Dear Reader,
First of all, thanks for picking up my book (or, if
you’re using an e-reader, downloading it). I really hope you are having an
enjoyable experience with the story and characters. If you’re not, feel free to
drop me a line or three and tell me why. I’m always looking to improve, and
your opinion matters to me.
It’s
important to me that my protagonists come across to you as real people, albeit
perhaps with some abilities that may exceed those of the average person, and
that these real people deal with the challenges I throw at them in honorable
ways. My grandparents and parents showed me what it’s like to lead lives of
honor and integrity, and I’ve done my best to live my own that way, too. It’s
something that I think is far too lacking in our society these days. That’s the
main reason I started writing; I wanted to show people, in entertaining ways,
what it means to live an honorable life and deal with challenges in ways that
do credit not just to the person, but to the group to which they belong,
whether that group is a family, a military unit, a sports team or a nation.
I
tend to send my characters all over the world, and I hope I’ve been able to
transfer some of their sense of excitement and exotic adventure to you. That’s
certainly how I feel when I go to a new place, especially one that’s outside
our own borders. In high school, I was fortunate to have an excellent geography
teacher. Mr. Peake opened my eyes to a world way beyond that of Potosi, the little
Mississippi River town I grew up in down in the southwest corner of Wisconsin.
You might never have a chance to visit the same places I send my characters
to—and I sure won’t get to all of them—but at least you and I can share that
experience vicariously, through my characters and their adventures.
Well, I’ll let you get back to it, and make sure to tell me in your review what you liked and didn’t like about the book. (Hopefully more of the former than the latter!) In the meantime, I’ll be hard at work on the next adventure, and hopefully I won’t keep you waiting too long. Life is short, and we have a lot of places to go and things to do!
Dave Tindell
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Germany and raised in southern Wisconsin, David Tindell embarked on a 20-year career in broadcasting before transitioning to the U.S. government and resuming the writing career he’d started in college at UW-Platteville. Today he lives up in the northwestern corner of the state, in a log home on a lake with his wife Sue, a Yorkie and a Siamese. After retiring from government work, Tindell returned to radio, but the writing never stops. Tindell also is a martial artist with black belts in taekwondo and ryukudo kobojutsu, a scuba diver, and world traveler.
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September 1989: The Berlin Wall is about to fall. East Germany is on the brink of collapse, but a rogue GDR Army officer isn’t going down without a fight. He’s been leading a rebel group in Tanzania, seeking to restore the German colony his grandfather fought for seventy years before. That dream is smashed when U.S. Special Forces troops commanded by the White Vixen, Jo Ann Geary, lead Tanzanian forces in a lightning raid that captures the Bronze Leopard himself. Geary and her second in command decide to stay in country and climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, unaware that the Leopard has escaped Tanzanian custody. With the help of East German mercenaries, he sets out to gain his revenge upon the adversary who destroyed his group and who poses the biggest future threat to the mercs. Pursued to the top of Africa, outgunned and weakened by the extreme altitude, the White Vixen faces the fight of her life against a desperate foe in one of the harshest environments on the planet. Book 3 of the White Vixen series.
"It’s important to me that my protagonists come across to you as real people, albeit perhaps with some abilities that may exceed those of the average person, and that these real people deal with the challenges I throw at them in honorable ways."
ReplyDeleteNicely put. I like to write in the same way... :)