By all rights the road should have been named Jones Road, given Deke Norton’s failing health when Mississippi adopted the E-911 system, but the county turned a blind eye and gave Oscar Jones one more reason to complain. Life is one lemon after another for Oscar. He lost a daughter to pneumonia and a son to California, then he lost the love of his life to cancer. When the county school board declares him too old to keep the grounds and forces him to retire, something inside him snaps. He stops complaining and starts doing. Davis Khane is a businessman. A pillar of the community. The furniture factory next to Oscar’s property is the county’s largest employer and his greatest achievement. It’s not his fault that the sawdust from his frame shop drifts, or that the manufacture of furniture produces noise. When the old man next door becomes a thorn in his side and the county sheriff turns a blind eye, he hires his own man to correct the problem. He’s an old man. It should be easy. Norton Road is a story of one man’s struggle against power, and of power’s struggle against an old man. Carl Purdon lives in Pontotoc, Mississippi with his wife and two of their four children. Born in 1964, he knew by age five he would write novels someday. He prepared himself by reading a wide variety of books, and by falling down a few times. His passion is observing people. His goal is to create characters so real his readers will feel they know them by the end of the book. In February of 2012, he released his debut novel, The Night Train, then followed it up with his second novel, Norton Road in 2013. In 2014, he released Blinders. His fourth novel, Red Eyes, a sequel to The Night Train, was released in 2015. Norton Road was selected as a Notable Indie by Shelf Unbound magazine as part of their 2014 Best Indie Book Awards. Carl writes in the contemporary fiction genre, with emphasis on true-to-life drama and suspense. During an introduction at a reading roundtable in 2014, Carl's writing style was described as a mixture of Mark Twain and Merle Haggard, a compliment he continuously strives to live up to.