Ryuujin Hashimoto's seventh birthday should be a joyful occasion. Instead, his parents are murdered by five men who break into their modest home in Tacoma, WA, as the young boy hides under the kitchen table. The boy finds a new home in Tokyo with his uncle, Jiro Asano, an influential aikido master and director of the Cabinet Research Chamber (postwar Japan's CIA). Asano recognizes the potential of a skillful assassin in his nephew and trains him expressly for that purpose, encouraging him to eschew all emotional attachments that might distract him. Dressed in the bloodstained rags he has sewn together from his parents' clothes, Ryuujin transforms himself into the fearsome killer the news media dubs Raggedy Man. His service to Asano brings him into conflict with foes across the globe, including the American Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. But he remains obsessed with the two-decade mystery of who killed his parents and why. Closing on the truth, he finds the man who holds the shocking answers to that day, and he exacts terrible revenge.
When Ted and Pudge went to the All-American camp, it was for a summer of good fun. Then they discovered that they were really entered in a contest-a contest involving $50,000 for the college boy who won it. Ted just had to win that prize, both to keep baseball at College tech and to ensure his father's job as baseball coach. How he engaged in a deadly fight with wolves and was entombed in an old mine shaft with a ferocious bear are only two of the many adventures he had. Ted Moran wins out in a breathless story of heroism and resourcefuless that will thrill its readers.
From the author of Innocent Until Proven Guilty comes a collectioin of stories destined to touch the fears of each and everyone of us, with contemporary storytelling dealing with good vs. evil, vampires, the undead, and several stories that continue his series of "The Runner", an Earth wanderer once known as the only man to ever escape from Hell...repeatedly. Ten dark fantasy/fiction short stories by Duane Gundrum, including: Mapping The Silence of Dreams (a Novella) Postcards From Hell The Dead Of Night Hath Fury You're Never Alone Of Historical Significance (a Novella) Voracious Vicissitudes Horror Story Returning To The Flock Fluffy And The Mystical World Of Dead Burnt Bodies The Shadow People (a Novella)
It would appear from the title of this book, ?A Boy and His Horn, ? to be a fictional novel if it wasn't for the fact that his story is true, every word of it There was a confirmed possibility that this ?boy? and his horn would have never been born if it wasn't for his dear mother's new found Christian faith and her public conversion in 1933. Though much of this book is based on a historical journal and autobiography, it is Duane's strong conviction that God had a purpose for his life, as he believes He has for all of us, and feels compelled to share his story. Duane continues to feel blessed with God's gracious gift and talent he discovered in his very early childhood. This God given gift has since become his lifelong passion. It has continued to nourish his spirit.
