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Tom Livengood: An L.L. Layman Western

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I live in Peoria,Il.And know L.L.Layman,alias Larry Layman,Police Officer. I had an encounter with Officer Layman once. At my place of work. He made me move my car out of a handicapped parking space. I argued that the space was not posted. I moved the car. Later I helped my husband with the covers of the L.L.Layman Westerns.
I discovered a sensitive,romantic and caring male under the swaggering uniform. Discovering this sensitive Officer Layman,I felt much, much safer.
Buy his book. If you like it,Just wait until you read Paxton McAllister, Tyler James and Jessie Buxton. You can almost taste the roasted wild meat and smell the camp fire coffee.Happy endings we need. Happy endings and Heros.
Yea! L.L.Layman plays in Peoria.

This is the kind of book parents should be buying for their teanagers to read. It is not only written without profanity but has a real hero teens could look up to.

I purchased this book because I worked on the same police dept with Larry and I knew him to be a good police off. I had no idea that he was such a talented writer. I could not put the book down. It is a very fast paced story that transports you back in time with the main character. You live the story with Tom Livengood. This is a book that I would recommend to all ages. It makes you want to read more about Tom and I think it is great material for a movie or television series.

Jane Kirwan, Princeville, IL

From the time I picked up this book, I could not put it down.

Bravo, L.L.Layman on your first western.

I grew up in the city of Peoria, and was L.L.Laymans neighbor.

I see playing cowboys and indians in the 60's paid off.

Born a century too late, Layman takes you back to the days of hard working, hard living individuals of the old west!

Author, Cathy Hanchett-Howell

This is a book by an amateur writer, a Peoria, Ill., policeman who loved Louis L'Amour and decided to try writing something similar himself. He has succeeded.

It's the story of an English kid who is orphaned and kidnapped and taken to the New World in the 17th century. By hook and crook and bravery and some luck, he survives the English murderers who are trying to kill him and the treacherous Indians who are trying to kill him and enslave another tribe of Indians who have befriended him.

Fast paced, a page turner, lots of makeshift ingenuity and a really appealing love story (but nothing explicit, so it's good for young adult readers, too).