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Sept. 18, 2010 - PRLog -- Christmas 1959, A rural schoolhouse, the annual Christmas Program. A refugee from war-torn Europe appears, loosing a cascade of events...

Spirit Falls, by Robert Townsend, is a coming-of-age novel set in the hardscrabble borderland between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. During the one-room school Christmas program  on the longest night of the year 1959, Townsend  begins a tale of childhood friendship on a harsh and austere land growing into profound love.

'compelling…line-to line writing is first-rate." Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize, Fiction 1993.   "Must not be missed!"  Midwest Book Review

Spirit Falls is the prologue to the trilogy the author is writing about deception within families and between nations, war and peace in 20th century America, the men who fought those wars, the lies we accept and the ones we don’t.

About the Author: After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War protests, the author flew 175 combat missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.  In early 1971, he transferred to Berlin, Germany as a signals intelligence officer, then to the National Security Agency before returning as a war planner at HQ USAFE, in Ramstein. Germany.  From 1982-1989 he was deputy chief, Air Force Intelligence Agency, counter-deception directorate (at CIA).  He is among some of the few men in America intimately familiar with the war of ruse and stratagem between the US and the USSR.

Townsend was born and raised on a farm in Northern Wisconsin and writes about a life he has lived.    Author website: www.roberttownsendonline.com/

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3moons publishes fiction and non-fiction about men and women from the upper midwest and their lives in the larger world.