Heart of War: A Descent into Darkness - Couverture rigide

Weidner, Hal R

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0595698581 ISBN 13 : 9780595698585

Editeur : iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Captain Parker declares war on a politically powerful traitor to England. Immediately, Parker becomes a marked man. All hell is visited upon him, but Parker has been fighting battles since he was seven years old and is not easily daunted. To survive, he fights one brutal battle after another, descending into war's inexpressible darkness.

The author of this well-crafted thriller stages his war from a perspective that sheds light on our post 9/11 experiences. We observe the overextended British Empire fighting two wars amidst the corruption resulting from war's confusion and excess.

This is an 18th century sea story. It is, however, more than just a sea story-in the way that Heart of War is more than a steamer trip into the Congo. For its brilliance and its honesty, it will win a place in the reader's heart.

"Hal Weidner has emerged to write a spectacular yarn in the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. Weidner's imagination creates a hair-raising thriller that will keep you rooted to your easy chair with the doors locked. Weidner's twists, turns and subplots keep us guessing by pitting good and evil against an uneasy grey. I could not put this book down."
-Robert Sain, psychiatrist and author.

"In Hal Weidner's novel, the beauty and strangeness of the past and of the sea are evoked in spare and lovely prose. This novel brings to life a fully imagined reality in all its splendor. Heart of War is suspenseful and languorous, sparse and lyrical, by a novelist fully capable of transporting the reader skillfully to its world."
-Laura Kasischke, Internationally renowned poet and novelist.

"Hal Weidner's vivid depiction of warfare, intrigue, treachery, and heroism among British, American and French factions during the 18th Century mirrors eerily the tensions that we see and imagine shaping the world today."
-Tom Zimmerman. Editor, The Huron River Review.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In Heart of War, Hal R Weidner has brought us a blockbuster novel in the tradttion of Partick O'Brian and C S Forester. Captain Parker is ordered to find certain traitors in high places and rid the world of their treachery. For Parker this order is a dangerous one that may well cost him his life. Captain Parker, however, likes danger; it brings the best out of him.. A mysterious cipher from an unknown ally alerts Parker to a plot aimed at crippling King George III's war effort in France and America. The perpetrator is a politically powerful genius, a darling of London Society, and a member of Parliament. Undaunted by his adversary's credentials, Parker declares war on the conspirator and immediately becomes a marked man.As Parker begins to unravel the traitor's empire like a ball of twine, gathering information and exposing conspirators, his enemy unleashes hell. To survive, Parker fights one brutal battle after another, slowly descending into war's darkness. Now, Parker struggles to remain true to his country-and himself.In the spectacular tradition of Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series, Hal R.Weidner delivers an explosive historical thriller and a chilling commentary on our post 9-11 experiences.

Biographie de l'auteur

After graduating from Columbia College, Hal R. Weidner served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. He obtained his PhD and taught at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. During summers, Weidner worked as mate aboard fishing boats and boom tugs in the Northwest. He is retired as an instructor emeritus.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595698581
• ISBN 13: 9780595698585
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 504
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible