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Requiem for Daisy

On March 1, 2014, I published the novel Night Shadows, a police procedural featuring Det. Louis Martelli, NYPD. Below is the Forward to the book. In particular, it references the rape of Ms. Daisy Coleman of Maryville, Missouri, who was 14 years old at the time she was attacked.

Ted

Foreword

For a modern society, the statistics on child sexual abuse in the United States not only are staggering but also abhorrent. According to the US Department of Justice’s National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW), [see endnote 1] 33% of sexual assaults occur when the victim is between the ages of 12 and 17. Importantly, 82% of all juvenile victims of sexual abuse are female, with about one in five female high school students reporting physical and/or sexual abuse by a dating partner. Even more distressing is the fact that teens 16 to 19 years of age were three-and-one-half times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.

Anyone who has followed the day-to-day news in the US and Canada should not be surprised by these statistics. The media has put real names to the numbers . . . names such as Daisy Coleman of Maryville, Missouri, who, after accusing a high school senior of sexual assault and was bullied, was hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Or Rehtaeh Parsons from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who after allegedly being gang-raped and bullied, was hospitalized after she tried to hang herself on April 4, 2013. She was taken off life support three days later. Colman and Parsons were not alone. According to Suicide.org, numerous rape victims have suicidal thoughts; many die by suicide. [see endnote 2]

Nor do the living escape their tormenters. With 90% of teens and young adults online, the potential for abuse is significant, especially with the greater majority of those having a profile on a social network. In fact, nearly 80% of teens send and receive photos and videos online, some almost certainly pornographic. Nude selfies are not uncommon, with revenge porn—defined as sexually explicit media that are publicly shared online without the consent of the pictured individual [see endnote 3]—becoming increasingly common. The Internet always was a dangerous neighborhood; with time it has become more so, and more toxic, as well.

I don’t know if child sexual abuse has yet reached what the US and other health authorities might consider ‘epidemic proportions.’ But I do know I am seeing an increasing number of cases in the newspaper, on television, and on the Internet, among other media, where young women are assaulted and raped, are subsequently harassed, and bullied by their attackers and/or peers, and in some cases, are driven to suicide. And the pity of it is, for many of these victims, there is no justice.

This novel is an attempt to shine a spotlight on the problem of teen rape. Though many may see it as another Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD ‘ripped from the headlines’ mystery/thriller, know it is fiction through and through . . . the characters, the crimes, the dialogue, everything. It’s a fabrication. But still, this is an important story if for no other reason than to raise awareness of a scourge that is harming our children, the most precious part of our lives.

Theodore Jerome Cohen
March 1, 2014

It is with great sadness that now, it has been reported Daisy Coleman has committed suicide. According to CNN [see endnote 4]: “Daisy Coleman, whose allegation of sexual assault and ensuing harassment was chronicled in the Netflix documentary ‘Audrie and Daisy,’ died by suicide on Tuesday, her mother confirmed on Facebook. She was 23.” Her death comes eight years after the assault of which her high school classmate was accused. Charges were dropped for insufficient evidence though the classmate, Matthew Barnett, did eventually plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child. He was sentenced to two years’ probation.

Rest in peace, Daisy.

Endnotes:
1. http://www.nsopr.gov/en/Education/Fac...
[See this reference for additional references to the statistics cited.]
2. http://www.suicide.org/rape-victims-p...
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_...
4. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/us/dai...

Pepe the Penguin a Big Hit in Liberia

Thanks to Sam Fayiah of Bucks County, PA, sponsor of “Sam’s Kids,” the school children of Barnersville, patience shop, Gardnersville Somalia Drive, Monrovia Liberia, were the recipients of multiple copies in English and French of my illustrated anti-bullying storybook Pepe Builds a Nest. The photographs below are but a sample taken of the class members with copies of the books.












All of which proves the story of Pepe is universal.

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George Bernard Shaw once said: “Youth is wasted on the young.” Hopefully, you didn’t waste yours! Growing up as six-year-old child working in the coal mines of England in the 19th century, for example, precluded anything even close to what today would be considered a “normal childhood,” much less giving you a good chance of living past 30. Your chances of surviving to old age were somewhat better if you were born during the Great Depression, though then, many children often went to bed hungry. Compare their lives to those of children born after World War II. This anthology comprises 73 stories related to childhood selected from the 438 stories found in Books 1 through 6, incl., of the Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction anthologies. The stories, each 250 words or fewer in length, are best compared to a handful of peanuts or M&M’s. Which is to say, they’re tiny, bite-sized morsels that won’t let you stop with one!

Theodore Jerome Cohen is an award-winning author who has published more than ten novels—all but one of them mystery/thrillers—two short-story anthologies, eight flash fiction anthologies, and one Young Adult (YA) mystery/thriller written under the pen name Alyssa Devine. During his 45-year career he has worked as an engineer, scientist, CBS Radio Station News Service (RSNS) commentator, private investigator, and Antarctic explorer. What he’s been able to do with his background is mix fiction with reality in ways even his family and friends have been unable to unravel!

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Who doesn’t like a good animal story?! That’s why we created this special edition for our series on Flash Fiction. The contents of this seventh Flash Fiction anthology are drawn from the 438 stories found in Books 1 through 6, incl., of the Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction anthologies and are devoted entirely to our friends from the Animal Kingdom. Here you’ll find stories about loyal canines, mischievous felines, photobombing birds, and other creatures, large and small, that will make you smile, perhaps shed a tear, but always leave you thinking about this strange and awesome road we call “life.” The stories, each 250 words or less in length, are best compared to a handful of peanuts or M&M’s. Which is to say, they’re tiny, bite-sized morsels that won’t let you stop with one!

Book Review: Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents

Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents: A World War II Book for Kids by Carole Roman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is a wonderful book that, while primarily written for kids, can be enjoyed as well by adults. Written in a clear, concise voice, it begins, as does the war, in September 1939 by describing the countries and forces involved, discusses how the war evolved, defines the role spies played, and reveals the identities of some of the most famous spies, double agents, and code breakers of World War II. Now, I ask you: who could put a book like this down?!

But is isn’t just the war in Europe that the book discusses; also described, in the same manner, is the war in the Pacific and what pushed Japan to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. As was the case in Europe, spies in the Pacific were yet another threat with which the US had to contend.

But what really piqued my interest was the material on spies in the US. Yes, right in the good ole US of A. It may be hard to believe, but there were some among our population who were sympathetic to the Nazi cause . . . American citizens, perhaps, with German heritages? I remember my mother telling me about the time in 1940 when I was an infant and the three of us—my father, she, and I—were traveling by car from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to Milwaukee to visit her mother. We had stopped at a roadhouse along Highway 41. Inside, all the men were dressed in Nazi uniforms. Needless to say, we left immediately. Were some of those men immigrants who came to the US after World War I and now were spies?

As an adult, in researching material for a short story I was writing, I came across an article about how the Nazi’s landed spies on our East Coast, dropping them off from a submarine. So, yes, even on the US East Coast, we had to contend with spies.

But it just wasn’t the Nazis who had spies in the US. As the book tells us, even our allies had spies in the US. For example, Britain had spies in Washington for the purpose of influencing our country to join the Allied Forces and fight Nazi Germany.

One way to defeat spies, of course, is to encode messages. As for the US, a unique technique we employed involved Native American’s—the so-called Navajo Code Talkers—who used their little-known language to convey important intelligence between various commands. Other tools were used, as well. You’ll be impressed by the techniques described in the book.

One section in the book—the French Resistance—meant a lot to me personally. My Algerian-born, Paris-raised aunt, Gisèle Atlan Rubinstein, was arrested in Paris on January 31, 1944, and transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on February 10th (Convoy #68). Though Nazi records showed she died in that camp, Gisèle escaped from Auschwitz during an uprising in October, 1944, joined the French Resistance, and took to her grave the number tattooed on her inner forearm. Her life today is memorialized in a monument at the corner of rue des Trois-Coigneaux and avenue Charles de Gaulle in Paris.

Gisèle isn’t as famous, of course, as Virginia Hall, an American woman who spied for both the British and Americans against the Germans. Hall also lived in Paris when the war broke out. Her story is in the book, as is, among others, the story of Richard Sorge, aka “Ramsay.” Sorge, German, was born to a German father and Russian mother. He eventually left Germany and moved to the Soviet Union. There, the government encouraged him to join the Nazi party. Sorge then went to work for a German newspaper, which sent him to Japan. I won’t spoil the story that unfolds from there, but it’s a doozy! You’ll have to read the book to learn “Ramsay’s” fate.

This book would make the perfect holiday gift for children (and some adults, as well). It certainly held my interest and taught me a lot about the people who played important roles in the Allies’ battle to win World War II. I guarantee you . . . you will not be disappointed.




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JROTC building at Loudoun County High School named for Captain James F. Adamouski US Army.

Anyone who has read the fifth book in my Det. Louis Martelli, NYPD, mystery/thriller series—Eighth Circle—knows that Lou’s character honors my wife Susan’s and my good friend Captain James F. “Jimmy” Adamouski, US Army. In fact, not only was this book dedicated to Jimmy, but also, the book’s Afterword, reprinted below, talked about Jimmy’s life and, sadly, his death.

Now comes word from Jimmy’s dad, LTG Frank Adamouski, US Army (ret.), indicating the JROTC building at Loudoun County High School will be named for his son on Veterans Day, November 11, 2019. General Richard Cody will speak as well as others, the cadets will perform, the high school glee club will perform patriotic songs, and veterans of past wars will attend and may speak. This entire event has been supported by West Point classmates of Jimmy; the attendance by General Cody and LTG Polumbo was made possible by them. There will be a Veterans Day celebration prior to the Dedication involving the entire school. That will be a separate event from the Dedication Ceremony that will follow the students return to classes.

As seen below, the building already is decked out with its new name:


Photo courtesy Tonya Dagstani

If you are not familiar with Jimmy’s story and why he was an inspiration to so many, then you will find the Afterword to Eighth Circle below of interest.

Afterword

I have always been puzzled by the dedications found in novels and other forms of literature, small but important ‘honors’ paid to friends or family members, mentors perhaps, or a person who played an important role in the author’s life or the birth of the literary piece that now carries the honoree’s name. For most of us—dare I say all?—the dedication often is viewed as a private matter between the author and the person honored, something to which we are not privy. It’s a communication within a society of the chosen, if you will. We don’t know the secret handshake.

You may have felt the same as you read the dedication in this book. There you saw the words ‘For Jimmy’. Perhaps you simply shrugged, guessed it was a friend of mine, someone I knew and respected, and then you moved on and (I hope) enjoyed the novel.

But there is more to this dedication than that. ‘Jimmy’ was James Francis Adamouski, Captain, United States Army, a friend of my wife Susan’s and mine, and son of our good friends, Judy and Lt. Col. Frank Adamouski, US Army (ret.). Frank and I worked together for many years, traveling occasionally from Washington, DC, to Ft. Monmouth, NJ, for our work. When in New Jersey, we took time and headed north to visit Jimmy, who was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. There, he not only excelled academically but in sports as well, soccer being his game of choice. We had many a good meal together at The Thayer Hotel, something to which I always looked forward. And what an honor it was for those who attended Jimmy and Meighan’s wedding in Savannah, GA, after his graduation to witness the solemn ceremony with its military formality and to attend the beautiful reception that followed.

Upon graduation, Jimmy attended flight school at Ft. Rutger, AL, where he learned to fly Black Hawk helicopters. His first overseas deployment was in support of the US efforts to quell the Kosovo conflict, where as a lay Eucharist minister in the Catholic Church, the troops took to calling him “Father Jimmy” because he conducted prayer services for his fellow soldiers. Jimmy, who was to enter Harvard Business School in the fall of 2003, was killed in action when his Black Hawk helicopter crashed in central Iraq on April 2, 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His remains were buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery and West Point Cemetery.

If someone were to conclude Jimmy was the inspiration for the character Louis Martelli in my NYPD mystery/thriller novels, they would be correct.

Rest in peace, Jimmy. Thank you for your service to our country.


Photo courtesy of the Adamouski Family: Judy, Frank, Karen, Laura, Jaclyn, and Meighan (Jimmy's wife)

James Francis Adamouski, Captain, United States Army
2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia
Died in Central Iraq, April 2, 2003, at the age of 29

Theodore Jerome Cohen
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
Veterans Day
November 11, 2014

Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction: Kindle Sale

Kindle Edition On-Sale:
$0.99 in the US
£0.99 in the UK
October 26th-November 2nd

“Each story has a very different and unique plot with new and different characters as Cohen flawlessly spins every tale, taking the reader on a new adventure. I cannot wait to see what other tales Cohen has tucked into his other volumes.”
5-STARS: Amy Raines for Readers’ Favorite



This is to announce a sale for the first volume of my new anthology series, Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction. The book went “live” on July 5, 2019, with the Kindle edition to be on sale for 99 cents/£0.99 from October 26th through November 2nd.

Comprising 39 stories in a wide variety of genres, these tales—each “prompted” by an intriguing photograph—are sure to enthrall you with their humor, pathos, and intrigue.

A reprint of what can be found on the back cover is below:

People ask: ‘Why do you use photographic prompts when you write short stories and flash fiction?” Larry Sultan, an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California, provides one answer: “Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, ‘Isn't this a great family?' So, photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.” Beyond the physical, however, lie our memories and in them, the pictures stored in our minds’ eyes. As writers, aren’t these memories—both the physical and the “mementos of the mind”—the essence of our works, the prompts we use to spin words and phrases into literary tapestries our readers can use to discover something about life, a bit about us, perhaps, and, in the process, maybe even a little about themselves?

In this volume, you’ll find a story inspired by a 1973 PBS television show in which a steam bath is presented as the afterlife; here, however, the afterlife is a bowling alley overseen by the shoe attendant. In another story, we read a Civil War soldier’s last letter home to his father, a letter filled with horrible descriptions of his imprisonment in Andersonville and his concern for the steamboat journey upon which he is about to embark. And not to leave you without something of the paranormal, there’s even a story about the deep South and the superstitions that abound in Cajun Country. In short (pun intended), there is something in this book for almost every genre and taste.

This new anthology follows on the heels of my well-received series of eight flash fiction anthologies, including the six Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction volumes as well Flash Fiction for Animal Lovers and Flash Fiction Stories of the Young.

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Many of us enjoy a set of stories that can be enjoyed as brief, standalone visits to other places and times. Author Theodore Jerome Cohen has written such a set of tales in Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction, and with almost forty stories to choose from, there is at least one story for just about any reader. They certainly do vary in theme and location, both in time and space. One “unique” feature of this collection of stories is that each is accompanied by a photo that was used as the prompt for the composition of the story. In Ashley’s Revenge, readers witness a series of “romantic” encounters but its ending will bring a chuckle or a gasp. Cynthia introduces a tryst of chance with tragic consequences; Road to Autumn is a sound bite of a story with a famous crooner talking about “serendipity” and songs; Farewell to a Friend is a poignant commentary on a friendship, mostly by correspondence, and how time can still a favorite voice.

Theodore Jerome Cohen is a fine writer. It is difficult to give Mementos complete justice here. The stories are imaginative and complex while still being very readable, even when rendered in the nonstandard dialects of some of the characters. This collection of stories will certainly be one that readers can browse through by title when wanting something to read without having to invest attention and patience in a series of books, particularly if one has just enough time to read a short story or piece of flash fiction. There is an art to creating such quick stories, and this author has mastered it and, indeed, has a talent for it. If readers enjoy this collection, there is more to look forward to because this particular volume is the first of several. Also included in this book is a list of other published works by this author, so if readers want more, they are definitely available.

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I hope you will enjoy all of these anthologies and would love to hear what you think of the stories. You can write to me via my Website. As always, reviews are welcomed with open arms!

You’ll find Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction on Amazon.com at the URL below:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

If you’d like to read one of the short stories in this new anthology, visit the book’s Webpage on my Website, and click on the hotlink for “View an Excerpt.” There, you’ll find an interesting story about an unfortunate young woman who attempted to escape her past and, in the process, lost everything.

As always, thanks for your support.

Ted

Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction

“Each story has a very different and unique plot with new and different characters as Cohen flawlessly spins every tale, taking the reader on a new adventure. I cannot wait to see what other tales Cohen has tucked into his other volumes.” 5-STARS: Amy Raines for Readers’ Favorite

NOW ON SALE IN KINDLE AND PAPERBACK EDITIONS

This is to announce the release of the first volume in a new anthology series, Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction .

Comprising 39 stories in a wide variety of genres, these tales—each “prompted” by an intriguing photograph—are sure to enthrall you with their humor, pathos, and intrigue. (The photographs in the Kindle edition are in color.)

A reprint of what can be found on the back cover is below, as is the link to the book’s page on Amazon.com:

“People ask: “Why do you use photographic prompts when you write short stories and flash fiction?” Larry Sultan, an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California, provides one answer: “Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, ‘Isn't this a great family?' So, photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.” Beyond the physical, however, lie our memories and in them, the pictures stored in our minds’ eyes. As writers, aren’t these memories—both the physical and the “mementos of the mind”—the essence of our works, the prompts we use to spin words and phrases into literary tapestries our readers can use to discover something about life, a bit about us, perhaps, and, in the process, maybe even a little about themselves?

“In this volume, you’ll find a story inspired by a 1973 PBS television show in which a steam bath is presented as the afterlife; here, however, the afterlife is a bowling alley overseen by the shoe attendant. In another story, we read a Civil War soldier’s last letter home to his father, a letter filled with horrible descriptions of his imprisonment in Andersonville and his concern for the steamboat journey upon which he is about to embark. And not to leave you without something of the paranormal, there’s even a story about the deep South and the superstitions that abound in Cajun Country. In short (pun intended), there is something in this book for almost every genre and taste.”

This new anthology series follows on the heels of my well-received series of eight flash fiction anthologies, including the six Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction volumes as well Flash Fiction for Animal Lovers and Flash Fiction Stories of the Young.

I hope you will enjoy all of these anthologies and would love to hear what you think of the stories. You can write to me via my Website. As always, reviews are welcomed with open arms!

You’ll find Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction on Amazon.com at the URL below:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

If you’d like to read one of the short stories in this new anthology, visit the book’s Webpage on my Website, and click on the hotlink for “View an Excerpt.” There, you’ll find an interesting story about an unfortunate young woman who attempted to escape her past and, in the process, lost everything.

https://www.theodore-cohen-novels.com...

As always, thanks for your support.

Ted

A D-Day Salute

Meet Stanley “Stan” Jacobs, one of my wife Susan’s and my special workout buddies at LA Fitness on Oxford Valley Road in Yardley, PA.



To look at him you wouldn’t know he is 93-years young and as fit as you and I, if not more so!

But on June 6, 1944, blond, blue-eyed, 6-foot, 2-inch-tall, Brooklyn-born, German-speaking (he grew up in a household where German was spoken) Pvt. Stan Jacobs parachuted behind enemy lines at Normandy, took the dog tag off a dead Protestant soldier, hid his Jewish dog tag in his sock, and fought his way up the French countryside and into history. Along the way he was wounded twice, met General Patton, masqueraded as the son of a high-ranking German general (dressed as an SS major, Stan was driven by another soldier dressed in a Nazi uniform to the general’s headquarters, where Stan brazenly walked in and stole plans Patton needed for a forthcoming battle), fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and marched into Berlin at the end of the war. Before returning Stateside, he observed the Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in Nuremberg.

Stan doesn’t consider himself a hero, but Susan and I do. He was one of millions who were part of The Greatest Generation that saved the world from the madness of Nazi Germany.

On this sacred day—the 75th Anniversary of D-Day—we owe Stan and his Band of Brothers a debt of gratitude.

“All gave some, some gave all.”

The story below (which appears in Mementos, my soon-to-be-released book of short stories and flash fiction) is tendered as our way of paying homage to Stan. Only the names and some of the details (parachuting in vs. landing on a beach) have been changed to protect the innocent (as they say).

Ted





“The Observer” (Photo: U.S. Military; Wikimedia Commons,
public domain)
View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, November 22, 1945.

“Name, rank, and serial number,” barked the MP.

The Observer

“Name, rank, and serial number,” barked the MP.

“Stan Jacobson, Sergeant First Class, 02356974.”

“That’s not what’s on your dog tag, Jacobson,” sneered the MP, grabbing the chain from around the sergeant’s neck. “This tag reads ‘Glen Peterson’. It says the man’s religion is Protestant. Jacobson sounds more Jewish to me. You got some explaining to do, Sergeant!”

“Yeah, well, that dog tag is my lucky charm; took if off Peterson on Omaha Beach, D-Day, 1944. We were in the 116th Infantry, 29th Division. He went down the minute we hit the beach. I knew if the German’s took me alive, they’d kill me on the spot. So, I buried my tag in my sock and wore Peterson’s right through the war, right up through the Battle of the Bulge and on the tank I rode into Berlin! Here, I’ll show you.”

He sat, pulled down his sock, and retrieved his dog tag, which he handed to the MP. “That’s the real McCoy, but I’ll tell you this: I’ll wear Peterson’s ’till the day I die! It’s what got me through the war!”

The MP looked at the tag. Satisfied with its legitimacy, he asked, “Any weapons?”

“Just two knives and a .45.”

“Okay, leave ’em in this basket.” Then, the MP pointed to the door that led to a balcony overlooking the Nuremberg courtroom. “You have twenty minutes to watch the proceedings. Keep your mouth shut and both hands on the railing in front of you.”

Book III of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy now available on Audible

The audiobook for End Game, the third book in the Antarctic Murders Trilogy, now is available:

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End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences, is Book III of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. In many ways, it brings to an end three things: the sagas of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur, the hunt for the millions of dollars in U.S. and British cash, negotiable securities, gold coins, and jewelry stolen from the Banco Central de Chile following the Chilean Earthquake of May, 1960, and the murders that followed the robbery. Book I: Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World, introduced American scientists Ted Stone and Grant Morris, who, while performing geological and geophysical field work with the assistance of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Chilean auxiliary tug Lientur, were caught up in the hunt for the robbers and the spoils from the robbery, and murder. Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer, introduced Captain Mateo Valderas and Lieutenant-Commander Antonio Del Río of the Chilean Navy's Office of Internal Affairs. Initially assigned to solve a murder in Arica, they soon found themselves facing perhaps the most vicious, cunning thief and murderer they ever encountered. The return of American scientists Ted Stone and Grant Morris to Santiago for the purpose of helping personnel of the University of Chile prepare for the 20th Chilean Expedition to the Antarctic, beginning in December 1965, jeopardizes the lives of both scientists. What irrational acts will elicit the tragic consequences that finally bring everything to an end? For the answer, read Book III: End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences.

Free with your Audible trial.

You can listen to an excerpt on the audiobook’s Amazon.com webpage.