The Sun Also Sets

by Steve Patton

Overview

H. H. Roosevelt is a Professional Hunter in Africa, burned out, and going through the motions. In the beginning, he enjoyed helping people achieve their hunting goals in Africa, but after twenty years, he realized everyone is the same...they want blood on their hands. No one comes to Africa for Africa. Roosevelt has lived in Africa all his life and despises those he guides; they are rich and arrogant and do not appreciate the beauty of Africa. Then one day, a series of unfortunate events begins to unfold, hurling Roosevelt towards an African anomaly he seemingly cannot avoid. The ghosts of Africa are after his soul, when just by chance, or maybe fate, he finds that a guide needs a guide. Although a turning point in his life, he must still face his demons, both real and unreal, before he can truly appreciate the beauty of Africa himself. It is a human-interest story with a lot of adventure added in. And in the end, all I can ask for as the Author is that you like, or at least tolerate, the protagonist for his actions and decisions that bring him to his final end - whether that be he lives or dies on the plains of Africa if he is remembered or forgotten...or if even not for himself, the beauty of Africa is finally magnified.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798991123808
Publisher:	Mepho Press
Publication date:	08/05/2024
Series:	The Roosevelt Series , #1
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

I live on a ridge in Southern Indiana with my wife and son. We enjoy hunting and fishing and spending time together doing different events around the area. It is a great place to live, and it's a great place to write!

I have always written stories. My earliest memories will be in 2nd and 3rd grade in elementary school, but in first grade I won our reading contest. In 4th and 5th grade, my teacher let me set up a table and sell my stories for 25 cents each (this would have been 1979-1980). In 5th or 6th grade I went to the Young Author's Convention, with a story Ray Sting and Everything.

I continued to write through middle school and into high school, but it was just for fun.

In my junior English class, I wrote a one-page story – it was as a near perfect paper. The English teacher was constantly wanting me to write short stories for magazines of that nature, but I never followed through on it.

Although I did well in college English, and was encouraged by my professors, I only wrote to write good papers for grades. But the yearn to write was always there burning like a strong flame that I just did not, for whatever reason, follow through on.

Fast forward some 30 years. My son was five and he is home schooled - he had a strong engineering mind and even at age five the children's books just didn't fit him. So, I opened the laptop and began penning a chapter a night of what was originally just The Marsh Chronicles – which would go on to be my first book published, but with a new title.

One thing in all those 30 years - I would write down story concepts as they came to me, unique ideas and story lines out of the ordinary - so it behooves me to say, I have a lot of writing to do, as I would like to bring all these stories over the past 30 years to life.