Butterfly Man

The story is set in Music City, Nashville, TN, and contains all the ingredients to keep a reader interested. There is everything from kidknapping, drugs and torture to song priracy. The book is also very informative about the backdoor dealings of the music industry. The story begins in Nashville, TN. when Ray August is introduced to a man that he meets at his publishling company. The man is very evasive about being introduced to Ray and tries to avoid him. Ray reconizes him from somewhere, but can not place his face. Ray begins to suspect that something is not right about this man. After some research, he finds that this man was the manager of the club in St.Louis where Ray used to work. Ray begins to ask questions and his inquiry into this mans past leads him to California. Ray meets a waitress name Linda working at a club where this writer hangs out From Linda, he finds out that the man is in the drug business as well as the music business. When things start to develope between Ray and Linda, their lives start spiraling out of control. Their lives are threatened and vilolence follows them all the way back to Nashville. The one question that Roy is intrigued about, is how this man was never known to have written a single song previously, but his name is on many hit songs. You will be caught up in the backlash that Ray gets from asking too many questions.

The main character is a Nashville songwriter and amateur detective named Ray August. Ray's curiosity is aroused when he is introduced to a new songwriter named Lou Wade from California. Ray feels that he has met the man from somewhere before. The name and the face were different, but the eyes were something that no one could forget. Later on that week Ray keeps hearing how this new songwriter, Lou Wade, is pressuring people in the industry to record his songs. Ray had heard that in California, Lou Wade had had number one hits in the Rock field. While at home, Ray is going through an old photo album and he happens to be looking at a picture of a band that he worked with at a club in St Louis. Written below the picture of a man in the photo is the name "Butterfly Man". He remembers that was the name the girls use to call the manager of the club. When Ray looked a little closer at his eyes, he realized that Butterfly Man and Lou Wade were one in the same. Lou looked completely different now and Ray wondered why he would be going by another name. He decides to make a few phone calls to St Louis to learn more. What Ray uncovers causes him to fly to California to find out more about what Lou Wade is hiding from his publisher. While Ray is in California he makes friends with a girl that works where Lou Wade hangs out. When he begins to ask questions about Lou Wade events begin to happen to Ray and his new friend. He soon finds that Lou Wade is involved in the drug seen there. Ray's interest in Lou Wade causes him and his friend to be violently harassed on his return trip back to Nashville, by way of St. Louis. In St. Louis they discover what Lou Wade has really been hiding. Kidnapping, arson and attempted murder become action events that bring this story to an exciting and unexpected climax.

About the Author RALPH D. JOHNSON RALPH D. JOHNSON LIVES JUST OUTSIDE OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. IT WAS AT AN EARLY AGE THAT HE DEVELOPED A LOVE FOR AND A DESIRE TO BE AN AUTHOR. HE FOLLOWED HIS DREAM AND HAS BECOME AN EXCELLENT WRITER. HE HAS WRITTEN MANY CHILDREN’S BOOKS, WESTERNS, MYSTERIES, LOVE STORIES, AND WHO DONE ITS. HIS FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL WAS “NEW GARDEN OF EDEN.” HE HAS SEVERAL OTHER NOVELS WHICH WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE