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Nautical Contraband
C. G. McDaniel
From Charleston, S.C. and Jupiter, Florida to St. Bart’s, Aruba and Jamaica, three friends ¬ the “Krewe-of-Jupiter” -- take flight ¬ literally ¬ in C.G. McDaniel’s Nautical Contraband. Aboard a rickety old Catalina PBY-5A flying boat named Lady Orleans, the Krewe takes readers on a surreal journey throughout Southern Florida and into the Caribbean in search of an ancient map and a lost treasure once stolen by Stede Bonnet, The Gentleman Pirate. And that’s just part of the plot …. McDaniel’s South Florida mystery is filled with eccentric and exotic characters, including an ex-Seabee computer hacker who lives in a forgotten underground bunker, the priest of a snake-handling tent revival, and a sexy Cuban ex-socialite. He weaves a fast-paced tale of adventure where three friends, graduates of The Citadel, who meet up again after twenty years in Jupiter, Florida and find themselves drawn together in hot pursuit of a stolen ancient heirloom. In their quest for the ultimate ‘nautical contraband,’ they stumble upon long-forgotten religions, pirate castles, island strip bars and fishing yachts and find themselves confused by the bizarre and unexplainable side of the tropics in their island adventure.
Murder In Madison
C.J. Paus
Grisly murders are being committed in Madison, Wisconsin and it is up to Lt. JJ Johnson to assemble a task force and solve the horrible crimes. Lt. Johnson meets a woman during the investigation, falls in love and they marry rather quickly. Both are happier than they have been in a long time and then tragedy strikes. Unless you read the last page before you actually get there, you won't know how this story ends! Take a great mystery, a little romance and headless bodies and you have the recipe for a book that will keep you awake at night with the lights on!
Falling Down
David T. Boyd
A woman dreams a mysterious man in black terrorizes her while whistling "London Bridge is Falling Down", proving true evil "whistles while it works."
Schlussel's Woman
John Richard Lindermuth
Who shot Captain Isaac Schlussel and why? That question is at the core of this novel set in the early 19th century in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal fields.
The Mind Keepers
Ken MacLean
The Mind Keepers is an experience and research- based novel centrally involving the micro-pulse wave technology of manipulation of the brain by electronic means, popularly called "mind control." Its protagonist is a retired Army Intelligence officer and later FBI Agent, Michael Neilly who has gathered information about and been victimized by pulse wave technology though most of his mature life. Contact with a pulse-wave Defense facility and the murder of a friend lead Neilly to unravel the pulse wave threat and the Killing. A reviewer has called it "a murder mystery with real substance."
Memories
Laurie Loveman
Memories begins the Firehouse Family series with the tumultuous, passionate, and forbidden love affair of Jake McCann and Laura Darvey. After leaving the New York City Fire Department in 1932, Jake and his friends, Freddy Pratter and Mickey Justini, reunite in Woodhill, Ohio to accept positions in the fire department. The three friends all suffer from emotional, personal demons. Jake falls in love with Laura, a married woman whose husband is a bootlegger and operator of a protection racket. The affair causes the three friends to become tangled in a series of horrifying crimes that force them all to unexpectedly face their demons.
The Farm Fires
Laurie Loveman
A scroungy palomino horse brings Glynis Hampton, daughter of dairy farmer Ben Barneshill, into a chance meeting with Woodhill Fire Department Captain Freddy Pratter at the scene of the horse owner's death. Freddy falls in love with Glynis even as his investigation into a series of arson fires leads him to suspect a member of her family could be the serial arsonist who has killed twice and could kill again in his thirst for revenge.
The Quarry
Laurie Loveman
New troubles are developing in the small town of Woodhill. The town is faced with the possible closing of the local quarry that employs many in Woodhill. Mining expert Aaron Chandler is hired to evaluate the quarry's future, but in doing his job he is brought face-to-face with a devastating secret from his past. When Aaron's good friend, Boris Hegerty, is injured in an explosion at the quarry, Boris's life-threatening injuries inadvertently unite Aaron with his past, and create questions about everyone's futures.
Murder Without Pity
Steve Haberman
Murder Without Pity is a mystery set in a contemporary Paris tumultuous with fog, riots over police killings, and Far Right extremists.
Reign Of The Rat
Gil Smolin
A farmer in Nepal notices a sudden rotting of his fingers, followed by pneumonia then a horrific death. Thus begins a medical thriller that takes archeobiologist Michael Cohen and his former lover, Dr. Alice Morgan-Wright, from San Francisco to the Himalyas to the Arctic Circle. As a virulent, drug-resistant leprosy epidemic spreads, the two set off on a danger-filled quest for a cure. Stalked by unknown assailants, their only protection is each other and the mysterious amulet of the Order of St. Lazarus. Their hope: to unearth the frozen remains of a medieval corpse destroyed by the Black Plague.
Unique features:
· Graves of prisoners in Kranji (Singapore), Kanchanaburi and Chungkai War Cemeteries (Thailand) to visit – with personal information on some of those men discussed.
· SECRET Documents photocopied during the 1940’s by Camp Investigators that have never seen the light of day.
. Story of an American from Texas who worked in Omuta Japan as a POW - a remarkable story of survival and later of self control.
· Compelling interviews with Ex Prisoners Of War.
· An Interview with the Curator of the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
· Questions answered by the Australian Prime Minister John Howard about Hellfire Pass, with his letter appearing as an appendix.
· Quotes from Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop and investigation on one of his men who died of the dreaded cholera – including war time pictures of this deceased allied man from Next of Kin, plus discussion of him by one of his living mates.
· Many next of kin provided photographs.
· 90 pages of contemporary and war time photographs including a selection of George Aspinall’s War time POW Photos and Australian War Memorial Photos, NARA pictures and others.
· Exclusive pictures of the Queen of Holland and the Prince visiting the Thai/Burma Railway Centre 130 kms north of Bangkok.
· Travel and safety tips, where to stay and popular restaurants to visit complete with a war movie discussion.
· All Melbourne Cricket Club members who perished in Singapore and Thailand (WW2) with a modern day link to American Footballer – Pat Tillan. (RIP).
· Whilst war travel guides appear for Turkey, Somme, France, Normandy etc – none have been written collectively on Singapore and Thailand. This is the first.
‘A Different Brand Of English’ by Andrew Mason (ISBN: 1-9208-8490-4), for $25 from Poseidon Books - on sale now.
Andrew Mason is a former Australian Legacy child – his father fought in Malaya and became a POW in Singapore and Japan and died when the author was six. Andrew represented junior Legacy in the nation’s capital on Anzac Day 1988. Joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Police in 1991. Received a commendation in 1996 for investigation in an on-base homicide. Represented the RAAF at the opening of the Hellfire Pass Museum Thailand and a life member of the Thai-Burma Railway Centre (Thailand). He also has a black belt in the Korean Martial Art of Hapkido. This is Andrew’s first published work.
2,710 Australians perished on the Thai-Burma Railway,
2600 Dutchmen perished,
6,000 men from the UK,
400 Americans died on the that infamous railway of death along with over 100,000 coolie labourers.
This book is for them and their kin to visit places where they worked, lived and died. We owe them so much and we should never forget.
Andrew Mason
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