Jesse Surratt, sheriff of Hawkes County, Kentucky, isn't sure he wants to run for re-election. The state of his marriage is more important to him than politics and the law, but he's determined to find out why his chief deputy went to prison for a murder he almost certainly didn't commit. The key to the murder investigation is the mysterious Lorena, if only Jesse can locate her. --- Then there's the matter of an unidentified sniper shooting at Jesse's car . . . "Sloan is a master of the unpredictable and his skillfully drawn characters draw you deeply into their lives whether you want to be there or not," said Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall. "As this taut mystery unfolds, Bob Sloans clear, shapely prose hooks us, and we want to turn the pages. We believe in the people of Hawkes County, in their complex motives and unresolved struggles, just as we believe in the rugged, but tender, mountain culture in which they live. Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees is a compelling tale, wonderfully told." --- Gwyn Hyman Rubio In addition to Bob's columns in the Lexington Herald-Leader , his work has received national attention. His commentaries, which have appeared on Kentucky Public Radio member stations, were recognized with a 2000 PRNDI award from the National Professional Association of Public Radio News Directors. National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" began featuring some of those commentaries in 2001. Samples of Bob's commentaries for Kentucky Public Radio can be heard or downloaded as MP3 files from WMKY-FM, Morehead State University's "Public Radio to the Mountains." Bob's collection of short stories Bearskin to Holly Fork was featured on Kentucky Educational Television's "Bookclub@KET" in 2005. "[Sloan's work] tackles in a quiet yet powerful way the stereotypes of the solitary Mountain Man, the small-minded, racist Southerner, and the ignorant redneck, replacing them with real-life, multidimensional characters. Jesse Surratt, is painted by Sloan as intense, contemplative and open-minded, simultaneously a traditionalist and a modernist, a rich product of his Appalachian heritage, but someone who isnt limited by it." --- Andrea D. Pawliczek, Appalachian Heritage Used Book in Good Condition