CUMMING, Ga., March 2, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Maj. Sam Call is at the end of a once-promising career ruined by his confrontational attitude and inability to ignore rifts in the system. Assigned to menial duties, he stumbles across a decades-old mystery waiting to be exhumed in the new suspense novel, Tenth Man (now available through AuthorHouse), by Matthew Eberz.
Sam is a good guy. He loves and cherishes his wife, Mary, and his friends, Dana and Vickie. However, his distaste for corruption within the military and country and a love of confrontation have left his career in shambles. Now he is assigned to close down Fort Sheridan, a job far beneath his rank. He accepts the position dutifully, however, and is pleased that he is going to be near Dana and Vickie. Upon arriving at the base, he is immediately intrigued by the graves of nine Germans buried in the post cemetery. When a soldier finds an old diary by Sgt. Jonathan Simon who served during World War II, a mystery is uncovered.
According to the diary, the German soldiers were prisoners of war shipped to the base. Simon describes how the POWs were used for manual labor on neighboring farms and roads. However, Simon discovered that millions of dollars were somehow missing from the program. After Simon brings his findings to his superior officer, the entries stop. Sam, who loves a good conflict and despises dishonesty, is eager to get to the bottom of this conspiracy that tangles German POWs and American officers. With a little help from his friends, he follows a path straight to a Chicago businessman who may or may not be a German POW allowed to enter America posing as another soldier.
A suspenseful mystery that takes readers back and forth through history, Tenth Man is a riveting conspiracy thriller that pits one man's values against the greed and corruption of men entrusted to uphold the ideals of America.
Eberz is a military veteran. He initially trained at Fort Bragg, N.C., and rose to the rank of major in the Army. After the service, he continued his training in computers and developed major computer systems for private industries. He is also the creator of the ADAM alert notification system, which supports the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Tenth Man is his first novel.
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