A Despicable Profession Virtual Book Tour September & October ‘10

Authors on Tour, Featured — By Dorothy Thompson on August 29, 2010 at 7:46 am

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Join John Knoerle, author of the spy thriller, A Despicable Profession: Book Two of the American Spy Trilogy (Blue Steel Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere September 7 – October 29 ‘10 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About John Knoerle

John Knoerle was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1949 and migrated to California with his family in the 1960s. He has worked as a stand-up comic, a voiceover actor and a radio reporter. He wrote the screenplay for “Quiet Fire,” which starred Karen Black and Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, and the stage play “The He-Man Woman Hater’s Club,” an LA Time’s Critics Choice. John also worked as a writer for Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Knoerle’s first novel, Crystal Meth Cowboys, published in 2003, was optioned by Fox TV. His second novel, The Violin Player,won the Mayhaven Award for Fiction. Knoerle is currently at work on The American Spy Trilogy. Book One, A Pure Double Cross, came out in 2008. Book Two, A Despicable Profession, was published in August of 2010.

John Knoerle currently lives in Chicago with his wife, Judie.

You can visit his website at www.bluesteelpress.com.

About A Despicable Profession

May, 1946. America is basking in hard-won peace and prosperity. The OSS has been disbanded, CIA does not yet exist. Rumors swirl about the Red Army massing tanks along the Elbe in East Germany.

Former OSS agent Hal Schroeder gets an offer from Global Commerce LTD to be a trade rep in Berlin. He flies to New York to meet his new boss. Hal’s jaw drops when former OSS Chief Wild Bill Donovan strides in. Schroeder, who survived perilous duty behind German lines, says he is no longer interested in being a spy. General Donovan assures him that’s not part of his job description.

Hal comes to doubt that when he meets his immediate superior in Berlin. It’s Victor Jacobson, the case officer who sent him on repeated suicide missions in WWII.

Read the Excerpt!

“Sir, my special kind of cunning is real simple,” I said to my case officer. “I was doing a decent job in Freiburg and Ulm and Karlsruhe logging troop movements and transmitting weather reports for bomber runs. I figured if I was dead my effectiveness might suffer. And why get croaked carrying out suicide missions dictated by some asshole Case Officer who was snug as a bug in Bern drinking Allen Dulles’ wine cellar dry?”

“I wasn’t,” said Jacobson, “but please continue.”

Please continue? They were shorthanded.

“I have only one job requirement sir. Survival.”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” said Jacobson, drier than my swollen tongue.

A Despicable Profession Tour Schedule

Tuesday, September 7

Interviewed at The Hot Author Report

Wednesday, September 8

Interviewed at Broowaha

Friday, September 10

Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Monday, September 13

Book reviewed at 4 the Love of Books

Tuesday, September 14

Interviewed at Personovelty

Wednesday, September 15

Book spotlighted at Examiner

Thursday, September 16

Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

Friday, September 17

Interviewed at Review From Here

Monday, September 20

Guest blogging at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, September 21

Guest blogging at The Book Connection

Thursday, September 23

Interviewed at Blogcritics

Friday, September 24

Guest blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Monday, September 27

Interviewed at Divine Caroline

Tuesday, September 28

Book reviewed at The Journey Back

Thursday, September 30

Book spotlighted at Beyond the Books

Monday, October 4
Interviewed at Blogapress

Tuesday, October 5
Book reviewed by Rundpinne

Wednesday, October 6
Guest blogging at The Book Boost

Friday, October 8
Interviewed at Working Writers

Monday, October 11
Guest blogging at Beyond the Books

Wednesday, October 13
Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Thursday, October 14
Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

Friday, October 15
Guest blogging at Writing Daze

Monday, October 18
Guest blogging at As the Pages Turn

Tuesday, October 19
Book spotlighted at Plug Your Book!

Friday, October 22
Guest blogging at Murder by 4

Monday, October 25
Interviewed at Cafe of Dreams

Wednesday, October 26
Interviewed at Literarily Speaking

Thursday, October 27
Guest blogging at Blogging Authors

Friday, October 28
Book reviewed at The Book Connection

John Knoerle’s A DESPICABLE PROFESSION VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on September 7 and end on October 29, ‘10. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book or click here to use the form. Thank you!

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