By Tim Ritter
Publishamerica, Inc. -
ISBN: 1588517853
Fiction / Contemporary
for mature content
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With mixed emotions, and at his wife's urging, Al Hammer resigns from a job he loves. After more than a decade on the police force, a close call with a bullet lands him in the hospital and at the mercy of his frightened spouse.
Falling back on his college education, Hammer takes a job teaching woodshop class at Sunnyville High School. Students sport tattoos, earrings on their ears and everywhere else, blue hair, red hair, long hair, and no hair. They are rude, they smoke, break the dress code, and tear the school's brand new video cameras off the walls. Out of control. The first day of school for the students arrived faster than a laser bullet, and that was the only way to describe it. Out of control.
Before he could even get the roll called for his first class, Mr. Al Hammer is breaking up a fight between two girls and then dealing with a boy who thinks spiders are crawling all over him.
Identified as "The Hands of Death," Rudy, Skeeter, Bubba, Krueg, and Darlene are used to controlling the halls as well as the classrooms at Sunnyville High. What they didn't anticipate is the ex-cop now serving as their Shop Class teacher.
What begins as classroom interruptions
escalates into a personal vendetta against Hammer and his wife Joyce.
After Joyce is viciously attacked, Hammer decides to deal with "The
Hands of Death" in his own way. First speaking with their parents
with no success, Hammer tries to turn the situation over to the local
police force. With no satisfaction, he gives up and decides to take the
law into his own hands. Sometimes you have to fight back.
Tim Ritter is an independent filmmaker
and heavy metal enthusiast recognized for his writing and directing abilities.
Well written, with much imagination, The Hammer Will Fall is his
first novel.