Tarnished Hero

Author : Jim Gilliam
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458208255

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Tarnished Hero by Jim Gilliam Pdf

In the early 1960's, Tim Kelly's Coast Guard career takes him to Galveston. Hoping to put his father's death at the hands of a union busting thug behind him. Kelly transfers to San Francisco where he meets Brenda Conrad and clashes with an overbearing and sadistic executive officer. Given a choice between courts martial and combat duty in Vietnam, he chooses Vietnam. After receiving the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in combat during an action where three of his friends are killed in action by our own Air Force. Kelly releases his rage in an Air Force officer's club, earning him a less than honorable discharge. Returning to the U.S. with the stigma of a less than honorable discharge, Kelly embarks on a new career as an undercover narcotics agent. After his rescue from the drug cartel when his cover is blown, he plans to marry Brenda, but before the wedding can take place Brenda and her best friend the daughter of the Governor of Texas are kidnapped and spirited to the cartel's secret island base off the coast of Yucatan. http://youtu.be/nsG_3rnhOrE

Author : Lynnette Porter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786457953

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Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters by Lynnette Porter Pdf

The heroes, villains, and monsters portrayed in such popular science fiction television series as Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Doctor Who, and Torchwood, as well as Joss Whedon's many series, illustrate a shift from traditional, clearly defined characterizations toward much murkier definitions. Traditional heroes give way to "gray" heroes who must become more like the villains or monsters they face if they are going to successfully save society. This book examines the ambiguous heroes and villains, focusing on these characters' different perspectives on morality and their roles within society. Appendices include production details for each series, descriptions and summaries of pivotal episodes, and a list of selected texts for classroom use. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Bryan Marlowe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595407507

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Tarnished Heroes by Bryan Marlowe Pdf

Group Captain Randolph Tremayne, RAF, the British Air Attaché and Lieutenant Colonel Bradford Rantzen, USAF, the United States' Assistant Air Attaché, both serving in their respective embassies in Bangkok, are embittered and disillusioned men. Passed over for promotion and beset by family discord and tragedy. Both men are former heroes, but are now tarnished by their experiences or weaknesses. Tremayne is a gallant, but philandering, self-indulgent opportunist and Rantzen is a heroic, but war-wearied veteran, suffering nightmares over the time he was a prisoner of war in Korea and fears he's losing his grip on life. A chain of deadly circumstances forces the two men to form an alliance to save those they love more than life, in a final desperate act of heroism and redemption.

Author : Arthur H. Lewis
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575678969

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Judges & Ruth- Everyman's Bible Commentary by Arthur H. Lewis Pdf

The book of Judges presents a miniature of the human race, its ups and downs, its triumphs and its tragedies. It also presents a history of God's sovereign intervention in the affairs of men. Yet within that same enviroment of human failure and rebellion, there is the book of Ruth, a portrait of the coming Kinsman-Redeemer--showing God's message of redemption and love. This Everyman's Bible Commentary is based upon the scriptural text as found in the New American Standard Bible.

Author : Temple Madison
Publisher : JMS Books LLC
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781634865340

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Tarnished Hero by Temple Madison Pdf

Danger lurks around every corner and police officer Eddie Scarlett needs to stay focused on capturing a serial killer before someone else dies. A hot, sexy, blue eyed stranger is not a distraction he can afford ... or can he? Eddie Scarlett, one of NYC's finest cops, is a tarnished hero. According to the scum on the street, Eddie is handsome, hot, and dangerous, but he has a heart as black as death. He’s called a back alley cop because he does undercover work for the NYPD, making him familiar with every back alley in the city. When a crime spree breaks out, Eddie meets what he thinks is a whore with beautiful blue eyes. During their first encounter, they slam together like two taxis on Broadway. Before their relationship can even get started, Eddie has to go undercover. It’s the kind of case that will test the resolve of a tough cop, forcing Eddie to forget his blue-eyed lover, his own identity, and even his common sense to melt into the city’s back alleys and capture a master killer wielding a cold blade.

Author : Tara Mills
Publisher : Tara Mills
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Taste of Romance by Tara Mills Pdf

Trying a new-to-you author can be hit or miss. It can even be expensive. It doesn't have to be. My Taste of Romance sampler contains scenes from each of my titles and provides a good introduction to my writing style and voice. And the cost? Absolutely nothing. So go ahead. Find your next read right here.

Author : Frank Barnard
Publisher : Review
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755390199

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A Time for Heroes by Frank Barnard Pdf

War makes heroes of men, but at what price? Sure to enthral fans of Masters of the Air and Fall of Giants, A Time for Heroes is a magnificent, sweeping, three-generation historical epic encompassing both World Wars, about heroism, the romance of aviation and the conflict between fathers and sons. As the twentieth century dawns, Guv Sutro, against his father's will, becomes a pioneer of aviation, a fighter ace on the Western Front during the Great War and a record-breaker between the wars. From his first flight in a primitive glider over the fields of Sussex, helped by the dogged loyalty of his friend Stan Kemp, he charts his ruthless course to fame and adulation. But with the outbreak of World War Two 'the best of Old England' begins to crumble. Guv's son Tim is fighting a more covert war, desperate to shed the burden of his father's reputation, while Tim's childhood companion Will Kemp, the son Guv felt he deserved, is fighting heroically, against overwhelming odds, as a Spitfire pilot. The fates of the men are bound together in the monumental ambitions and terrible tragedies of an age of heroes. What readers are saying about A Time for Heroes 'A beautifully told epic of human love and error. A truly great read' 'Highly entertaining, with great action scenes and moments of gut-wrenching excitement. A very human novel, about people and strife, and survival in extreme circumstances that have universal resonances' '[Frank Barnard] is without doubt the Wilbur Smith of the skies'

Author : Brenda Castle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0709161549

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Tarnished Hero by Brenda Castle Pdf

Author : DeLucia JoEllen DeLucia
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781474440370

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Migration and Modernities by DeLucia JoEllen DeLucia Pdf

Recovers a comparative literary history of migrationThis collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences - real or imagined - of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.Key FeaturesOffers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobilityForegrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenshipDemonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical studyBrings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernityEmphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Author : Leslie Herzberger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781413477177

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The Structure of Thermidor by Leslie Herzberger Pdf

Author : Owen Dudley Edwards
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748628728

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British Children's Fiction in the Second World War by Owen Dudley Edwards Pdf

What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new world. This time was unique for British children--parental controls were often relaxed if not absent, and the radio and reading assumed greater significance for most children than they had in the more structured past or were to do in the more crowded future. Owen Dudley Edwards discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate. British literature is placed in a wider context through a consideration of what British writing reached the USA, and vice versa, and also through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown to British children. Questions of leadership, authority, individualism, community, conformity, urban-rural division, ageism, class, race, and gender awareness are explored. In this incredibly broad-ranging book, covering over 100 writers, Owen Dudley Edwards looks at the literary inheritance when the war broke out and asks whether children's literary diet was altered in the war temporarily or permanently. Concerned with the effects of the war as a whole on what children could read during the war and what they made of it, he reveals the implications of this for the world they would come to inhabit.

Author : Dr. Daniel Schultz
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641380911

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Tarnished Hero by Dr. Daniel Schultz Pdf

James mark Sullivan was part of the post-famine Irish immigration to the United States in the late 19th century. Overcoming family misfortune, he moved from newsboy to journalist to Yale-educated lawyer. Relocating to New York City, his association with Tammany Hall involved him in the "Crime of the Century" Becker-Rosenthal murder case, a role not previously explored. Sullivan's involvement won him a patronage appointment as ambassador to Santo Domingo. Scandals about graft and corruption forced his resignation. However, another factor which contributed to his dismissal, unexplained until now, was his effort at subversion of his government's policy of neutrality, which was connected to his ties to Irish nationalism. He later established the first indigenous Irish film company with a pronounced Nationalist agenda, making several films which are now classics of the silent film era. Following the death of his wife and son during the influenza epidemic of 1918, he returned to the United States. Failing to revive his legal career, he removed to Florida, dying in relative obscurity.

Author : Nicholas S. Hopkins
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9774162005

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Political and Social Protest in Egypt by Nicholas S. Hopkins Pdf

Political and Social Protest in Egypt

Author : DAVID. KESSLER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1904037429

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Tarnished Heroes by DAVID. KESSLER Pdf

Young policeman Neil Douglas rushes to the aid of a woman who has been stabbed on London's Hampstead Heath. Seeing a man standing over the body, he lashes out with his baton, striking the man in the head. There is just one problem: the man didn't attack the woman; he was coming to her aid. Neil has just put an innocent man in a life-threatening coma. And the killer is still on the loose. Supended from duty and tormented by guilt, he is determined to trackdown the escaped killer. All the while he is taunted over the airwaves by a pretty but bitchy American phone-in show presenter. But who was the dead woman? Who is trying to hide every trace of her past? And does her case have anything to do with another murder case five years ago in which the "innocent man" whom Neil struck was the prime suspect? Neil is determined to find the answers to these questions - even if it costs him his life.

Author : J. William Whedbee
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451410050

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The Bible and the Comic Vision by J. William Whedbee Pdf

This insightful work examines the variety of ways that comedy is employed in the Old Testament. Exploring the depths of a seldom-noticed aspect of biblical literature, this book reveals the subtle uses of parody and satire to subversive effect in six biblical books. (July)