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Caged Eagle: A Novel
Caged Eagle is the life story of a dynamic, ruthless WWII fighter reconnaissance pilot who returns to Canada in 1944 to take control of one of the country's largest entrepreneurial empires. His flying adventures and corporate intrigue propel him into being a senator and one of Canada's most powerful and wealthly men. Caged Eagle is full of unexpected twists and turns right to the final page.
245 pages, Paperback
First published October 16, 2002
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About the author
Richard Rohmer
51 books8 followersMajor-General (Ret'd) Richard Heath Rohmer, OC, CMM, DFC, O.Ont, KStJ, CD, OL, QC, JD, LLD (born in 1924). Canada's most decorated citizen, an aviator, a senior lawyer (aviation law), adviser to business leaders and the Government of Ontario and is a prolific writer. Rohmer was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and spent some of his early youth in Pasadena, California as well as in western Ontario at Windsor and Fort Erie.
The Peterborough Examiner's lead editorial of 14 January 2009 says this: "Rohmer, one of Canada's most colourful figures of the past half-century, was a World War II fighter pilot, later a major-general in the armed forces reserve, a high-profile lawyer and a successful novelist and biographer."
The Peterborough Examiner's lead editorial of 14 January 2009 says this: "Rohmer, one of Canada's most colourful figures of the past half-century, was a World War II fighter pilot, later a major-general in the armed forces reserve, a high-profile lawyer and a successful novelist and biographer."
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February 25, 2015
Garth “Gator” Peters, senator, war hero, sex machine and the richest man in Canada, reflects on his life from a prison cell in the Rockies on the eve of 9/11. His story begins in wartime London where boy (Gator) meets girl (the fabulous Cockney sexpot Julie Roberts) boy loses girl (she marries his squadron mate, simple Ontario farm boy Mark Tyler) and boy gets her again when Tyler dies over Patton’s Gap. Then it turns out that Tyler wasn’t really a farm boy, but the heir to the greatest fortune in Canada, and when Gator marries Julie, he gets it all. He can’t help it if he’s lucky. Decades later, Julie is impaled on a moose and her daughter, Louise, fights Gator for control of the Tyler empire.
With the generous support of The Canada Council and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, a small Newfoundland press publishes a book containing the sentence: “Who does the Senator have in his current stable in this centre of carnal iniquity that’s seen so many members of Parliament and indeed the Senate lose their – shall I call it moral virginity, once they have their seats in the hallowed House of Commons or the Silly Senate?”
Who indeed.
With the generous support of The Canada Council and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, a small Newfoundland press publishes a book containing the sentence: “Who does the Senator have in his current stable in this centre of carnal iniquity that’s seen so many members of Parliament and indeed the Senate lose their – shall I call it moral virginity, once they have their seats in the hallowed House of Commons or the Silly Senate?”
Who indeed.
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