THE DEPUTY WARDEN

About the Book

     Inmates are already demoralized. There is no need to discourage them more. They must learn to respect the rights of others. This is the first step on the way to self-respect. Then they can achieve self-esteem, the necessary emotional lift that guides them to become good citizens. These goals are difficult to achieve, particularly when racism, fights, riots, stabbings, illegal drug problems and overcrowding exist. The way to accomplish these complexities is contained in this detailed story.

     Colon Campbell had clandestine power. The covert activities of his past, his obdurate quest to have the Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis Organized Crime Families obligated to him, enhanced the success of his achievements by their help. By being aggressively diverse, with a manipulating mind, he was able to turn around adversities to serve to his advantage when he needed it.

     Colon Campbell disliked crime and hated the unpatriotic. He abhorred the possession and distribution of illegal drugs. He had an aversion to unfair practices against the innocent. He passionately attacked these aberrations, relying on his reputation with a menacing Luger and a Bowie-like knife. His credibility was sometimes attacked and his views were often criticized, due to a lack of confidence in his abilities, because he was so young. These complexities did not dissuade his personal need to achieve.

     Colon Campbell’s proficiency with his Luger and his Bowie not only saved his life, but provided him with the back up to his success. This fictional man becomes believably authentic, as this story unfolds. He is the ultimate Deputy Warden.

About the Author

James Oliver Campbell was named after the famous author, James Oliver Curwood, when he visited Louisiana the year he died, 1927.

     Nine years later, during the Great Depression, the Campbell family moved to Wisconsin. It was the beginning of a complicated and unstable lifestyle, including alcohol abuse, poverty and divorce. A normal childhood was out of the question. Between the ages of 11 and 13, difficult, inflexible, and time-consuming farm labor with his grandfather, before and after school, became a necessary constituent of survival. This miserable routine could have discouraged such a young boy. It did the opposite. It stiffened James Oliver Campbell’s backbone, enhanced his already stubborn and independent nature, and created his strong will to survive adversity.

     He did not make friends easily, because his grandfather warned him that a man with fewer friends had fewer enemies. Therefore, he developed a tendency to be a loner, although it did not dissuade his natural and affable disposition.

     The direction of his life took numerous paths of accountability, responsibility and serious adversity. Nevertheless, he was always positive, optimistic, and very happy.

     The Deputy Warden is fiction. Nevertheless, the story does expose the author’s true nature, including his arcane and aggressive personality and character.