The Shout and the Avalanche

About the Book

l938-39: Europe is in arms. Britain and France mobilize their citizens and provide them with gas masks, and London sends its children north to safeguard them from air attacks. Meanwhile, Billy Wonder, a young messenger working in Manhattan, inadvertently finds himself locked in the cross hairs of two terrorist groups, witnesses the theft of a diplomatic attaché case, and is taken hostage in a Manhattan office building because he is suspected of being an FBI informant. Little does Billy know how unprepared he is for the startling revelations that lie ahead of him.

About the Author

Fred Madeo is a retired English teacher who taught at Fallsburgh Central High School and at Sullivan County Community College in New York State. He received is BS and MA degrees from New York University. He resides in Hurleyville, New York, a small hamlet in the foothills of the Catskills.