The Dying Hour

Vietnam vet and VA hospice patient Charlie Alderfer has survived a medical catastrophe only to discover that he faces three final battles--an inoperable aneurysm lurks in his chest; a mute and despondent five-year-old visitor harbors a terrible secret and needs compassionate help; and a nocturnal intruder is murdering Charlies roommates one by one. When Charlie reports that they did not die of nat-ural causes no one believes him labeling him confused. But when the five-year-old boy finally tells Charlie his secret the former soldier quickly realizes that the death of this boys grandmother and the death of the terminally ill roommates could be related. Is there really a serial killer roaming the halls of VA hospices preying on defenseless old veterans? And if so how can Charlie stop him? Using himself as bait Charlie faces certain death but if theres one thing he learned in the army its that freedom isnt free.