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Author Event at Bear Pond Books ft. Lyn Bixby
Join Bear Pond Books in Stowe, Vermont for an author event on June 20th from 11am to 1pm celebrating Lyn Bixby's "The Pacifist"
About the Book:
In the fall of 1968, the deadliest year of the Vietnam war for Americans, Lisa Thompson, a back-to-the-land hippie living at her family’s Vermont farm, is cutting firewood when a stranger named Johnny Dollar shows up to warn her the FBI might be investigating her brother, Chris, a Boston anti-war activist who was drafted.
Chris reports as ordered to an Army base where he refuses induction and is taken away unconscious in an ambulance. The Army says he accidentally fell. Lisa doesn’t believe it. She heads to Boston to discover the truth, but Chris dies before she can find out what happened to him. In a quest for justice, Lisa faces two of the most powerful institutions in the world—the Army and the FBI. The Vietnam war and the draft have transformed America into a combat zone where anti-war and civil rights protesters are under attack as enemies of the nation. With the help of a Vietnam combat veteran and Johnny Dollar, Lisa uncovers a labyrinth of corruption, lies and murders, and confronts her brother’s killer.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lyn Bixby, inspired by the death of his college classmate in Vietnam, The Pacifist is a debut historical suspense thriller about standing up to power gone bad.
About the Author:
Lyn Bixby protested against the Vietnam War before he received his military draft letter weeks after graduating in 1969 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He passed his physical and was ordered to join the Army, serving at Fort Dix, N.J., Fort Bliss, Texas, and at a number of bases on Okinawa before he was discharged because the Army couldn’t turn him into a soldier.
He found a job at a suburban Connecticut daily newspaper as a newsroom clerk, was promoted to reporter and spent most of his career at the state’s largest newspaper, The Hartford Courant, working primarily on its special projects desk as an investigative reporter focused on corruption. Some projects gave him opportunities to dig into issues raised in his debut novel, The Pacifist. During his newspaper career he received a range of prestigious writing awards, including a shared Pulitzer Prize.
He and his wife Debbie were married in 1979 and live in northern Vermont. They have two sons and three grandchildren.
