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Golf's Ultimate Hazard: The Fatal Drive

NOTE:  My new novel, Golf's Ultimate Hazard:  The Fatal Drive, is now available.  The ISBN is 1-4241-0476-9.  Click on http://publishamerica.com/shopping/index.htm

Enter the author name: John D. Bowling, in the search window.  It's also available at  amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other book stores.

NOTE:  Read a review of The Back Nine by Dwayne Hines II.  Just click on the following URL:  http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/dec/article378.html

I hope you'll enjoy reading about my books. My first book was an autobiography, written mostly for my grandsons. I only met one of my grandparents. The other three died before I was born.  I often wondered about them and questioned my mother about them repeatedly. I thought I'd write an autobiography and leave it for my grandsons, in case they want to know more about their grandpa after I'm no longer here. I never intended to publish my autobiography, but parts of it are in my memoir, The Back Nine and snippits of it are found in my novels.

My second book, The Back Nine, is an account of my life as it was impacted by the game of golf. It describes my introduction to the game, some of my early experiences and some of the more interesting people with whom I played golf. The book is patterned like a round of golf; not a hole by hole account, but a front nine and a back nine. The front nine covers my experiences up until the time I retired, and the back nine covers my years in retirement.

 My third book is a novel, Golf's Ultimate Hazard: The Fatal Drive. It's a purely fictional account of two professional golfers who have a confrontation early in their careers. One enjoys great success and just dismisses the confrontation as an insignificant event and proceeds as though it never happened. The other, however, blames the confrontation and its consequences for all his shortcomings. His career in professional golf is short and anything but successful. He broods and schemes to get revenge and finally does an evil deed that ruins the first golfers career also. It's fast moving action should make it an interesting read, especially for those who enjoy golf.

A fourth book, a novel entitled Forgotten Summer, departs from the golf theme and explores the trials of a successful computer magnate who has disturbing flashbacks and nightmares that take him back to a particular summer in his youth.