ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
John Aubrey Anderson was born and raised in his grandparents’ home, five miles north of the setting he chose for Abiding Darkness. That little cotton country town is within a rifle shot of two rivers, a bayou, a double handful of lakes, and endless acres of woods. Add that backdrop to a culture that offered an umbrella of protection for children while allowing boys to roam the countryside with firearms and fishing poles, and you come up with an environment that would provoke the envy of Tom Sawyer. In those surroundings, millions of day-by-day adventures linked themselves to become my boyhood.When John was eight years old, he saw Flying Tigers with John Wayne and knew he wanted to be a pilot. After graduating from Mississippi State, he flew six years in the Air Force then twenty-nine years for a major airline. His career in the cockpit was nothing less than a thirty-five-year answer to a young boy’s unspoken prayer. And now he get to write . . .
Writing has transformed my life...
Writing has transformed John's life—mostly for the better, but his schedule has been a little crunched for the last four years. In one sense, he looks forward to the day when he will be able to squeeze in time for banjo lessons and golf. On the other hand, he had never had a hobby that came within a long mile of generating the kind of pleasure he derive from crafting a good scene in one of my books.John and his wife started to Mrs. Smith’s kindergarten together and graduated from high school with nineteen other kids. With college, careers, and forty some-odd years of marriage behind them, they find ourselves in Texas—about twenty miles south of the Red River. Most people would describe their lives as boring and colorless—he spend the biggest part of my time writing; she’s immersed in leading a comprehensive, women’s Bible study. They like greasy hamburgers and Dr. Peppers, most species of warm-blooded creatures (the kind that don’t normally bite), and spending July in the mountains.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Turmoil comes to what was peaceful Mississippi cotton country in 1945 when good and evil go to war at Cat Lake. Missy and Bobby Parker, white children from a priveleged family, and Junior Washington, their black friend, are caught in the epicenter of the first battle.In the aftermath, Missy takes up a life mission that fuels the fire of aggression in the evil lurking in the lake. The war destroys lives in and around Missy's family and community. The lives of the Parker and Washington families, linked for generations by land and work, are now bound by spirituual warfare.
From Chapter One:
Summers were mostly reliable.
They always followed spring. They always got hot. And they always promised twelve weeks of pleasure to the three children at Cat Lake.
The summer of '45 lied.
The children are first attacked by snakes, water moccasins, but these were no ordinary snakes...they were demon possessed! So began the onslaught of spiritual warfare against Missy and her family and friends. There are many battles, people die, the action is thrilling. This book is full of suspense and will leave you wanting to read more about these families. And John Aubrey Anderson has written the second book Wedgewood Grey, and is coming out with the third, And If I Die coming out around August 22, 2007. http://www.amazon.com/If-Die-Black-White-Chronicles/dp/0446579521/sr=1-1/qid=1172084244/ref=sr_1_1/002-0909598-8628827?ie=UTF8&s=books
Amazon book link: http://www.amazon.com/Abiding-Darkness-Anderson-Aubrey-Chronicles/dp/0446579491/sr=1-2/qid=1172762146/ref=sr_1_2/104-2163850-2178302?ie=UTF8&s=books
The Author's Website: http://www.johnaubreyanderson.com/
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