About The Valley Walker

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A Few Tidbits

The Valley Walker is a soldier’s story. It is a story close to my core, since I spent some time soldiering.

Readers Favorite, a company that provides reviews for some of the big publishers, gave it three Five Star Ratings and two Four Star Ratings. If you want to read the summary paragraph of these reviews, you can find them at a posting from May 15th, 2012.

One of the reviewers gave this description: “It is neither horror nor paranormal nor straightforward thriller but a shifting combination of all three, with an element of war story too. It is a book that is hard to classify. A slightly challenging read. it’s absorbing, original and thought-provoking.”

 The Blurb

“Yeah, though I walk through the valley… “

Special Investigator Teri Altro is a hard-case member of the Drug Interdiction Task Force. Cold and aloof, there is no room in her life for personal entanglements. No one is allowed to call her by her first name. No form of physical contact is acceptable. Altro is a driven woman, and people who work with her learn to keep up or stay out of her way. She carries a gun in her shoulder bag.

When Altro first notices the man staring at her, he doesn’t seem like anything special… just some guy in the drugstore. But when three men walk in the door to assassinate her, he kills them all with fluid ease, so quickly that she doesn’t even have time to pull her own gun. The confrontation is so eerily violent that it leaves Altro wondering just who… or what… the man is.

Over the next four days she learns the man is John Walker Michaels, a man known to the Hmong of Laos as the Valley Walker, a man the army has classified as a deserter. He is an openly emotional man who draws her out of her shell and into the world of Hmong mysticism. At the end of this time… even after talking to him, learning his history and meeting his family… Altro can only shake her head when asked about him.

She had touched him and felt his warmth. She knew he was real.

Or was he?

19 thoughts on “About The Valley Walker”

  1. letizia said:

    Just bought it and am looking forward to reading it!

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  2. victoriadougherty said:

    Nice reviews and really compelling premise. I love the addition of mysticism to a thriller, too. Okay, maybe it’s because I add a spiriual dimension to my work as well. What can I say?

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  3. Tom Gething said:

    T.W., Would you be interested in participating in a “blog hop” for Indie authors? If so, email me and I’ll send you the details. Thanks.

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    • T. W. Dittmer said:

      Hey Tom,

      Thanks so much for thinking of me, but because of time constraints, I just couldn’t do it at this time.

      I’m pretty swamped with everyday life right now.

      Really enjoying your blog.

      Tim

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  4. melissajanda said:

    Very compelling blurb. I will be anxiously awaiting the re-release.

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  5. First Night Design said:

    Your book sounds intriguing! Thanks so much for following First Night Design.

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  6. snarkynarwahl said:

    I may purchase this one for myself and a few relatives before Christmas – great hook to it.

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  7. ~meredith said:

    I loved it.

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  8. cupcakecache said:

    As I read this, I am reminded of Jack Reacher (my favorite) novels which my husband introduced me to. He is retired Army. I was in the Navy for my term, not retired.

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