title: The Trench Angel
author:  Michael Keenan Gutierrez 
description: <div>An inherently absorbing and exceptionally well crafted novel from beginning to end, "The Trench Angel" showcases the extraordinary storytelling talents of author Michael Keenan Guiterrez. "The Trench Angel" is very highly recommended for community library Mystery/Suspense collections.&mdash;Midwest Book Review<BR><BR><BR>Gutierrez's debut sets the industrialized murder of World War I as backdrop to the murderous industry of coal mining in the American West circa 1919.... While Gutierrez draws Paris, the Belgian war-front, and the rough-hewn frontier town with a good eye&#151;"the sun hovered over the Rocky peaks, shading the mountain snow like a bruise"&#151;the novel's unfiltered lens reveals war's cost to the human psyche, the amorality of concentrated wealth, the cancer of racial and ethnic hatred, and the nearly unresolvable conflict between familial loyalty and moral responsibility. By turns lyrical and brutal, Gutierrez stretches an intriguing piece of historical fiction to cover multiple themes. &#151;<I>Kirkus</I><BR><BR><BR>The Trench Angel is a vivid and engaging novel and it carries a doomed, bloody and wondrous vision of the World War I trenches and the American West in the years after The Great War. It's also a ripping good yarn. &#151;John Dalton, Heaven Lake<BR></div><br /><br /><DIV>An inherently absorbing and exceptionally well crafted novel from beginning to end, "The Trench Angel" showcases the extraordinary storytelling talents of author Michael Keenan Guiterrez. "The Trench Angel" is very highly recommended for community library Mystery/Suspense collections.&mdash;Midwest Book Review<BR><BR><BR>Gutierrez's debut sets the industrialized murder of World War I as backdrop to the murderous industry of coal mining in the American West circa 1919.... While Gutierrez draws Paris, the Belgian war-front, and the rough-hewn frontier town with a good eye"the sun hovered over the Rocky peaks, shading the mountain snow like a bruise"the novel's unfiltered lens reveals war's cost to the human psyche, the amorality of concentrated wealth, the cancer of racial and ethnic hatred, and the nearly unresolvable conflict between familial loyalty and moral responsibility. By turns lyrical and brutal, Gutierrez stretches an intriguing piece of historical fiction to cover multiple themes. <EM>Kirkus</EM><BR><BR><BR>The Trench Angel is a vivid and engaging novel and it carries a doomed, bloody and wondrous vision of the World War I trenches and the American West in the years after The Great War. It's also a ripping good yarn. John Dalton, Heaven Lake<BR></DIV>
zlib_text: The Trench Angel
  
   _Michael Keenan Gutierrez_
  
  A Novel
  
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  _Leapfrog Press_
  
   _Fredonia, New York_
  
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  The Trench Angel © 2015 by Michael Keenan Gutierrez All rights reserved under
  International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions
  
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  Published in 2015 in the United States by Leapfrog Press LLC
  
  PO Box 505
  
  Fredonia, NY 14063
  
  www.leapfrogpress.com
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  Distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution St.
  Paul, Minnesota 55114
  
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  Portions of this book were published in _Scarab_ and _Crossborder._
  
    
  
  Author photo courtesy of Rebecca Ames
  
  First Edition
  
    
  
  EISBN: 978-1-93524872-9
  
    
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Gutierrez, Micha