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Author Jeffrey Adkins’s New Book, “American Warfare,” is a Pointed and Exhaustively Factual Condemnation of the Iraq War from the Perspective of a US Combat Veteran

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Las Vegas, NV, April 10, 2023 –(CarryOnHarry.com)– Jeffrey L. Adkins resides on the Monterey Peninsula, California, since 1974. Employed (1985-2004) as a State and Federal Wildland Fire Officer in California and studied a Bachelor of Science degree program for Fire Emergency Management at Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale, California. A contributing author (1983-1994) to National Vietnam Veterans Review and to Vietnam Magazine.

Studied (1974-1976) graduate East Asian Area Studies and International Politics at the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies in Monterey, California. Served in the U.S. Army (1968-1973) Infantry (Airborne), including combat operations and leadership in the Republics of Vietnam and of Korea. He has completed his new book, “American Warfare: 250 Things Americans Have Never Learned, Forgotten, or Ignored About War” : a passionate and thoughtful discussion of the Iraq War and U.S. military policy and the ill-fated invasion and search for weapons of mass destruction in a sovereign state.

The author writes, “I am submitting this to you, dear reader, unsolicited, in hopes that you will incorporate it into any educating, planning, debating, and, of most importance, thinking that you might tend to do in the future when it comes to war and warfare for our once great nation, the United States of America.

“The war in Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, was a tragedy and a travesty that is now almost surely fading from memory. It cannot be possible, yet a man was campaigning for president with the promise ‘When I become president, I’ll send troops back to Iraq!’ That is what happens when a man who has never been to war or has never seen his sons go to war dreams of authority and power with the grasp of the reins of authority and power of the Constitution in his hands. The Iraq War was wrong, and, like the Vietnam War, we should never again, willingly or unwittingly, allow wars like it to be part of our way of life.

“Please do not toss this out! If you feel that this document, ‘American Warfare: 250 Things Americans Have Forgotten, Never Learned, and Ignored about War,’ is simply contemptuous and beneath your consideration, then simply pass it along to someone else whom you believe could make use of it. Someone, somehow, will consider that I am right.”

Published by Page Publishing, Jeffrey Adkins’s engrossing book is a thought-provoking choice for readers interested in military history, geopolitics, and the realities of US national security.

Readers who wish to experience this engaging work can purchase “American Warfare: 250 Things Americans Have Never Learned, Forgotten, or Ignored about War” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or media inquiries, contact Page Publishing at 866-315-2708.

About Page Publishing:

Page Publishing is a traditional, full-service publishing house that handles all the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing understands that authors should be free to create, not mired in logistics like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and so on. Page’s accomplished writers and publishing professionals allow authors to leave behind these complex and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at www.pagepublishing.com.

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Scottsdale Author Joe Reina’s New Novel Follows a Killer Who Gets Away With It

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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Shadows over Scottsdale: An Unsolved Murder Mystery," built around a scenario true-crime statistics make uncomfortably familiar: a man commits a devastating crime and simply disappears, leaving investigators and a grieving community with no resolution.

The book follows a character named Robert, who flees the country using forged documents and a cargo ship after an act of destruction that leaves behind, as the publisher describes it, charred remains and an unanswered investigation. The case goes cold. The novel, according to its publisher, is less concerned with the mechanics of the escape than with what happens afterward, to the people left waiting for answers that never come.

Reina, now retired in Scottsdale, spent decades in international business across apparel, footwear, and real estate, with extensive time in Europe and a particular connection to Italy that shaped two earlier books, "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen" and "A Love Affair in Tuscany." "Shadows over Scottsdale" marks a different direction, built instead around the real scale of unsolved homicide in the U.S. The publisher’s materials cite roughly 346,000 unsolved homicides since 1965, with more than a dozen occurring unresolved each day. Separate reporting on the book has cited a figure of about 7,778 murders in 2023 alone, which it similarly frames as more than a dozen a day going unresolved.

"Writing ‘Shadows over Scottsdale’ forced me to confront uncomfortable questions about justice itself," Reina said, according to the announcement. "Too many crimes go unsolved, too many families wait endlessly for answers. I wanted readers to understand that behind every cold case statistic is a real story, real suffering, and real questions that may never be answered."

The publisher positions the novel as an examination of institutional limits as much as a crime story: the toll of a case gone cold on the people who can’t move past it, and what it means for a community when accountability simply never arrives.

"Shadows over Scottsdale" is published by Covenant Books and is available in paperback and hardcover through the publisher’s website and major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books.

Cold-case statistics tend to get cited and then forgotten. Studio CarryOnHarry is curious whether fiction built directly around that number does more to stick with a reader than the number alone ever does.

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Joe Reina’s ‘Lost Masterpieces’ Imagines a Fictional Farewell Among Renaissance Painters

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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Lost Masterpieces: Three Paintings, 500 Years A Journey Through Time," built around an imagined scene from Renaissance history: the night before Leonardo da Vinci leaves for Milan, when three fellow painters each hand him a small work carrying a private message.

According to the announcement, those three gifts come from Sandro Botticelli, Titian, and Andrea Mantegna, each painting standing in for a different kind of counsel. Botticelli’s piece is described as layered with allegory and coded warnings about power and patronage. Titian’s is framed as warm and sensual, suggesting reinvention and a break from convention. Mantegna’s is austere and classically precise, encoding discipline and endurance. According to the announcement, these three paintings form a wordless exchange between masters, transmitting wisdom, mutual regard, and assurance across generations through visual means.

Reina comes to this material from outside the art world. His career was built in apparel, footwear, and real estate development in Chicago, and the publisher’s materials trace his interest in European history, and in Italy specifically, to years of international business travel. He has published several previous books, including "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen," "A Love Affair in Tuscany," and "Shadows over Scottsdale," before turning to this account of a fictionalized moment at the hinge of the Renaissance.

"I wanted to capture that extraordinary moment when masters speak to each other across time through their work," Reina said in the announcement. "These paintings represent not just gifts, but a conversation about what it means to pursue greatness while remaining grounded in purpose and principle."

The book is published through Covenant Books and is available in hardcover and paperback, as well as through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.

Studio CarryOnHarry is intrigued by novels that build fiction around real historical figures at a specific, dramatized turning point rather than attempting straight biography — the approach succeeds or fails based on how seamlessly the fictional moment integrates with documented historical fact.

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