I have been invited by Laurel Anne Hill to join a book blog tour and to introduce a character from my most recent book, Beyond the Law. I want to introduce you to Major Matt Rommel, USMC, Ret.
But don't forget to check out Laurel Anne Hill at her blog. Here's a link:
http://www.laurelannehill.com
Meet My
Character: Matt Rommel - In his own words.
My name is
Matthew Rommel. I have spent my adult life
working with people, people that my country told me were evil, people the State
of California told me were a threat to society.
Some of them did not survive.
None of them were ever the same.
At the end of it all, I was not the same either. I cannot tell you, with certainty, that all of
the things I did were right, or that there was even a point to it all.
I was a
Marine Corps officer. I was good at my
job and I worked with some of the finest people you could hope to meet. One day, the Corps asked me to do something
that I could not bear to do. After that,
it was only a matter of time before I had to leave. I retired.
I was a
corrections officer with the California Department of Corrections. I spent most of my career at San Quentin
prison. For ten years, I worked closely
with convicted felons. I protected
myself and my fellow officers and I never let a convict work me. I kept them at bay. After years of this work, I kept my family at
bay as well. I’m not married anymore and
that’s pretty much the reason why. One
day, I just knew I had to make a change.
Again, I retired.
I had to put it all behind me.
And I did. Into every life comes good and bad
fortune. My good fortune involved money,
a lot of it. Now, I spend my days at the
Palace of the Legion of Honor, one of San Francisco’s Fine Art museums as a
docent. Sometimes I give tours;
sometimes I just stand there. It’s a
beautiful place dedicated those San Franciscans who served in The Great
War. It was dedicated as a place of
healing. I’m hoping it will work for me.
After years
alone, people have come into my life, an attractive, smart, tough, and stylish
single mother, and her daughter. Take my
word for it, that kid is a handful.
Now, an old
comrade has established himself as my house guest, try as I might to get him to
leave. Seventy year-old Master Gunnery
Michael Patrick Gilhooley, retired, has always meant trouble, to himself and
everyone around him. This time Gunny may
just get us all killed.
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