Harry Fisher

Six people. Six events. Six lives destroyed. What is the connection? Detective Sergeant Melissa (Mel) Cooper has two major investigations on the go. The first involves six apparently unrelated individuals who all suffer inexplicable life-altering events. Mel is also pursuing a serial blackmailer but just as she's about to prove the link between this man and the six bizarre events, she's ordered to back off. So why are her bosses interfering with her investigations? Who are they trying to protect? And how far will they go to stop her? The answers come from a totally unexpected source.

Dieser ehrliche, in der Ich-Form verfa te Lebensbericht bietet einen aufschlu reichen Einblick in die USA des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts und speziell in die US-amerikanische Linke dieser Zeit. Er ist sowohl Verm chtnis einer ganzen Generation leidenschaftlicher und engagierter Vork mpfer f r gesellschaftliche Ver nderungen als auch Richtschnur f r eine neue Generation der Kr fte des Fortschritts. Harry Fishers fesselnde Memoiren ziehen uns in den Bann seines au ergew hnlichen Lebens und lassen uns daran teilhaben. Sich mit den Freunden seiner Kindheit zusammenzuschlie en war im Waisenhaus, in dem er aufwuchs, eine Frage des berlebens. Was Harry dort lernte, begleitete ihn auf den rauhen Stra en im New York der zwanziger Jahre; auf den Hungerm rschen w hrend der Zeit der Gro en Weltwirtschaftskrise; in den K mpfen der Arbeiterbewegung, die den US-amerikanischen Werkt tigen letztendlich arbeitsfreie Wochenenden, Mindestl hne und soziale Absicherung brachten; auf seiner Fahrt mit der US-Handelsmarine nach Afrika, Asien und Europa und schlie lich im Kampf gegen den Faschismus - erst in den Sch tzengr ben Spaniens und sp ter an Bord eines B-26-Bombers der US Army Air Force. Politisch aktiv an der Seite der j ngeren Generation in den sechziger Jahren des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, f hrte er den Kampf f r Frieden und Gerechtigkeit fort - bis sein Herz im Alter von 92 Jahren am 22. M rz 2003 versagte - auf einer Protestdemonstration gegen den Beginn des US-Kriegs gegen den Irak.

The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of international volunteers dedicated to defeating Franco's forces. Fisher was one of the earliest American volunteers and one of the few to participate in all the major battles. Under a barrage of shells, bombs, and bullets for eighteen months, he lost his illusions about war's efficacy in solving political issues. To this day a despondence often overwhelms him when he recalls a family photograph he found jutting from the pocket of a slain fascist soldier. His involvement taught him that up close, the dead, whether fascist soldiers or his own fallen comrades, looked alike.This is a war story, simply told. Yet it is also a complex story about a young man testing his ideology in the harsh realities of battle.

The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of international volunteers dedicated to defeating Franco's forces. Fisher was one of the earliest American volunteers and one of the few to participate in all the major battles. Under a barrage of shells, bombs, and bullets for eighteen months, he lost his illusions about war's efficacy in solving political issues. To this day a despondence often overwhelms him when he recalls a family photograph he found jutting from the pocket of a slain fascist soldier. His involvement taught him that up close, the dead, whether fascist soldiers or his own fallen comrades, looked alike. This is a war story, simply told. Yet it is also a complex story about a young man testing his ideology in the harsh realities of battle.