Free ebook for our troops: from International Bestselling Authors William and Marilyn Hoffer

July 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Fredericksburg, VA. July 12, 2011 -- From the international bestselling authors of Midnight Express, Not Without My Daughter and Freefall comes Luke Rules, the adventures and misadventures of Luke Wilde, former Marine Corps sniper turned wily and often contrary PI. Set in Richmond, Virginia, the story begins when Luke and his 90 pound bloodhound Fred arrive at the office on a Monday morning to find a dead man sprawled across Luke's Harley-Davidson Third Edition pinball machine. That's when he begins to realize that what started out as a routine adultery investigation is escalating into a series of bizarre murders. As the bodies pile up Luke knows that to crack this case, he'll have to toss the legal playbook into the crapper and play by his own rules. The colorful cast of characters includes Luke's outrageous 190 pound assistant Dagmar McNeil, his grumpy friend Al Berkes who is a special investigator for the Virginia State Police, and Reddy Wilson, former third string catcher for the Cleveland Indians. With much laughter and mystery along the way, Luke manages to nab the killer in his own unique style. Warning: Luke has a bit of an attitude problem!

Deployed coalition troops may download Luke Rules and many other ebooks free of charge by signing up with Operation eBook Drop. Authors participate as a way of saying “Thanks for your service, all you brave men and women.” It began when Army veteran and ebook author Ed Patterson got into a discussion on the Amazon Kindle message boards with a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq who was having difficulty downloading ebooks. Ed offered to email the soldier all 13 of his ebooks, for free. The soldier gratefully accepted, and an idea was born. Ed and other authors started using Smashwords.com as the platform for distributing ebooks to soldiers, because of the Smashwords Coupon Generator feature, which allows authors to email coupons to soldiers, enabling them to download free ebooks to any ereading device. Today about 900 authors participate in the program.
Through Operation eBook Drop, William and Marilyn Hoffer are pleased to offer free copies of Luke Rules to our troops.

About Smashwords
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About William and Marilyn Hoffer
William and Marilyn Hoffer are a husband-and-wife team who have been spinning out international bestsellers for more than 20 years. William collaborated with Billy Hayes to chronicle Billy's escape from the horrors of a Turkish prison in Midnight Express, which was later produced into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Brad Davis, John Hurt and Randy Quaid. William and Marilyn worked with Betty Mahmoody to write Not Without My Daughter, the story of Betty and her daughter's desperate and dangerous escape from Iran. The book became a stunningly successful international phenomenon, jumping to number one on the bestseller lists of country after country. It was produced into a motion picture starring Sally Field and Alfred Molina. The couple's Freefall is the nail-biting thriller recounting the near-tragedy of Air Canada Flight 174 that ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet. It was produced into a motion picture starring William Devane, Shelley Hack and Mariette Hartley. Luke Rules is the 21st book published by the creative couple from rural Virginia, and the first in a new series of Luke Wilde Adventures. The second book of the series, TORCH! is due out in late 2011.

For more information on Operation eBook Drop visit: http://www.operationebookdrop.com/
Luke Rules is available at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/63585
For more information about the authors visit: http://www.williamandmarilynhoffer.com

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William and Marilyn Hoffer are a husband-and-wife team who have been spinning out international best-sellers for more than 20 years, including Midnight Express, Not Without My Daughter and Freefall.