Abraham Stroud, who is capable of unimaginable horrors. As a werewolf child, Bayou Wulf witnessed the annihilation of his kind in his Michigan at Stroud’s hand. And now Stroud is in Bayou Wulf’s new territory, believed always to be a paradise and a safe haven with a great country club and a great 18-hole golf course, where werewulves play in sanctuary from the likes of mankind. Bayou wulves love the game.
Author
Aka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold—the Windy City one and the Southern one—all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
