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Public Information
CANDIDE meets MASH. How the Korean War began, why it's relevant today. Freshly minted infantryman, twenty-year-old Wylie Cypher, arrives in war torn Korea in 1952. As an enemy bomber looms overhead, he prays that he can survive a sixteen-month tour of duty. Wylie is recruited to join the staff of a Division Public Information Office (PIO) where he reports on many aspects of the conflict. He uses his infantry training in bloody combat, makes many colorful new friends, learns how to maneuver through the military system, finds love and loss, and grows up in the turmoil of combat and the war's aftermath. Veterans have hailed the story as accurate, believable, touching, funny, and "the way it rea...
Longevity
Longevity is a fable disguised as a medical thriller that ponders the justification for extending human life by thirty years. The tone, however, is light-hearted, even though murder, mayhem, misdirection, and decapitation inhabit Longevity’s pages. The author tosses his main characters into deep holes and finds imaginative ways to extricate them. Lucy Mendoza leads the Longevity project, a medical research team tasked with testing an enzyme that seems to help healthy cells live longer. The trials to extend human life are promising, and others take notice. For several reasons, the federal government, a major pharmaceutical company, and a billionaire investor want the project to fail. To obtain that objective, they have no qualms about eliminating the leader, Lucy. Grant Duran, who left her at the altar, arrives. He’s a former Marine special ops officer who’s lost a hand and is now a molecular biologist. He thwarts the first attempt on Lucy’s life, but as dead bodies accumulate and Lucy and Grant struggle to save themselves, they begin to wonder whether the Longevity project should survive.
High Andes
Wylie Cypher, a corporate attorney, has a dying marriage, a midlife crisis, and is disillusioned with his work. Trying to regain fading youth, he plans a trekking vacation with his daughter, Mercy, across the White Mountains of Peru. When he arrives in Lima a young law student mistakenly believes Wylie is an agent of the US government and gives him a travel guide concealing documents that show how the government is torturing and murdering dissidents. Wylie decides to deliver those documents to US authorities, which will affect the outcome of the civil war raging in Peru at the time. Peruvian government thugs and agents of the Shining Path communist guerrilla movement are quickly on Wylie's trail, both eager to kill Wylie and his entire trekking party. Wylie, his daughter, a local guide, and his friend, an archeologist (who is more than he seems), and porters set out using various ruses to throw their pursuers off track. Wylie narrowly escapes from the local police after being tortured and losing a toe. But can they cross the foreboding eighteen thousand foot high pass and make it to Cajamarca in time to take the only safe flight home and deliver the documents?
National Parks
Disguised as a semi-dystopian look at America in a few years, this is a delicious satirical send-up of the beltway culture, a paean to our national parks, and an exposition of characters, hilarious, irritating, and very human, who struggle in the Washington web. The author extends current political idiocies to their reasonable, logical, and hilarious conclusions. Along the way, he offers surprising predictions of how current and proposed inventions will affect our future lives. Some of those predictions are happening even sooner than the author expected. Many of the characters that inhabit the pages of National Parks are instantly and indelibly recognizable. Noble and base, they mirror our h...
Master Gardener
What happens when a Master Gardener plants magical seeds from the Peruvian Amazon in experimental agricultural college plots? Why does Bemis International Group (BIG AG), feel so threatened by the plants those seeds produce? What is the mysterious eco-terrorism group doing with genetically modified mildweed seeds? ... The author tells the story with sharp insight and ribald humor. Readers will enjoy meeting the lawyers, tycoons, politicians, young and old lovers, windbags and adventurers who populate Master Gardener"--Page [4], Cover.
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