Scoundrel

Artemus Newton Thriller #3

by Roger L. Blakely Jr.

All Artemus Newton wanted after 32 years in the Army was a nice, quiet retirement. But, he is about to cross paths with a real scoundrel.

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 officer 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.

260 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2012

About the author

Roger Blakely is a retired Army Chief Warrant Officer. 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 served in the Army for over thirty 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. When he's not working on his latest novel, he plays a lot of on-line chess, takes his friends on adventures at a nearby shooting range, dabbles in flying lessons at the LaCrosse, Wisconsin airport, takes the occasional skydive from 14,500 feet, walks the occasional half-marathon or 5-K,visits museums and antique stores, visits some great Army and Navy and Air Force and Marine Corps and Coast Guard veterans at the local Veterans Administration Hospital (nursing home wing),bowls with his "bowling buddies," and was an avid kick boxer until he crushed and dislocated his left shoulder in an accident in early 2009.

Roger and his two cats, Jersey and Holstein, reside in the town of Huber Heights, Ohio.

Reviews

[Jacob Powell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series! Very well written. The author will captivate your attention and keep you on the edge of your seat. A couple of surprise plot twist that almost causes a sense of humor during the intense action packed thriller. Page after page your suspense is captivated. I look forward to reading this entire series.

[John Shearer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Scoundrel (3)

This is a good read.The author has put together a good plot that has you wondering what is going to happen next.Almost a can't put it down read.

[Garrett Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting story well told.

Art and his CIA buddies go on a hunt to capture a bad guy and bring him home, however that didn't we out very well.

[John]

Good Read.

There is something about Artemis, Gus and Alexis that continues to pull me in, despite the somewhat repetitive, but entertaining, plot lines.