Book Tour Launch: "Young Blood and Old Paint" by WIlliam Frank

Today we are kicking off William Frank's online book tour for his novel Young Blood and Old Paint.

ONLINE BOOK TOUR CALENDAR

MARCH 8, 2022
1. ONLINE BOOK TOUR LAUNCH
​www.onlinebooktours.com & @BookDetour Instagram
Online book tours kicks off with an author spotlight!

MARCH 8, 2022
2. BELLADONNA'S BOOKS REVIEW 
By book reviewer Dawn
On her blog BelladonnasBooks.com and Facebook page

MARCH 15, 2022
3. AVNI XAXA INSTAGRAM REVIEW
By reader Avni 
On her Instagram profile @avni_xaxa

MARCH 16, 2022
4. EVA LAZAR INSTAGRAM REVIEW
By avid reader Eva Lazar in Sweden
On her Instagram stories @evalazar95  

MARCH 27, 2022
5. BOOKS AND SCENTSY INSTAGRAM REVIEW 
By Jamie Lindemulder, Bookstagrammer
On her Instagram profile @booksandscentsy

MARCH 28, 2022
6. TURNING THE PAGES INSTAGRAM REVIEW
By fiction reader Sam,
on her Instagram profile @turningthe.pages

MARCH 31, 2022
7. BOOKISH KELLY REVIEW
By book blogger, Kelly 
on her Facebook page BookishKelly2020

ABOUT THE BOOK

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Tommy McNaul is an FBI agent with twenty-five years of service, a firm sense of law and order, a beautiful Irish wife, and a passion for fine art. He risks them all one snowy night when he and his partner, Kate Bacon, lead a sting operation in Boston. Their mission is to recover Vermeer's “The Concert,” stolen from the Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum in 1995. 

The sting erupts in a blaze of gunfire, and Tom's life spins out of control. Forced into retirement from the FBI, and pursued by elements of the Boston mob, Tom seeks refuge in his native homeland of New Mexico. He teams up with his estranged older brother, Willie, an ex-marine turned private detective living in Santa Fe.

Tom and Willie plan to pursue local cases of art forgery and theft, but the murder of a young gallery worker hurls them into the dark, violent world of international art crime. Tom finds himself increasingly torn. Is he still a man of law and order, or does he belong in the darker world of justice and vengeance?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I’m a fourth-generation New Mexican, but I grew up on naval air stations ranging from colonial French Morocco to Guam. My father was an aerologist in the U.S. Navy, and we moved every year or two. I’ve lived for a year or more in at least fifteen places and enjoyed them all.

Both of my parents were science majors, and I developed an early affection for the science fiction of Robert A. Heinlein and others. My first sci-fi book was Heinlein’s “Have Space Suit Will Travel”. Many years later I found that this was also the first sci-fi book read by George R. R. Martin, but I’m sure that’s coincidental.

Astronomy was my first career plan, but when my father retired from the navy, we moved to Connecticut. United Aircraft was just four miles away, and a few years later . I graduated from M.I.T. with a degree in aeronautical engineering.

After four years in the Air Force serving as a flight test engineer (Edwards AFB, California), I entered graduate school and earned my PhD in Atmospheric Science. I became a professor of tropical meteorology and served as a professor for thirty years, primarily at Penn State. For six years I served as the department head, but I prefer science to management, so I happily returned to the academic trenches. Hurricanes and thunderstorms were my specialties, though I also researched the dynamics of less spectacular weather systems.

​I retired a bit early to pursue my writing interests, and I was anxious to try detective fiction. To borrow a line from the late folk singer, Patrick Sky: “Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?”.

My wife, Kathleen Frank, is a famous painter of western landscapes, and we decided to return to my ancestral homeland of New Mexico. We now live in Santa Fe with a couple of corgis and ready access to the best enchiladas in the west.