Clayton Farley

A Federal Tattoo: a Novel Clayton Farley

Eighty years from now, a stranger named Sam wanders onto theStahl family farm and meets Clara Stahl, a beautiful young medicalstudent. Although it is clear that underneath Sam's calm mannerlies a tortured soul, Clara is immediately drawn to the handsomevisitor. But is Sam's amnesia the result of a trauma, or is he merelytrying to forget a past filled with regrets? As Clara and her familyhelp Sam unravel the mysteries of his memory, a fierce U. S. AirForce colonel in a secret federal facility fears his career may be onthe line after a prisoner escapes-and that prisoner is Sam. The residents of the quiet family farm soon find themselvesthreatened by authority at the highest levels. The resultingconfrontation could ultimately endanger the entire United Statesgovernment. In A Federal Tattoo, Clayton Farley takes us into a world at oncesophisticated and archaic. As the lines between right and wrongbecome shockingly twisted, the ancient story of right versus mightis dramatically played once again against the backdrop of a coldand unfeeling future.