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Final Spin
(Paperback)
Jocko Willink
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Number one New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink's
fast-paced and exciting thriller Final Spin is a story of love,
brotherhood, suffering, happiness and sacrifice - a story about
life. Johnny . . . Shouldn't be in a dead-end job. Shouldn't be in
a dead-end bar. Shouldn't be in a dead-end life. But he is. It's a
hamster-wheel existence. Stocking warehouse store shelves by day,
drinking too much whisky and beer by night. In between, Johnny
lives in his childhood home, making sure his alcoholic mother
hasn't drunk herself to death, and looking after his idiosyncratic
older brother Arty, whose world revolves around his laundromat job.
Rinse and repeat. Then Johnny's monotonous life takes a tumble. The
laundromat where Arty works, and the one thing that gives him
happiness, is about to be sold. Johnny doesn't want that to happen,
so he takes measures into his own hands. Johnny, along with his
friend Goat, come up with a plan to get the money to buy the
laundromat. But things don't always go as planned . . .
Though little more than a boy, Private Josh Simmons is no green
recruit of the Confederate Army. Now seventeen years old, he
participated in the Battle of Gettysburg last year. Like most of
his fellow soldiers, he doesn't truly understand the underpinnings
of the battle, but he has faith in his commanders, especially
General Robert E. Lee. Simmons fights on the premise the blue
bellies are down here threatening his home and his family. He also
knows death waits for him up some road, trail, field, or grade.
Now, a century and a half after the most momentous struggle in
American history, Soldiers and Ghosts tells the story of the
American Civil War from ground level through the eyes of Simmons, a
Confederate infantryman. It narrates the experiences of young
adolescents during one of the most dramatic and chaotic moments of
that Wilderness Campaign of 1864.
The first book in a trilogy, Soldiers and Ghosts tells a tale of
valor amid the horror of unceasing battle and struggle as the Ghost
Army gained recruits at feverish pitch during the darkest days of
the Civil War.
A cavalcade of the medieval world within two classic novels of
historical fiction
Despite his success with his famous fictional detective, Arthur
Conan Doyle's first love was the historical novel and in his own
estimation he wrote few better than the two collected together in
this book. 'Sir Nigel' was actually written after 'The White
Company, ' but in the Leonaur edition it appears first since within
it the reader is introduced to one of the principal characters of
both novels-Sir Nigel Loring. The scene for these adventures is
England and France in the 14th Century against a backdrop of The
Hundred Years War. Young Nigel in service to his king, Edward III
begins his career as a squire. It is the start a 'rites of passage'
journey which will include the Black Prince among other notables of
the period, skirmishes at sea and ultimately the monumental Battle
of Poitiers. 'The White Company' continues Sir Nigel's story as
once again he campaigns against the French, this time in company
with a new young hero, Alleyne Edricson. As usual this Leonaur
edition allows collectors to own these essential novels as a
combined set within a single substantial volume available in both
soft back and hardcover with dust jacket.
As throngs of humanity pack Rome's St. Peter's Square, all await
the news from the Sistine Chapel as to who will be the next Pope.
But no one is more anxious than Iraqi American Sami Yusuf, for he
and one of the papal candidates share a well-kept secret. When it
is finally announced that Cardinal Paul Rogan has been elected
Pope, Sami knows the one thing about Father Rogan that no one in
the crowd does-he is a humble shepherd who molests his unsuspecting
sheep.
Many years earlier, while Sami was a Jesuit school student in
Baghdad, he was molested by Father Rogan. Deathly afraid of
revealing the abuse for fear of losing his family's honor, Sami
eventually emigrated to the United States and joined the Air Force.
Meanwhile, Father Rogan slowly moved up in the Catholic
Hierarchy-while quietly ruining one young boy's life after another.
Now amid sectarian mayhem and the occupation of Iraq, Sami must
visit his ailing dad in Baghdad. But first he must fulfill his most
important life's mission-to cleanse the honor that Father Rogan
stripped from his family.
In this compelling tale that spans three continents, a vendetta
drives an Iraqi American pilot into international dram that
culminates with unexpected ramifications that change everything
forever.
In this story I have disclosed some of the dark machinations in the
Fuhrer's mind when he unleashed the dogs of war in bloody cruelties
without conscience. I have tried to reveal uniquely German
predispositions or mindsets, if you will, that caused Germans to
accept Hitler's leadership. For it was they, the German people, the
Volkish Bevolkerung who believed, and it was true, that the
Versailles Treaty imposed merciless reparations upon the German
people that affected them in complex ways-to annihilate their
nationhood, their sovereign compacity forever to make wat. Yet
while it virtually destroyed the Kaiserreich of Post WWI and,
tructh to tell, said many times, set the stage for Hitler's
popularity. The rise of national Socialism, the Nazi Party and WWII
the Treaty shoes how mistaken and despotic revenge can be.
Christian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Col. Von Stauffenberg did not
want to destroy the German people. They schemed to kill the
diabolical fiend Adolph Hitler.
The author of Beyond Enkription and the rest of The Burlington
Files series is Bill Fairclough who was born in England in 1950. In
1978 he founded a niche global intelligence organisation known as
"Faire Sans Dire." The series is based on Bill Fairclough's life
and some of Faire Sans Dire's activities. Beyond Enkription is the
first novel in the series of six novels to be published. The series
covers events involving Bill, his beguiling family and his
double-dealing colleagues ranging from the First World War to 9/11,
the related Nisha incidents and beyond. The series even covers new
revelations about the Edward Snowden affair and has been or is
being written with film adaptation in mind. Nevertheless each book
is or will be a standalone novel albeit each one might comprise
several films and/or television series. The first novel is set in
1974 in the heart of the Cold War. It is about a wayward
accountant, Edward Burlington aka Bill Fairclough. In 1974 he is
unwittingly working as an agent for MI6 by night whilst auditing
beans during the day and is nearly murdered not just once but four
times between March and June 1974. For his own safety Edward is
underhandedly despatched to work as an accountant in Nassau only to
be recruited by the CIA and face more death defying moments in the
Bahamas, Brazil and Haiti before the year's end. Meanwhile his
family are sucked inexorably into the perfidious mess and intrigue
surrounding Edward's double life and their own machinations. The
repercussions of the Burlington family's activities resonate from
Kinshasa to Islamabad via Washington and Westminster and back.
Nothing is what it seems to be in this treacherous novel where
disinformation is the norm. Beyond Enkription is a family yarn and
history; a spy novel and espionage reference book; a mystery and
suspense thriller and more besides: a realistic tale of a dynastic
duplicitous family that knows instinctively the knack of survival.
The brutal opening contrasts well with the tantalising and
duplicitous Prologue yet the physicality of the opening chapter is
arguably far less vicious than the cerebral scheming that ensues.
The book is a distinctive memorable and realistic read full of
captivating characters. Its intertwined plots would have challenged
Aristotle's intellect. So, when you read it, if you don't think so
then you may have lost the plot! As one connoisseur put it
succinctly ... "question everything you assume isn't
disinformation." Critics described Beyond Enkription as "A
compelling, provocative and beguiling spy novel: a must for
connoisseurs ..." and "Brutal ab initio, cerebral thereafter but
forever realistic ..." As for its realism you can always contrast
Bill Fairclough's past on WikiTree or LinkedIn with Edward
Burlington. Just how real can you get? We hope you enjoy reading it
and succeed in differentiating between fact, fiction and
disinformation. Please see http: //www.theburlingtonfiles.org,
http: //www.fairesansdire.org, http:
//uk.linkedin.com/in/billfairclough and http:
//www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Fairclough-119&public=1 for
more information ... assuming the authorities haven't closed down
our websites by now and the other websites haven't tried to
extinguish all evidence of knowledge of The Burlington Files!
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Force No One
(Hardcover)
Daniel Charles Ross
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Discovery Miles 7 000
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""I love the way Wilfred recycles the bodies. That's fabulous stuff
with a direct line to Heller's Catch-22 and perfectly captures the
insanity of the Vietnam War."
-Richard Peabody, co-editor of Gargoyle Magazine
Counting bodies in Vietnam. In this earthy war/peace novel,
comedy frames grim pictures of war. Morris weaves combat, a love
affair, and military satire into a story that is by turns
terrifying, gruesome, and mad, and one acted by a memorable cast of
characters-grunts and hookers, Vietcong soldiers and spies, heroes
and inane officers. It begins on a huge base in the Central
Highlands in 1967 where Lieutenant Wilfred Carmenghetti falls in
love with Can and smuggles her to a forward firebase. In the field
he and his platoon win stunning victories, but spies plot his
death, Vietcong soldiers attack the platoon, and Can leaves him.
What follows is a surprising and fanciful comedic ending. "Cologne
No. 10 For Men" is a book to make us fear, weep, laugh, and
remember. A soldier in Vietnam invents a uniquely absurd solution
to the horrors of war. A relatively na ve Wilfred Carmenghetti
comes to the Far East to outmaneuver the draft and save the Western
world. A funny and serviceable satire about the gross
rationalizations that propel war and peace. -Kirkus Discoveries
"You're expendable. A young journalist making his way up the
ladder. You're not a public figure like some of them. Not yet
anyway." Recovering from the horrors of war and the Great
Depression, Britain clings to dreams of peace as Europe slides
towards Fascist dictatorship. Amidst a web of half-hidden
alliances, where rumour and reality interweave, Roger Martin begins
his career in Fleet Street journalism. As he is drawn deeper into
the murky world of international politics, he quickly realises that
discovering the truth is only half of the challenge ...This
compelling story follows an idealistic young journalist from his
first steps along Fleet Street to the dark and dangerous heart of
1930s Nazi Germany as he uncovers the secrets kept from us by the
British Government.
Jack Crain, a beloved son and a young man of promise and hope and
quiet strength of charter, enlists in the United States Army after
high school to earn money for a college education. With this one
fateful step he is pulled into a war that he did not plan or want
or understand. Through the experience of one foot soldier and his
family-traced from birth to Baghdad-West Point graduate Jason
Berndt makes the war in Iraq the palpable tragedy that it is. A
Conspicuous Quiet is a parent-child love story that, in defense of
love, presents a scathing social and political critique.
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