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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert: John Urban’s A SINGLE DEADLY TRUTH is our eBook of the Day at Just 99 Cents with 4.9 Stars on 7 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample! Plus … Save 85% on our Kindle Deal of the Day – William Styron’s “Memoir of Madness”

Here’s the set-up for John Urban’s A Single Deadly Truth, just 99 Cents on Kindle:

A Single Deadly Truth “is a fast read that blends sunken treasure, deep-sea diving, fast boats and a cast of characters that run from bad guys to real bad guys to really really bad guys. (And that doesn’t even count the shark.)” –Author Frank Cook.

Urban sets the story on the waters of Cape Cod and Buzzards Bay and gives the reader a rewarding blend of adventure, seaside escapism, and maritime history. Fans of Clive Cussler, Peter Benchley, and Randy Wayne White will find a new hero in Steve Decatur.

“Sunken treasure, modern day pirates and and boats, what more could you ask for in a thriller? It’s obvious that John Urban knows boats and the area he writes about. This is a fast moving nautical thriller and I for one enjoyed it. Keep ‘em coming, John.” Mike Jastrzebski, author of THE STORM KILLER, KEY LIME BLUES, and DOG RIVER BLUES

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Like his protagonist, John Urban has worked as a college professor and he sails the waters of Southern New England on an old wooden sailboat that he restored. He is a regular contributor to the blog Write On The Water, and his short stories have appeared in the anthologies Seasmoke and Deadfall.

The ocean was his desired destination from an early age. As a boy living a landlocked life in Western Massachusetts, nights were dedicated to reading about boats and watching Flipper and weekends were spent boating and fishing, April-to-October, on Long Island Sound.
Thoughts of a career at sea ended early after a stint at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, but the circle of life has come around some years later in the form of the fictional world of Steve Decatur. Urban lives just outside Boston and spends his summers near the waters edge of Buzzards Bay and Rhode Island Sound. A Single Deadly Truth, published on Amazon Kindle, is Urban’s debut novel.

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Darkness Visible 

William Styron’s arresting “memoir of madness,” Darkness Visible, is a rare feat of literature, conveying his tortuous progression and eventual recovery from depression with both candor and precision.

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert: Fingers Murphy’s FOLLOW THE MONEY is our eBook of the Day at Just 99 Cents with 4.5 Stars on 20 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!

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“ALWAYS ASSUME PEOPLE ARE LYING, BUT NEVER ASSUME YOU KNOW WHY.”

Oliver Olson went to law school to help people.

But when one of the world’s most prominent law firms offers him a high paying summer job, he thinks he’d be crazy not to take it. He soon finds himself enthralled by a world of wealth, privilege, and power.

Blinded by his gilded new world, Ollie is slow to see that something is not right with the case he is assigned to work on – a case with no chance of winning, given to a “summer associate” merely to keep him busy.

Are people following him? Is he imagining things? Are they listening to his conversations? Why are people coming out of the woodwork with a sudden interest in a twelve year old murder case? And is it really possible that the wrong man went to prison?

Ollie wants to succeed, but when he sacrifices his own moral standards for a shot at the big time, he winds up staring down the barrel of a gun.

When you’ve sold out and can no longer follow your heart, you can only FOLLOW THE MONEY.

This novel is 75,000 fast-paced words.

From the reviewers:

Move Over John Grisham!  I would highly recommend this book. I thought it was an impressive debut novel. It’s not only well written and entertaining, but shows how easily people can get suckered, when they’re not thinking clearly and their judgment is clouded by illusions of comfort.   –  Debbie Mack

So Much Story For So Little Dough.  Follow the Money was a delicious beginning to my summer reading. While devouring my way through the pages, I actually stopped several times to send quick messages to friends, telling them to add this book to their stack.   –  Patti

Fast-Paced Legal Thriller Told with Equal Parts of Class and Snark.  –  Shanna Hammaker

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Fingers Murphy is the pen name of a well-known international criminal defense attorney. He spends most of his time on airplanes.

Kindle Daily Deal: Hidden in Plain View

Blair S. Walker’s bestselling book from the Darryl Billups Mystery series, Hidden in Plain View, documents a journalist’s determined pursuit of a serial killer who seems to know far too much about those who are intent upon cracking his case.

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert: India Drummond’s BLOOD FAIRIE is our eBook of the Day at Just $2.99 with 4.7 Stars on 17 Reviews! Here’s a Free Sample, Plus a Link to the Kindle Daily Deal!

Here’s the set-up for India Drummond’s Blood Faerie – Contemporary Urban Fantasy (Caledonia Fae, Book 1), just $2.99 on Kindle:

Unjustly sentenced to death, Eilidh ran–away from faerie lands, to the streets of Perth, Scotland. Just as she has grown accustomed to exile, local police discover a mutilated body outside the abandoned church where she lives. Recognising the murder as the work of one of her own kind, Eilidh must choose: flee, or learn to tap into the forbidden magic that cost her everything.

From the reviewers:

“If you like a little magic with your murder, Blood Faerie will keep you turning the pages.” L.J. Sellers, author of the bestselling Detective Jackson series

“…from page one I was pretty much hooked like a carp.” Mark Everett Stone, author of Things to Do in Denver When You’re Undead

“If you’re looking for a compelling, well written mystery with a touch of romance, I highly recommend this book.” – Talli Roland, author of The Hating Game

“…by far one of the best books I have read with regards to the realm of the Fae.”  -Darkissreads.com

“This novel has a lot going for it. There is tension and evident culture clashes with a splash of romance thrown in for good measure.” -ForBooksSake.net

“All in all, this is hands down one of the most unique Fae stories I have ever read before- India Drummond has truly created a beautiful world.” – Avery’s Book Nook

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India knew from age nine that writing would be her passion. Since then she’s discovered many more, but none quite so fulfilling as creating a world, a character, or a moment and watching them evolve into something complex and compelling.
She has lived in three countries and four American states, is a dual British and American citizen, and currently lives at the base of the Scottish Highlands in a village so small its main attraction is a red phone box. In other words: paradise.

The supernatural and paranormal have always fascinated India. In addition to being an avid sci-fi and fantasy reader, she also enjoys mysteries, thrillers, and romance. This probably explains why her novels have elements of adventure, ghosts (or elves, fairies, angels, aliens, and whatever else she can dream up), and spicy love stories.

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KND Bargain Book Alert: THE EGYPTIAN is our Kindle eBook of the Day – Just 99 Cents with 5.0 Stars from 7 Reviewers, and Here’s a Free Sample!

Here’s the set-up for Layton Green’s The Egyptian, just 99 cents on Kindle:

On Sale for $.99 Through Release Weekend Only (Through August 28)!

At a mausoleum in Cairo’s most notorious cemetery, a mercenary receives a package containing a silver test tube suspended in hydraulic stasis.

An investigative reporter tracking rogue biomedical companies is terrified by the appearance of a mummified man outside her Manhattan apartment.

A Bulgarian scientist who dabbles in the occult makes a startling discovery in his underground laboratory.

These seemingly separate events collide when Dominic Grey and Viktor Radek, private investigators of cults, are hired by the CEO of an Egyptian biomedical firm to locate stolen research integral to the company’s new life extension product. However, after witnessing the slaughter of a team of scientists by the remnants of a dangerous cult thought long abandoned, Grey and Viktor turn from pursuers to pursued.

From the gleaming corridors of visionary laboratories to the cobblestone alleys of Eastern Europe to a lost oasis in the Sahara, Grey and Viktor must sift through science and myth to uncover the truth behind the Egyptian and his sinister biotech – before that truth kills them.

For fans of Douglas Preston, Steve Berry, Dan Brown and the X-Files.

Praise for the Works of Layton Green

“Green’s debut The Summoner was such a great read, I was hoping that he’d duplicate his literary excellence. In his second book, The Egyptian, Green did not disappoint me, he exceeded my expectations.”

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The Summoner is one of those books that make you want to turn on all the lights in your house and lock the doors . . . The settings are authentic and you can feel and smell the countryside . . . This is a wonderful read for those who enjoy both suspense and action stories.”

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Mystical, complicated, completely believable and terrifying . . . [w]ith an ending that will catapult you out of your reading chair. Riveting.”

The Review Broads

“Favorite book of the year so far.”

A Novel Source

“I moved a little outside my comfort zone with The Summoner, and I am glad I did. A blend of action, history, anthropology, thrills, and chills, all delivered with a mature, polished voice. I am eager for more from this author.”

Scott Nicholson, Bestselling Author

“Layton Green has written a tale with supernatural and political undertones that unravels with ever increasing suspense . . . The book is plain terrific.”

Richard Marek, former President and Publisher of E.P. Dutton

“Layton Green is a gifted writer.”

Readers Favorite

“Green writes like a dream, and Dominic Grey is a fascinating protagonist . . . . The next installment of Green’s suspenseful storytelling and Grey’s next journey can’t come soon enough!”

Melody Moezzi, Award-winning Author, War on Error

“[T]his book is above and beyond in its narrative, its cohesiveness, the depth of its characters and the quality of the writing. This is one of the best books I’ve ever read for Odyssey Reviews.”

Odyssey Reviews

“Yes, I did put TWO Five Stars up there . . . giving Green’s The Summoner Five stars and Five stars alone downplays how I felt about this book . . . BUY THIS BOOK.”

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“[C]alls to mind such series as Jason Bourne and Indiana Jones, with supernatural/religious overtones thrown in.”

Bookhound’s Den

“An awesome read . . . The writing is polished and evocative, the subject matter fascinating, the characters intriguing, and the pace non-stop. Spooky and occasionally metaphysical, The Summoner harkens back to The Serpent and the Rainbow in its ability to convincingly portray seemingly paranormal events in a realistic (and therefore even creepier) manner.”

Blood Writes, Mystery Pick of the Week

“Wow. This book, it packs a walloping punch . . . What a truly original story this was.”

Tiffany Harkleroad, Book Blogger and Amazon Vine Voice

“This is truly a captivating novel. The excitement travels from page to page and this is one story that will stay with you way after you turn that last page.”

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From the reviewers:

A Fascinating Storyline, With Intriguing Characters And Non-Stop Action.  –  Yvonne (Fiction Books)

A brilliant sequel, can’t wait for the next one.  The Summoner, Layton Green’s debut novel, was all anyone could want from a thriller, with its lush description of an exotic locale, its fast pacing, its dark subject matter, and its believable, yet conflicted, central character. It was a mature novel, something complete, thoroughly researched, and written by an author who has clearly found his voice.   But The Egyptian is even better.   –  Russell E. Dalferes

Another MUST READ from Layton Green.  — Chuck OG

The Egyptian will not disappoint!.  –  D.J.

I have been looking forward to Layton Green’s follow up to his suprisingly good and refreshing book, the Summoner, and I was not disappointed. The Egyptianis a great sophomore showing by Green. –  John R.

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Layton is a mystery/suspense writer and the author of the Kindle best-selling and award-winning novel The Summoner. In addition to writing, Layton attended law school in New Orleans and was a practicing attorney for the better part of a decade. He has also been an intern for the United Nations, an ESL teacher in Central America, a bartender in London, a seller of cheap knives on the streets of Brixton, a door to door phone book deliverer, and the list goes downhill from there.
He has traveled to more than fifty countries, lived in a number of them, and has a burning desire to see every country, city, beach, moor, castle, cemetery, twisted street and far flung dot on the map. Religion and cults, as well as all things spiritual and supernatural, have also been a lifelong interest. Combine the travel and the religion with fifteen years of Japanese Jujitsu training, and the Dominic Grey series was born.

Layton lives with his wife and son in Miami. Please stop by his website at www.laytongreen.com.

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert! K.L. Brady’s WORST IMPRESSIONS is our eBook of the Day at Just 99 Cents with 4.7 Stars on 6 Straight Rave Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!

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Ever been a stand-out who doesn’t fit in?

Ever dream of finding the prince charming who can see beyond your clothes, hair, and shoes, to fall in love with the real you?

Meet Basketball phenom Liz Bennett, a clever tomboy who believes her first impressions are never wrong. She dresses down and lives her life under the radar in the high school social scene to keep her name out of the gossip mill. With two trouble magnet kid sisters and a mother obsessed with protecting her virginity, she’s already dealing with more drama than an Emmy-winning daytime soap opera.

She’s also unlucky in love…at least until two popular new guys enter her life and the sparks begin to fly.

Trent Whitman, Liz’s hot new admirer, pursues and woos her with his silver tongue and hazel eyes. He turns on the charm, and Liz believes she’s finally met “the one.” Darcell Williams, on the other hand, is a star football player, who sticks his cleats in his mouth from day one. When Liz sizes them up, she decides Trent is a dream and Darcell is a devil reincarnate.

During the Back-to-School dance, Darcell spews an oh-no-he-didn’t insult that—in her mind—confirms she’s right about him from the first moment they meet and their feud is on and popping! But when a Bennett family crisis reveals Darcell’s and Trent’s true colors, will Liz’s pride prevent her from accepting each for who he really is?

From the reviewers:

Funny, Drama, Filled Urban Romantic Comedy for Kids and Adults!  Daughter’s review: This was so funny I was laughing most of the time I read this. I finished this book in just three hours. Liz was so funny. Her mom was over protective and her dad reminded me a lot of mine. The love story had a lot of drama and boyfriend stealing, and her sisters were funny too. But what I liked most was Liz, who was a good girl that loved her sisters who she thought were more pretty than she was. I give this 5 stars out of 5, because it was just so funny. Parent Review:   It’s good for adults too! I read it with her. It’s an Urban Romantic Comedy, so there’s a bit of slang, but not too much. My daughter thought it was funny also since we live close to the city and I grew up living in some of the places in the book.  –  Luke 22

Brady takes a classic new-boy-in-town story and makes it a hilarious romp through a high school girl’s life. You will laugh out loud on every page.  A must-read for everyone who likes teen romance.  –  Linda Ulleseit

 

K. L. Brady is a D.C. native and grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland, the setting of her debut novel. When she hit her “tween” years, her mother packed the family and moved to Bellaire, Ohio, where she eventually graduated from Bellaire High School. She attended the University of Akron for a few semesters, where she pledged Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., before moving back to the D.C. area.

She discovered a love for reading and writing at the age of three, by her mother’s accounts. Through the years, she has maintained diaries and journals, but the journals she wrote as an adult provided the inspiration for The Bum Magnet.

“Journaling allowed me to keep my writing a secret from the world. I’d write things and crack myself up, but I just never conceived of actually pursuing writing as anything other than an emotional outlet–that is, until I turned forty. With the real estate slump (my second love), and a high dose of Oprah’s Best Life series, I realized I was suppressing a major part of who I was. I wanted to share my voice, experiences, and wacky sense of humor. The convergence of all those things was the kick the pants I needed to get off my duff and write my novel. Although most of the novel is a figment of my imagination and stretched truths, the main character’s life does mirror my own in some respects…unfortunately.”

A single mom, Brady lives just outside of D.C. in Cheltenham, Maryland, with her son, William. She’s an editor for a government contracting firm and an active real estate agent. Visit her webpage at http://www.authorklbrady.com

 

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert! From 1120 to 1307, the Knights Templar answered to nobody, had the strongest military, crossed borders at will, and financed monarchies. What if they returned now to challenge Al Qaeda without worrying about media, Congressional hearings, or the next election cycle? Terrence O’Brien’s THE TEMPLAR CONCORDAT is our Kindle eBook of the Day: 4.9 Stars on 10 Straight Rave Reviews, Just $2.99 on Kindle, and Here’s a Free Sample!

If you loved the ideas behind Da Vinci and The Lost Symbol, but you weren’t so crazy about all the arty esoterica, THE TEMPLAR CONCORDAT could hit your sweet spot.

Here’s the set-up for Terrence O’Brien’s The Templar Concordat, 4.9 stars from 9 reviewers and just $2.99 On Kindle:

When the truth is your greatest danger, and the enemy knows the truth, things can only go downhill when the enemy finally gets the proof. And that’s the proof the Hashashin get when they steal what the Vatican doesn’t even know it has.

Now the infallible decrees of two Twelfth Century popes and three kings, stolen by the Hashashin, threaten to catapult the bigotry, bias, and religious blood baths of the Third Crusade straight into the Twenty-First Century.

When Templars Sean Callahan and Marie Curtis are drawn into the mess, they face an ancient enemy that has already nearly won the battle, a newly elected Mexican pope being undermined by entrenched Vatican powers, world class scholars who will sell their prestige to the highest bidder, and terrorists lingering over lattes in sidewalk cafes.

Moving from Rome to London, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia, Callahan and Curtis are desperate to find some way to stem the success the Hashashin are having enlisting the majority of moderate Muslims in their Jihad.

From the Author

The idea for the book began to grow a few years ago as news reports revealed more and more about Al Qaeda. What struck me was the fact that it had no national allegiance. It operated outside the established nation state system. Al Qaeda didn’t care what the government of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan, or Iran thought. It did whatever it wanted, and claimed to be doing it to further world-wide Islam. 

So, I wondered what things would be like if there was an organization in the West that was also free from the governments of the West. How would they combat Al Qaeda? What kind of scene would play out across the world if that kind of group challenged Al Qaeda without worrying about media, Congressional hearings, appeals courts, public opinion, or the next election cycle?

Then I remembered there once was such a Western organization when the Knights Templars were active from 1120 to 1307. They answered to nobody, had the strongest military of the day, crossed borders at will, amassed a huge fortune, engaged in trade and commerce, and financed many of the monarchies.

So, why not bring the Templars forward in time, and let some escape the ambush by the King of France and the pope that destroyed them in 1307? And since the Templars were a creation of the Crusades and the Church, let those players come into the present day, too. And the Hashashin, a secretive branch of Islaimi Shiite Islam that excelled in covert operations? Let them escape their destruction by the Mongols in 1275, and come forward to the present day.

I also noticed news stories about the discovery of the Chinon Parchment from 1308 dealing with the Templar trials. The document had been misfiled in 1628 and was lost to history until an Italian researcher found it buried in the stacks of the Vatican Library in 2001. So the notion that things could get lost for hundreds of years in a library was definitely reasonable.

The result is The Templar Concordat. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Terrence O’Brien

After leaving the Marine Corps I began a career in mine and oil field development. So, I have followed the oil fields spanning Alaska, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia, and now live with my wife in Kansas City where I became a floor trader at the Kansas City Board of Trade. I’m currently working on Avram’s Cross, the second book in the series.

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert! SHOCKING, FUNNY, SAD AND RAUNCHY! Think “Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove, with a hilarious dash of Catch-22 thrown in” and you’ll have our Kindle eBook of the Day, Michael Harris’ THE ATOMIC TIMES – 4.6 Stars on 10 out of 11 5-Star Reviews, just $2.99 on Kindle!

Here’s the set-up for Michael Harris’ The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground, 4.6 stars on 10 out of 11 rave reviews, just $2.99 on Kindle:

A real-life Catch-22 — with radiation

The searing and subversively funny memoir of a young Army draftee’s experiences during the H-bomb tests of the 1950s —
In late 1955, twenty-two-year old army private Michael Harris “earned” an assignment to Eniwetok Atoll, ground zero of U.S. Joint Task Force Seven’s Pacific Proving Ground.  There, on a desolate stretch of the South Pacific, Harris was part of a grand experiment called Operation Redwing.

The biggest and baddest of America’s atmospheric nuclear weapons test regimes, Redwing was one of those strange Cold War phenomena that mixed saber rattling with mad science, while overlooking the cataclysmic human, geopolitical and ecological effects.  But mostly, it just messed with guys’ heads.

With The Atomic Times, Michael Harris welcomes readers into the U.S. Army’s version of the nuclear family — the young men stationed in the Pacific during the 17 tests of Operation Redwing, where the local F-words were fallout and fireball.  As Harris tells it, daily life at ground zero could have been scripted by a committee comprising Franz Kafka, Sergeant Bilko, Hubert Selby, and Joseph Heller — all working within the constraints of the peacetime army’s unofficial modus operandi, “Hurry up and wait.”

When not playing radioactive guinea pig, Harris’ jobs included editing the base’s newspaper, cheekily named The Atomic Times, whose logo was a mushroom cloud and whose motto was “All the News That Fits, We Print.”  Harris, in a distinctive narrative voice, describes his H-Bomb year with unforgettable imagery and insight into how isolation and isotopes change men for better and for worse.

MICHAEL HARRIS began writing The Atomic Times in 1955 when he was an army draftee stationed on Eniwetok and finished fifty years later. In between, he married novelist Ruth Harris and spent years as a public relations executive at CBS Television, eleven of them on The Ed Sullivan Show — he was the first person to welcome the Beatles to America on their initial trip to the United States. Mr. Harris is also the author of the national bestseller, Always On Sunday: An Inside View of Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra & Ed’s Other Guests
Praise for Michael Harris’ The Atomic Times:

“THE ATOMIC TIMES is a gripping memoir of the first H-bomb tests by one of the small groups of servicemen stationed at Ground Zero on Eniwetok Atoll.  Leavened by humor, loyalty and pride of accomplishment, this book is also a tribute to the resilience, courage and patriotism of the American soldier.”
— Dr. Henry Kissinger

“Brilliantly conceived, elegantly rendered and persuasively authentic.”
— Robert B. Parker, bestselling author of the Spenser and Jesse Stone series

“One of the best books I’ve ever read, combining elements of Catch 22 and Dr. Strangelove in a memoir that is both hilarious and tragic.  A ‘must’ read, destined to become a classic.”
— John G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. (Harvard), winner of the Bancroft Prize for Inernational Affairs, member of the Council on Foreign Relations

“Harris has seamlessly presented a colorful cast of characters, and a shockingly honest depiction of his experience in the isolated Pacific islands during the 1956 H-Bomb tests.  The effect is at once deeply personal and politically profound.”
— Senator Charles Schumer

“The Atomic Times was a heavily censored military newspaper to which Harris contributed during his hellacious tour of duty on the island of Eniwetok, the Atomic Energy Commission’s Pacific Proving Ground.  Drafted in 1955, Harris didn’t think anything could be worse than his miserable, motherless childhood, but life was by turns absurd and terrfiying on Eniwetok as he and his stressed out comrades witnessed the testing of monstrous hydrogen bombs without protective gear.  Not only did the military cut down every tree and plant and pave paradise, the massive tests poisoned the air and the beautiful turquoise ocean.  The physical health of the men was threatened, and so was their sanity.  Bored, frightened, angry, and sexually frustrated, the men turn cruel, violent and suicidal.  Harris’ frank and disturbing descriptions of the criminally irresponsible proceedings on Eniwetok and the physical and mental pain he and others endured constitute shocking additions to atomic history.  Amazingly enough, given his ordeal, Harris, author of a popular biography of Ed Sullivan, with whom he worked at CBS, remains healthy.”
— Booklist

“Life on Eniwetok Atoll in the 1950s was a case of the doldrums punctuated by massive blasts, a pattern that mirrors Harris’ memoir of his time as a drafted soldier stationed far out in the Pacific during a series of hydrogen bomb tests, twelve of which Harris witnessed sans protective goggles. (The money initially earmarked for enlisted men’s goggles was diverted to buy new furniture for the colonel’s house. “Goggles are important,” Harris is told. “But the colonel’s furniture is important, too.”) Harris, also the author of the Ed Sullivan biography Always on Sunday, uses a chatty, dead-pan voice that highlights the horrifying absurdity of life on the island: the use of Geiger counters to monitor scrambled eggs’ radiation level, three-eyed fish swimming in the lagoon, corroded, permanently open windows that fail to keep out the radioactive fall-out and enlisted men whose toenails glow in the dark..  An entertaining read in the bloodline of Catch-22, Harris achieves the oddest of victories: a funny, optimistic story about the H-bomb.”
— Publisher’s Weekly

“Harris’s memoir is a chilling reminder that human beings are capable of great destruction as well as great teamwork and achievement.”
— Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager

“An important book about Harris’s fascinating experiences. A grim warning of what can happen in our own country if we do not find a way to end the nuclear threat.”
— Christie Brinkley, author, supermodel and anti-nuclear activist

Comments from other Atomic Veterans of Operation Redwing

“Michael Harris captures the feeling of isolation that all of us had on the remote Pacific island of Eniwetok and he shows the horrors of living with mushroom clouds.  THE ATOMIC TIMES   is impossible to put down.  It grabs you in a very compelling way.”
— Leon Nelms
Corinth, Mississippi

“Brought back memories of serving on Eniwetok during Operation Redwing.  I relived the excitement, the awe and the fear of wathcing atomic and hydrogen bombs being detonated, as well as the mind-numbing emptiness of an island which made you count the days until you could leave.”
— Chuck Morgan
Arlington Heights, Illinois

“WOW!  I too watched it sitting on the beach facing West across the lagoon through slits in the fingers covering my eyes (no goggles!).  It was truly awesome! The horrific rumble!  Goose bumps all over my body.  The flash.  The rising stem of the mushroom cloud.  And, the eerie time lag between the sight and the sound of the deep rumble we all felt that morning on the beach!  I can even feel the unimaginable power of the explosion these many years later…..Thanks for helping me remember.”
— Robert Cherouny
Round Hill, Virginia

 

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