Collection of personal essays, short stories, and poems from writers north of Duluth.

North From Duluth

Literature & Fiction

Truesdale, Hardie

Blakely, Roger

History & Criticism

New Rivers Press

All Artemus Newton wanted after 32 years in the Army was a nice, quiet retirement. That's not going to happen. Fifty year old Army Chief Warrant Officer Artemus Newton has just retired after a long and mostly lackluster career sitting behind desks at different assignments around the world. Now Artemus Newton and his cat Gus have moved to a comfortable apartment at a far northwestern suburb of Chicago and he is looking forward to a peaceful retirement living off his Army pension, supplemented by a less stressful part time job. Newton's quiet life doesn't stay quiet for long, though. Sinister forces are planning the largest terror attack on American soil in history and they are converging on a target nearby. Guess who has to stop them. Roger Blakely is an Army Chief Warrant Officer, currently assigned to the Army Reserve 88th Regional Support Command at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Roger spent six months at an Army airfield in Kuwait, 9 miles from the Iraq border during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the desert. Roger has been in the Army for over thirty-two years with assignments in Germany, Kuwait, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Alabama and other interesting places and draws upon his extensive military background when writing his novels.

Chief: A Thriller

Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

All Artemus Newton wanted after thirty-two years in the Army was a nice, quiet retirement. But, he is about to be thrown back into the fight; this time against forces that may be unstoppable.  Fifty-year-old Army Chief Warrant Officer Four Artemus Newton has recently retired after a long and mostly lackluster career sitting behind desks at different assignments around the world. Now Artemus Newton and his cat Gus have moved to a comfortable apartment at a far northwestern suburb of Chicago and he is looking forward to a peaceful retirement living off his Army pension, supplemented by a less stressful part time job. Newton's quiet new life doesn't stay quiet for long, though.  One month after suffering a bullet wound to the shoulder, Artemus Newton is reluctantly thrown back into the fight, this time against sinister forces that may be unstoppable.  Roger Blakely is an Army Chief Warrant Officer, currently assigned to the Army Reserve 88th Regional Support Command at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Roger spent six months at an Army airfield in Kuwait, 9 miles from the Iraq border during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the desert.  Roger has been in the Army for over thirtytwo years with assignments in Germany, Kuwait, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Alabama and other interesting places and draws upon his extensive military background when writing his novels.

Arena: An Artemus Newton Thriller

Artemus Newton is about to face his biggest challenges yet in SCOUNDREL... Good ol' Bill Hennick, whom Artemus Newton befriended in a nursing home in the year 2012 in CHIEF, is still a young man in 1948 when the prologue takes place in East Berlin. CIA agent Bill Hennick is up against NKVD and SMERSH agents and a battalion of Soviet infantrymen as he tries to escape from the Soviet Zone with secret information. Sixty-five years later, Artemus Newton has taken a peaceful job at his favorite grocery store to supplement his Army pension and is finally beginning to enjoy his retirement as he and his faithful cat, Gus live the good life in a nice apartment in a far northwestern suburb of Chicago. The only stress in Newton's retired life is that he is still taken with the dynamic young C.I.A. Clandestine Services Officer Alexis Lee and he fears that she is about to become engaged to be married to her boss, Isaac Jordan. But, he does not realize that he and an unlikely ally will soon be embroiled in a battle with old enemies and new adversaries, more deadly than any that he has ever encountered and that the only thing that can save him and the entire country may be some of the same people that Bill Hennick fought against during the height of the Cold War. All Artemus Newton wanted after thirty-two years in the Army was a nice, quiet retirement. But, he is about to cross paths with a real scoundrel. Roger Blakely is an Army Chief Warrant Officer, currently assigned to the Army Reserve 88th Regional Support Command at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Roger spent six months at an Army airfield in Kuwait, 9 miles from the Iraq border during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the desert. Roger has been in the Army for over thirty-two years with assignments in Germany, Kuwait, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Alabama and other interesting places and draws upon his extensive military background when writing his novels. Check out his web page at www.rogerblakely.com and learn more about CHIEF and ARENA and SCOUNDREL and the adventures of Artemus Newton and PLESIOSAUR and the world of The Matt Chase Adventures. You can also contact the author at: rogerblakely@hotmail.com

Scoundrel, an Artemus Newton Thriller

Contemporary

EYE OF THE STORM: Artemus Newton Thriller #8 (An Artemus Newton Thriller)

Genre Fiction

Independently published

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