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Echoes of 1969
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Jackie L. Smith
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Retired Army Colonel Logan Whitaker has spent three years alone in a Tennessee mountain cabin, trying to put behind him the one night from 1969 that he never could. The manuscript he wrote - 187 pages about a war crime in a village called Thanh Phu - was never meant for anyone else's eyes. It was an act of exhaustion, not courage. A way to set down what he had carried for fifty-five years.
Then a Nashville publisher arrives with a five million dollar offer and Logan understands two things immediately: someone has read the manuscript, and the money is not an offer. It is a burial contract.
The man behind it is Victor Hale - media mogul, philanthropist, and one of four soldiers present at Thanh Phu that night in March 1969. Hale has spent half a century building an empire on top of what he did there. He is not prepared to let one retired colonel's memoir take it apart.
When the publisher turns up dead in Logan's storage room and the manuscript disappears, Logan finds himself at the center of something larger and more dangerous than he anticipated. With the help of his daughter Wendi, a Knoxville journalist with her own reasons to pursue the story, Logan must decide how far he is willing to go to put the truth on record before Hale buries it permanently.
Set against the rugged hollows and bare October ridges of eastern Tennessee, Echoes of 1969 is a story about silence, accountability, and what it costs a man to finally say what he should have said fifty-five years ago.
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