Echoes of Vengeance

Book one of the Valediction for Revenge Series

By Roland Cheek,

http://www.RolandCheek.com

ISBN 0-918981-08-05

Skyline Publishing

Columbia Falls, Montana

2002, Trade Paper, 256 pages, $14.95

Echoes of Vengeance opens as an intruder rudely awakens Major Calumet Cornelius Bates from his whiskey induced sleep.  Breathlessly watching as the tip of the barrel of a Sharpes almost touches his face.

            Jethro Spring takes his revenge on Bates for the slaughter of his parents and runs for his life. Wounded and starving, he is rescued by a Cherokee woman with reasons of her own for helping him. Jethro continues to run and hide until he is captured and befriended by a Texas Ranger.

            From working as a dockhand in New Orleans to entering boxing rings in Fort Worth, Texas to the timbered slopes of the Olympic peninsula, Jethro Spring matures and changes. He becomes the friend of Chinese immigrants and finally friend and protector of Chinese railroad workers in Colorado. 

            Roland Cheek has created a remarkably attractive and sympathetic character in Jethro Spring.  Jethro, along with the variety of settings Cheek employs and the strong and interesting supporting characters he creates will sustain this story through book after book.  As a reader you can always expect a fast-moving, riveting story that holds your interest to the very last page and makes you feel impatient for the next book in the Valediction for Revenge Series.