About the Author. . .

Chris C. Canton was born in Long Island, New York and raised in
Northern Virginia. After finishing school, Canton moved to Florida for six
years, then relocated to Austin, Texas for eighteen years. During that time,
he served for six years with the Texas State Guard in a military police
battalion, and left in the rank of Staff Sergeant. He worked as a graphic
artist in wallcovering design for the RV and Manufactured Housing
industry. Subsequently, his company was bought out and he was
transferred to Elkhart Indiana in 2001, where he is currently living and
working.

Canton also runs a publishing company, called Starlight Press, in Elkhart,
and is the author of two books of poetry and a novel. His poems have
appeared in a dozen journals and publications throughout the country,
including the online websites www.forpoetry.com, run by poet/editor
Jaqueline Marcus, www.sourgrapesnewsletter.com, and www.poetry.com.
Canton recently had a book signing at the Java Jungle coffee shop in
Elkhart, IN for his three books, and an announcement in the Elkhart Truth
newspaper.  

A description of Sergeant Major by Chris C. Canton appears below.

Featured Book:  Sergeant Major
ISBN:  0-9752541-1-1   Publisher:  Starlight Press     Price:$17.00
     1 (574) 849-2551

Other books by this author:
Winter, While Walking, Collected Poems
ISBN: 0-9752541-0-3    Publisher:  Starlight Press     Price:$12.00

Blonde--A Quest for the Truth of Color
ISBN: 0-9752541-2-X    Publisher:  Starlight Press     Price:$12.00

Sources for books by this author:  
Direct from the author - Chris C. Canton, Starlight Press, 1804-13 Visscher Drive
Elkhart, IN 46514, (574) 849-2551   E-mail: ccharles1@comcast.net
Also - Java Jungle, 5230 Beck Drive, Elkhart, IN   46516; and www.bookwire.com.

Sergeant Major by Chris C. Canton

Book Description

The sergeant major has a secret. From his daily job as a 5th grade school teacher to his twice-monthly drills as the
sergeant major of a military police State Guard unit, all of his subordinates reveled in his enthusiasm for teaching,
despite his tough-as-nails exterior. On the inside, things were far different. Ever since his twin brother’s violent
death while on patrol in the Hobo Woods of Vietnam; unable to be forgiven for the endless humiliation that sibling
rivalry brought them, Sergeant Major Owens could only hope to understand what had happened that resulted in
the tragic loss of his brother during his second tour of duty.

The end of the Vietnam War was nearly thirty years passed, and most veterans faded into civilian life along with
their scars of that era. Sergeant Major Owens had his opportunity to come to terms with his brother’s loss, and
learn the skills of some Special Forces veterans belonging to an outlaw militia unit he had become acquainted with
through an area gun and knife show. Little does he realize the extent to which the right-wing militia organizations
nationwide had networked in an attempt to wage a coup d’e-tat against the US Government. On-going strife among
ethnic rivals continued fiercely throughout the Middle East despite Iraq’s first democratically-elected government;
the growing violence of radical Muslim insurgency attacks occurred daily throughout major U.S. cities. Was the
Sergeant Major about to find himself in the center of a national crisis; his own life left to the winds of political fate?
Would the system of politics in America as we knew it about to change, forever, the face of democracy? The
theories abound within these pages. . . The answers are all up for grabs!

ADULT LANGUAGE

Sergeant Major by Chris C. Canton, begins as follows:

One

What is said and the manner in which the
boy speaks reminds Mr. Owens of himself.  The
little boy stands up beside his desk and points to
the numbers and formulas neatly arranged on the
chalkboard; fractions and prime numbers, half
hidden by the upright American flag whose
pedestal had been displaced from its corner.  The
youth had come up to his desk with a problem he
had puzzled over the night before, and Sergeant
Major Luke Owens, who is “Mr.” Owens by day,
quickly gives him the answer and the method to
which he could obtain that answer.  The simplicity
of it leaves the child a bit embarrassed, but rather
the child turn  from his difficulty, he buries himself
further into books for more answers; to knowledge

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Sergeant Major by Chris C. Canton, ©2004.  All rights reserved.

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