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 Death slaps your face, how hard depends on circumstances. AW.W. II veteran raised me, a quiet man with strong moral values and work ethicwho demanded excellence, not just of himself but of me. To put my upbringing ina Reader’s Digest format, let’s say my father did raise me up. Writing his warstory helped me understand the man’s hardened approach to life and why he cutvery few any slack.

Above and Beyond: radio silence unfolds from a youngman’s perspective. A boy loses his mother to consumption during the Depression.His hardened father shows little sympathy while struggling with his own demonsand burdened with raising five children. When the war comes, many of myfather’s generation had very little to lose, except their lives.

Our book is about the inner battle in a time of outrageousworld events and conflict. Written as a work of creative nonfiction, we pagedthrough flight records, war memorabilia, reflected on verbal anecdotes sharedby the veteran in his later years, and did vast amounts of research. Ourresearch focused on life near the bases where he served as well as the eventsof war. We immersed ourselves as best we could in the story. There wereemotional times during the writing, times of guilt and shame for not appreciatingmore fully the experiences endured by a boy as he develops into a man. A manwho struggled to turn me into a man while protecting me from the abuse heendured and never sharing his stories of deprivation. We must remember,cherish, and understand the Greatest Generation. What made these men and women?Why did they view the world so differently? Our book shares not just thethreats and violence of war, but the hearts of those living under thecircumstances.

Our mission in writing this story is to honor all veteranswho served in the history of our nation, whether in war or peace. We supportveterans’ organizations; we didn’t write this work to cash in on the sufferingand sacrifice of others. My editor/spouse is a 9-year veteran of the U.S.A.F.We give away copies and have donated our total proceeds to organizations suchas the Veterans Breakfast Club, where we took part in book signings. Above and Beyond: radio silence is now available at the library of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Colonel Mark C Vlahos (U.S.A.F.-Ret.) andauthor of Leading the Way to Victory gave the book advanced praise. Yoursupport will help veterans.

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Medical thrillers can be the bestthrillers, especially when they are eminently contemporary, like the controversiessurrounding AI in today’s marketplace. Deadly Vision by Todd Severin isjust such a thriller. Deadly Vision opens in the middle a high stakes surgicalprocedure. The developer of an AI that could have performed the surgery with alot less risk is a witness. It took me two chapters for my reading pace to recoverfrom the high-speed-read that the first scenes induced. The images that the descriptionof the AI surgery induced were breathtaking. Phrasing like, ‘Just what I needbefore the most important presentation of my life, a starched cotton decapitation’made the read even better. As a debut release, it was one of the best. Fivestars for Todd Severin and his imaginative creation, Deadly Vision.

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I had the pleasure of reading "Not on My Watch", by Jeff Bailey. The basic premise is one that is quite frankly, scary in its believability, because we have a number of crazies in this country with very similar ideas to the antagonists in this book. The hero is US Marine Cassandra Sing, who gets caught up in a theft of nuclear weapons from an Oklahoma military base by supremacists wanting to return to the original ideas of the Constitution, although apparently without the racist rhetoric that most such people in real life today embody. The action is tense, and is occasionally interrupted by flashbacks in Sing's life, showing her progression into the Marines. It embodies her determination, strength, and devotion to her duty, which should be an example for all US military personnel. The flashbacks sometimes came at unexpected moments, but this isn't a bad thing. Occasionally, it did cause me to lose track of where the main story was, but I picked it up again pretty quickly. If you, or anyone in your family, has been in the military, they'll see a lot of themselves in this story. For those who haven't, this story is a good way to better understand their mentality and commitment. Kudos to Jeff Bailey for an outstanding story! I'm looking forward to reading his next one.

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Jeff Bailey Reviews Pool Man by Dan McDowell.#poolman #danmcdowell #jeffbailey #bookreview #booktok #readwithus #shelfies #museum
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 Kerry Kennedy Reviews The Defect by Jeff Bailey

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 Red Notice by Bill Browder is an autobiography of the first foreigner to make it as a successful investor in post-communist Russia. Second, it’s the history of the Magnitsky Act. Sergei Magnitski was a Russian, activist lawyer who died in the Russian Prison system. While I love a well-conceived spy thriller, Red Notice was over the top. It was all true. Bill Browder lived this story. Red Notice is a MEMOIR. There is a strong story element wrapped around, international banking, finance, and Investments. I Highly recommend Red Notice to any lover tog this genre of thriller. Can’t wait to read Browder’s other books.

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