The Shepherd
A Bronze Age Tale
A young shepherd boy living between the no mans land of civilization and beyond is taken and made slave by an invading army enroute to his homeland. Led by an undefeated general with a penchant for cruelty, this unassuming adolescent careens his way into the commander's good graces through a witless charm. Finding out only all too late that the little shepherd boy was not at all what he had seemed, the unconquerable general and his army are led to their doom.
Tristan Nettles on the wrong side of the tracks around the city of Atlanta prior to enlisting with the Marine Corps right after high school. In 2015 the USA was left behind and a journey started on the far side of the world from Micronesia to Nepal to Thailand. There the adventurer eventually became an international dark web drug dealer in order to fund his party lifestyle and pay for medical school studies in Europe.After his twenty-one year old fiancee was arrested and sentenced to death for an intercepted package of MDMA the American tried everything to get her released from prison.
