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Survivor
by Ernest Bywater
Copyright© 2016 by Ernest Bywater
Action/Adventure Story: A 10 year old boy survives a car crash where his family is killed. He goes to live on his maternal grandfather's ranch on the Texas / Mexican border with some of his retired Army buddies. But life there has some serious issues due to drug smugglers being angry about having their shipments destroyed by those at the ranch. Pat grows up fast while learning to be quick and accurate with a gun. - 51,400 words of adventure.
Tags: Fiction Crime Rags To Riches Violence
Cover Art
The image used is posted on Wikipedia as VanHornTX_2008.jpg by Leaflet, and is used with his permission under Creative Commons Attribution. The cropping, size adjustment, and text are by Ernest Bywater. All rights to the cover images are reserved by the copyright owners.
14 April 2022 version
Note: Due to the main character and the narrator being Australians UK English is used in this story, except for dialogue by a US character where US English is used in the dialogue and some nouns.
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