K.E. Pottie was nominated for "Best of Connecticut Author" by Connecticut Insider Magazine!
Ken is the award-winning author of The Code Name Series of books. The series is based on his father's experiences behind enemy lines in World War II. The books have won awards in the Readers' Favorite contest, The NABE Pinnacle Awards in Military Fiction, and Hollywood, Paris, and New York Book Festivals.
His feature movie scripts, for Code Name Sonny, have won awards in the L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film & Script Online Festival, Cambridge Script Festival, Boston Screenplay Awards, and Miami Screenplay Awards contests.
He graduated from Norwich University in Vermont in 1980 and spent 13 years in military service in the Army, leaving at the rank of Major. During this time, he served as a company commander during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, earning the Bronze Star, Kuwait Liberation Medal and Combat Air Medal.
His series of books, starting with Code Name Sonny are spy novels starting from WWII, continuing the characters through the cold war.
It's 1942. Joe is representative of many young American men of his generation: America and its Allies are at war with the Germans and the Japanese, and this New Hampshire teenager wants to be in the thick of it.
Joe got his wish in the spring of 1944.
In Code Name Sonny, a first novel by author Ken Pottie, the writer takes readers on a thrilling journey, zigzagging back and forth between Sonny's World War II experiences and Jack's modern day investigation into his dad's war service, as the latter tries to unravel mysteries by tying together pieces of historical recollection with current news stories.
When the past and the present collide, Jack realizes too late the danger lurking close to home.
