The Fear Factory
John Swantek
Paperback
(Eagle Crest Publishing, June 9, 2020)
Your worst fear ... Tommy Payne is 12. He looks 9 and thinks like 20. He lives in a third floor apartment of a decrepit old building. He and his three best friends have banded together as The Loyal and Adventurous Knights of the Air Shaft. The LAKOTAS -- 'kotas for short. He and his friends -- the 'kotas -- are enjoing summer. A kid's summer seems like a year and the 'kotas are making the most of every second. They have just about convinced themselves that all of that "dream business" was just that -- a dreamBut as the days get shorter and Halloween approaches, there are signs that all is not as it should be. In the midst of a raucous sleepover, they awake in the Fear Factory. This factory doesn't manufacture bikes or cell phones. It has only one product -- FEAR. Fear can bring out the worst in us. Could you choose between your worst fear and your best friends? This could be the end of everything.