Ken Kreckel

Ken Kreckel

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Ken Kreckel’s historical novel, The Rommel Mission [Red Engine Press, 2007] focuses on the attempted surrender of German forces just after D-day. He has also published a geologically based mystery, Rocked By Murder and one of his short stories was included in the anthology Foreign Ground: Travelers Tales. He has contributed articles to several magazines and newspapaers, including the Mensa Bulletin, Solander, and the Historical Novel Review. He lives in Wyoming, where he teaches at CasperCollege and consults for environmental organizations in the Oil and Gas field. Fascinated with some of the lesser known aspects of history, he has recently completed another novel which centers on resistance to war crimes by certain members of the German Army during the opening year of the Second World War.

Along The Watchtower

Along The Watchtower

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<p><strong><em>A tragic warrior lost in two worlds... Which one will he choose?</em></strong></p><p>The war in Iraq ended for Freddie when an IED explosion left his mind and body shattered. Once a skilled gamer as well as a capable soldier, he's now a broken warrior, emerging from a medically induced coma to discover he's inhabiting two separate realities.</p><p>The first is his waking world of pain, family trials, and remorse—and slow rehabilitation through the tender care of Becky, his physical therapist. The second is a dark fantasy realm of quests, demons, and magic, which Freddie enters when he sleeps. The lines soon blur for Freddie, not just caught between two worlds, but lost within himself.</p><p>Is he Lieutenant Freddie Williams, a leader of men, a proud officer in the US Army who has suffered such egregious injury and loss? Or is he Frederick, Prince of Stormwind, who must make sense of his horrific visions in order to save his embattled kingdom from the monstrous Horde, his only solace the beautiful gardener, Rebecca, whose gentle words calm the storms in his soul.</p><p>In the conscious world, the severely wounded vet faces a strangely similar and equally perilous mission to that of the prince—a journey along a dark road, haunted by demons of guilt and memory. Can he let patient, loving Becky into his damaged and shuttered heart? It may be his only way back from Hell.</p>

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