The Last Stop - by Michael Loyd Gray (Paperback)

About the Book

Art Millage, a small town police chief, once took a life in the line of duty. Now, as he eases toward retirement, he is faced with a second manhunt, and it involves hunting down the vengeful son of the man he shot many years earlier.

Book Synopsis

Set in Gray's fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, Police Chief Art Millage faces one last manhunt

As Art prepares to step down after 15 years as Chief and pursue a new life running the local marina, a mysterious figure from his past returns to Argus-Nathan Bedford, the son of Brant Russell, a desperate criminal Art was forced to kill in the line of duty years before.

The troubled young Bedford, never having known his father, begins stalking Art. Tensions rise and suspicions grow. When Bedford assaults one of Art's deputies and flees into the same fateful woods where his father died, Art realizes he must confront this threat to the town he has sworn to protect.

Armed and on edge, the weary Chief pursues Bedford deep into the dark forest, unsure of the young man's intentions-or his own resolve to take another life if he must.

Masterfully blending a tense crime story with poignant character drama, The Last Stop is a riveting exploration of duty, morality, and one man's search for meaning and redemption after a life in the long shadows of tragedy and dedication to the law.

Review Quotes

"Michael Loyd Gray's prose unspools with the unmistakable cadence of a storyteller."

-STUART DYBEK, author of The Coast of Chicago

"Gray is a writer with some serious chops."

-DARREN DEFRAIN, author of The Salt Palace

"As he wrenches our hearts, Gray also pushes us to turn the next page, and the next, and the next."

-MONIQUE RAPHEL HIGH, author of Between Two Worlds