The Finisher Series: Joshua

Michael Strong Champion was born in July of 1983 to two loving parents who planned to raise him to be a doctor or lawyer. He had the best of everything they could give on their meager earnings. Dad was a diabetic who was often very ill and mom did every sort of household task around town to keep food on the table. At age five his dad succumbed to his illness and mom, having no other option, reluctantly rented her body out to make ends meet.

This is how I grew up in Long Beach, California and I thought it was normal for a kid’s mom to entertain men late at night. At six years of age I would act out Mario brothers with the other kids in between the twin apartments until about ten o’clock and then mom would call out to me and I would shower with her. I remember her loving touch and the hair between her legs and how she would tell me I would be something one day.

I loved my mom and cried fountains of tears after she got the sickness and died on my eighth birthday. Having no real family around us, the State of California became my parents and my first week in the dorm; I was raped by a fourteen year old boy that took whatever he wanted. I hated him and this activity was repeated many times before he was transferred to a facility in Oregon when I was nine.

I made a lot of friends and a few enemies and after that pervert left, I told myself I would rather die than be subjected to treatment like that again. Three weeks before my tenth birthday, I stabbed one of the keepers at the orphanage with a Phillips screwdriver when he tried to violate me. He died in the parking lot and I slept in a state of terror, knowing they would come and get me when they found out I did it... but they never came!

This is book five in a series where justice is meted out in a sanctioned vigilante style. The anti-hero is allowed to plot and plan to accomplish the goals set forth by his employer, the Harris County, Texas District Attorney's Office.