Salt Lick

About the Book

Hanny Staggs is desperate to find who is causing numerous acts of violence against Staggs Lumber and his family. When he gets close to the guilty he is kidnapped , beaten and abused in a moonshiner’s cabin deep in the hills.

His friend Bull, the county sheriff, is stumped. The family is shaken and ready to yield to demands.

The answer is finally revealed to Hanny by the primary culprit, a close family friend.

Hanny escapes twice, only to be chased with determined intent to kill him. Salt Lick is a town with characters you’ll love.

—Mostly.

About the Author

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Tom Siler has lived in several states. His boyhood was in Salt Lick, Ky., where his grandfather once had a lumber business. After leaving Albion College(Michigan), he worked in Lexington, Kentucky, for Eastern Air Lines, which transferred him to Pensacola, Florida. He worked on Boone, Iowa and Pensacola newspapers before becoming personnel director with the City of Pensacola, from which he retired. Had an employment business, sold real estate and wrote a bi-weekly column for the Gulf Breeze Sentinel. A widower, Tom lives in Pensacola, near his son, Jeff.