Product Description The head of Manchester, New Hampshire´s homicide detectives is called to the scene of a brutal murder. There, he finds more than the victim.He finds that violent crime has become routine in nature to him-just by looking at a crime scene he can describe what had happened. He finds that he has let slip his ideal, to defeat violent crime, that led him into police work as a young man. And most of all he finds that he has failed his code! Self-anger propels him down an untrodden path. He encounters hidden agendas, violence and murder as he threads his way through the fabric of our social and political environment. The path leads him into a world where a persons´ code determines their ethics.CODE AND ETHICS will be available from the author at the following craft fairs:November 8 at Raymond NH High School 9-3November 29 at Deerfield Town Hall 10-3 BOOK SIGNING and discussion: Wednesday, January 14(snow date January 21);7pm at the Dudley-Tucker Library, Raymond, NH About the Author Martin Devine was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, the fifth child in a family of seven children. He attended parochial and public schools in Brockton and was graduated from Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1959. After graduation, he completed a two-year technical course at Industrial Technical Schools in Boston.His first experience in the business world came in his early teens when he acquired a paper route, delivering the Brockton Enterprise six days a week. It was a walking route, with a canvas bag carried on the shoulder containing eighty-plus papers. It entailed getting caught out in snowstorms and even a hurricane, when one unexpectedly doubled back; climbing three-deckers in 90-plus degrees; and struggling with the heavy Thursday editions.There were lessons learned, at a young age: practising responsibility, handling and collecting money, keeping accounts straight and keeping customers and the publisher happy. It also provided an opportunity to stay abreast of the latest news and developments and communicate on a daily basis with customers on the route; talking with them and sharing their concerns and difficulties. Other early business experience included raising and selling night crawlers, and blueberrying.Early work experience included part-time employments in the restuarant industry, in a machine shop and as a drivers´ helper on trailer truck routes throughout New England. After being graduated from technical school he began a career in the electronics industry and participated in manufacturing and research in many areas of the burgeoning electronics industry along route 128; much of this industry being born as a result of research at MIT and Harvard. Projects ranged from the birth of the computer industry and todays printers, to steam-powered and electric vehicles; space research programs; weather research; acoustics and communications, among others. Most of his later career years were in military communications, which saw the Army Signal Corp enter the digital age. An avid sailor, he has sailed his own sailboat out of Scituate Harbor, Massachusetts, for many years, to destinations from Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod to Bar Harbor, Maine. Often these were single-handed voyages. He finds travel educational and inspirational, and has visited Europe, the Mid-East, Canada and Mexico, as well as Bermuda, Hawaii and many mainland states. Other interests include photography, woodworking, and woodturning in particular, fishing and music. In 1975 he married Yvonne McGovern and became stepfather to her three children. Two of their children have married and established their families in Raymond, New Hampshire; one child is married and raising a family in Highgate Center, Vermont. The family has grown from three children to seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. In 1997 Martin and Yvonne moved to Raymond; there are now four generations of their family residing in Raymond. Others of the