Olin Lester served as a US Army Ranger with 1^st Ranger Battalion and for the last twenty years, as a police offer in his local community of Charlotte, North Carolina. Over the decades, he has dealt with the evils of this world and writing has become a way for him to cope with them. He uses these experiences and combines them with his imagination to create unique works of fiction. In his debut novel “The Missing: a Mecklenburg Story,” the town of Mecklenburg has soured; people are missing and evil is running amuck. (amazon, 2021)

In “The Missing,” while investigating an incident 7000 feet deep inside the Duke copper mine, Tom Porter stumbles across a doorway that transports him into a parallel world of hell. He wakes up hairless, bloody, and naked in a wasteland controlled by an insidious faction of people, led by Chief Sanders, Trashman, and The Preacher. Follow Walter Pauls, Tom Porter, Charlotte Kane—her dog, Bran—and others as they discover supernatural forces eating the soul of this town, while they fight to survive. This is a haunting tale of spilled blood in a town that God has forsaken. Why are people missing, and why do so many bad things happen in Mecklenburg? Inspired by Stephen King’s novel “Under the Dome,” “The Missing” will make you think twice about visiting small towns. Read an excerpt here.