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Krist, Donald

 
9780595220953: The Strange Secret of Kickapoo Crossing: A Novel
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595220959 ISBN 13 : 9780595220953
Editeur : iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

An old Indian blessing which becomes a curse, shadows Bryce Harringtons early life during summer stays at his stepmothers family farm at Kickapoo Crossing in northeast Iowa.The blessing of the Kickapoo Indians follows him as a young U.S. Navy intelligence officer serving in the Soviet Union and France during World War II. But the Kickapoo blessing urns into a curse by careless actions of a 4-F guitar-playing bootlegger at Kickapoo Crossing while Bryce Harrington is gone, and destroys virtually the entire family who nurtured him in his youth.But Bryce Harrington is protected by a special talisman given him by his dying Grandma Susie; and, following his return to the U.S. for further education, he learns of the colossal Russian blunder of not recycling precious palladium pellets used in fertilizer production by former Soviet munitions make Azurite Fertilizer Works.He returns there as a businessman and also as an undercover agent for the U.S. Pentagon to learn new secret Soviet methods with codes that were shutting down U.S. surveillance of Russian military operations.Bryce Harringtons success in this endeavor and subsequently in business, and his resolution of the Kickapoo curse, follow in a thrilling, mysterious conclusion.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An old Indian blessing which becomes a curse, shadows Bryce Harringtons early life during summer stays at his stepmothers family farm at Kickapoo Crossing in northeast Iowa.The blessing of the Kickapoo Indians follows him as a young U.S. Navy intelligence officer serving in the Soviet Union and France during World War II. But the Kickapoo blessing urns into a curse by careless actions of a 4-F guitar-playing bootlegger at Kickapoo Crossing while Bryce Harrington is gone, and destroys virtually the entire family who nurtured him in his youth.But Bryce Harrington is protected by a special talisman given him by his dying Grandma Susie; and, following his return to the U.S. for further education, he learns of the colossal Russian blunder of not recycling precious palladium pellets used in fertilizer production by former Soviet munitions make Azurite Fertilizer Works.He returns there as a businessman and also as an undercover agent for the U.S. Pentagon to learn new secret Soviet methods with codes that were shutting down U.S. surveillance of Russian military operations.Bryce Harringtons success in this endeavor and subsequently in business, and his resolution of the Kickapoo curse, follow in a thrilling, mysterious conclusion.

Biographie de l'auteur

Donald Krist has been a newspaper reporter, editor and successful public relations executive. A journalism graduate of Drake University, he is the author of the recently acclaimed short story colleciton Lost Chameleons and Other Tales, Kiss'd To Sleep, a brilliant first novel, and Chicago Cowboy, a best-selling musical western.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595220959
ISBN 13 
9780595220953
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
226
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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