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Brendan Carroll

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October 06, 1953 in Deep East Texas, The United States

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http://brendancarroll.wordpress.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult

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J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Henry Fielding, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...more

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June 2009

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By-Line: Only a Fool can rule the world.

Brendan Carroll spent his first fourteen years running free through the deep woods of the East Texas Pine Forests. During the early part of his life, he had the great fortune to live next door to his grandparents on a small family subsistence farm where he learned about nature, farming and story-telling from his grandfather. Throughout his childhood and early schooling, his first love was reading and after he learned to write, he found a new love… writing. Growing up in the late fifties and sixties, he watched the rock and roll and sexual revolution unfold all around him with a sense of something profoundly precious being thrown down by the onslaught of progress and plastic.

After high school, Brendan...more By-Line: Only a Fool can rule the world.

Brendan Carroll spent his first fourteen years running free through the deep woods of the East Texas Pine Forests. During the early part of his life, he had the great fortune to live next door to his grandparents on a small family subsistence farm where he learned about nature, farming and story-telling from his grandfather. Throughout his childhood and early schooling, his first love was reading and after he learned to write, he found a new love… writing. Growing up in the late fifties and sixties, he watched the rock and roll and sexual revolution unfold all around him with a sense of something profoundly precious being thrown down by the onslaught of progress and plastic.

After high school, Brendan joined the Navy to see the world; unfortunately, the world he saw was confined to the Southeastern United States and his short but interesting military career carried him no further than Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. But his limitless curiosity about everything and anything took him straight from the Navy into college where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in teaching, graduating with honors, hoping to make a secure place for himself in Middle Class America. This dream did not play out as expected when he found himself employed as a Middle School Science teacher in a very small Texas town. Of his 140 or so students, he found only three actually interested in learning anything other than how to annoy each other, the faculty and still play football on Friday night in spite of failing grades. The former, they excelled in and the latter, they accomplished by convincing their parents that their failing grade was a completely the fault of the teacher.

After one year of teaching, Brendan changed careers from teacher to Correctional Officer for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice where he knew he would be safe from irate parents.

Eventually, he worked his way up to an administrative position with the State of Texas and spent twenty-three years serving as a public servant. In early 2010, he retired and took up writing full-time.

Brendan Carroll has been an avid reader and student of such subjects as mythology, quantum physics, environmental science, geology, archaeology, paleontology and astronomy. He has taken courses in astrology, numerology and other arcane subjects including alchemy, tarot and dream interpretation. His interests have taken him from the sterile labs of absolute science to the dusty attics of conspiracy theorists.

Always seeking to learn more and more, his varying interests and curiosity took him on a odyssey through religion as well. As a young boy, he attended a Pentecostal church. From there, he became a Baptist. Dissatisfied with those two, he studied with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Mormons and eventually took catechism classes, intending to convert to Catholicism. When the conversion failed to take, Carroll had to look elsewhere. Naturally, Catholicism, or rather, the history of Catholicism drew his attention next and he began to study the religions of those persecuted and pushed into oblivion by the Church of Rome: the Cathars, the Egyptian Coptic Christians and the practitioners of the so-called Black Arts.

Eventually, Brendan discovered the amazing history of the Crusades and, in particular, the mythos and legends surrounding the Knights Templar. After devouring every documentary and book available on the subject of the poor Knights.

Brendan Carroll currently has twenty-nine books published through non-traditional channels at Amazon.com for Kindle, Smashwords.com for various other eReaders and through Amazon’s print on demand paperback program.
The Assassin Chronicles series is drawing to a close with twenty-six of the thirty projected novels published. The series falls into the epic fantasy genre and details the adventures of the members of the Order of the Red Cross of Gold, poor Knights of Solomon’s Temp(less)

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Brendan Carroll's Blog

Do you believe?

I've been watching Ghost Hunters, one of my favorite shows even though some of the stuff they say and do is pretty dumb, I like most of it. The EVP's are creepy as hell when they are plain. Some of them, I don't know.
Right now, something is throwing rocks at them in this wild west ghost town. Very interesting.
I love this kind of thing though I can't say I'm brave enough to do what they do... go... read more »

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Books by Brendan Carroll

Average rating: 4.74 · 180 ratings · 16 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Knight of Death: The Assassin Chronicles (The Red Cross of Gold #1) 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross Of Gold Ii:. The King Of Terrors: The Assassin Chronicles (Volume 2) by Brendan Carroll (Goodreads Author), Carroll, Brendan 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross of Gold IV by Brendan Carroll (Goodreads Author), Carroll, Brendan 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross of Gold XIII:. The Children of the Temple 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross Of Gold X:. Genesis 6:5: Assassin Chronicles (Volume 10) 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross Of Gold XI:. Ars Arabia: The Assassin Chronicles 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross of Gold XII:. The Son of the Moon 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross of Gold VI:. The Dragonslayer 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross of Gold V 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Red Cross of Gold III:. The Head of the Crow 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Red Cross of Gold (22 books)
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The Red Cross of Gold III:. The Head of the Crow (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

1 chapters — updated Aug 18, 2010 09:42am

Description: The Ancient Order of the Red Cross of Gold is set upon by unexplained forces as the alchemist and assassin, Chevalier Mark Ramsay, learns a powerful lesson about physical alchemy when he unexpectedly 'gives birth' to the mythical Philosopher's Stone. The arrival of the Stone sets off a chain of events prophesied in a number of obscure alchemical texts in which he and his Brothers play pivotal roles. The Stone, coveted by many, understood by few, is stolen and held for ransom by a renegade ex-Templar. His bumbling disregard for the Templar Code catches the attention of an even more terrifying old enemy.

Tempo Rubato (Literature & Fiction)

1 chapters — updated May 11, 2010 06:48am

Description: Imagine an international company with unlimited resources and state of the art technology run by an ambitious, but unscrupulous woman without a moral conscience. Now add to that the genius of Albert Einstein and the talents of Wolfgang Mozart. Ask yourself the question: What could possibly go wrong?

The Red Cross of Gold II:. The King of Terrors (Literature & Fiction)

1 chapters — updated May 08, 2010 01:31pm

Description: Preface and Part of Chapter I

The Red Cross of Gold I:. The Knight of Death (Drama)

1 chapters — updated May 08, 2010 05:58am

Description: Preface and Chapter I

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Brendan Carroll marked as to-read: The Aduramis Chronicles: Destiny of the Wulf by Harrison Davies (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Brendan Carroll made a comment on Templar Enthusiasts: "Thanks for commenting, Rebecca! My thoughts exactly. Hope you enjoy my take on it. "
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Brendan Carroll liked Rebecca Graf's blog post: The Best Writers are Readers "I had never really thought about it until I was reading about how to improve my writing. If you don't read, why would you write? As I read, I find myself studying how various authors wrote certain..." ...read it »
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Brendan Carroll made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — The Red Cross of Gold:. Assassin Chronicles topic "Book 27 of the Red Cross of Gold, The Dove is up and running at Amazon for Kindle at http://tinyurl.com/7usz99l and also available at Smashwords at ht ...more "
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