Washington, D.C., (WiredPRNews.com) – John Fenzel, a local area, senior Special Forces officer releases his debut novel, The Lazarus Covenant this week. Fenzel wrote The Lazarus Covenant in his spare time over the last fifteen years, all the while continuing to command Green Berets on our nation’s front lines. Since he began writing The Lazarus Covenant, he’s deployed frequently abroad—throughout Europe and the Middle East, worked in the White House as a Special Assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney and Governor Tom Ridge, was a White House Fellow during the Clinton and Bush administrations, commanded a Special Forces battalion, and served as a Military Assistant to Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumseld.
The Lazarus Covenant is an international suspense novel that explores the scourge of religious extremism, terrorism and war in an unforgettable tale of friendship, faith and forgiveness. It presciently assumes a resurgence of instability in the Balkans and a growing crisis that must be resolved in order to prevent a wholesale clash of civilizations. Although fiction, Fenzel’s premise isn’t terribly unrealistic when you consider Dennis Blair, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, recently warned, “current events in Bosnia represent the greatest threat to stability in Europe today.”
Fenzel’s first novel The Lazarus Covenant is already available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com, and will hit bookstores nationwide on Thursday, October 1 with a full battery of pre-publication praise from notables like Mary Matalin, Judith Miller, Wesley Clark , and Tom Ridge, as well as correspondents from the Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, CNN an NBC terrorism analysts, authors and senior military leaders.
Book signings have been scheduled throughout the DC metro area to recognize the author’s debut novel release; starting with an appearance by Fenzel at the Borders in BWI airport this Friday, October 2 from 8 – 11:00am. A list of additional author appearances in the area and throughout the country is available at www.johnfenzel.com. If you can’t make it to a book signing, consider following the author @johnfenzel on Facebook or Twitter.
About the Author
John Fenzel is a senior Army Special Forces officer who has served on our nation’s battlefields throughout Europe and the Middle East. He has served as a military assistant on the personal staff of the Secretary of Defense, as a Special Assistant to the Vice President, and as a White House Fellow during the Clinton and Bush administrations.
He commanded the Special Forces Training Battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and an Army brigade at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, he served as Staff Director for Tom Ridge in the Homeland Security Council. He was the principal architect of The Homeland Security Advisory System; our nation’s color-coded alert system.
In his 27 years of military service, John has served in numerous command and staff positions around the world. During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, he commanded a Special Forces “A-Team,” training, equipping and advising a Kuwaiti Battalion and accompanying them during the liberation of Kuwait. He has commanded three Special Forces companies, leading the first Army deployments to Pakistan and the Baltic States. In Bosnia, he commanded the special operations teams in the U.S. and British sectors, working closely with the United Nations to secure the indictments and convictions of those responsible for war crimes in Srebrenica. He is the only active duty American military officer to testify at The Hague in support of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
John is a graduate of the Naval War College and the National War College. Born in Iowa and raised outside Chicago, John lives with his wife and three children in Washington, D.C. John Fenzel, a native of Chicago, Illinois is currently living in Alexandria, VA and is the Director of Operations & Training for the US Army Accessions Command at Fort Monroe. He is working on his next novel due in early 2011. Visit his website at www.johnfenzel.com.
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The Lazarus Covenant
John Fenzel
BREATHE Press Hardcover – 6”x 9”
Fiction: $24.95 US; ISBN: 978-0-9822379-0-8
