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Kurt Lederer’s study grant to observe Patas Monkeys in the Central African Republic has been approved. His grant also includes his friend Ted Simmons, an artist who will provide illustrations of the field study. They drive to the Metropolitan Airport in Sacramento. There they board a private jet that will take them to Washington, D.C. where Kurt hopes to meet with National Science representatives and obtain the necessary items to make their field study successful. A surprise awaits them as they are driven to Langley, Virginia where they meet Hector Guajalva, a CIA agent. After a ...

Two ships. Two captains. One part of a desire to conquer the world. The other with a desire to conquer himself. When the captains and their ships meet it will be a duel at sea of monumental proportions. A female spy has the ability to change the course of the duel between the ships. Which captain will she favor? A bleak, rocky island named Kerguelen will see the emergence of one captain as the victor and the other as his prisoner.

Jim Garrett and Andy Grimes are ready to graduate from the University of Santa Clara. They have completed four years of R.O.T.C. and, along with their diplomas, will be commissioned as officers in the United States Army. The first order they receive is to report to the Letterman Army Hospital in the Presidio to undergo a physical check. Reporting to the hospital early, both are given quarters in the B.O.Q. Andy parks his graduation present, a 1950 Chevrolet two-door sedan, in front of his quarters. A night visiting San Francisco’s night life on the 4th of July appears to be a good way to ...

Sweet Drop in Africa: Charity shows Emily Hobhouse's determination to ameliorate some of the cruelty the army has perpetrated in South Africa. She uses her writing skills to motivate relatives and friends to support the relief effort for the women and children who experience the horrendous living conditions in the concentration camps. The letters she receives from South Africa show the conditions in the camps are deteriorating faster than Emily had imagined. Emily decides to go to the camps. She travels to Cape Town and finds that getting to the camps is extremely difficult. Emily finally ...

What if a Teaching Assistant witnessed a murder in the university cafeteria? What if he were preparing the last session for a class in the Experimental College that dealt with shamans and witchcraft? What if the murderer read the same book the T.A. is going to use for his X-college class? What if the T.A. asked an art student to make an illustration of Astaroth, a demon from the book the T.A. was going to use during his final X-college class? What if the art student hanged himself in the venue the T.A. was going to use for his last X-college class? What if Astaroth's words became a refrain ...

Jim McClain passes the Social Worker One test, completes orientation and reports for work in the Welfare building. He is tasked with two caseloads of Ward 10 self-committed patients. It is an unfair situation and one that Jim is willing to accept to keep his job. Ultimately, it will be one of the factors in his decision about continuing to work in the department. He meets Raney McLeod, another welfare worker, and they hit it off. She’s from Mississippi while Jim is from California. That geographic difference will impact their relationship. Jim’s first three weeks on the job go smoothly,...

Jess and his sons Mark and Paul are at war with the people who live in the valley below their cabin. Abner is the leader of the neophytes and is as bent on ruling the valley as Jess is. Abner's friend Caleb is the shaman of the people. Caleb's daughter Ruth is fair skinned and the object of Mark's desire. Abner has a dream in which he sees himself building a machine that will be able to destroy the cabin. He commands the men he leads to build the machine.

Josh Colum appears as normal as any one of us but he has a deep subconscious memory of how his mother treated his father. Josh has layered that early part of his life onto all females in Sacramento and he formulates a plan to eliminate their seemingly inescapable hold over him. Coincidentally, Janet Slade returns to California’s capital. After seven years away from her original job as a public information officer with the Sacramento PD she has returned with political help from her father’s friend to the higher status of homicide detective.

Frank Berg, rescued from Kerguelen Archipelago, receives another commission in the US Navy with the express task of seeking out one of the aces of the German submarine command with a newly commissioned Liberty ship with improved anti-submarine capability. Kurt Stein, a U-boat ace follows Admiral Doenitz' orders to lie in wait for American merchant ships on the East coast. When these intrepid captains meet what will be the outcome? Only extreme skill and luck will determine the victor.

Thomas Higgins works for the state of California in the Climate Agency. Numerous complications interrupt his relatively happy life. Foremost among them is his recurring dream that is set in the Middle East. Also high on the complication list is one of Thomas’ rules: he should never become intimate with a co-worker. However, sleeping with a woman prevents the dream from recurring. With that as a solution, he relents and takes a co-worker, Christie, as a roommate. Like Thomas, Christie is a bike-riding enthusiast. Aside from that shared interest she poses numerous challenges to his personal...

In the second Movie World book, Arthur Tageman still works for Charles Searcy at Megaworld Studios. In the first book as he was on a break at Winchell’s Marsha reveals that something strange is going on at Megaworld. Before Arthur can probe further Marsha leaves. Outside, she is run down by a drunk driver. An accident? Or murder because she was helping him? Will he be next? Maizie Briggs, another Megaworld employee, agrees to help. Arthur finds Maizie very attractive. Instead of a wine and dine evening, Arthur wakes up the next morning with blood on his hands and Maizie dead.

Los Angeles and its nemesis, the San Andreas fault provide the setting for this sci-fi adventure. A probe lands in 2500 B.C. The alien occupant is trapped until the San Andreas fault rumbles to life. Angelinos wonder whether their usual way of life will be destroyed by the determined and dangerous alien. Only a desperate gamble can eliminate the threat.

Frank Berg, fresh out of sick bay, finds that he’s not done with the war. In fact, he will be given command of a British lend-lease destroyer escort. His assignment is to capture one of the new coding devices developed by the Germans, named Omega. With a mixed crew of British and American sailors and an executive officer who was in command of the DE prior to Berg’s assignment, Berg is none too confident that he can pull off the retrieval of an Omega.

Peter Piper and his friends David Duncan and Clarissa Camp are transported to a hidden land named Faunia where they meet the Coyote King. Other animals in Faunia want to be king and think that abducting the three kids will enhance their chances to overthrow the Coyote King.

Fred Ball, the American Secretary of State, is kidnapped in Belize. American Special Forces attempt a rescue. The small but elite group of highly trained soldiers must overcome the difficulties of terrain, politics, mercenaries, and a nefarious plot hatched by various individuals in the governments of Mexico and Guatemala. A very powerful drug lord complicates the rescue by enlisting the services of a Belizean bandit, who, in turn, is set upon by both Mexican and Guatemalan soldiers. Washington and its politics are drawn into the maelstrom that Latin America becomes as a result of the ...

Noah and Taylor write for a group that wages war, in a manner of speaking, with the urban madness plaguing the cities and towns of America. After completing an assignment on the first look at the causes of the madness, Taylor and Noah receive an assignment to fit Climate Change and Global warming into the magazine’s point of view. While working on the Climate Change piece, their editor assigns a piece on the recent murders in Midtown. The assignment to write a piece on the Midtown murders embroils Noah and Taylor in the hunt for the killer that has left multiple clues. The clues in the ...

Sophie Drucker, a career criminal who recently changed from Carl Drucker, opts for transportation to the penal complex Luna on the Moon rather than have her DNA “aligned” to remove all thoughts and images of violence. On Luna inmates are housed in individual pods. There are ten pods to a canister overseen by a warden. The warden reports to a commander who, in turn, reports to a Deputy Director on Earth. Rebecca Fordyce is the warden for Canister 1, a pod of which becomes Sophie’s new residence. Fordyce also becomes romantically involved with the captain of Lunik 2, one of the ...

James Bowan, the first victim, is on the hunt for sexual gratification in 1979. He meets a strange woman in a bar. In his apartment she is quite interested in a scrapbook in which he's collected a variety of memorabilia. Raymond Turko is an inspector with San Francisco PD. He is assigned the Bowan murder even though it's technically his day off. His partner, Dominic Mazuti and he go to the scene of the murder to find out there isn't much there besides Bowan's corpse. As the story progresses we learn how Turko tries to fit information about Bowan into some sort of pattern. We also get a ...

A play in one act. One day in the life of William Tecumseh Sherman.

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