Free Speech or Sedition: Book VI Homicide Detective John Francis Kelly series
Submitted by: Richard Gartrell
Category: Books
Kelly’s lured out of retirement to solve what no one else wishes to handle. Who else is better to take on this new assignment? Three murders, three families changed forever. Kelly wants answers. Kelly seeks justice. Then he’s volunteered. This time to help identify and locate the head of a radical right group and their militia, threatening Washington, D.C. There are other factors at play in this threatening game … time, a mole in the government, dirty city councilmen and a little green notebook. The very fabric of our country is on the line. Free speech or sedition - these radicals are crossing a thin line between the two using the actual freedom they wish to destroy. Can Kelly live up to the enormous expectations placed on his shoulders as a local cop?
About the author:
82-year-old R.B. Gartrell is a Vietnam veteran and a life member of The American Legion. He began to write this award-winning series in 2014 after he encountered some major heart issues. Six novels over eight years. He served as a naval engineering officer aboard two ships, the cruiser USS Providence (CLG-6) and the destroyer USS Waddell (DDG-24). He retired in 2005 as an executive dean at South Seattle College and prior to that was the CEO of tourism marketing organizations. He was also on the faculty at Michigan State University teaching tourism and in the graduate school of business at the University of Michigan teaching communications. He holds his bachelor's and master's degrees in communications from San Francisco State University and did his doctoral studies at the University of Nebraska. He and his wife live on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington state.