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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 ...

Novelist Joseph Heywood is shown. (Joseph Heywood photo) LANSING — Why is a game warden from the 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 Russian into the chaos of the Russian Civil War? In a Michigan writer’s new novel, it’s former President Teddy Roosevelt who dispatches game warden Lute Bapcat on the danger...