To Keep Our Honor Clean: A 3M Detective Agency Novel
by Thomas A. Burns Jr.Publish: Dec 20, 2024 Series: 3M Detective AgencyAction & Adventure
Book Overview
Not all battles are fought on the battlefield.
In 1988, Master Gunnery Sergeant Amos Murdoch retires from the Marine Corps to join fellow veterans Solly Pinkus and Jonny Edwards in launching the 3M Detective Agency. Their modest goal of investigating workman’s comp claims is upended when they are drawn into the murder of a disgraced homosexual Marine.
A routine inquiry uncovers a chilling conspiracy rooted in the Vietnam War of twenty years ago, forcing the trio to confront not only the sins of the Corps but also secrets they’ve kept for years. As their bonds are tested and danger mounts, the three Marines and their allies must brave treacherous waters to expose the truth and bring the guilty to justice. But the ghosts of southeast Asia have their own reckoning in store…
To Keep Our Honor Clean is a gripping tale of loyalty, redemption, and sacrifice that will leave you haunted by its themes of the cost of honor and the confrontation of painful truths.
BIOGRAPHY As a kid, Tom started reading mysteries with the Hardy Boys, Ken Holt and Rick Brant, and graduated to the classic stories by authors such as A. Conan Doyle, , John Dickson Carr, Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex Stout, to name a few. Tom has written fiction as a hobby all of his life, starting in marble-backed copybooks in grade school. He built a career as a writer, doing technical writing, science writing and editing for nearly thirty years in industry and government. Now that he's truly on his own as a freelance science writer and editor, he's excited to publish his own mystery series as well.