Arnold R Beckhardt

Arnold R. Beckhardt is a retired IBM executive who specialized in the development of military weapon systems and space programs. He was a pilot in World War Two in China, Burma and India. He has published several NACA technical reports and magazine articles. His first Roy Neely novel TURNAROUND was published in March, 2007. The second Roy Neely novel GOERING'S GOLD was published in May, 2008 and the third Neely novel BLACK GOLD was published in 2009. MEXICAN GOLD, about the forty year drug war was published in 2010.THE KASHMIR DILEMMA was published in 2012 and his latest book THE PARIS SURPRISE was published in 2013. All his books are available in trade paper and KINDLE versions. He lives with his wife Greta in Vero Beach, Florida where they recently celebrated their 66th anniversary.

I really retired 16 years ago to concentrate on my golf game but I found I needed something else to keep me busy. A creative writing course at our local library convinced me to try and adopt the writing skills developed in fifty years of creating business proposals and technical papers into trying my hand with a novel. I hope that my readers enjoy reading these Roy Neely novels as much as I have enjoyed creating them. In our family, we believe it's never too late to start a new career so I will keep writing.