Sins of the Father: Beast
By J. R. Rada
()
About this ebook
It has unleashed a monster on the Town of Fleetwood in 1993. The question is: Who is the monster? Is it the man who looks like a beast? Is it the man whose soul is that of a beast, or is it the Nazi doctor who is trying to kill the both of them?
Dr. Karl Mueller killed thousands of Jews in the German concentration camps. Now, he wants to kill two more. He views the Lachman twins, Jacob and Esau, as an affront against nature that he must destroy. They are the product of one of Mueller's experiments. Mueller has tracked them to Fleetwood, but they know is after them.
Meanwhile, Nazi hunter Daniel Levitt is closing in on the doctor. Daniel has also discovered the secret the Mueller and Jacob and Esau's mother, Eva, is trying to hide. It is a secret that has gotten people killed and threatens to kill more.
J. R. Rada
J. R. Rada is the author of seven novels, a non-fiction book and a non-fiction collection. These include the historical novels Canawlers, October Mourning, Between Rail and River and The Rain Man. His other novels are Logan’s Fire, Beast and My Little Angel. His non-fiction books are Battlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses and Looking Back: True Stories of Mountain Maryland.He lives in Gettysburg, Pa., where he works as a freelance writer. Jim has received numerous awards from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, Associated Press, Maryland State Teachers Association and Community Newspapers Holdings, Inc. for his newspaper writing.If you would like to be kept up to date on new books being published by J. R. Rada or ask him questions, he can be reached by e-mail at [email protected] see J. R. Rada's other books or to order copies on-line, go to jamesrada.com.
Read more from J. R. Rada
Search Parameters: Hackers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolderbeest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Byte-Sized Friend (Hackers #1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWelcome to Peaceful Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShades & Shadows: Catoctin Tall Tales & Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinishing the Charge: Gettysburg Tall Tales & Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Man Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Sins of the Father
Titles in the series (10)
The Past Present: Beast, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCourse Correction: Beast, #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInto Darkness: Beast, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Snake Cage: Beast, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSlingshot: Beast, #5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeast: Beast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hunt Begins: Beast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMan or Beast: Beast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSins of the Father: Beast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFreedom's Sacrifice: Beast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related ebooks
One Bead of Gold Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEdgewise: page-turning horror from a true master Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Best Friends Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLast Breath Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDetective Docherty and the Demon's Tears: Detective Docherty, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStrange Ways Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLaurel's Gift Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImp Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kidnapping in Kendall County: A Thrilling FBI Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Uncertainty Confusion and Nonsense Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Secret to Die For Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Conversation - A Short Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChilling Tales From The Shadowlands Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Catch a Cat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ariel: The Classic Crime Library, #16 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmong the Fallen Swords Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChristmas Joy: Christmas Romance Novella Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOperation Rat Poison Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Chimp Friday: The Nana Banana Chronicles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bone Maze Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Attic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nine Lives: Spells Gone Awry: Uncollected Anthology, #12 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHaunted: Ghost Children: A Collection of Ghost Stories From Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnce Upon a Christmas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore He Needs (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 5) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not Me (A Camille Grace FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDirge of the Witch Haints: An Ezekiel Crane Paranormal Mystery, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManiac Manor: Part Two Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFire, Ice & Blood: Revenging the Evil Series, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn His Sights (An Eve Hope FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Horror Fiction For You
I Am Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Misery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Good Indians Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stories of Ray Bradbury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Sematary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hidden Pictures: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Needful Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Whisper Man: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Watchers: a spine-chilling Gothic horror novel now adapted into a major motion picture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Short Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Different Seasons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brother Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Notes on an Execution: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hollow Places: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Firestarter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Revival: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lovecraft Country: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Sins of the Father
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Sins of the Father - J. R. Rada
Chapter 1
July 9, 1993
Rick Martin woke up with a start. He shook his head and rubbed his bloodshot eyes. At first, he thought the noise from the laughing studio audience had awakened him; but a commercial saying he could already be the winner of ten million dollars was on. His eyes finally focused on the large-screen television in front of him. He had fallen asleep in front of the television set again.
Looking at the clock on the wall above the television, he realized it was almost one in the morning. Why hadn’t Gloria awakened him and told him to go to bed? Then he remembered Gloria was in West Virginia. He had been so tired from clearing stumps off an acre of land he cultivated that he had fallen asleep almost as soon as he sat down to watch the evening news. That had been over six hours ago. He’d be up for the rest of the night now.
Then he heard the dogs howling outside. What had stirred them up?
Probably just a raccoon or a deer. He pushed the footrest on his recliner down and stood up and stretched. All three of the mutts were howling, but probably Moe was leading them. Not that it took much to set that hound off. He would bark at an owl or a field mouse as well as a rabbit or a cat.
He turned the television off as he walked by, heading for the kitchen.
Something sticky had spilled on the floor in front of the refrigerator that now tried to hold on to his bare feet. He cursed at himself as pulled his foot free from the floor. After all, it was his fault. He had spilled the soda yesterday and hadn’t bothered to wipe it up. If Gloria were here, she would have done it. Of course, Gloria was down in West Virginia visiting her folks and not caring one bit if her husband’s feet hurt because the floor tried to grab his skin.
He opened the door to the backyard. The howling got louder with the door open, but he couldn’t see anything in the darkness. Even the dogs seemed to be in the dark shadows at the far end of the yard.
He reached to the side of the door for the light switch when he heard one of the hounds yelp. Then, silence. He waited for almost a minute, wondering what had happened.
Dogs?
he called out hesitatingly.
He reached for the light again when Curly bolted past him into the kitchen. The brown-and-white springer spaniel lost its footing on the linoleum and fell on his side, but he quickly regained his balance and ran into the living room, where he promptly hid behind the television.
Curly, get out of here!
The dogs weren’t allowed in the house, except sometimes in the winter when it snowed or was extremely cold, but even then they had to stay in the basement. If Gloria came home and saw dog hair all over the upstairs, she would lay into Rick good. She kept a clean house and didn’t like Rick, let alone the dogs, messing it up.
He turned to go after his dog when something caught his attention out of the corner of his eye. At first, he thought one of his dogs had jumped the fence and gotten into Gloria’s garden (she was going to think he destroyed the place when she got back on Friday). Then he saw it was too large to be one of the dogs. It was a man, an enormous man.
Who’s out there?
Rick remembered the light and reached for it again. Then he heard a loud, guttural growl. It had come from whoever was out in Gloria’s vegetable garden, and suddenly he realized it wasn’t a man out there, and he sure didn’t want to see what it was. The thing beyond the fence turned and ran toward him. He froze in place for a moment as he watched the creature approach the chain-link fence and push it down as if it was made of Popsicle sticks.
That was enough for Rick. He slammed the door shut and locked it, and ran back into the living room. If there had been room behind the television, he would have joined Curly. He pulled one of his shotguns off the rifle rack. He would not take any chances that his fear might cause his aim to be off.
He heard glass shatter and fall to the floor from inside the kitchen.
He looked through the kitchen doorway and saw a thick arm poking through the window. It was a man’s arm, but stubbly black hair covered it. The hand was fumbling around, trying to unlock the door from the inside.
He shoved a shell into the shotgun and ran to the kitchen doorway.
The hand found the doorknob and started fumbling with the lock. He brought the shotgun to his shoulder and fired at the glass panes in the door. With a thunderous boom, the remaining glass in the door and much of the wooden door frame splintered into millions of shards. Whatever was trying to get into the house howled in pain. The voice he heard wasn’t an animal’s, either. It was a human.
As he listened, the scream faded away. Whoever he had shot ran off into the fields behind the house. He was tempted to run to the door to see who had nearly gotten into his home, but his legs felt like rubber. They would not move.
Rick leaned against the doorway for a few minutes, until his heart slowed back down to normal. Then he managed to walk over to the phone hanging on the wall and called the police.
As the night dispatcher took his report, he looked around and wondered what Gloria would say when she saw what he had done to the house.
Chapter 2
July 9, 1993
Esau Lachman finally relaxed when he realized his mother had finally fallen asleep. It had taken her awhile to calm down after Dr. Mueller called her. Then something slammed against the front door. Instantly awake, Eva Lachman sat up in her bed.
What was that?
she shouted.
Esau tried to push her gently back down on her bed. Nothing. I think the wind probably blew one of the trash cans against the door or maybe a branch broke off a tree,
Esau said, not knowing if he was telling the truth, but he wanted to keep his mother calm.
The white-haired woman looked over his shoulder and out the window. There’s no wind blowing. The trees aren’t moving. It’s him. I know it’s him. He’s come for you now. He wants to take you like he did Jacob.
Esau held his mother in his thick arms, reminding himself not to squeeze too hard. He could feel her shaking.
She reached toward her nightstand. Her hand groped around the top of the walnut table. Not finding what she sought, Eva pulled away from her son and opened the top drawer. She still wasn’t satisfied.
Where’s my gun, Esau?