Tom Hawks

Chance Be Quick Tom Hawks

"Chance be nimble. Chance be quick. Chance jumped over a candle stick."

Sheriff Chance Colt has been fighting battles and wars since the day he was born. The aging sheriff is battle-worn and war-weary after serving eight years as a professional killer in the Marine Corps as a scout sniper, and then twenty-six years as the Sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

Coming into the home stretch of his career, Chance is beginning to tire of constantly battling evil and is slowly running out of life-energy and life-steam. At this point, all he wants is to pursue his blossoming love affair with his young and beautiful police detective, and find spiritual inner peace and harmony with The Creator of All Things.

In the beginning of this latest novel, we find Chance burying his recently murdered best friend and faithful four-legged companion Shakespeare, his beloved Black Labrador Retriever. The unknown and mysterious killer, attempts to be a comical poet by sending nursery rhyme threatening letters to Chance. The psychotic killer warns, "I am going to find everything in this world that you love and kill it. Then, at last, I will kill you, Sheriff Colt."

Up until this time, Chance, the philosophical Zen-Master and peaceful warrior has always been God's faithful servant and soldier of misfortune, whom God could always count upon to perform his duty until the bitter end... Until the very bitter end... Until death do us part... Amen.

The story ends with a climatic showdown between Sheriff Colt and his vengeful, demon-like foe; but does Sheriff Colt have the inner strength, stamina and the sheer will to fight one last battle, or has the good sheriff finally met his match?

This is a classic tale, a slice of life and a duel of timeless and universal truths representing good versus evil, God versus the devil and life versus death.

... Will Chance be quick or will Chance be dead? Only time will tell.