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Through the questioning of life and our existence here, through
the dark loneliness of depression and contemplation of suicide,
through love realized and actualized, and love lost, From Midnight
till Dawn is the journey of one man's struggle through the dark,
troubled times of this world until he enters into the kingdom of
God's eternal light. This collection is at times surreal, at other
times sublime-sometimes prophetic, but always with a realistic
perspective that speaks to individual trials, political situations,
and the conscious of humanity.
An aging Russian cargo plane descends to a remote airstrip in
Kazakhstan. Its mission is a nightmare: exchange 1,300 pounds of
gold for an equal amount of weapons-grade uranium-the first crucial
step in an Iranian plot to build and detonate a nuclear bomb in the
heartland of America. Col. Ashkan Gharabaghi, an officer of Iran's
murderous Quds Force, stands near the runway, studying the aging
plane's lumbering approach. Elizabeth Mallory watches, too. The
brilliant young CIA agent has ridden Gunpowder over long stretches
of desolate, fallout-poisoned Kazakh countryside to try to stop the
export of the black market uranium. Time is short. The sun is
setting. The nuclear bomb material sits at the end of the dusty
runway, ready for loading. This is how Tom Reed's frighteningly
real thriller, The Tehran Triangle, takes off. In his riveting
first novel, Reed, a noted historian, fuses a lifetime's experience
in nuclear weaponry and spy craft to a story deeply wedded to fact.
The book's harrowing outcome will be remembered-and feared-long
after it has been read. Reed is a former Secretary of the Air Force
under two presidents and the youngest-ever Director of the National
Reconnaissance Office, an organization so secret that its very
existence was not revealed until the end of the Cold War. He
plunges thriller fans into the harrowing chessboard of
international surveillance and intelligence gathering. Farsi
speaking Agent Mallory emerges as the CIA's point person on Iran.
Gharabaghi rises in the Quds ranks, becoming a powerful colonel,
sponsored by his long-time friend Mansoor Alizadeh, the President
of the Iranian Republic. Mallory's perilous investigation of
Iranian penetration of the US brings her to a most unlikely hub of
terrorist activity-a machine shop servicing the oil and gas
industry and owned by retired Air Force Sergeant Bum Bradley and
his brother, Hiram. She discovers Col. Gharabaghi's evil scheme to
recruit two American citizens of Iranian descent, engineer
Rosincourt Sadr, and his girlfriend, Soroya Assad, to assemble the
nuclear bomb. Step by step, Reed reveals how a religion's most
extreme beliefs can drive even comfortable, well-educated American
citizens into the fever grip of terrorism. Col. Gharabaghi
orchestrates the plot from Chihuahua while Mallory urgently tries
to counter his murderous moves from El Paso, right across the
border. It is now July 2012. As the plot moves toward its
furiously-paced conclusion, Mallory makes increasingly frantic
efforts to sabotage the bomb, now rolling down railroad tracks
toward the Trinity detonation site in New Mexico. The countdown
culminates when Gharabaghi punches a code into his cell phone to
set off the biggest terrorist strike in US history, triggering
readers to ask, "What if?"
Through the questioning of life and our existence here, through
the dark loneliness of depression and contemplation of suicide,
through love realized and actualized, and love lost, From Midnight
till Dawn is the journey of one man's struggle through the dark,
troubled times of this world until he enters into the kingdom of
God's eternal light. This collection is at times surreal, at other
times sublime-sometimes prophetic, but always with a realistic
perspective that speaks to individual trials, political situations,
and the conscious of humanity.
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In 1886 a murder occurred in the little town of Timpson, Texas;
a murder that immersed much of East Texas in the effort to bring
the killer to justice. A sheriff from nearby Nacogdoches and the
family of a Justice of the Peace in the little community of
Rainsville were among those who, for more than forty years, were
engulfed in the pursuit of the murderer. Along the way both the
murderer and a scion of the family learned a new meaning of the
word justice and just what was meant by the fifth commandment.
Truthful Moments is a timely, compelling murder mystery that
involves a witness who is an American veteran soldier suffering
from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The murder triggers
flashbacks, and he struggles to sort out his past from the present
as he helps solve this crime. In the process he reconnects with his
estranged wife. One of the goals of the book is to highlight the
difficulties of PTSD.The setting is a small Southern town where a
popular physician kills a nurse during an afternoon tryst. The main
character struggles within himself to match the puzzle pieces to
help solve the case and win the love of his life back.
"Through provocative insights and observations, Tom Reed
explores the ruggedly beautiful landscape of Southern Chile and
Argentina as intensely as he examines the current social,
political, and cultural landscapes of North America and his own
rich inner and spiritual life. Deeply personal, intellectually
astute, and searingly honest, Reed misses no nuance in his inward
and outward search for a place he can truly call home.
"Equal parts Romanticist, Beat, Transcendentalist, and Zen
Master, Reed is a refreshingly unique new voice in travel and
social commentary, and THE OTHER SIDE is an important journey for
all who are seeking to discover what it means to truly thrive as
individuals and societies in today's complex world."
-Lauryn Axelrod, Founder of GoNomad.com, alternative travel
website
Deeply discontented and disturbed by the state of the Union at
the beginning of the second G.W. Bush term, veteran traveler and
wilderness photographer, Tom Reed, sets out in search of a new home
in South America, his imagined Paradise. He chooses Chile, a place
he hopes is the Utopian opposite of his beloved California
coast.
Armed with a backpack full of hiking gear, a sharp eye, a bold
pen, and an iPod that plays an inspiring soundtrack, Reed explores
the wild landscapes, diverse people and fascinating cultures of
southern Chile and Argentina while embarking on an unflinchingly
honest journey to examine his own beliefs, yearnings, and
experience. His wide-ranging odyssey takes him on buses, boats and
trails through cities and towns, remote villages and pristine
forests, to mountain camps and surfers' beaches, where love affairs
and politics, philosophy and ecology, religion and lost cameras all
merge into a life-changing, mind-altering adventure. From the
summits of high Andean peaks to the depths of his most personal
thoughts and spiritual ideals, Reed seeks to discover what it means
to be at home in the world, and in your own skin.
"For a Time We Were Titans" is the memoir of an LRP/Ranger in
Vietnam. It follows ten GIs from their arrival at the LRP compound
in Ban Me Thuot in October 1968 to the authors return home in
September 1969. It shows that those that last can grow from raw
recruits, to Titans, leaders that serve as mentors and role models
for those that came after them.
This is the war as a LRP saw it. LRPs were the Long Range Patrol
units that served as the eyes and ears of the infantry, who were
dropped into enemy territory and given the responsibility of
finding the hiding places of an elusive foe. It is not the story of
massive battles and strategic operations, but rather depicts actual
contacts between four and five man LRP Teams and unknown numbers of
North Vietnamese or Vietcong.
Seven common bear encounters and how to survive them Best ways to
identify grizzlies and black bears Learn essential info on bear
behavior at different times of year and in different habitats
Traveling in bear country comes with responsibilities to camp
and hike in ways that respect the natural activities of bears. To
give you the information you need to coexist with bears, " NOLS
Bear Essentials" draws on NOLS' expertise and their 40 years of
experience leading trips in bear country, as well as the input of
noted scientists who have studied bears and their relationships
with people. Learn ways to set up camp so as to not attract bears,
the safest options for storing food when car camping and
backpacking, and how to protect yourself while fishing and
hunting.
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