Papertown

This is a story of hardscrabble conditions in the Midwest during the early and middle fifties; about and growing up early and becoming tough and hardened to life. It's also about murder and vengeance.

George Rickson's life is entwined with those who live in Papetown, a group of tarpaper shacks. He takes his own share of physical and emotional hard knocks, both winning and losing. People forced to live in squalor, with little to hope for, love, hate, fight, cheat, steal and extract harsh penalties under adverse conditions. Things become even tougher for Papertown residents when a mysterious killer begins taking a bloody toll. They are not the first killings in Papertown and the surrounding area. People whose only satisfaction can come from grinding their tormentors even deeper into the dirt they came from, deal with theft, rape and murder on their own terms.

Dave Norem is a retired manufacturing engineer and jack-of-all-trades. He lives in Clarksville, Tennessee. Dave has ridden alone over most of the Continental U S on a motorcycle, walked alone in strange cities at night - in ethnic areas of large cities – in forests at night – and in foreign lands. His short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies. His previous novel, RECURRENCE, received the Readers' Favorite Five Star Award in all five categories. Look for it: ISBN 978-1-54394-676-5