Böcker av Robert W Barker

Peter Binder, geologist, gold explorer, and former SEAL, and his lover, Maria Davidoff, are still recovering from their violent confrontation with nuclear terrorists in the Arctic of Canada. The enemies they made in the barren northern lands of Canada still pursue them.Peter takes an assignment to examine a new gold discovery in Indonesia, potentially the richest gold mine in the history of the world. With this first step, he and Maria plunge into converging, bloody, and violent plots that focus on a mysterious and massive hoard of gold. Conspirators aim to use the gold to subvert the Constitution and install a fascist dictator to rule the United States. A Russian spy and a Japanese gangster have their own designs on the gold.In deadly encounters across the globe, Peter and Maria repeatedly confront the hurricane of evil that is drawn to the gold. Is the United States government so fragile that it can be so easily destroyed? Peter and Maria must fight through the layers of deception and betrayal all around them and deliver the truth to Washington and the president of the United States.

This short book is a distillation of a series of Haiku written by the author over a period of one year. It was an enforced exercise in meditation, spending a portion of each day in quiet contemplation, during a very difficult year in his life. This selection provides one poem for each week of the year. They are roughly broken into four classifications, Relationships, Spirits, Nature and Vision, and ending with Pathways and Passages, though some defy classification. Some of the poems examine the time of life, such as The Gaining: Time, signpost of life; To gain life, leave time behind. Treasure the losing. Others are focused more on visions of spirits, such as 911 Anniversary: Touch the fading dreams; Wind whispers, gray smoke dissolves. Nothing left to hold.

"Faster, faster come the German shouts. Louder and more impatient. Into the ravine they run. 'Schnell! Schnell!' No time to think. No time to escape. Fear chokes their hearts. Breathing comes quick and shallow. No place to hide. No place to go but down the bank, down into nature's quiet embrace, open to greet them, open to enfold them."The brutality and terror of the Holocaust is chillingly brought back to life in this series of fictional accounts from author Robert Barker. SS officer Hans Grüber, the sometimes confused and troubled perpetrator, acts as our guide by connecting the scenes in the different stories.With a focus on the stark, personal decisions made by the perpetrators and victims alike, The Devil's Chosen raises disturbing and enduring questions. Do we summon the bravery to stand against evil, or do we abandon all to save ourselves? Do we have the right and the power to forgive the silent bystanders as well as those responsible? What is our role?The Devil's Chosen brings the actions and decisions of both the victims and the perpetrators into focus against the unforgiving background of terror and death.