The Killing of Strangers - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

The events which took place on a northern Ohio university campus on May 4, 1970, have haunted a generation. On that day the National Guard fired into a group of college students who were protesting the invasion of Cambodia by the United States. Four students were killed and nine wounded. But a psychological wound was sustained by this country on that day as well and its pain lingers today.The Killing of Strangers, a novel set in 1995, involves the continuing mystery of that day and those events. Sam Haggard has every reason to believe that his life has run out in the southern Ohio rust belt city he calls home. Fired from his job as a security cop and dumped by his wife, he's just about as down as out can get. Then he is offered the dubious assignment of guarding Crystal Jones, a woman who was at Kent State on that day a then-radical whose activist husband, the chillingly nicknamed Lucifer, disappeared on May 4, never to be seen again. Until now, or so Crystal claims. Through her current fog of pills and alcohol, Crystal swears that Lucifer is alive, and trying to contact her. As Sam is drawn into her story, he finds himself reliving his own past and also becoming more and more involved with Crystal's daughter, Corrie, a tough yet strangely tender representative of a very different generation. When Crystal is killed on Sam's watch, he and Corrie find that they, too, are in danger: there is someone out there someone who holds answers to the long-buried secrets of Kent State. These are the kinds of secrets that have cost people their lives and which now, twenty-five years later, are just as deadly as they ever were.

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