Two Good Writers to Checkout

[MasterBulldawg]

Brothers,

If you are looking for some Good Masonic Historical Fiction-
Check out Michael J. Karpovage's -The Tununda Mysteries.

About this author
Michael Karpovage is a native of western New York and a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology. He has worked in the design and marketing field for over twenty years as an art director and map illustrator. He is a Freemason and lives in Roswell, GA. The main character Jake Tununda is a mason.

MAP OF THIEVES (2014) is Michael's second mystery thriller and features a military historian on a hunt for an ancient Cherokee treasure.

CROWN OF SERPENTS (2009) is Michael's debut mystery thriller and features a military historian on a hunt for an ancient Iroquois treasure.
http://www.karpovagecreative.com/

For the second writer:
Randy Wayne White (born 1950) is an American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales. He has written best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he currently lives on Pine Island, Florida, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and with the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill on nearby Sanibel Island and is a Freemason.

http://www.randywaynewhite.com/

 

[Warrior1256]

Can you give us a short version as to the plot of "The Tununda Mysteries"? I may want to check it out at the library.

 

[MasterBulldawg]

Crown of Serpents
With the discovery of a campaign journal from an American Revolutionary War officer who fought against the Iroquois Indians, the U.S. Army calls in their top field historian to assess its contents. Jake Tununda, combat vet, Freemason, and half-Seneca Indian is stunned when he gleans from the journal's cryptic Masonic passages clues to the location of an ancient shaman's crown once protected by the White Deer Society, a secret cult of his forefathers.
Jake soon realizes why his ancestors' history was best kept buried. And why peaceful, rural central New York's Finger Lakes region can be deadlier than any battlefield he had ever faced.
Crown of Serpents, a mystery thriller set in the former heartland of the Iroquois Empire, takes Jake on a fast-paced hunt to find the elusive crown and protect it. He teams up with Rae Hart, an alluring state police investigator, as they snake their way across a politically turbulent landscape marked with murder, arson, lies, and deceit. Deciphering codes, digging up war loot, and fending off the henchmen of billionaire Alex Nero, a ruthless Indian casino magnate, Jake and Rae's survival skills are put to the test. The clues to the crown ultimately lead them deep within sacred Indian caves hidden under the abandoned Seneca Army Depot where the magnitude of the crown's power is revealed.

Map of Thieves
After discovering a lost Civil War hat from a famous Union general who was shot in the back during the Battle of Atlanta, Freemason military historian Lieutenant Colonel Jake Tununda is shocked to learn a secret waybill may be hidden inside the hat’s liner.

Before he can inspect it, the hat and two priceless Nazi artifacts disappear from the West Point Museum in a brazen daytime theft. Jake and his stunning girlfriend, private investigator Rae Hart, head to Savannah to question their main suspect, an aging World War II vet. They soon find themselves targeted for assassination. Even worse, Jake is suspended from the case and the Army itself.

In Map of Thieves, a mystery thriller set in the deep South, Jake and Rae team up with Delta Force operative Alex Vann to catch a killer thief and to locate the legendary Cherokee Tunnel—a gold vault in the Georgia mountains that dates back to 1838 and the Trail of Tears. Enter U.S. Congressman Tom Black of Atlanta, one of the dirtiest, most corrupt politicians ever to steal an election. He’s also the great grandson of the sniper whose shot killed the Union general. Once privy to what’s inside the secret Indian tunnel—Hernando de Soto’s stolen Spanish mining map—Black will let nothing stand in his way to steal it for himself, including killing his own elderly father.

 

[Warrior1256]

Sounds good. I'll check our library system and see if I can get them.

 

[MaineMason]

Crown of Serpents
With the discovery of a campaign journal from an American Revolutionary War officer who fought against the Iroquois Indians, the U.S. Army calls in their top field historian to assess its contents. Jake Tununda, combat vet, Freemason, and half-Seneca Indian is stunned when he gleans from the journal's cryptic Masonic passages clues to the location of an ancient shaman's crown once protected by the White Deer Society, a secret cult of his forefathers.
Jake soon realizes why his ancestors' history was best kept buried. And why peaceful, rural central New York's Finger Lakes region can be deadlier than any battlefield he had ever faced.
Crown of Serpents, a mystery thriller set in the former heartland of the Iroquois Empire, takes Jake on a fast-paced hunt to find the elusive crown and protect it. He teams up with Rae Hart, an alluring state police investigator, as they snake their way across a politically turbulent landscape marked with murder, arson, lies, and deceit. Deciphering codes, digging up war loot, and fending off the henchmen of billionaire Alex Nero, a ruthless Indian casino magnate, Jake and Rae's survival skills are put to the test. The clues to the crown ultimately lead them deep within sacred Indian caves hidden under the abandoned Seneca Army Depot where the magnitude of the crown's power is revealed.

Map of Thieves
After discovering a lost Civil War hat from a famous Union general who was shot in the back during the Battle of Atlanta, Freemason military historian Lieutenant Colonel Jake Tununda is shocked to learn a secret waybill may be hidden inside the hat’s liner.

Before he can inspect it, the hat and two priceless Nazi artifacts disappear from the West Point Museum in a brazen daytime theft. Jake and his stunning girlfriend, private investigator Rae Hart, head to Savannah to question their main suspect, an aging World War II vet. They soon find themselves targeted for assassination. Even worse, Jake is suspended from the case and the Army itself.

In Map of Thieves, a mystery thriller set in the deep South, Jake and Rae team up with Delta Force operative Alex Vann to catch a killer thief and to locate the legendary Cherokee Tunnel—a gold vault in the Georgia mountains that dates back to 1838 and the Trail of Tears. Enter U.S. Congressman Tom Black of Atlanta, one of the dirtiest, most corrupt politicians ever to steal an election. He’s also the great grandson of the sniper whose shot killed the Union general. Once privy to what’s inside the secret Indian tunnel—Hernando de Soto’s stolen Spanish mining map—Black will let nothing stand in his way to steal it for himself, including killing his own elderly father.

My late partner was a Mason and a direct descendent of Joseph Brant, Freemason, Anglican, and head of the Iroquois League. Just sayin'. Brant was raised by King George III personally. From what I understand about the Iroquois League and the Mohawks (which was Brant's tribe) in particular, peace was their object. Joseph Brant was an international peacemaker. There is a town named after him in Ontario, and he's considered a hero in Canada.

While I am a US citizen (though have tons of relatives in Canada and Great Britain) I find that the Iroquois League and Thyendenagaya aka Joseph Brant did their best to try to mediate issues in the War of Independence and the War of 1812. Having had such an intimate relationship with one of his direct descendants, I find it difficult to put the "manifest destiny" label on myself, or to forget that the leader of the Iroquois Nation was himself a regular Freemason.

 

[Michael Karpovage]

I'm the author of both books in the series. Thanks so much for posting this, Brother Bulldawg! Billy? Here's a graphic of The Tununda Mysteries

 

[MasterBulldawg]

Crown of serpents is free on Amazon / Kindle e book til 10/26/14. Check it out

 

[MaineMason]

I will check it out, but it sounds like it's about my relative, Thyendenaga, head of the Irioquis Leage and Freemason. Interestingly written. I'll check it out.

 

[crono782]

I got the first book free for kindle last night and read up through the first chapter. Not bad so far.