Secrets of the Dead: An Ambrose Lincoln Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781937569587)

Caleb Pirtle III has long been respected as one of the most prolific travel writers in the nation. He was an award winning feature writer for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, served for a decade as travel writer for Southern Living Magazine, and has authored more than fifty-five published books, many of them dealing with the American travel scene. Through the years, Pirtle has distinguished himself with focusing on the human side of travel. He has long believed, "What happens is never as important as the people who make it happen." Pirtle has spent the past several decades writing about the South and the Southwest. He understands the people of those regions and their love for the land and its time-honored traditions. At graduate of The University of Texas with a journalism degree, Pirtle won the William Randolph Hearst Award for feature writing, and he received numerous Associated Press and Headliner's Awards for his work at the Star-Telegram. For Southern Living Magazine, his travel writing won the Discover America Awards three times. Among his award-winning books are The Unending Season, XIT: The American Cowboy, The Grandest Day, Spirit of A Winner, and Echoes from Forgotten Streets. Pirtle served for more than twenty years as editorial director for Dockery House Publishing, creating and developing books and magazines for national Corporate and retail customers. Pirtle, with writing partner Frank Q. Dobbs, wrote the teleplays for the CBS mini-series Gambler V: Playing for Keeps, starring Kenny Rogers, Dixie Carter, Lonnie Anderson, and Mariska Hargitay, and the TNT television movie, The Texas Rangers, starring Tom Berenger. He and Dobbs have presently optioned the teleplay for Bum's Luck. Secrets of the Dead is the first book of the Ambrose Lincoln trilogy. Conspiracy of Lies is the second novel in the series. Soon to be released is the third Ambrose Lincoln novel entitled Night Side of Dark.