Kirjahaku

If someone in the United States gave Saudi Arabia atomic weapons to use against Iran, would the Saudis use these weapons against Israel or New York instead? If the plot to use these weapons was discovered, the one who learned about giving these weapons to the Arabs faced death if he revealed the plot. He had to decide.

"Soldiers Never Sleep" is the story of Andy Walker, the battles he fights, and the women he loves. Historical fiction, the book is about the Indian Wars, the Buffalo Soldiers, and World War Two in the South Pacific. Great warriors fill the pages, men like Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Jack Pershing, and Douglas MacArthur. Along the way, Andy meets Honey, the wild Kentucky girl; Nancy, the mother of his children; and Helen, the Red Cross volunteer in the Fiji Islands. Two themes hold the story together: discrimination in the military and atrocities on the battlefield. The title is taken from an Indian curse placed on the Walker family by the old Sioux medicine man, Sitting Bull.

On a Santorini cliff high above the great caldera of that sunny, serene Greek island, Captain Beth Walker marries CIA agent Matt Price. After the ceremony, her nephew, Steven, leaves for nearby Mykonos, only to be assaulted and kidnapped. When Arab television later shows Steven kneeling blindfolded before an executioner, the CIA sends Beth and Matt after him. The chase moves to Kurdistan, where avatars and wolves confront magic ravens and the Cult of Angels.

"Sandy's War" is the story of Sandy Walker, who was born in the Great Depression, a teenager in World War II, a graduate of West Point thrown into the Korean War, and a battalion commander in Vietnam. It is also the story of Avril de Castries, daughter of a French banker and Vietnamese businesswoman, persecuted by the Japanese, orphaned by the French Legionnaires and Viet Minh, and caught up in the conflict between the United States and North Vietnam. Their relationship is played out against a rich background, including the Plains Indians, the Chinese and North Koreans, and the North Vietnamese. They compete with failures of our State Department, intrigues at the CIA, condemnation of the Sioux Indians, and emotional baggage from Wounded Knee, No Gun Ri, and My Lai.