About the Author

Calvin Bowden was born July 5, 1924, in Nacogdoches County, TX. Upon finishing high school and three years of military service, he received a B.A. degree with major in sociology, later earning masters in criminal corrections. He worked some 30 years with delinquent and adult criminal offenders, and has completed 3 other novels, all based on his own experiences while working with criminal offenders and officials of our system of criminal justice. Married 57 years, father of four. He has written a newspaper column for over 10 years.