THE BRONZE LEOPARD
By David Tindell
I was in
my mid-forties when I started studying the martial arts, and what I quickly
found was that it’s much more than learning how to punch and kick. It’s about a
philosophy, a lifestyle, one that embraces honor and integrity. Some call it
the warrior ethos, which can also be found in people who put on a uniform and
go into our streets to protect innocent lives and property, and those who go
overseas to confront our nation’s enemies. When I was a kid, I read comic books
about superheroes like Batman and Superman, and now as an adult, I can see how
we have always sought out heroes, and even when we have found them in real life
we have invented more. As a society, we have always celebrated the heroic
ideals of courage, honor, and sacrifice.
Jo Ann Geary, the White Vixen, is a woman
who has embraced the warrior ethos and long ago made the decision to put on her
country’s uniform and do what needs to be done to keep all of us safe. She’s
one of the world’s top martial artists, and also a gifted linguist. Her story
begins in The White Vixen, set in the
early 1980s, when she is detached to the UK’s Royal Marines to assist in the
recovery of a British agent captured by the Chinese, and then later is called
upon again to go undercover in Argentina to find the mysterious force behind
the Falklands War.
Now, in The
Red Wolf, it’s 1987 and she’s a member of a brand-new covert operations
force, Pallas Group. Its first mission comes directly from the president: they
are to go behind the Iron Curtain and find a rogue Soviet Spetsnaz soldier who intends to assassinate Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev. If the Wolf succeeds, a military takeover of the USSR could turn the
Cold War hot overnight. So the stakes are high. Failure is not an option.
Jo is quite possibly the best-trained
operative in the US Air Force Special Operations Command, but now she’ll be
going up against a man who has not only survived, but mastered, the training of
Soviet Spetsnaz, one of the world’s most formidable military units. She has her
work cut out for her this time.
September 1989: The Berlin Wall is about to fall. East Germany is on the brink of collapse, but a rogue GDR Army officer isn’t going down without a fight. He’s been leading a rebel group in Tanzania, seeking to restore the German colony his grandfather fought for seventy years before. That dream is smashed when U.S. Special Forces troops commanded by the White Vixen, Jo Ann Geary, lead Tanzanian forces in a lightning raid that captures the Bronze Leopard himself. Geary and her second in command decide to stay in country and climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, unaware that the Leopard has escaped Tanzanian custody. With the help of East German mercenaries, he sets out to gain his revenge upon the adversary who destroyed his group and who poses the biggest future threat to the mercs. Pursued to the top of Africa, outgunned and weakened by the extreme altitude, the White Vixen faces the fight of her life against a desperate foe in one of the harshest environments on the planet. Book 3 of the White Vixen series.
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Born in Germany and raised in southern Wisconsin, David Tindell embarked on a 20-year career in broadcasting before transitioning to the U.S. government and resuming the writing career he’d started in college at UW-Platteville. Today he lives up in the northwestern corner of the state, in a log home on a lake with his wife Sue, a Yorkie and a Siamese. After retiring from government work, Tindell returned to radio, but the writing never stops. Tindell also is a martial artist with black belts in taekwondo and ryukudo kobojutsu, a scuba diver, and world traveler.
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