About the Author
Jerry Sayre was born in central Indiana and grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains. The son of a minister and stay-at-home mother, he lived in Canada, Indiana, and Missouri before the family settled in East Tennessee. He enlisted in the Army Reserves in 1983 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in May 1986. Jerry served from platoon to division level in Light Infantry, Air Assault, and Airborne units for the first twelve years of his career. He left the military in 1998 to pursue a career in the ministry. After a break in service he returned to the Army, serving in Joint assignments for the remainder of his career. He retired in 2016. He served in Operation Desert Sheild/Storm and Operation Enduring Freedom as well as working as a DOD contractor in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is a lifelong outdoorsman. He and his wife have been together for forty-one years and have four children and twelve grandchildren. When they are not on their small farm in East Tennessee, he and his wife enjoy adventures in the American West.
Jerry A Sayre
US Army Veteran, Author, Outdoorsman
Books
The first in a series of novels, First Winter Count is about survival and transition. A career professional soldier, Boone Taggart, fought his country's wars and trained others for war. The end of his career and the memories of America’s most recent war magnifies his struggle to make peace in the next phase of life. He shares a wilderness expedition with fellow warriors intended to heal, but it ends tragically, leaving Taggart stranded and injured in the Alaskan wilderness. He leverages decades of training and experience in the wilderness as he thinks through this latest challenge, but physical survival is not all he faces. His wilderness isolation becomes the crucible where he seeks reconciliation between the sacrifice of a nation’s warriors juxtaposed with the failures, intrigues, and incompetence of politicians, careerist military officers, and bureaucrats. Taggart is not walking this epic path alone. His daughter, unwilling to accept his loss, is committed to his rescue and emerges a warrior in her own right.
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