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Rodger Carlyle

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RODGER CARLYLE is a pilot, adventurer, political strategist, ghostwriter and novelist who writes both thrillers and historical fiction. He likes to find historic events that are ignored or covered up by the powerful when some strategy or plan goes completely to hell, and from there creates a passionate adventure that often tells a more complete story than traditional history…one that the reader just has to finish. Rodger’s thrillers are drawn from current events and conflicts such as the rekindled Cold War or US-Iranian hostilities. From there he develops a story that shows just how brutal unfinished business can be.

The heroes in his stories are ordinary people pushed to do extraordinary things that some writers would hand off to a superher
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Rodger Carlyle I've never experienced writer's block. In decades of life and countless hours of research I've found that there is a lifetime of historical/political …moreI've never experienced writer's block. In decades of life and countless hours of research I've found that there is a lifetime of historical/political misrepresentation and cover ups that demand a story.(less)
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SECRET WEAPONS

In 1981, the first year of the Civil War, Richard Gatling invented the first automatic fast firing weapon, the Gatling Gun. Originally from the South, he was a passionate patriot of the United States and prayed that the Union's adoption of his weapon would make war so deadly, so terrible that the South would quit the war.

The men responsible for arming Northern troops saw the weapon as a deterrent, Read more of this blog post »
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