Merle Temple, an author from Tupelo, Miss., will speak to the Bartlett Christian Writers Group at their April 9 meeting.
The group will meet 9-11:30 a.m. at the New Hope Christian Church, 3300 Kirby-Whitten Road in Bartlett.
Temple wroted a series of books inspired by his life experiences. Michael Parker, the central character in the trilogy, finds that life is not the neat and tidy place he thought it was when he leaves Ole Miss to enter the first drug wars in A Ghostly Shade of Pale. Targeted for assassination and ambush in the first book, he leaves drug enforcement for the corporate world and high-level politics.
In the sequel, A Rented World, he finds that the political criminals he encounters are far more dangerous than the organized crime figures who had tried to kill him. The full power of government is turned against him, and in the final book of the trilogy, The Redeemed, he finds the answers to all of questions and a peace he has never known … in prison.
Temple’s awards and experience are varied, including the American Legion Award, service as Mississippi criminal justice chairman for President Ronald Reagan, teaching criminal justice/sociology at Augusta State University, hosting the White House Deputy Drug Czar, and receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award from Ole Miss.
Bartlett Christian Writers was founded in 2010 to provide a welcoming environment where members can develop their writing skills and learn different aspects of publishing. See more at bartlettchristianwriters.webs.com.
