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  <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Don't forget to visit my website and take a look at the available titles.  For my goodreads friends, I am willing to send you 1 or 2 titles on PDF for free, to add to the available online reviews, so just let me know what you're interested in.

Here's a list of stuff about me, which should help you decide if you want to invite me to be your friend or agree to be mine.

- I love movies, especially action &amp; adventure, fantasy &amp; historical.
- I collect movie soundtracks (300+).
- I have been to 49 states (except Alaska) in the USA and they are all historically fascinating, but my favorites are New Mexico, Maine, Utah &amp; Wisconsin.
- I love Disney World.
- I've been to a lot of countries, but my favorites are Iceland, The United Kingdom, Italy, Greece and Thailand.
- I like to eat.
- I adore my son Ian and we are best buddies.
- I'm not very good at Xbox, but I keep trying.
- I love to write even more than I love to read, which doesn't seem possible.
- I am not collecting &quot;Hot Babes&quot;!  If I send you an invite, it's because I liked your profile.  So get over it.
- Dragons, wolves, tigers, and eagles are my favorite animals, but I am an environmental activist, politically liberal and staunchly defiant to authority.
- My favorite President will always be Teddy Roosevelt.
-There's plenty more, but if you're interested, you'll ask.

SO, ever since I was growing up in a small town in Wisconsin, I have had a very fertile imagination.  I'm officially a Boomer and was influenced by TV (Man from UNCLE, I Spy, Combat, and many more)and movies (Great Escape, John Wayne anything, Zulu, Where Eagles Dare, The Longest Day), again the list is endless.  Then we moved to Chicago, which I still call home.

Sometime during my high school days, and heavily influenced by Alistair MacLean, Hammond Innes, and Jack Higgins, I decided I wanted to write action/adventure novels.  I dabbled, but it wasn't until college, where Rinda West, my Creative Writing professor, suggested I had talent, that I seriously began pursuing the craft of writing fiction.

I love to write.  In fact, it is my greatest passion.  (You have to add my 12-year-old son, who is my other great passion.)  Writing is an addiction for me, which goes hand-in-hand with reading.  I am a voracious reader as well.

While balancing a &quot;real&quot; job, I am currently editing 2 completed novels, working on 8 more that are in all states of progression, and researching 12 more novels in the outline and development stage.  Prolific is a term often associated with me.

Writing is also a continuous learning cycle that I truly savor.  Every book published is better than the previous one and the lessons are profound.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Douglas Reeman, Alistair MacLean, Hammond Innes, Jack Higgins, Robert E. Howard &amp; Dick Francis]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Beloit, Wisconsin</hometown>  <born_at>05/04/1955</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Secret of the Dragon's Eye: Book One]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.71</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tales of the Yellow Silk]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Danger Cruise]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Crooked Cross Factor]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="2826638">
  <id>2826638</id>
  <title><![CDATA[A Favor for FDR]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <id>2428020</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Secret of the Dragon's Breath: Book Two]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <id>1374146</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Element of Surprise]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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        <book id="2826655">
  <id>2826655</id>
  <title><![CDATA[For Love or Honor Bound]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="2826648">
  <id>2826648</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Seas Aflame]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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        <book id="1164635">
  <id>1164635</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Ice Flotilla]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Derek Hart]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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