Operation: Briar Patch

by Rod Ellis

Those who had prepared watched as the storm cloud approached, waiting for a flash of lightning or the first few drops of rain that would be a sign for them to take cover, but no one expected the sky to explode, which is what happened the day that freedom died and lives were forever changed.

The evil leaders in office have grown impatient and decide to force their agenda upon the country. Given their actions, it looks as if the United States will be destroyed and gone forever. Who could have known that the country's salvation would come in the form of a homeless man.

422 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 6, 2013

About the author

Professor Rod Ellis is Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked in Zambia, the UK, Japan, and the U.S.A for extended periods. He has published a number of books on second language acquisition and teacher education. He has also published EFL/ESL textbooks. His main interest lies in the application of second language theory and research to language teaching.

He is co-author of Analysing Learner Language, and author of Second Language Acquisition, SLA Research and Language Teaching, The Study of Language Acquisition, which won the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition, Understanding Second Language Acquisition, which won the BAAL Book Prize, and Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, all published by Oxford University Press.