The man mourns as a patriotic son embraces the nationalistic craze and eagerly joins the army. Next, a father strives to make the world see reason as Europe descends into the abyss of war. The poem reflects the lasting, harrowing effects of the Great War on the men who sacrificed their boyhood for their nation while the battles end, the war lives on for untold years in the minds of its veterans. It opens with "Another Dream," a poem which mirrors a work by Siegfried Sassoon, the decorated British veteran and conscientious objector of the war. Into that tragic world, this collection offers a brief window."To End All Others" is a short compilation of stories about World War I and the terrible struggles of humanity within that horrific war. This is the Great War, and the terrors, struggles, sacrifices, and tears of that conflict remain with us. A father lies awake at night, knowing that somewhere, his son is facing a hell on Earth. The dew droplets of a French bi-plane awake to the rising sun. The soiled rain of putrid trenches drips further and further into the mud. All involved knew it would end there, on federal land in the wilderness, with thousands of potential witnesses. Frank paid someone to find out where Gloria and Rick were but that someone owed Rick and let him know that the hit man was coming. Forced to leave town again, Rick and Gloria decided to attend the Rainbow Gathering, a yearly get-together of the disciples of peace, love, and weed, or a week long ogre for un-American malcontent miscreants, depending on who you asked. Rick bought a hand gun in Vegas but wasn’t carrying when, back in San Diego, Salucci fired at him and Gloria from the back seat of a moving car, hitting Rick once in the side. Frank followed them to Las Vegas but returned home when Gloria hired some heavies to convince him that that was his best choice.
And it wasn’t because, as Rick and Gloria soon found out, Frank Salucci wasn’t just a card cheat, he was also a hit man. As Salucci hobbled out he let them know that it wasn’t over. “Damn,” she said, “he followed me.” When Salucci sat at their table and threatened them Gloria grabbed a steak knife and sliced his leg, telling him that the next cut would sever his femoral artery and he’d bleed to death on the restaurant floor. Until Gloria looked up and saw Salucci enter the restaurant.
Rick recovered the money, telling Gloria that Salucci had voluntarily turned it over, and now they were celebrating over a quiet dinner. Gloria, a nurse and avid poker player, had been cheated out of a $500 pot by Frank Salucci, a man who thrived on irritating any player he could. Rick has destroyed Salucci’s beloved Cadillac & as the hit man closes in Rick & Gloria realize two things: it’s kill or be killed & Salucci is the better killer.Smooth Call What is a “Smooth Call?” Read this novel and you’ll know and be mightily entertained in the bargain! “I guarantee it!” The night after the most eventful poker game of his life Rick Mills sat in a small Italian restaurant with the lovely and witty Gloria Hesselgrave. Rick Mills & poker playing nurse Gloria Hesselgrave follow a road filled with gamblers, hookers,hippies,showgirls,poker legends,pot growers & actors as they elude Frank Salucci, a hit man who can’t abide anyone messing with his Cadillac. Now Maskelyne knows where this thing is imprisoned. The Unmer, in their quest to unlock the secrets of the universe, forged a monster. The artifact leads him to discover exactly why the Drowned continue to deposit thousands upon thousands of keys on the beach beneath his fortress. Maskelyne returns to Scythe Island to study the crystal he plucked from the wreckage of the Unmer chariot. When Granger learns of this plot to kill his daughter, he must use every scrap of his resourcefulness and cunning to protect her. Fearful of Marquetta's rule, she travels to the Dragon Isles to seek out the exiled Unmer lord, Argusto Conquillas and beg him to help her assassinate Ianthe. The handsome young prince could murder her with a simple touch.īriana Marks, meanwhile, has escaped with her life. She has the power to destroy his mind with a single thought, and yet she herself remains at risk from his own innate sorcerous abilities. Prince Paulus Marquetta discovers a friend and ally in Ianthe, albeit a dangerous one.
She returns to the palace, hoping to find the Unmer prince with whom she shared some of her darkest moments. But she is not interested in a life of treasure hunting with him. The second novel in the Gravedigger Chronicles
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