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Rappahannock County, home to many writers, has a new author in its literary fraternity. Retired Air Force Col. James R. Paulson will unveil his two newly published adventure novels this Sunday, Dec, 12, at the Old Sperryville Bookshop.
After a 30-year career in the military, Jim Paulson moved to Rappahannock with his wife Bonny, who flies the globe as an international airline flight attendant. The two live near Flint Hill in a home built on the foundations of an old mill, where they raise Scottish deerhounds. Jim writes in a cozy, rustic outbuilding equipped with old and new technology—a wood-burning stove and a computer.
A native of Washington State, Jim and his wife left their home in Fairfax County to “get |y back to a rural frame of mind and lifestyle simi- S* lar to that in which I grew up in the mountains of Washington State,” he said. “In fact, if I was younger I’d probably want to go to work building trails and fighting fires for the Forest Service
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Instead, he’s been busy finishing two new B novels that draw on his background, experiences K and the places he’s been in his career with the Air ® Force. His new books are also examples of the latest trend in publishing, they are available by direct download to your home computer from the Internet (www.lstbooks.com) as well as in traditional printed-and bound form.
The first novel, “Pasayten” - named for a rugged wilderness in Washington’s Cascade Mountains - pits a Seattle-based airline captain and single father against kidnappers of his 10-year-old daughter. Frustrated by lack of urgency by the police, the father mounts his own rescjje^effert, and the trail leads him high into the rugged wilderness. There he is startled to find that his opponents indude a group of drug-runners, a mad killer, the raw extremes of nature and himself.
The second novel, titled “Falcon Down,” sends a
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