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A man named Draco leaves Aaron Cross bomb codes at his mailbox. He late answers a phone call from Draco. Aaron Cross must play Draco's "game" in order to save the day.
Mission; Deliver an aging C-54 aircraft to the Air America group operating out of Da Nang Vietnam and Long Tieng (L21) Laos and return home and return to his every day civilian lifestyle. Team leader AD1 Tim Ryan has his hands full on the mission from the start with an adventurous young bunch of crew members that over indulge in the night out in Olongopo during their RON in the Philippines. Ryan continues with crew to Vietnam where he meets Sean Casey and a girl that is connected with the remains of the WW2 Japanese Colonel Yamashita’s gold cache. He returns home after delivering the aircraft but finds he has lost his civilian job. He calls Casey who gets him selected by Air America to fly cargo in Laos. Everything goes well until Ryan is unintentionally involved in a covert operation by the rebel Laotian General of the area and is captured by his gorillas. Ryan escapes into the jungle along with another prisoner, marine gunny Phil Hearn. He is fired from his Air America job as burea... (Read more) Mission; Deliver an aging C-54 aircraft to the Air America group operating out of Da Nang Vietnam and Long Tieng (L21) Laos and return home and return to his every day civilian lifestyle. Team leader AD1 Tim Ryan has his hands full on the mission from the start with an adventurous young bunch of crew members that over indulge in the night out in Olongopo during their RON in the Philippines. Ryan continues with crew to Vietnam where he meets Sean Casey and a girl that is connected with the remains of the WW2 Japanese Colonel Yamashita’s gold cache. He returns home after delivering the aircraft but finds he has lost his civilian job. He calls Casey who gets him selected by Air America to fly cargo in Laos. Everything goes well until Ryan is unintentionally involved in a covert operation by the rebel Laotian General of the area and is captured by his gorillas. Ryan escapes into the jungle along with another prisoner, marine gunny Phil Hearn. He is fired from his Air America job as bureaucrats believe he was involved in the attempted Laotian coup de ta. Ryan returns home only for a short time before he and his veteran buddies decide to return to Laos for the hidden gold treasure remaining there from the Yamashita era. What follows reads like a modern series of the adventures of Terry and the Pirates
During Chinese New Year, Rick Deacon got a peculiar email from a presumed Buddhist monk requesting supernatural help from the Holy Seven. Unfortunately most of the Seven (who are actually eight chosen individuals destined to combat supernatural trouble) are in the middle of college and not all of them can come. Bringing along Tom Brown and Bai Nian Chen, Rick must lead them through Jiangsu Provenance to the famed Huaguo Shan—the birthplace of the Monkey King—and find out the real reason they were summoned to China. And it is worse than even he could imagine.
A familyman is pitted against an international CEO of mayhem as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
What if a group of friends happen to open Pandora's box and are forced to close it down before things have gone too nasty? What if things going too nasty means the defamation, or rather, the annihilation of the most powerful country in the planet?
Check out my preface for more.
I have written this for the sole purpose of comments; negative ones more welcome. Please leave your valuable comments.
A timely thriller about CIA dirty tricks! One that explores the most feared sentence in the English language: “hello I am from the U.S. government with democracy for you people”.
Diverting the Buddha is a timely thriller that describes how American elites treat emerging democracies as a form of social cancer. It is the Year of the Fire Horse, democracy is beleaguered, and only the Buddha can help a war weary people. This fast-paced adventure follows the struggles of four characters caught in a web of wartime intrigue. In the end, all four wander into harm’s way, during an all out explosion of murderous betrayal.
Diverting The Buddha is a driving, powerful, entertaining novel marking Bob Swartzel as a writer of considerable accomplishments. Midwest Book Review
A major theme of the novel is betrayal—of individuals, of the democratic aspirations of pro-democracy people, of Americans, and of betrayal of truth itself. Historian David Heiser
A man named Draco leaves Aaron Cross bomb codes at his mailbox. He late answers a phone call from Draco. Aaron Cross must play Draco's "game" in order to save the day.
Mission; Deliver an aging C-54 aircraft to the Air America group operating out of Da Nang Vietnam and Long Tieng (L21) Laos and return home and return to his every day civilian lifestyle. Team leader AD1 Tim Ryan has his hands full on the mission from the start with an adventurous young bunch of crew members that over indulge in the night out in Olongopo during their RON in the Philippines. Ryan continues with crew to Vietnam where he meets Sean Casey and a girl that is connected with the remains of the WW2 Japanese Colonel Yamashita’s gold cache. He returns home after delivering the aircraft but finds he has lost his civilian job. He calls Casey who gets him selected by Air America to fly cargo in Laos. Everything goes well until Ryan is unintentionally involved in a covert operation by the rebel Laotian General of the area and is captured by his gorillas. Ryan escapes into the jungle along with another prisoner, marine gunny Phil Hearn. He is fired from his Air America job as burea... (Read more) Mission; Deliver an aging C-54 aircraft to the Air America group operating out of Da Nang Vietnam and Long Tieng (L21) Laos and return home and return to his every day civilian lifestyle. Team leader AD1 Tim Ryan has his hands full on the mission from the start with an adventurous young bunch of crew members that over indulge in the night out in Olongopo during their RON in the Philippines. Ryan continues with crew to Vietnam where he meets Sean Casey and a girl that is connected with the remains of the WW2 Japanese Colonel Yamashita’s gold cache. He returns home after delivering the aircraft but finds he has lost his civilian job. He calls Casey who gets him selected by Air America to fly cargo in Laos. Everything goes well until Ryan is unintentionally involved in a covert operation by the rebel Laotian General of the area and is captured by his gorillas. Ryan escapes into the jungle along with another prisoner, marine gunny Phil Hearn. He is fired from his Air America job as bureaucrats believe he was involved in the attempted Laotian coup de ta. Ryan returns home only for a short time before he and his veteran buddies decide to return to Laos for the hidden gold treasure remaining there from the Yamashita era. What follows reads like a modern series of the adventures of Terry and the Pirates
During Chinese New Year, Rick Deacon got a peculiar email from a presumed Buddhist monk requesting supernatural help from the Holy Seven. Unfortunately most of the Seven (who are actually eight chosen individuals destined to combat supernatural trouble) are in the middle of college and not all of them can come. Bringing along Tom Brown and Bai Nian Chen, Rick must lead them through Jiangsu Provenance to the famed Huaguo Shan—the birthplace of the Monkey King—and find out the real reason they were summoned to China. And it is worse than even he could imagine.
A familyman is pitted against an international CEO of mayhem as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
What if a group of friends happen to open Pandora's box and are forced to close it down before things have gone too nasty? What if things going too nasty means the defamation, or rather, the annihilation of the most powerful country in the planet?
Check out my preface for more.
I have written this for the sole purpose of comments; negative ones more welcome. Please leave your valuable comments.
A timely thriller about CIA dirty tricks! One that explores the most feared sentence in the English language: “hello I am from the U.S. government with democracy for you people”.
Diverting the Buddha is a timely thriller that describes how American elites treat emerging democracies as a form of social cancer. It is the Year of the Fire Horse, democracy is beleaguered, and only the Buddha can help a war weary people. This fast-paced adventure follows the struggles of four characters caught in a web of wartime intrigue. In the end, all four wander into harm’s way, during an all out explosion of murderous betrayal.
Diverting The Buddha is a driving, powerful, entertaining novel marking Bob Swartzel as a writer of considerable accomplishments. Midwest Book Review
A major theme of the novel is betrayal—of individuals, of the democratic aspirations of pro-democracy people, of Americans, and of betrayal of truth itself. Historian David Heiser