In this political action thriller, dropout Vietnam Veteran Edward Teach happens upon and kills a marauding bear and becomes a local hero in the isolated NC mountains where he lives quietly with his Vietnamese wife Djo. Due to his newly acquired notoriety, he decides to get more involved with the community by teaching a GED class at the local prison. Little does he know that he would need all his skills as a war veteran and ex-lawyer in running for Congress with the help of his prison GED students, solving a gruesome murder, rescuing Djo from fanatic kidnappers, exposing the violence of a...

There's a coup d'etat brewing in American Paradise, and only one person can stop it: Alfred Crist, Pulizter Prize winning journalist and former CIA operative. Until now nothing has ever stopped the carnival in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands; however, if Al's suspicions that the US Vice President is behind an insurgent plot to overthrow the island government are confirmed, it might be stopped for the first time. Grenadians who claim to be part of a large well-armed and well-trained revolutionary group have threatened Al, the Senate President, and the VI Governor and attempt to enlist...

The untold drama of the 1974 NCAA Basketball Champions: the North Carolina State University Wolfpack As the 1973-74 college basketball season began, most experts expected John Wooden's UCLA Bruins-led by All-American Bill Walton-to win its eighth straight national championship. Only one team truly challenged them: an archetypal Naismith team--the NC State Wolfpack led by the dynamic trio Tommy Burleson, David Thompson, and Monte Towe recognized by many at the time as the best one-two-three punch in college basketball. Their historic run for the national championship was accentuated by...

If you came of age during the sixties or knew someone who did, then you have probably heard stories about someone like the protagonist of Manhattan Spiritual. Matthew Parkrow, a highly decorated Viet-Nam veteran, is drummed out of the army for committing what he considers an act of conscience--leading a charge of Hippies during the march on the Pentagon in 1967 while serving as part of the Army security forces there. Later, while studying for his masters in Literature at Columbia University, Matthew becomes embroiled in the 1968 riots and is a participant and/or witness to major upheavals...

A WORK OF FICTION & MUSIC The first novel with a sound track. CD or downloads sold separately. EPIDEMIC OF BEACHED WHALES HITS EAST COAST "We have a humpback whale dead on the beach here in Maine with some kind of huge silver-green pod-like object partially visible in its mouth." Jasmine, New York Co-Anchor, INN "New beached whale sightings seem to be coming in every few hours now. Between fifteen and thirty beached humpback whales have been reported along the east coast over the past three days." Ellworth Hayes, Washington DC Co-Anchor, INN This literary drama mixes adventure/mystery with a...

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This fable-like tale begins as Matthew Parkrow approaches Alamogordo, New Mexico on horseback. He has just escaped from a rock festival at the Altamonte race track in California that degenerated into violence and murder. High School and college baseball star, highly decorated Vietnam veteran yet dishonorably discharged protestor, and a rebel seeking meaning to his existence during one of the greatest periods of conflict in our history, Matthew is a walking contradiction who experiences the devastating tensions of the times between war and peace, parents and children, family and friends that...