No One Knows the Son presents the drive of modern man in his quest to reach higher material plateaus, and given the opportunity, how life’s excesses and one’s inner being collide to result in the inevitable failure; how temptation for all that is just beyond one’s rightful reach can bring a greedy man to his knees. But No One Knows the Son goes further still. This book rips through the mold of the rise and fall and then the end. It goes beyond the sad end, and into the new beginning, filled with hope and promise of a genuine and solidly built future.

 

 

The secret son of one of Scotland’s most notorious criminals has told how his dad led him into a life of crime…Now, he’s penned his life story, No One Knows the Son. Cobb, now of Lafayette, Louisiana, gets letters from his dad, who was freed in 2002, but he’s not seen him since he left Spain…

Jack Mathieson, Daily Record, United Kingdom

October 3, 2006

 

Based on true events, No One Knows the Son by newcomer James Cobb, crackles with prose that will leave you awed. It is hard to believe this troubled story of a son and his father is Cobb’s first book. Pick it up and you won’t put it down.

Gene Williams, Times of Acadiana, Louisiana

 

… No One Knows the Son was simply one of the best thrillers I have read in a very long time. All readers… will be unable to put it down. The book is a compelling thriller while beautifully written, with parts that make your pulse race and others that make you cry…

Jacklyn Sonnier Hirshberg

Author, Nicky the Swamp Dog

 

[No One Knows the Son is]told with a novelist’s eye, with a poet’s attention to detail. A marvelous first book.

Harry Delahoussaye, Ph.D., Professor of English

Universityof Louisiana at Lafayette

 

[No One Knows the Son] is without a doubt, one of the most entertaining, yet also educational books that I have read…definitely one of the most engaging books…The use of Southern dialect and slang makes you feel that you are there in the book…There is also the sense in the book that there is always light at the end of the tunnel…I feel grateful and just better off as a person for reading this book.

Todd Lancon, 21, Student

Universityof Louisiana at Lafayette