My brother –in-law Jerry Ritter has just published Bloody Joe, his first novel. It concerns a luckless Union Army Captain, Joe Monroe, falsely imprisoned during the civil war for robbing a bank in the middle of a battle. Running from the army, the law, and the real robbers, Monroe falls in with a girl with a rifle and a good aim, the girl’s disturbed stepbrother, a sleazy Congressman, a love-struck homicidal Landlord, Abe Lincoln’s cousin a bumbling general who loves his wife, a very strange lieutenant, a confederate officer with a nagging conscience, monks, hired killers, the Marine Corps Band, his old girlfriend, and more. Freed from prison, Monroe finds himself on he run again, only this time his enemies are determined to, once and for all, put an end to the man the newspapers call “Bloody Joe”.
Please consider this: I promised Jerry that listing his novel on my website would increase sales.
"Bloody Joe" is a hoot with a bit of Carl Hiaasen, a bit of Michael Shaara. A real gripper of a novel, this one is a hard one to put down. This effort is enjoyable as the W.E.B. Griffin novels I've been reading lately.
I hope that Mr. Ritter has many more stashed in his brain.
Posted by: The Old Sourdough | September 16, 2004 at 05:05 AM