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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 Tennessee 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, TFC'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. TFC'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, Mitsugawa and , 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.// 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.

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A sassy-mouth child recapping the tragedy of one hot, summer day in a small town in Missouri.

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Most historians list Princess Noor Inayat Khan as one of the most intriguing heroines of the Twentieth Century and rank her up near the top along with Mata Hari. She was born inside the Kremlin during 1914 and evolved from infancy into an emotional, naive, careless and beautiful young woman ... hardly the attributes of a future spy. This novel is based upon true events during the years 1914-1944. While being brought up in France, Princess Noor clandestinely falls in love with Paulo. He is torn from her arms after being drafted, during 1935, into the Italian army to fight in Ethiopia and she spends the next eight years trying to discover his whereabouts while he is constantly sent to other danger zones in North Africa, Spain and Russia.

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All Z Anna Marley wanted to do was save her money to finish college. Instead, she's agree to loan what she has saved to Hoops--her best friend’s brother AND the love of her life. They all, including her best friend’s boyfriend plotted to take a road trip to Mexico to save Hoops' Mexican girlfriend, who has been tricked into going to Mexico and kidnapped by her own family because they didn’t want her dating a black man. Raising hell from Atlanta, GA straight to the border of Mexico, Z battles against the love she has for Hoops, who has taken advantage of how she felt since they were children. Although she deemed herself the biggest woman fool for helping the man she love set his girlfriend free, she also wanted to find out if that experience would set her free to love someone else. From unpredictable voodoo curses in Louisiana to real life cowboy shoot outs in the deserts of Texas, Z finds out the money for her education has already paid for the biggest lesson in her life...

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After facing a series of dangers, from overcrowded boat to vicious pirates, I lost my brother at sea. Lan whom I met on the boat was raped and almost killed by pirates while her baby and husband were tossed into the ocean. Lan and I were rescued by an American vessel couple days later, stayed in a refugee camp for more than a year, then settled in America. Twenty five years later, I became a college professor. Lan continued to struggle for survival.

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A group of amateurs meet to form Bittengood Security, which will market spying devices and do small jobs for the F.B.I. The newly formed group sets up operation in Dr. Kurt Bittengood's animal hospital. They soon get dragged into much deeper involvement into the investigation of Al Queda. The group grows in size to include computer hackers, an expert of criminal pshchology and explosives experts. While monitoring conversations from an Al Qaeda safe house, they discover a plot to attack the New York Stock Exchange and destroy the Lincoln Tunnel.

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Fifteen year old Samantha Hyde's father, Dr. Cody Hyde, is a Crypto zoologist. A monster hunter. Together with her best friend MG, they are searching for irrefutable proof of the existence of a real live monster. But there is a problem. Not only do they wish to find a monster, they MUST find one, and soon. When Cody's wife (Samantha's mother) is killed in a car accident with Cody behind the wheel, Cody's Mother-in-Law, the wealthy Constance Alden decides to have her revenge. She brands Cody a lunatic monster hunter and an unfit father. Alden sends a ruthless bounty hunter after Samantha and her father. If she gets her hands on Sam, she'll take her from her father...forever. Cody's only hope, to find a monster, before a monster finds them. This is the first in a series. I welcome any and all comments.

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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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