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The President wants information on Iran's uranium enrichment program.

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I have the body of a goblin-kin, but even more shocking, is that I chose to become this monster. I was a soldier who believed in honor and discipline, but those two concepts are not even understood in the society I must now embrace. Two images from my past haunt my present: my betrothed, Altherie Evenal, and the gnome in my tapestry. I understand why Altherie is constantly in my thoughts, but the gnome from my tapestry is an enigma. Although he was only a wall hanging, he seems as real as the woman I love. Could there be a connection between my obsession with his image and my current predicament? Or is he the key to my release, my salvation from the body of the monster I now inhabit?

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THANKS TO ALL THE INPUT I RECEIVED THE LAST TIME I POSTED THIS, I HAVE SPENT SIX MONTHS RE-EDITING AND TAKEN WHAT WAS A 200,000 WORD NOVEL DOWN TO A 113,000 WORD NOVEL. YOU WERE ALL CORRECT, IT WAS WAY TOO LONG. ANYWAY, HERE WE GO AGAIN:- Redemption Don’t Come Cheap opens in Brooklyn in 1964, after three nine-year-old boys from diverse backgrounds view the movie Goldfinger for the twentieth time. Later they see absolutely no problem in emulating Mr. Bond’s movie and painting the eighteen-month-old sister of one of the boys, bright red from neck to toes. The baby survives in good humor and for two of the boys, the repercussions of their punishment are maybe just, for the third it is simply tragic. The aftermath rips their friendship apart, throws their lives onto very different courses and the boys ultimately grow to distrust and dislike each other. They barely talk for thirty years; until a break-in at a local pet store, a strange twist of fate and a series of letters from the grave finally start to work, and all three men are inexplicably drawn back to the scene of the ‘baby painting,’ simultaneously. Once they meet again, they face up to old truths, reveal multiple secrets and nothing is ever what it seems for very long. When a brand new shared predicament makes it clear at least one of them needs to be a scapegoat and die, they begin a fight for personal survival. Their epic story involves multiple pet thefts from a local Mafia boss, a language-challenged priest who pays dearly for insulting the pope, a drunken monkey with a very bad attitude, an international diplomatic incident, the repeated theft of some very unlucky diamonds, abduction, subtle deceit, public humiliation, bare-faced lying, cheating, murder in abandon, accidental serial pet-o-cide, a trip through the Twilight Zone and finally, for one of them, personal redemption.

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There was the sleekness of a cat about her, and an athletic squareness about her shoulders. The sensual curves started at the breasts and waved their way down; every intersection had a yield sign and the leg that stepped out of the opened car door showed a nylon smoothness that tightened the skirt across heaven. This was one high priced babe. Vickie's brutal death pushed Dallas ex-detective Mike DeAngelo into a Tequila spiral. A drunken brush with a Bank owner, who robbed his own bank, and an unexpected reunion with the Dallas syndicate Boss Joe Civello bring Mike out of the bottle and send him on a wild ride to vengeance…

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Ferdinand Marcoux is a seemingly unintelligent and uneducated man whose first visit to a brothel leads to an encounter with Jeff, a friendly but shrewd farm worker who uses Ferdinand's naivety as an opportunity to cash in. Jeff offers to take Ferdinand to Moussac, a small village in rural France, with the promise of a job working at a farm. The farm is own by Andre Bouvin, a violent, sexually deviant man. Andre enjoys humiliating his wife Giselle, and terrorizing his daughter Gabrielle, who the villagers called "the mute". Andre and Giselle have two sons, Maurice, the eldest, an introvert and weak man who yields to his father's humiliation and whose bored, pretty but dim-witted wife betrays him at every opportunity, and Gaston, the youngest son and the cruellest of all. For the villagers of Moussac, Ferdinand has no past and no future. Never have they seen a man with so little common sense! He is a passing comet that first generated suspicion and then greed, for he is a hard worker who never counts his wages. Ferdinand becomes Moussac's idiot, harmless and even entertaining at times. They could not be more wrong.

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The working title of this novel is Corporate Samurai "love begets hate, trust begets betrayal, lust leads to death"// This novel takes place in the mid to late 1970's in the US and Japan. Bill Sanford is a young CPA working for the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation. He was brought up as a Foreign Service brat and had spent three years in Japan. He had dreams of an international career but, his wife would have no part of it.// Ray Easton, KFC's Regional VP, Far East, is a cunning scoundrel and consummate liar. Ray is a master of insider trading of stock, and spreads the wealth to gain favors. He has always stayed one step ahead of the law.// Mike Adachi is an executive with one of Japan's major trading companies. He was raised in San Francisco and speaks English as a native. He launches a plot to bring a major US fast food company into the Japanese market, relying on a complex chain of industrial espionage.// Strategic Planning is taking corporate America by storm. KFC'S CEO has caught the bug. He brings in two hot shots to produce and lead a corporate-wide Strategic Planning initiative. Resistance to strategic planning and the new hot shots builds, and the corporate politics accelerate, with battle lines being drawn.// Japan has been through post war reconstruction and is becoming a world class economic power. Some of its former military leaders are determined to achieve economically, what they failed to accomplish militarily.// Two trading company giants, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, become embroiled in a struggle for dominance of the exploding, western style, fast food market.// The cultural differences between Japan and the US complicate matters for both sides. The inner workings of Corporate America and Japan are revealed in all their successes, but also, their corruption and greed.// Personal conflicts and deep seated vendettas, some originating during World War II, unfold.// Seduction and love affairs are an integral part of the plot. They illustrate the differences in social views of sexuality between the East and West.// Industrial espionage involving two highly competitive US fast food companies, two Japanese Zaibatsu and the Japanese and Mexican underworld unfolds.//The head of the Yakuza (Japanese mafia)is an effective eliminator of problem people.// Many of the key characters were involved in WWII and their individual experiences influence their business behavior.// Cultural differences subtly emerge, and the exploitation of others to achieve one's ends is front and center.// Personal ethics, or the lack there of, and the constant tug between good and evil are interspersed throughout. View table of contents..

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It is the beginning of the 19th century in England when two sisters, Bridget and Ivy, find themselves separated by a series of untimely events in their homeland of England. This story is about their search to reunite, Bridget's unwanted journey to an untamed land called New South Wales and to a prison called The Female Factory, the finding of love and resolution. None of this may have happened had it not been for the women Bridget meets in the English gaol. These prisoners become her world and her hope in finding her sister. Two of the prisoners are Cossette and Annie. Cossette makes Bridget a promise in the following excerpt: "After a few moments, Bridget lifted her head and stared at Cossette and Annie. She must survive to find her beloved Ivy, she told herself. Drying her tears, she said to Cossette, “I am so afraid I will never find my sister.” Cossette recognized the fear, all too well, behind her words. Her fear was existence, without recognition, stretching into an unknown future. It was being, completely and utterly, alone in the world, with no one who loved you. Cossette promised, “I will help you, little one, find Ivy. The day will come, be patient. But first, let’s find a way to leave this place.” This is the beginning, you will want to know the ending. I promise.

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During 1939 in London, a new type of spying device has been presented, by its inventor, to Unit Five, a British intelligence unit. Unit Five's problem is to find a willing candidate to carry it inside Germany, while pretending to be a German Army officer. A desperate search ensues with lots of complications. But, when a volunteer arrives in Nazi Germany, just prior to war breaking out, extremely unusual coincidental events occur. The sex-starved wife of a German Army General ensnares the young British spy as a bed mate. From then on, a detailed plot unravels involving treachery, treason, sex and murder.

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A beautiful, young Cheyenne girl, shunned by her own people and the whites who raised her, falls in with a band of outlaws. Luke Winslow loves her deeply, and scours the west to find the girl who must stay one step ahead of the law.

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Mark McGill goes on a mission to Beirut.

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Beloved, aging comedian Buddy White signs a deal to play Vegas for one final performance, a fantastic send-off segueing into a well-deserved retirement. He wants to give his loyal audience a last memorable performance. Without warning he is shuffled off to Hell by mistake. When the misanthrope demon that grabbed him realizes the error, he abandons him outside the gate. Buddy can't get in. So he sets off to find his way back home. He follows the Acheron upriver on a journey that grows increasingly bizarre. Meanwhile, Hell's authorities learn of the blunder and send out a posse to round up the errant comedian. At the same time, Heaven discovers the mistake and dispatches a Chorus of Angels to find Buddy and rush him to Heaven. Buddy is determined to elude them all and get back to Earth. He's never missed a show or broken a promise in his entire professional life and he isn't about to start now. The prospect of a dead comedian playing to a live audience in Vegas would badly upset the status quo so Heaven and Hell join forces, determined to stop him. As Buddy perseveres, his natural cheer and success at evading the bungling bureaucrats of the afterlife begins to bring hope to the damned. By degrees he finds himself at the head of a revolution. All Buddy wants is to go home.

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Forced into servitude by a wicked Aunt, Ivy, finds her days and nights longing to one day find her baby sister, Bridget. Unbeknownst to her, the other servants have been warned to not socialize with her and the Master of the home is beginning to wonder just who this servant is and where did she come from. His wife seems unwilling to reveal the truth about this girl.

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Bridget Lee finds her way from the English countryside to London in search of her sister. Unfortunately she lands in an English gaol. Her imprisonment leads her to new friends, a new land and a step closer to finding her sister and a new life.

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The year is 2025 in Chicago, Illinios and life has suddenly turned upside down for Amy Canter. Her mother's recent, sudden death had left her more than grieving. She was suspicious the death was not natural, but there was little she could do because of the local authorities. In Hanover, Kansas, Frederick Maury was experiencing the long arm of the very law Amy Canter was beginning to distrust. Who would Amy trust? Where will she turn for help? Only the Circle's Core has the answer!

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PROLOGUE Year of our Lord 2025 The world was upside down. It had become another planet, another world to those who remembered life before September 2001. The new generation had a different concept of personal freedom, but there were ones who did remember the old way, the other time, the other world. They were the Core, the essence of the world which had been their own. They were determined to bring that world back, somehow, someway, someday…..

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On November 08, 2108, Daxton St. George awakens on what he believes to be a normal day. When he discovers strange changes to his body, he learns that everything he has come to know about himself is part of a far-reaching chain of secrets in lies. As he and his super-powered friends somehow manage to enjoy their fleeting teenage years, the truth unravels, and the four of them are thrust to the front line of the Milky Way's first intergalactic war.

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We have control over our lives, why not our deaths? Seven friends confront the notion. My mother's idea for a novel. This is a work in progress.

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There may be no such thing as an innocent touch between a man and a woman. But then, innocence is often over rated.

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