The Last Trip Home
by Dennis Childs
Category: Fiction

After the death of a deckhand and the presumed death of another sailor, Captain Townsend realizes that what he believes is his last duty before retirement is turning out to be more than a journey of reliving memories of his colorful life. With a murderer—a professional assassin— in the middle of the sea and in his scrap yard-bound ship, he must move decisively to apprehend the killer and stop the carnage in this, his last trip home. Meanwhile, a Southern county fair is the most unlikely setting for two people of such disparate backgrounds to meet and fall in love—amidst the troubles that a passing con man has decided to hatch on the unassuming population. In The Last Trip Home, Dennis Childs depicts to what dark pits the human soul could go, exactly counterbalanced by the heights of redemption that the same soul could aspire for.