LD Sledge

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Want a hold onto your seat, non-stop rocket ride through the murky mysteries of the New Orleans French Quarter and dismal swamps of Louisiana in a voodoo laced murder thriller? Click on and read the first two chapters of Dawn’s Revenge. You will have to read the rest. How about a page turner military courtroom drama and discover why the commanding general will go to any length to convict Sergeant Nolan, and how the evil reaches all the way to the White House? Find out in Command Influence.

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Author L D Sledge, served as a captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, practiced in New Orleans for several years while he lived in the French Quarter, and for the remainder of his forty three year career was a courtroom lawyer in the capitol city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Using an actual court martial he defended and won as a model, he wrote Command Influence. Living in the French Quarter, the author learned its ways, its secrets and things unknown to the outsider and used it as the model for authoring Dawn’s Revenge.

Nimrod’s Peril started out as a bedtime story told to his two year old son, Jake, and years later it evolved into a fantasy that has been praised as a “masterpiece,” the author as a “genius” and is now a screenplay. As a lawyer, his purpose was to touch and change the lives of the ordinary man or woman for the better, with no back off in taking on powerful corporations and difficult cases. He was known as “the Hammer” for his willingness and ability to hammer the opposition. He was pretty much like Jack Chandler, the character in Dawn’s Revenge and Riggs McCall in Command Influence.

“Your Dawn’s Revenge is a true thriller that kept me intrigued and captivated. I particularly enjoyed the local color in your settings and characters. I found my senses savoring typical New Orleans scenes and colorful Louisiana characters given vivid life by your superior descriptive powers. Your keen knowledge of the New Orleans legal and political system was obvious in your creative yet bizarre manipulation of the system’s characters. The reader is so drawn into the powerful plot, that he is relieved to realize that life has sheltered him from such heinous realities that are deeply disturbing. What a refreshing surprise to, at last, see an accurate portrayal of a true Cajun character. Nookie Naquin will win hearts.” – Edwin W. Edwards, Four Term Governor of Louisiana

“The exotic streets of New Orleans’ French Quarter and the mysterious swamps of south Louisiana have attracted writers from Longfellow to Anne Rice, Faulkner to James Lee Burke. They provide the setting for a thriller by Baton Rouge attorney Sledge, who doesn’t write like a guy who has a day job. It is a gripping, fast moving tale about Jack Chandler, an under-achieving French Quarter lawyer who takes on the corrupt power structure to uncover a ring of child molesters. Jack is running for his life during a massive hurricane. (written in 1993 with an accurate prediction of Katrina complete with breaking the levees) He is in love with a bright, beautiful woman, Dr. Victoria Keens-Dennison, whose heritage encompasses Trinidad and Casablanca, with “Moorish features and emerald eyes”, but she is black, and he hesitates to cross the line. The story may be fictional, but the kind of description in this book is by a man who knows his territory and presents it realistically, warts and all. Such honesty alone is worth the price of the book.” – Smiley Anders, Baton Rouge Advocate Staff Writer

“I was working in a Houma bookstore and Mr. LD Sledge was invited for an author signing. To prepare for the day I read the summary of Dawn’s Revenge. As a native of Louisiana, I found it quite intriguing. Being an avid reader, I purchased the book and had it autographed. This was one of the wisest things I have ever done. I have found what I believe to be one of the best Louisiana authors in a long time. Mr. Sledge describes southern Louisiana flawlessly; the humid summers, the voodoo culture, the corrupt politics, even the lifestyle of the Vieux Carre’. Dawn’s Revenge has definitely become my favorite novel. I have not been as enchanted with or satisfied by a selection since I completed this book. Mr. Sledge, I am anxiously awaiting your next release.” - Amazon Review