Murder on the Floodways, The Grotto-Book One and Book Two and Tubo: Gangsters in Paradise, are now available on Amazon! I’m returning to work on The Grotto-Book Three: The Last Hurrah! I appreciate everyone’s interest and I’m writing as fast as I can! – HGW

LtCol Harold G. Walker, USMCR, retired from the U.S. Marine Corps where in 1969-70 he served in Vietnam as a CH-46D Helicopter Pilot in HMM-262. Following active duty, he remained in the Marine Corps Reserve, earning a commercial pilot license.  He became a Designated Aircraft Commander, flying administrative missions in the Navy’s multi-engine US-2A/B submarine tracker, out of the Memphis Naval Air Station, Millington, TN. Later, back serving as a Helicopter Aircraft Commander in UH1E/UH1N “Huey” Helicopters out of HML-776, Glenview, IL Naval Air Station, his squadron was activated for Desert Storm. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1996 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His parallel civilian occupation was that of a Special Agent in various Federal law enforcement agencies. Following retirement, he became a licensed Private Investigator.

Harold has written extensively about his tour of duty in Vietnam, in a non-published book that was excerpted for fellow helicopter pilots from HMM-262, MAG-16, 1969-1970. The excerpts are currently being turned into a three-volume trilogy in which two volumes have already been published. “Grotto 1 and Grotto 2 have already been published and are available on Amazon. The third book, Grotto III ” The Last Hurrah,” is being written.  Stay tuned.

“Murder on the Floodways” was Harold’s first excursion into the world of literature. By using his skills as an investigator, he undertook a four year investigation into a vicious killing that took place when he was twelve years old on his family’s small cotton farm located in Pemiscot County Missouri, the Bootheel of Missouri.  The book has received more than 60 five-star reviews in Amazon and Goodreads and positive reviews from both newspaper book reviews and the Arkansas Review, a journal of Delta Studies, University of Arkansas, the April, 2016 edition.