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|  | | Requiem for Ahab
Requiem for Ahab takes place 20 years after the death of Captain Ahab in the novel Moby-Dick. Ahab’s young son has grown into a man seeking to understand his father’s life, so he seeks out the one man who may have answers -- Ishamel the sole survivor of the wreck of the Pequod.
i>span style="font-size: small;">span style="font-family: Verdana;">Requiem for Ahab/span>/span>/i>span style="font-size: small;">span style="font-family: Verdana;"> takes place 20 years after the death of Captain Ahab in the novel i>Moby-Dick/i>. Ahab’s young son has grown into a man on a quest to understand his father’s life … and death. i>Requiem for Ahab/i> is about fathers and sons, war and its warriors, suffering and reconciliation.br />
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Anyone who has read Moby-Dick knows that Captain Ahab and his crew die hunting the white whale, Moby Di | |  | | SitRep Negative: A Year in Vietnam
This is the story of my time in the Army, from being drafted to going through boot camp to being sent overseas to Vietnam to returning home. I wanted to give as complete a picture as possible of the entire cycle, which is much more than the time in Vietnam.
span style="font-family: Verdana;">In April 1968, we were a country at war with ourselves and increasingly with a small country halfway around the world: Vietnam. I don’t recall ever thinking about Vietnam when I started college in 1963. By 1968, it was all any of us could think about. The book begins with my being drafted into the Army and ends with my return to civilian life. I wrote this for my grandchildren, but it will give anyone some sense of what it was like to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam. The job I had gave me an excellent overview of how the gears of the war mach | |  | | The Magpie's Secret
An old Army buddy warns Frank Martinelli that someone wants him dead, When Frank starts asking why, the search for answers leads him back to a secret that someone apparently wants buried with Frank. In his quest to uncover the truth Frank finds a reason to start living again. The problem is, if Frank can't get to the bottom of things soon, he may not have much time left to live.
span id="longdescr_full" style="display: inline;">They say it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. You think so? Ask Frank Martinelli, and he might tell you different. It all began with the disappearance of his daughter Jennifer 20 years ago. She was on her way back to college and never made it. A year later a young girl named Rachel left Frank with an awful secret right before she died. The losses kept piling up. Soon his marriage was added to the toll.br />
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After that he just quit trying to make sense of things. He put in his time and retire |
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