Kevin and the Dead

About the Book

Kevin is a handsome college student that is scared of girls. Nearly his whole life his many friends have been ghosts. In the opening, he meets a beautiful girl named Tracy who is strongly attracted to him. He starts to get fond of her just before she is kidnapped. Using his abilities to talk to ghosts and other abilities, he knows something about her kidnapper. Her mother and Kevin take off to find Tracy. The closer they get, Kevin senses more and more. Therefore, he gets Tracy’s mother ahead of the kidnappers. Then Kevin waits for them. There are three armed men with a drugged and docile Tracy. Kevin takes them apart without a weapon. After they get back safely, Kevin helps dead kids talk to their parents. In addition, Kevin gets fonder of Tracy. Soon the helps other families get rid of bad ghosts, heal critically injured kids, find other kidnappers, and establishes a scholarship for a baby. In a couple of months, Tracy and Kevin are engaged to be married. Kevin has to turn down one request because he does not see that God would allow him to help. However, it angers the man who called who happens to be the head of a crime syndicate. This man puts a death contract on Kevin, his fiancée and her parents. Later Kevin and Tracy get married in secret to keep ahead of the gangster. Near the end of the novel, Kevin is kidnapped, drugged and buried alive in a cemetery six feet down. In order to make it the worst possible the mobster have given his air tubes to the surface hidden by the special headstone as well as enough water for forty days, long enough for him to starve to death slowly in the dark and cold. How he gets out is part of the story. There is much more to this book than I can say in a few words. It is fast moving, very interesting and entertaining. It is also a powerful thriller.

About the Author

Daniel Whittman has been a pilot, realtor, teacher, principal, salesman, entrepreneur, soil tech, driver, writer, mechanic, electrician, plumber, carpenter and painter among other things. He wrote since childhood. His first novel was written when he was twenty-three years old. Since publishers did not recognize his works, he turned to Xlibris.