A VOW OF VENGEANCE How far would you go to find the man who murdered your wife? For Jackson Stone, a Nashville advertising executive, avid outdoorsman and former Marine, his journey begins with an extraordinary press conference to announce his deadly intentions. The sensational comments quickly go viral, and reaction is swift—from the police to Jackson’s family members to his church family, from bloggers to victim’s right advocates to anti-violence groups. Everyone takes sides and his comments divide Music City like never before. Soon, the hunter becomes the hunted, and Jackson’s fate will be decided in a suspenseful showdown at one of Nashville’s iconic landmarks There to chronicle it all is journalist Gerry Hilliard, who recounts his own role in tracking down the killer in his first “true-crime” book, 'Vendetta Stone'.
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Tom Wood graduated from Middle Tennessee State University on a Saturday then started full-time the following Monday at The Tennessean, where he spent the next 36 years as a sports writer and copy editor. Tom covered area colleges, boxing, the Iroquois Steeplechase, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and other events. He still freelances mainly for the Ledger newspapers in Nashville and Knoxville and Chattanooga (Hamilton County Herald) but has also written for the Saltillo (MS) Daily Journal, Knoxville News Sentinel, Country Family News, the Naples News, and Ft. Myers News-Press, and other publications. The short story "A Night on the Town" (2020) co-written with Michael J. Tucker is available as an ebook, and also has been turned into a full-length screenplay. Two of Tom's stories have been semifinalists in the Nashville Film Festival, Vendetta Stone (2015) and Death Takes a Holliday (2016). Tom's other short stories have appeared in the anthologies Writers Crushing Covid-19 (2020), Words on Water (2019), Tennesseans West Vol. 1 (2015), Weird Western Yarns Vol. 1, Western Tales! Vol. 3 and Filtered Through Time (2014). Tom has worked as an extra on the ABC series "Nashville" (2012-2018) as well as "The Identical" movie (2014), a music video, and other multi-media projects.
