The Godhead - Couverture souple

Robinson, Edward Barr

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0759610177 ISBN 13 : 9780759610170

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2002

Synopsis

THE GODHEAD begins in 1953, with the assignment of two unlikely heroes to investigate an accusation made by the French governors of Indo-China that an American agency had been shipping arms to the anti-French guerrillas. But the investigation transcends into a quest that includes a foundation for all religious thought and a basis for all human action.The erratic investigation expands across three continents and touches on two separate wars over a period of four years, unraveling a CIA-NSC debacle, which in many ways is reminiscent of the Iran-Contra situation, except on a hugely more pivotal scale. The plot outlines the opposition of the United States to the re-establishment of the French colonial empire, and the results lead to some rather wild questions about our early activities in that part of the world.G-2 does not really intend for these men to discover anything, but they pick the wrong people for this purpose. Sergeant Marion Ramirez Apollo, ex-street fighter and the product of a one-night romance between a married Scottish physics professor and a Mexican-American waitress, is assigned because of his familiarity with the Kumsong region of Korea, where the investigation begins. The lieutenant who accompanies him is the sergeant's opposite: Kim Chau Dao comes from the landlord class in Indo-China and goes along because his father, the Defense Minister under the emperor Bao Dai, is the official who required the investigation.The underlying quest arises from the teachings of Chau's sister, Dao My Linh, a student priest of a Taoist/Buddhist sect of Southeast Asia, the Cao. When assaults by the arms dealers and pressure from the Army begin, this philosophy, the love that develops between her and the Apollo, and the fatal sacrifice of Dao himself, all force Apollo toward a possibly fatal decision. He must stand by himself, even against those who command him, based on this new concept of purpose and sacrifice.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Edward Barr Robinson, son of Scots immigrants, began writing during his high school years in Glendale, California, eventually receiving his master's degree in journalism from UCLA. At the university, he was editor-in-chief of both the campus newspaper and magazine, then took a thirty-year break to obtain another master's degree in business and become a successful shopping center developer.However, the background materials for THE GODHEAD were accumulating during that thirty-year period. Early on, he was drafted into the Army and trained for 18 months in the Ryukyu Islands with the 75th, formerly the 1075th, Regimental Combat Team--the 'Merrill's Marauders.' This RCT was apparently being jungle-trained as a possible backup to the French in their Indo-China war in 1954, and the Marauders were in fact flown out of Kadena Airport on Okinawa for Vietnam during the Dien Bien Phu battle, M-1's between their knees. They were turned around and returned in mid-flight, which initiated the author's curiosity about the strange twists that America's national policies were taking during the early days of Vietnam. This, in turn resulted in the writing of THE GODHEAD.Much more than just a historical glimpse of the pre-Vietnam War era, THE GODHEAD to a greater extent reflects Mr. Robinson's life-long fascination with physics and philosophy, specifically with the disciplines of quantum mechanics and eastern mysticism He had begun, early on, to notice the eerily neat parallels between the two subjects, which have been buttressed in publications like THE TAO OF PHYSICS by Fritjof Capra and THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS by Gary Zukav. But in THE GODHEAD the author has attempted to extend these parallels into a basic foundation for all human action, as reflected in the thoughts, actions, and developments of the novel's protagonist.Mr. Robinson is well qualified to make such an attempt. Aside from his professional credentials, he is also a lifetime member of Mensa and, on another level, a memb

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0759610177
• ISBN 13: 9780759610170
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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