Louisiana Voice

I’m not certain if you noticed, but the two stories below about New Bethany and district attorney candidate are especially timely in that I have just published a new book entitled The Dinosaur Club. It’s a historical novel about 15 or so retired newspapers reporters, all in their late 70s and early 80s who meet once a month for lunch and who call themselves The Dinosaurs.

In my book, one of the dinosaurs stumbles upon a child sex-trafficking ring and recruits half-a-dozen of his fellow retirees to investigate the operation as one last major writing assignment. So they hitch up their Depends, stick in their hearing aids and apply the Fixodent and Polident, stock up on Metamusil and Ensure, grab their canes and walkers and set out on their quest.

Their exploits are fiction, but the book is full of statistics, facts and stories about child sex trafficking by churches, preachers, cops, judges, politicians and celebrities. No trafficker is spared and real names are used (except for The Dinosaurs, whom I’ve given fictional names; like I said, their part in the book is fiction).

The story of New Bethany is the inspiration for the book and everything I’ve written about that hellhole in Bienville Parish is all too real and the girls who survived the place are real people with real stories.

The book cover even features a photograph of the New Bethany compound. The little girl in the picture is AI, but the buildings behind her are real, including the fence.

To order your signed copy of the book, GO HERE, scroll down and click On the KEEP US INDEPENDENT yellow rectangle and follow directions. The cost is $35, including mailing.