Mill Creek Malice a CJ Hand Novel
He might have turned back if CJ Hand knew he would spend the next two weeks chasing a faceless human—if that is what you could call it.
Preparing for his fall college field class, CJ finds the rare plant he seeks near a log in a land once devastated by a meteorite and agonized by glaciers. At the site, he discovers an old ammunition box and a small reptilian creature staring at him from atop the rotting log. In the dusty container, the cache consists of plant remains and a note. A poem written on the note triggers a mercurial race of matching wits with this faceless being to save two people. Teaming with his old friends, Tom Thies and Dr. Trisha Baker, he encounters twists and turns cleverly designed by an intelligent and deeply disturbed individual willing to kill. Swooping in on each new cache box, the team knows the captor, full of malice, will soon terminate the lives he controls.
The gently rolling landscape and small communities of rural northwest Iowa portray a sleepy and non-threatening environment. For the caged captors—one weak and covered with various plant dyes and the other psychologically challenged awaiting an unknown treatment—it is much different. Hate and fear of death permeate the creature’s evil laboratory.
The perplexing geocache mystery is the antithesis of the straight roads and honest people of the region. CJ, Tom, and Trisha must face the reptilian poet’s geocache game threatening to destroy life, as did the events of thousands and million years past.
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Preparing for his fall college field class, CJ finds the rare plant he seeks near a log in a land once devastated by a meteorite and agonized by glaciers. At the site, he discovers an old ammunition box and a small reptilian creature staring at him from atop the rotting log. In the dusty container, the cache consists of plant remains and a note. A poem written on the note triggers a mercurial race of matching wits with this faceless being to save two people. Teaming with his old friends, Tom Thies and Dr. Trisha Baker, he encounters twists and turns cleverly designed by an intelligent and deeply disturbed individual willing to kill. Swooping in on each new cache box, the team knows the captor, full of malice, will soon terminate the lives he controls.
The gently rolling landscape and small communities of rural northwest Iowa portray a sleepy and non-threatening environment. For the caged captors—one weak and covered with various plant dyes and the other psychologically challenged awaiting an unknown treatment—it is much different. Hate and fear of death permeate the creature’s evil laboratory.
The perplexing geocache mystery is the antithesis of the straight roads and honest people of the region. CJ, Tom, and Trisha must face the reptilian poet’s geocache game threatening to destroy life, as did the events of thousands and million years past.
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Mill Creek north of Paulina, IA
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