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“Montana In The Rearview Mirror” by G.L. Barbour is now available for purchase

“We are the Army,” Sergeant Miles said proudly. “We don’t make mistakes. If one of you recruits has a possible positive test, we’ll call the whole lot of ya back here and do this day all over again.” That answer chilled any further questions.”

– an excerpt from the book

Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “Montana In The Rearview Mirror” by G.L. Barbour. The author did not just pen one book but published several books in different categories. His other books include Naked DeathDeath Unexpected, Twisted Death: A Campus Killer, Alibi For Death, and many more. The book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.

The author, G.L. Barbour, is a retired academic physician in the Department of Veteran Affairs and at several medical schools in the South and Mid-Atlantic. He retired as a Professor of Medicine and Public Health. During that forty-year career, he published more than 50 scientific articles, edited journal issues, and authored two books and several chapters on healthcare quality and improvement.

Since his formal retirement, he has written seven novels; each is set in a fictional hospital and portrays common personnel and management issues that affect healthcare quality, with attention given to a method to address those issues and improve the quality of care. These issues are framed as part of the overall response to unexpected deaths while also providing insight into police procedures and approaches to puzzling medical circumstances.

To learn more about the author’s published masterpieces, visit the link: https://www.glbarbour.com/.

“Montana In The Rearview Mirror” is a narrative that begins with what appears to be a murder scene in the open country of mid-1950s northern Montana. 

The story is then recounted in the memories of an old man, Walt Dell, some 60 years later. The memories are stimulated by a social science study project. Three high school students in Springfield, IL, interview Walt about his memories of high school and his real-time reaction to the Hungarian Revolution.

Over a few months of twice-weekly interviews, the students begin to have some regard for Walt, and he begins to give them a picture of the 1950s. His memories include pre-teen activities, high school sports, dating, dancing, holidays, attitudes about the Revolution and racism, gardening, and growing up in a small rural town in northern Montana.

After each interview, Walt rethinks what he said to the students and slowly draws out old, painful memories of his high school years. Ultimately, the students complete the project and cease coming to Walt’s house. Two years after their graduation, however, they return to their social science teacher’s classroom and tell her of their activities. The students are excitedly planning to see Walt and are disappointed when they can’t talk with him.

Later, the teacher and Walt’s confidant reminisce, and the confidant tells her Walt’s story of what happened that day on the northern prairie that left a man dead and how Walt was running from that event all his life.

“Montana In The Rearview Mirror” does have a touch of murder mystery, but is mainly a retrospective coming-of-age story as remembered by an 81-year-old man talking with high school seniors in 2020. He tries to keep his memories on the good stuff, but cannot discipline the bad stuff to keep it out of his mind. Those memories led him back to the bottle and the return of his angst that he would be caught and punished for an ancient sin.

“Montana In The Rearview Mirror” by G.L. Barbour is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/montana-in-the-rearview-mirror.

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