{"id":17395,"date":"2014-10-01T07:44:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17395"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:00:22","slug":"the-grey-man-payback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/01\/the-grey-man-payback\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Man – Payback"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TGMPayback\"<\/p>\n

J.L. Curtis<\/strong> has written\u00a0a second book The Grey Man – Payback<\/strong>, and he invited me along for the ride to design and illustrate the cover. This is quite an honor because Mr. Curtis is quite a writer – his first novel sold well and had tremendous\u00a0reviews. His books are rock solid adventure yarns that would make great\u00a0movies! I appreciate Jim’s decision to use\u00a0my work because action adventure novels are certainly not something I get to do every day. I’d also like to point out that this is his second<\/em> book to come out this year! While we were putting the first novel to bed in March, he was already working on book two – amazing<\/em><\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Deputy Sheriff John Cronin and his granddaughter, Jesse, are preparing for Jesse\u2019s upcoming wedding to her Marine when the Cartel decides to murder some South Texas cops as a payback for arresting their drug smugglers. They send a hit squad to kill Cronin, Jesse, and everyone close to the family. The only problem? They missed the old man. Leaving his badge behind, John Cronin, Francisco and a few others head south to teach them a lesson about what old school western justice really means.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations Jim on another great novel!\u00a0You can buy the book here<\/a>\u00a0and there’s a Kindle<\/a> verion too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J.L. Curtis has written\u00a0a second book The Grey Man – Payback, and he invited me along for the ride to design and illustrate the cover. 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