The Shadow Zone

By Richard Paracka

A lot of things happened in back rooms, dark corners and out of the way places before the civil authorities became involved. Even when a young girl walked into the Department of Police to report an incident involving a corporate vehicle, it wasn't readily apparent anything other than a routine accident investigation was necessary.

Some say perception is reality. If true, then public preconceptions of the Dilmun Corporation believed it to be a private organization with squeaky clean credentials. But like city sewers most of its' real filth was unseen, hidden from the public eye in political sometimes murderous shadows.

Out of the desert came a second shadow - its' threat more overt than the town's major employer, its' purpose linked not to a corporate director in a three-piece suit, but to a young girl in ragged and dirty clothing who defended homeless children. Like a desert dust devil, she appeared out of nowhere and disappeared just as quickly.

She walked in off the street one day, reported the burnt remains of a truck and its' single charred occupant to the police duty sergeant, and disappeared without a trace. A surveillance photograph taken at the time provided a crucial link to her identity and to a gigantic desert menace called The Shadow Zone. No one knew it at the time, but the ruined truck and its dead driver was only the newest incident in a long war between shadows.
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Work by author and educator, Richard Paracka. Published by DonnaInk Publications, L.L.C.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939425522
• ISBN13: 9781939425522
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Donnaink Publications
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"