DeWayne Twitchell
Dalton Cortner is the author of "The Athena Operation" series. He was an avid reader as a child, devouring any book he could get his hands on. This translated into writing his own stories in his teens, and ultimately publishing his first novel "The Athena Operation" in 2016.Dalton spent the next several years writing--and reading--to help hone his craft and add to his writing toolbox. It provided to be an invaluable experience.
He was able to grow as an author and plans to release several of those books, plus new novels he's writing. In 2019 the prequel short story "Forsaken Earth" was released, adding another entry into The Athena Operation series.
Dalton crafts his stories with a precise balance between character and world-building, and strives to not lose the reader's attention for even a second. Originally from Wichita, KS, he now lives in Harrisburg, PA with his loving wife Alyssa, their two dogs Lacey & Sport, and two cats Leia & Binx. He is hard at work on his next story.
Down Under
A Randall Arthur Mystery
By DeWayne Twitchell
Genre: Mystery
Randall Arthur has a PhD in history and teaches at a college in New York State. He is a former undercover DEA agent and present part-time private investigator. And he has secrets—dark ones.
Arthur's first real case involves the widow of a man he once worked with—a man he saw die in an explosion in Myanmar. The widow has been receiving eerie phone calls, saying that the truth about her husband's death has yet to be revealed. And the caller has directed her to Randall Arthur.
The case he is about to take on will take him to the streets of his hometown of Falcon City, NY, and to Australia. It will cause him to relive events he does not want to relive. It will give him the chance to rectify the failure of his last mission with the DEA, where the man they were after escaped and left several of Randall's colleagues dead.
That man is now apparently selling a new type of heroin called Burmese Blue, which has reached the streets of Falcon City and has killed a young user. And it will cause him to look insanity right in the face.
Family Dynamics
A Randall Arthur Mystery
By DeWayne Twitchell
Genre: Mystery
A small city newspaper publisher sits on his deathbed, unable to speak, looking at his eldest son in hate and heartbreak before he dies.
When a phone call from the dying publisher's son sets in motion a cross-country journey, a man who has existed in the shadows most of his life is drawn into a bloody destiny that is inexplicably linked to the publisher's past.
Years in the past, one man’s desperate desire to save his family’s legacy drives him to make an unthinkable deal with the devil, a pact that will shatter lives and haunt him forever.
Private Investigator Randall Arthur is thrust into a race against time, his every move a step closer to uncovering a long-held secret and protecting a family from utter catastrophe.