Books by Lee Martin

Author is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner ofthe Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, recipient of an NEA Fellowship andOhio Arts Council FellowshipTwo previous Dzanc titles, Late OneNight and The Mutual UFO Network, were wellreviewedAuthor has strong connections to universities,booksellers, and review outlets across the Midwest, with access to the book'sintended readersBased on a true crime in the 1840s. Betsey Reedwas hanged in Lawrenceville,Illinois, for the murder of her husband?the first woman in the USexecuted by hangingWell-known author with strong connections to theregional and national writing community, a long history of successful events,and good pull with booksellers and festival organizersNational galley mailing, with an emphasis on majornational review outlets that have previously covered Lee's workFestival and conference appearances, includingAWP, the Ohioana Book Festival, and MIBA eventsOutreach to MIBA and GLIBA, with nominations aimedat a Midwest Connections and Great Lakes Great Reads pickTargeted galley mailing and outreach to author'slocal papers, including The Columbus Dispatch, The Sumner Press, TheLawrenceville Daily Record, The Olney Daily Mail, The VincennesSun-Commercial, andColumbus AliveTargeted bookstore mailing concentrated on theGreat Lakes and Midwest regionsTargeted galley mailing to review outlets thatpreviously covered Lee's work and have strong connections to the press,including PopMatters, Alternating Current, Crazyhorse, The CoachellaReview, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Poets & Writers, Largehearted Boy, TheMedium, Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Barrelhouse,Shelf AwarenessBook club outreachUniversity reading series promotion and courseadoption pushMajor awards pushElectronic galleys available on Edelweiss

My name is Bruce McGowan, and contrary to everyone''s belief, I have not yet gone away. Remember when Saddam Hussein was suspected of having weapons of mass destruction, but then the U.N.''s inspectors found no evidence of them? Even though the American President, not at all convinced, subsequently invaded Iraq and fought a lengthy war over them, the world remained convinced the weapons never existed in the first place. Nonetheless, a dozen years after the inspections, I was taken prisoner by a former MI-6 mad man named Alistair Chalmers who knew for a fact they existed. As he also knew of my reputation as a counterterrorist operative, code name Scorpion, by threatening to kill my Scottish cousins who he was holding, I was coerced to go on a search for the weapons. If I found these nuclear and chemical devices and placed them into his hands, he stood to net millions by selling them to Iran. But, where were the WMDs? Chalmers believed they were shipped to Yemen. I had two weeks to find them or my cousins would die. It would prove to be my most dangerous undertaking.

It is November, 1991. About the time the final nail was being driven in the coffin of the Soviet Union, from the remnants of its former Red Army leadership and defunct KGB came cold-blooded mobsters such as Andrei Guryev, a sadistic crime lord who set about terrorizing New York's Brighton Beach with his extortion and sex trafficking racket. One man, however, stood in his way...Bruce McGowan. You might know McGowan as America's quintessential counter-terrorist operative, but find out what he was like twenty plus years before when as an FBI Special Agent he took on the ever-surging Russian Mafiya. Working undercover as a homeless vagrant outside of a Russian restaurant, a known Mafiya operation base, Bruce is not only gathering evidence to bring down the malevolent mob boss and his organization but end the senseless slaying of the homeless on the street who seem to always be getting in Guryev's way. Bruce, working in tandem with the lovely Russian-bred Misha Orlov, herself a Bureau plant inside Guryev's operation, in turn becomes the pursued and number one on the crime boss' target list. Although Bruce can be composed, compassionate and cool-headed, you will not believe he's the same man when you experience his ruthless side. He plays by the rules...mostly...but don't make the mistake of going after his family or otherwise pressing his buttons. You may not live to see tomorrow.

Following the death of their mother, sixteen year old Sam Haygood and his eight year old sister, P.J., now orphans, are ultimately thrown into an enigmatic family system where they simultaneously experience the cold apathy of their grandfather, Homer Pettigrew, and the loving warmth of their step-grandmother, Mavis. But while Sam continues to harbor resentment toward Homer, the man who years ago turned his own daughter out because she fell in with a local boy he detested, Sam unexpectedly comes face-to-face with an enlightening secret about his father long held by his mother that changes everything. As he begins a summer job for Victor Dorsey, a man he later discovers is actually a dangerous syndicate kingpin, Sam unwittingly enters a world of danger that threatens the safety of the entire family. Experiencing a myriad of unimaginable, even bizarre experiences in only a few short weeks, Sam finds himself suddenly thrust into a world of chaos. However, it is the love he shares with his new girlfriend, Mary Grace Johnson that keeps Sam focused on maintaining not only a sense of balance in his life, but perhaps even his sanity as well. Panther's Breath. A heart-warming story that contains all of the ingredients readers love to experience...compelling characters, spirited dialogue, sweet romance, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and yes, even murder.

Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, “I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, ‘Can you get rid of it?’” From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began collecting impressions that, through the tincture of time and the magic of his narrative gift, have become the finely wrought pieces of Such a Life.   Whether recounting the observations of a solemn child, understood only much later, or exploring the intricacies of neighborhood politics at middle age, Martin offers us a richly detailed, highly personal view that effortlessly expands to illuminate our world.   At a tender age Martin moved to a new level of complexity, of negotiating silences and sadness, when his father lost both of his hands in a farming accident. His stories of youth (from a first kiss to a first hangover) and his reflections on age (as a vegan recalling the farm food of his childhood or as a writer contemplating the manual labor of his father and grandfather) bear witness to the observant child he was and the insightful and irresistible storyteller he’s become. His meditations on family form a highly evocative portrait of the relationships at the heart of our lives.

Farmers and pragmatists, hard-working people who made their way west from Kentucky through Ohio and Indiana to settle at last in southern Illinois, Lee Martin's ancestors left no diaries or journals or letters; apart from birth certificates and gravestones. This is one man's story of love and compromise as he separates from his family's history.

It's been a strange and unusual week in the normally peaceful mountain town of Palisades, West Virginia. One lucky coal miner wins a million dollar lotto. However, on the same night, one unlucky miner is found dying in the town's dump, a bullet in his head. Then scantly two days later, another murder. It seems former New York City police detective, Nate Davenport, the town's new police chief of barely two months, suddenly has a second, execution style killing on his hands. But unfortunately, already in his short term, Nate finds he's doing battle with Palisades's long-time mayor, Vince DiFerraro, over the decision to call in the state police to investigate these murders. To Nate's surprise, the state's investigator happens to be an attractive, mid-thirties state officer. Mostly business...however definitely all seductress. Will Lieutenant Alicia Tanner end up getting in his way? Perhaps. But for sure in no time at all she's certainly gotten into his head. Nate's tenured deputy, Lynette Echols. Lyn, a sweet but feisty divorcée, has recently endured a series of problems which include caring for her seriously ailing mother and two years before experiencing a loathsome assault at the hands of the boyfriend that left her battered and scarred. Nate himself has endured his share of misfortune having eight years before lost his wife and ten year old daughter in an auto accident. A man often overcome by episodes of immense sadness and grief, he finds himself racked almost daily with a myriad of self-defeating emotions. A sullen, lonely police officer making only a fraction of his former salary in a dying backwoods community, this might just be the low ebb of his life. But as he now throws all of his mettle into solving these murders, is his resolve what it should be, considering he's also allowed himself to develop feelings for the very two women who are helping him with the cases? And what about those other distractions...that menacing young hoodlum who

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