Missed Birthdays

By Filip Halo

In a small town of northern Minnesota in 1985, at his brother's 10th birthday, the 8-year old Marty experiences the true bitterness of our world, when his brother Johnnie vanishes into thin air before blowing out the candles, without leaving a single clue behind. None of the guests saw or heard anything. The ground search that follows adds to the mystery of his disappearance. The missing boy's cold case starts haunting his family and the entire town profoundly, which leads to an atypical memorial event every year on his special day, that keeps Johnnie's memory alive for years.

Marty grows up in a depressing environment, that forces him to leave as far away as he can for college and never to look back. After years of absence, he finally decides to visit his ill mother in 2010. Sequential coincidences bring him face to face with an unexpected first clue after all those years. What happened to Johnnie under their nose was not supernatural, it was real horror. Marty is committed to spend a fortune and all his time and energy to uncover the truth.

With the help of his childhood crush Delphine, who became a police officer, Marty invents extraordinary ways to expose the dark secrets of his home town. When the FBI re-opens the case, it becomes very clear that the enemy can block even the federal agency's investigation. Every inch of hope to find his brother is accompanied by acts of terror, that escalate to cold-blooded murders. His only way out is his lack of experience and training, as his choices and actions become more unpredictable and irrational by the day. The enemy can even bring the government to its knees, but has never predicted that one single person could be so fearless and so determined to destroy everything that was built in secrecy for decades under the umbrella of the black budget secret programs

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FF53V9L5
• ISBN13: 9798854117425
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"