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Ohio Police Writers
March 27, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a
website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored
books, added three police writers from
departments in the state of Ohio.
Drafted into the
United States Army at age 19, and the height of
the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam,
Joseph Reass found himself suddenly transformed
from a naïve teenager into a rifleman in the 25th Infantry Division, 9th
Infantry Regiment. Arriving in Vietnam as a Private First Class, he survived a
year of combat with the famed Manchu Regiment and returned to the United
States with the rank of Sergeant. Back at home, he readjusted to civilian life
by continuing his education. Earning a bachelors degree in
Criminal Justice from Capital University and a
masters degree from Ohio University in Political Science, Joe put the war
behind him and reentered the world.
After a 25 year career with
Columbus Police Department (Ohio), including 13
years as a criminal investigator, he retired in 1997. Returning to Ohio
University as a member of the faculty, he currently teaches in the Bachelor of
Criminal Justice Program and is the director of
the Southern Ohio
Police Training Institute.
Joseph Reass first novel is Dragon Men.
According to the book description, In it he depicts real events pulled from
long clouded memories of his combat experiences in Vietnam. Pieced together and
told by a fictitious protagonist, David Reno, the story brings into perspective,
true events, honest, tragic and even humorous that young men of Charlie Company,
4th Brigade, 9th Regiment, faced in the unconventional combat of the Vietnam
War.
Along with graphic descriptions of combat and death, there
are insights into men who served and how they coped with difficult situations of
surviving not only the fighting, but the arduous life in the boonies. Live with
young soldiers who deal with extreme situations of war, weather and military
life.
It is an honest story that will interest anyone who served
in combat, who want an unglorified glimpse of combat life or anyone who likes
personal adventures told by real characters.
David Swords is a retired Police Lieutenant,
having served thirty years with the
Springfield Police Department (Ohio). Nearly
half of his police career was spent as an investigator, working on cases ranging
from simple vandalisms to armed robberies and murders. His varied experience
has given him a unique understanding of human nature; an understanding that
brings the characters of Shadows on the Soul to life in the mind
of the reader.
In
David Swords book his proposes the questions
what would have happened in the Nazis had won and the United States was occupied
territory. According to his book description, the story takes you with John as
he tries his best to live a normal life as a government official in the 1960s
America that might have been - Nazi occupied America. Johns normal life is
disrupted as he reluctantly helps a prisoner who has escaped from a labor camp;
a man imprisoned for no crime, except the color of his skin.
Edward A. Stein, Sr., a 35 year veteran of the
Cleveland Police Department published an
autobiography entitled My Badge is My Intergity.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 420 police officers
(representing 183
police departments) and their 894
books in six categories, there are also
listings of United States federal law enforcement employees turned authors,
international police officers who have written
books and civilian police personnel who have
written
books.
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