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A nonstop, action adventure thrill ride!

Marcus Fox came screaming into a world of lies and violence. Discarded and abandoned, he was saved and raised by a loving tribe in Zambia. He learned to fight for survival, hunt for his supper, and inevitably became an undeniable force of nature.

Despite being a self-proclaimed beast of a man, Marcus harbors a secret, unbeknownst even to himself — beneath his explosive exterior beats the heart of a severely wounded soul. In his reckless pursuit of truth and meaning, he will face his greatest fears, conquer unimaginable adversaries, and discover trust in unlikely friendships.

In a genre-blending mashup where action meets psychological thriller, Marcus Fox delivers punch after ferocious punch — he was born to tell his savage story.

EXCERPT

I was born in the back of a stolen, horseless horse trailer as it barreled down a bumpy Texas road on a b***h-hot August afternoon in 1967. As the legend goes, my so-called parents were heap deep in the middle of fleeing the long arm of the law for the umpteenth time when I burst into the world, flailing and wailing.

Etched in my memory is the image of dear old dad’s curled-up hook-hands as he clutched an imaginary steering wheel high above my head. I was four years old and this was our nightly routine.

“I turned the truck hard right. You see, Marcus? Like this!”

As he relived the incredible experience of my preposterous birth, he jerked his tight fists hard right and down, snatching his own perception of the past with a firm grip. The mad retrospection shook like a ravenous beast in his hands.

What little light there was in that particular sleazy motel room came from a souring red bulb outside our window. It illuminated the wild, eye-of-the-tiger look my father wore so well.

“Your momma was bouncin’ so fast and peculiar back there. But that didn’t stop her from shootin’ her pistol out the back of the trailer, no sir! I held control of that truck the best I could over all them bumps in the road ’til whammo! We hit one hell of a pothole and the trailer went wide and nearly came off her hinges! But you know what? It was that miracle maneuver that fooled them sumb***h cops sure enough so that, Lord have mercy, they veered right at that fork and we soared left! Hooee that was fun!”

Being far too young to appreciate the full extent of idiocy involved, I was swept away by the incredible adventure of it all. Later in life, I would come to picture my mother as she truly was on that day: terrible, foul, and sweating like a sick pig in all her pregnant horridness — pushing me out, hating me for coming, hating him for putting me in her, one hand blasting away with that .44 (shooting wildly through the dirty air-hole slots in the side of the trailer) while her other hand somehow managed to hold on to the rails of that bucking, aluminum bronco.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Psychological Thriller

I Am Marcus Fox: A novel by Bryon Cahill

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