By Eric Freedman
Capital News Service
Why is a game warden from Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula traipsing through the wilds of Siberia and Northern Russia during World War I?
Because he’s on a secret mission to rescue Tsar Nicholas II, the ill-fated “Emperor of All the Russias,” and his equally doomed family.
Perhaps more importantly, who would send a Michigan game warden who speaks no Russia into the chaos of the Russian Civil War?
In a new novel, it’s former President Teddy Roosevelt who dispatches game warden Lute Bapcat on the dangerous assignment – at the behest of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.