Note: The videos here are presented via the Doctors program on Television.
I therefore felt they were credible to share them. The final one is a compilation plus discussion
so you can get detailed or overview by choosing...
There may be many Wilderness Camps that are legitimate...
This book is about those that are not...
Be Aware!
Josh opened his eyes, half awake. What was that sound? A door opening? Not likely. His mom was the only other person in the home and she didn’t go out late. He glanced at his cell phone on the nightstand. It was still the middle of the night. He rolled over and closed his eyes again. A moment later, heavy footsteps sounded in the hall outside his bedroom. Josh bolted upright. Someone was in their house!
The door burst open and two huge guys rushed in. His heart missed a beat. Dark clothes and buzzed heads, they looked like military. What the hell was this? He opened his mouth to scream, but the intruders came at him so quickly he never had a chance. A callused hand pressed something sticky against his mouth and a cloth bag came down over his head. Oh f___! This was bad.
Josh swung wildly, but powerful hands caught his arms and pulled them together. Even knowing it was useless, he tried to kick his way off the bed. The strong hands grabbed his feet and shoved his legs up against his chest. The ripping sound of tape coming off a roll made his stomach heave.
With terrifying speed and precision, the thugs bound his hands and feet together and wrapped him in his own sweaty sheet. They carried him down the hall, swinging like a trussed animal.
Josh called out to his mother, but the words went nowhere. Heart hammering, he scrambled to make sense of what was happening. Some kind of drug-deal payback? His oxy action was small-time and covered only a few friends—all white, middle-class high school juniors just like him—so that didn’t make much sense. Whatever was going on was out of control!
Please let it be a mistake.
They hauled him through the living room and out the open front door. Cool, middle-of-the night air enveloped him. Josh’s panic escalated, and he couldn’t catch his breath. He moved his mouth around, trying to work the tape loose, but got nowhere. His abductors jogged him across the lawn toward the sidewalk. His visual world was black, but his gut told him a van was parked on the quiet, dead-end street. Waiting.
Frantic, Josh wiggled his jaws, the only move he could make. As the kidnappers’ footsteps hit the concrete of the sidewalk, the left side of the tape slipped off his mouth. He sucked in a quick breath and yelled for help. A fist slammed into his face and pain exploded in his brain. He heard the metal click of a vehicle door sliding open, then they tossed him onto a hard floor.
A moment later, the vehicle’s engine started, and they rolled forward. No! They were taking him somewhere to kill him, and he had no idea why. He would never see his mother again—and the last thing he’d said to her had been pretty crappy. Hot tears pooled in Josh’s eyes.
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Broken Boys
The Extractor Series
By L. J. Sellers
He had been kidnapped right out of his bed! How could his mother not hear everything that was happening? Josh had no power to get away from the two men who had taped him and wrapped him in his sheet to carry him out. He yelled for help, but was knocked out...Why had he been taken to this place? All he knew was that he had been told his parents sent him here and that he would be staying...until whenever...
But he had been told one lie...only his mother had signed the papers to send him... Now his father was enraged, looking for his son... He had come to The Extractor...
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| Rox is questioning whether her neurological treatments are making her too...different... ~~~ |
Josh was 15 and living with his mother, who was involved with somebody else. His father, though, did have equal custody, which was important, and it was he who had suggested to Rox that he might have been sent to a Wilderness Camp...Rox and Marty knew this extraction was going to be more difficult. During their investigation, they had learned that a separate group would kidnap the child and deliver them to where the camp was located. However, as a new camp started, the group would camp and move from place to place as the leaders kept the boys moving further away from where they originally had been dropped. Rox knew they had to be prepared for anything and going into a wilderness that was not familiar to them would take much planning in order to be able to locate one boy among a group and escape...
Of course, they had no idea that Josh was being cruelly treated on a regular basis. One of the leaders pinched him hard continuously as just one physical abuse, while they were given little to eat and forced to keep moving... It had become so bad for Josh that he had attempted to escape...or commit suicide, whichever worked!
While the extraction for Josh drove the story, the complexity and breadth of the criminal activities were mounting, including what was being done via a group, Community Fellowship, that appeared to be a church of some sort. And before Rox got deeply into the job, she was contacted about another child to be found... And by accepting this one, got deeper and deeper into trouble...
This story is harder to read than the first one... those girls had joined the group and participated willingly in the work, supposedly to relieve the guilt they felt. This time, however, the children were normally sent by a parent, but, agreed to have the child kidnapped so they didn't have to face their own child. Most of the story moves between what is happening to those at the camp, to what trail is being followed by Rox, Marty and other investigators who could, first, find the possible location, and then face an unknown number of captors who actively abused the children on the supposition that they had to change...or else...
And during the actual extraction, one boy who told Rox where Josh was, hurriedly chased after, asking for them to take him too. But that wasn't the end...soon somebody was following Rox, who realized that her cover had been blown...But how, since she was only talking to those who needed help? And by whom? As the danger grows, she sees the face of that individual...Sadly...There's no need to compare the books. Each stands alone and is an excellent story in itself. But I do recommend you start with the first and work your way through the series. The main characters are stepdaughter and stepfather who lost a relative to a cult. Readers see flashbacks for each as they remember what they had lost in their lives. And that pain and anger drives them into taking greater risks to prevent the death of other children...
Sellers has a writing style that is easy to escape into the story, almost immediately. We are caught in the devastating "potential" of what has and can happen in real life. I became vested in finding and saving each of those children who have been caught, sometimes just because a parent doesn't want to deal with a difficult child. Sometimes it may be necessary, but the reputation of those who take your child must be paramount in any decision. Evil people will do anything and everything to make money...and even enjoy abusing children. This is fiction, but Sellers does an excellent job in revealing just what that might mean...in...true...crime...
And you won't even believe the next book while it is happening! A great series, highly recommended. Watch for my review of The Other next...
GABixlerReviews
A Special thanks to L.J. Sellers for creating fictional novels that have spotlighted this situation... And, no, I did not know about "Wilderness Camps..." A realistic, researched fiction novel can really help us know about the reality...You can enjoy a thriller...because the good always wins! Not so in reality... Think about it!
