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On May 11, 1995, at 30, Roy’s life was irrevocably changed. After walking into the hospital, he was admitted and later received the worst possible diagnosis – Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. His doctors gave him two years to live, and he left the hospital in a wheelchair. After battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 16 years, Roy began devoting his energies and passions to the full-time art of storytelling. His disability has brought with it an unforeseen blessing. He can finally take medications to alleviate some of the pain from his MS and focus on the pleasures of character creation and the joys of putting words to paper.
As an author, Roy A. Teel Jr. is very diverse, and his works include both fiction and nonfiction. His previous works include The Way, The Truth, and The Lies: How the Gospels Mislead Christians about Jesus’ True Message (2005), Against The Grain: The American Mega-Church and its Culture of Control (2008), Light of Darkness: Dialogues in Death (2008), and And God Laughed (2013).
In 2014, Roy began publishing his latest and largest project – a 15-book geographically-centered hard-boiled, mystery, suspense, thriller crime series: “The Iron Eagle Series.” The main character, a former Marine Corps Black Operative turned rogue FBI agent, hunts serial killers in Los Angeles. Each novel addresses different subjects, and while fiction, all titles deal with real world subject matter. “The Iron Eagle Series” is not about things that can’t hurt you. What happens in these novels can happen to any one of us if we let our guard down and/or are in the wrong place at the wrong time. To learn more, go to IronEagleSeries.com
Roy lives in Lake Arrowhead, CA with his wife and children.
Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
Rise of The Iron Eagle (The Iron Eagle Series Book 1) by Roy A. Teel Jr. is a gripping crime fiction that is both brutal and hard hitting, and will keep readers glued to the very end. Homicide Detective Jim O' Brian and Steve Hoffman, an FBI Profiler Special Agent, are looking for a serial killer. Both of them have been trained to detect, but they realize that time is slowly ticking by. Iron Eagle, the protagonist of the story, is someone who believes in an 'eye for an eye' and is ruthless in his killings. He roams the streets of Los Angeles searching for his daily victim, whom he kills in a grotesque manner. As Jim O' Brian and Steve Hoffman get more details and information about the serial killer, they realize that he might be one of them.
The portrayal of the serial killer Iron Eagle is done with a lot of dexterity that makes readers feel the cruelty and brutality in his killings. The other characters in the story are also sketched well, making them real and relatable to readers. The narration is descriptive and spine-chillingly honest. The author is expressive and all the heroes in the story are those we see in our daily lives, unlike 'larger-than-life' heroes. The story leaves readers gasping with its horror, killings and crime. The scenes are raw and riveting, and the plot is fast paced. This is a must-read for all those who like crime fiction.
