MH-455 Peter Eater
Peter Eater
Manhard
MH-455
Steve Lynn
$1.95
Peter Eater
Manhard
MH-455
Steve Lynn
$1.95
FOREWORD
“Inside each of us lurks a stranger who, if the circumstances of our lives were different, would burst free.”
We quote direct from the letter we received along with Steve Lynn’s manuscript. The writer knows whereof he speaks, for this book is drawn from his personal experience. An accident of fate plunged him into an unfamiliar and hostile environment, showing him a ‘stranger inside’ he could never have imagined, had his comfortable life gone along in its established rhythm.
If the Carlo Ravenna in this story hadn’t burst onto his horizon with a plot so bizarre and outrageous it strained Steve’s credulity, put him—his very life in the character of Peter Eaton—in danger, the dark side of a placid, gentle personality might never have been suspected, much less brought out into the open.
There are Carlo Ravennas and Caseys and Theos in the world we live in, and they do change us, for better or worse. The people we become, the end result of our development, is not always completely in our own hands, though we must take responsibility for our own lives.
Peter Eaton’s awareness was broadened more shatteringly than it might have been by the most dangerous of mind-expanding drugs, the harvest of the impossible and terrorizing events initiated by Carlo’s determination and greed.
Blackmail, coercion, brutality, marked the attempt to share in the fruit of Peter Eaton’s labors. Chance, coincidence, and desperation brought about the denouement of the crisis that could have ended so differently, under a different set of circumstances. In his manuscript Steve Lynn tells it all. He freely discusses the new sensations that he had never dreamed he could experience, his fictional-character reactions to Carlo Ravenna—to Casey and Theo, his affections and frustrations toward Seth Graham.
Under the same accidental circumstances, can any of us say how we would react, whether we could adjust to terrifying and startling events as well as Peter managed in his life?
All of us learn, from time to time, things we might rather not know, go through things we’d be happier not having to experience. Do most of us, though, come out of unpleasantness and unhappiness and pain, better people than we were before? If not better, then at least more understanding and compassionate?
After you’ve read Steve Lynn’s book, will you think about how it might have been if your life were toppled on its keister as Peter’s was, and wonder about your own responses to such trauma, or simply accept it as an exciting and compellingly fascinating experience in fiction?
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