Confrontation

In Confrontation, two calamitous events occur that pave the way for the hostile beginnings of an assimilation process between the Greenland Norse settlers and the natives of Vinland. The first mixing of cultures occurs when a woman of the Northmen, Thora, and Deskaheh the Haudenosaunee, marry. This union is accepted enthusiastically by the Northmen. For all the people of this land the way is rocky and fraught with danger at every turn, but an acceptance and friendship develops between the Northmen and the Naskapi, another native tribe, over an affair of honor. Will this developing relationship allow the Northmen to remain in the homeland of the Naskapi, or are they doomed to failure? From the outset, the warriors of these various tribes violently resisted the incursion of the tall, pale-skinned invaders. The overwhelming numbers of the native peoples in Vinland hold the fate of the Northmen in their hands.

J. A. Hunsinger lives in Colorado and writes and promotes on a full-time basis. Vinland Publishing published the first novel of his character-driven, historical fiction Axe of Iron series, Axe of Iron: The Settlers, on August 1, 2008. Axe of Iron: Confrontation is the second in the series. The other four books of the series will follow annually. Much of his adult life has been associated with commercial aviation, both in and out of the cockpit. As an engineering technical writer for Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems Group in Phoenix, Arizona, he authored two comprehensive pilots' manuals on aircraft computer guidance systems and several supplemental aircraft radar manuals that were published and distributed worldwide to airline operators by Honeywell Engineering. His first published work for the general public, "Flight into Danger," appeared in Flying magazine.