Reviews
"An important book about one of the most tragic events in Georgia's history. This personal account not only documents the key events surrounding the murder of a respected lawman, but also captures the angst of a young man whose life was forever changed by those events."
—Jackson Herald
Description
When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father.
From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man’s journey through grief and despair to acceptance and forgiveness. Summoning the memories of the events surrounding the August 7, 1967, car bombing of Jackson County, Georgia, prosecutor Floyd “Fuzzy” Hoard, Alone among the Living is G. Richard Hoard’s remembrance of the father he lost that day and his subsequent struggle to come to terms with the murder.
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Paper List price: 978-0-8203-3173-7 11/1/2007 View Shopping Cart |
G. Richard Hoard has won writing awards from the Georgia Press Association, the Salvation Army, and the AMMY Foundation. He has taught literature and composition in high school, and speech communication in college while serving as pastor of Oconee River Methodist Church in Bishop, Georgia. Hoard is also author of a work of fiction The Race Before Us. He lives in Watkinsville, Georgia.
