No Hero

by Thomas Conway Fishburne

Overview

When high school football coach and History teacher Danny Chambers stops a violent attack on a female motorist, he unwittingly becomes a target for revenge by the vicious leader of an Atlanta street gang known as the Latino Death Lords. Even though he is a decorated war veteran, Danny is a mild mannered man who has tried to live his life by avoiding trouble and turning the other cheek.Now he finds that this philosophy has not prepared him for the campaign of growing psychological terror the leader of the Death Lords launches against his family. When the authorities prove powerless to protect Danny, his wife and their two teenage children, and the psychological terror turns to violence and death, Danny knows that there is no one who can save his family, but himself even if it means his own death.No Hero is a novel of both survival and redemption in the modern world where the criminal's rights endanger the victim and the victim sometimes must becomes the criminal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781456331597
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/29/2010
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

No hero is the first novel by Thomas Conway Fishburne. Thomas is a Vietnam veteran and a retired corporate executive. He and his wife Dana live in Atlanta and on the coast of North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

Fishburne offers an engaging debut thriller about an Atlanta man who must choose between his family and his most cherished beliefs. High school football coach and newly appointed assistant principal Danny Chambers is a nonviolent Christian; when he served in Iraq, he flew medevac choppers instead of firing weapons. But while stopped at a traffic light, he rescues a woman in another car from being savagely beaten, accidentally hurling her assailant into oncoming traffic. The press hails Danny as a hero, but the dead young man's father, Francisco Ramos, is not so forgiving. Ramos, aka Cisco Ram, heads a ruthless gang called the Latin Death Lords, and he launches a campaign of terror against Danny and his family. When the police provide Danny with little help, he struggles with his deeply felt religious beliefs. The plot twists and turns as Fishburne weaves together a large cast of characters, including an ambitious reporter, a crooked judge, a gambling addict and a school janitor who once had a problem similar to Danny's. In the end, Danny must reconcile his pacifism and faith with the life-threatening reality of his situation in an action-packed, satisfying and surprising denouement. The author is especially skilled with minor characters; he portrays some members of the Latin Death Lords particularly well--men with street names like the Knife, the Drunk, and the Butcher--and some readers may find their personalities, motives and dialogue more intriguing than those of people more important to the story. A thoughtful high-action novel that blends exciting urban drama with moral conflict.

Kirkus Reviews