Joseph Robert Courtemanche

Author Bio:

Joseph Courtemanche is a former Police Officer and certified Middle East, North Africa intelligence analyst. He is a distinguished veteran of the Naval Security Group of the United States Navy and is an Arabic linguist with training at The University of Minnesota and the Defense Language Institute (Honors Graduate.) His linguistic and intelligence experience include multiple deployments to surface, submarine, and land based intelligence collection platforms. Joseph holds several military awards including two flag letters of commendation for providing real-time intelligence support to commanders in the field. He is a graduate of The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and holds degrees from two other colleges.

His background includes degrees in Computer Science, Law Enforcement, and Political Science as well as experience in cryptology, telecommunications, law enforcement, and lawn care. He has a large vocabulary in the military, scientific, and medical fields, in multiple languages. He holds the Expert Pistol Marksman medal, Good Conduct medal, Sea Service ribbon, and Meritorious Unit Citation from the United States Navy and is a Life Member of the NRA.

His debut novel, Assault on Saint Agnes, won the 2015 Genesis award for the mystery/suspense/thriller category, Second Place in the prestigious Athanatos Christian Ministries 2013 Christian Novel Contest, and was a 2013 Final Five Finalist in the Christian Writers Guild’s Operation First Novel.

Among his performing endeavors, he lists being a professional Santa Claus (Official Santa for the Minnesota Vikings) and a background in radio and television commercials. His voice over work includes a two-year stint creating audio books for the blind as well as reading the newspaper live on the air for the Minnesota Society for the Blind and Vision Impaired. He has recently completed two commercial audio books, his own debut novel Assault on Saint Agnes, and Misconceptions: A Suspense Novel, by Colleen Scott.

Assault on Saint Agnes

When terrorists assault Saint Agnes Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, they expect to find a congregation of lambs: they get Bobby Kurtz instead. An unrepentant Cold Warrior, Kurtz destroys the terror cell with violent finality. Against his will, Kurtz is pulled back into the life he left behind decades…