The Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading presents more than 50 authors, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 12 at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Jeffery Hess will speak at 2:15 p.m. in USFSP Davis 105. Find more information here. 

Beachhead is the first novel by Jeffery Hess. He lives in Tampa, where he leads the DD-214 Writers’ Workshop for military veterans, and has edited two anthologies of stories by veterans. Beachhead is set on Florida’s Gulf Coast in 1980, where Scotland Ross, recently paroled from a Navy prison, is trying to put his life back together and help his floundering sister. A gambling debt entangles Ross with Allan Kinsey, a corrupt developer whose ambition is to become Florida’…

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