Böcker av Rodger Carlyle

THE SHADOW GAME is the story of how one family can stir up a war between two countries, and how the terror of nuclear weapons on American soil creates chaos and demands for retribution.The Hakimi family has devoted decades to regime reform in their beloved Iran, finally realizing that they alone will never have the power to achieve it. But the regime can never survive the power of the United States, and so the family goes to work to provoke the U.S. into action.When a bomb goes off in Greensboro, North Carolina and America's extraordinary nuclear detection systems prove to be inadequate, Team Walker is activated, a group of brilliant misfits who somehow see things others don't and who find patterns others miss. After weeks of data mining, old fashioned espionage and traditional police work, the team is still at a loss as to how the weapon reached American soil and who detonated it, and most terrifyingly, why. If they can figure out who the enemy is, they might stop further destruction. That dream explodes along with part of Reno, Nevada as a second bomb is detonated.Intelligence patterns are detected by tracking multiple incidents, but when each incident guts an American city, there has to be a better way.

Chad Gritt, the lanky, blue eyed, former Civil War naval officer once thought of himself as a hero, that is until a rescue mission turned into a bloodbath. Now he is content to captain a ship carrying heroes on their mission. That is until the enemy sinks his ship and throws the soft-spoken recluse into leading survivors across a thousand miles of Mexican Civil War that makes the American Civil War look tame. It's 1865 and the War Between the States is almost over. In Mexico, a far more brutal civil war is reaching a turning point. President Lincoln's advisors and most of Congress favor using Civil War military power to intervene in the Mexican War as a prelude to annexing the country. Lincoln himself has intervened in the Mexican conflict where his move is distrusted by those he seeks to help and hated by the other side. He is also plotting with Russia to purchase Alaska in hopes of heading off American troops invading their southern neighbor. As part of his efforts to head off a foreign war that the American public doesn't support, Lincoln and Secretary of State, William Seward send a clandestine exploration team to the Pacific. The explorers are shocked to find that one of Seward's own lieutenants is plotting against their mission, a mission made more critical when the U S Treasury entrusts millions in California gold to them. Gold that the collapsing Confederacy plans on stealing to support Southern Officers who have lost everything. Sinking Gritt's ship is critical to their effort. The explorers begin burying their own one at a time. No one they meet can be trusted in a country where everyone is a pawn to be played, killed, or sold. Will help come from the colorful captain of the only ship of the Free State of Jones, or from one of two beautiful Mexican women; one passionately involved in Mexico's conflict and the other fleeing it?

A fatherly thriller writer and a young female progressive journalist explore America's political divide from opposite sides by trying to find common ground. Through conversations and interviews with Americans from different walks of life, they gain a better understanding of each other and their country, the imperfect but exceptional United States of America, where You Own You.AWAKE is a gentler version of STILL COMMON SENSE, which digs deeply into how America got into a situation where many Americans feel obligated to ignore and even chastise the other side.

Complex and fact based, STILL COMMON SENSE embraces the traditional truths of America with hard documentation, the kind of book that will appeal to Americans with conservative political views, as well as progressives interested in countering the conservative agenda. STILL COMMON SENSE digs deeply into how the United States got into a situation where many Americans feel obligated to ignore and even chastise the other side. Many of the conclusions reached might be different depending on the individual's beliefs and personal experiences, but STILL COMMON SENSE was written to challenge all of us to consider the imperfect but exceptional United States of America, where You Own You.