Mr. Kepler, after a long and distinguished career in the rubber and plastics industry as an advocate of recycled products and recycling methods for those materials, which allowed him to travel the ...view moreMr. Kepler, after a long and distinguished career in the rubber and plastics industry as an advocate of recycled products and recycling methods for those materials, which allowed him to travel the world extensively, retired as President from his most recent company. He finished ‘The Spence Family Chronicles’ in 2018, covering the years 1946 to 1999, and now the third and fourth generation of Spence’s moves on into the new Millennium with his suspenseful new thriller, ‘The China Enigma’. The author owned and published a local newspaper and a history book on the city of Barberton, Ohio while in his twenties after selling his trucking and rubber recycling company which he started at age 19. He attended Colorado State University on a football scholarship and attended Kent State University as well. He has been married for 55 years to his wife Irene and he and his wife enjoy traveling and their family and five grandchildren.view less