Tin Soldiers - Softcover

Leonard, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554102685 ISBN 13: 9781554102686

Publisher: Zumaya Publications, LLC, 2006

A crazy Helleresque black comedy murder mystery set in a Vietnam War Era military school. Drugs, sex and spit-shined murder.

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About the Author:

I have been knocking around the professional theater/literary world directing, writing and producing for three decades. I have received writing awards in California, Texas, Mississippi, New York City and beautiful downtown Newark. I have won a playwriting award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. It was George H W Bush's committee, but you take what you can get. I have been so close to getting a play done by the Manhattan Theatre Club so many times, they send me Christmas cards saying they miss rejecting me. I have been married twice, but I still haven't given up on the esteemed institution. It's like water skiing: every time you fall down, you learn one more thing not to do next time. I have completed two novels and started two more. My favorite thing about writing novels is that when I am done, I don't have to argue with a lighting designer. I currently teach young cowboys and Indians (the locals hate to be called native Americans) theatre and creative writing in Oklahoma.

It was against rules and regulations for cadets to lie on their bunks and read, but I was Richard "King" Arthur, company commander of Battery A, Artillery Battalion, and the second highest-ranking cadet in Jefferson Barracks. The only one around who could make me sit at my desk was me, and I just wasn’t in the mood.

Clyde had been staring mindlessly out at the falling snow for at least ten minutes when Sheridan came flying past.

Vertically. I didn’t see it. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Clyde sort of jump. All he could get out was a remarkably calm "Hey, King."

I didn’t even look up from my book.

"What." It wasn’t a question. I was annoyed.

"I think we better get outside." Clyde got up and put on his overcoat.

"Why?"

"I think I just saw Sheridan fly by our window."

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