Once a Warrior

by John Riedel

Overview

ONCE A WARRIOR dares to present the specter of a terrorist attack at the final game of the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Brock Coleman, a former DELTA operative, who was born and raised near the Tiadaghton Forest outside of Montoursville, is forced to accept a disability discharge from the Army after being seriously wounded in Iraq.
While attempting to adjust to his new career as a 12th District forest ranger, Coleman stumbles upon a cell of al-Qaeda terrorists ensconced in an old, remote hunting lodge in the depths of the Tiadaghton Forest.
Later that evening, he watches with incredulity from inside the tree line as the jihadists sit on the cabin's back porch and perform the Islamic ritual of shaving off their body hair, preparing themselves to become shuhadaa, martyrs. Their actions seem totally out of place here in the midst of the pristine forest, until he remembers.
The next evening, August 29th, the President of the United States is scheduled to throw out the first pitch for the final game of the Little League World Series in nearby South Williamsport. . . .

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015925166
Publisher:	J R Publications
Publication date:	11/08/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

John Riedel was born in Malone, New York about ten miles from the Canadian border. At the age of five he moved with his family to Williamsport, Pennsylvania where he attended public schools 1-12.

After a stint in the U.S. Army, he majored in Accounting at Tallahassee Junior College and Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Riedel has been an intelligence buff for the past three decades. In the mid-sixties he was recruited by the FBI to attend the Agency's academy, then in Washington, D.C. prior to the opening of the current facilities in Quantico. At that time he needed either a law degree or a degree in Accounting plus three years of public accounting experience. He opted for the latter.

A couple of years later, his good friend, a special agent with the Tallahassee resident agency, was transferred to a small city in the mid-west. Riedel was disillusioned. This was during the Cold War era and he was hell bent on going after the Soviet bad guys.

He then spent the next forty-plus years as a public accountant and corporate fiscal officer. He eventually began to chase down our nation's enemies, but with a pen . . . not with a gun.

ONCE A WARRIOR is his second novel toward that endeavor. . . .