History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Dark Water Dive: An Underwater Investigation

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Entertaining yet predictable, technical errors.
You Had to Be There
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Dark Water Dive Good Fun
Plotting Needed Work, but an Enjoyable Story

Dark Water Dive: An Underwater Investigation
Kathy Brandt
Manufacturer: Signet
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ASIN: 0451212525
Release Date: 2004-07-06

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A new underwater investigation from the author of Swimming with the Dead...

Homicide detective Hannah Sampson has traded the Colorado Rockies for the sunnier climes of the British Virgin Islands. But a murdered tourist whose marriage may not have been all smooth sailing-and colleagues eager to sink her career-have left Hannah navigating the stormy waters of betrayal, greed, and murder as cold as the deep blue sea...

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Entertaining yet predictable, technical errors. .......2006-05-21

Dark Water Dive was a typical murder mystery & it was easy to figure out whodunit before the ending although the "why" had a nice twist. I would have liked to see al ittle more development of other characters in the book, specifically the boss & the love interest. The diving was well done except for a couple of technical errors that you wont notice if you arent a certified scuba diver. Easy beach read that wont tax your brain too much trying to remember alot of characters & plot twists...

You Had to Be There.......2005-08-21

This book is a must read for anyone who loves the British Virgin Islands. It goes very fast. The entire time you are reading your mind is actually in the islands. All the scenery is totally familiar and for a period of time you are enjoying your last vacation again.

Still Entertaining, But..........2005-06-09

Kathy Brandt has developed excellent characters and a strong sense of the British Virgin Islands in this second book in the series. However, as with her first, the mystery is a little thin. While still very entertaining and a must-read in my permanent library, I wish the author would stop revealing clues so early that the reader knows the solution before the main character. This one had a small twist that I knew was a clue but couldn't figure out; the rest was as clear as the Caribbean water.

Dark Water Dive Good Fun.......2004-10-27

Some books are made to take on a long plane or car trip. DARK WATER DIVE is one of them. The heroine, Hannah Sampson arrives in the British Virgin to take a job as an underwater investigator for the local police force. Ideally, she will escape the hideous crime scene she encountered regularly as a Denver officer. Of course, she promptly gets involved in a couple of murders, a bunch of robberies, and a dangerous dive into a cave off limits to tourists. While solving the crimes, she still finds time to romp on the beach, enjoy romance, make new friends, live on a sail boat, and play with her dog, Sadie.

A hot-shot young cop tries her patience when he drives the police boat full throttle, and an environmentalist gets into too many faces for her own good, forcing Hannah to keep watch on her.

All this action, set against the back drop of the British Virgin Islands makes a light and lively read. Ms. Brandt's experience as a skin diver adds a touch of reality to the book. She gives a good picture of diving procedures, and the sensaiton of diving, without boging the reader down in a technical manuel. She also talks about environmental issues and touches on mental illness. This adds depth to DARK WATER DIVE. The plot has plenty of twists and turns to keep the reder guessing whodun it. DARK WATER DIVE is perfect for the beach, the airport, or Saturday afternoon. I enjoyed it.

Plotting Needed Work, but an Enjoyable Story.......2004-08-09

Hannah Sampson has just moved down to the British Virgin Islands and taken a job with their police force. On her first day, she's sent to investigate a missing husband. She's sure he just spent the night with someone else, until his body turns up in the water with a bullet hole in his head. He doesn't seem to have any enemies. Furthermore, why would anyone want to kill a man on vacation?

When I read the first in the series, I complained about the characters. This time around, the characters seemed better, but the plot left much to be desired. It started off pretty slowly with some irrelevant things. There were two main sub-plots, one was under-developed and the other was over-developed and slowed down the main plot. In fact, it was just there to be preachy since the author admits at the end that it really isn't a problem in the BVI's. The main plot was enjoyable and had me confused for most of the book. I guessed the ending about 100 pages from the end and had to wait until Hannah could prove it to see if I was right. Even then, there was a twist I hadn't counted on.

This sounds harsh, but I really did enjoy the main storyline, characters, and setting. It's obvious the author loves the setting as she expertly brings the islands to life. I'm ready to hop a ship and spend some time sailing around them myself. This book is a great vacation read or a great read if you wish you were on an exotic vacation. Hopefully the author will perfect her plotting while continuing to bring the islands and their secrets to life.

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Lots of suspense
Dark Water makes for a great read
Intricate Mystery with a surprise ending
Fantastic!
Raw Christian Fiction, Great Read!

Dark Water (Fog Point Series #1)
Linda Hall
Manufacturer: WaterBrook Press
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ASIN: 1578569540
Release Date: 2006-04-18

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P.I. Jake Rikker has been retained to find a stalker.
A challenge that could help redeem his life–if he doesn’t lose it first.

A private investigator, kayak adventurer, and whale watching tour guide who specializes in salvage operations based out of an old, purple church, Jake Rikker is caught off guard by the request of his new client. Up-and-coming jewelry designer Elise St. Dennis wants him to find not a valuable object, but the menacing ex-con who has traced her to the small town of Fog Point.

Elise is desperate and afraid to go to the police. So, seeing the job as an opportunity to take his focus off his divorce and his relationship with his estranged daughters, Jake throws himself into helping someone who clearly needs him. The fact that Elise is pretty, vulnerable, and unattached doesn’t hurt either.

Aided by his business partner, May–a crusty widow–Jake sets out in pursuit of the stalker. But as they draw ever closer to their prey it becomes terrifyingly clear that they have become not the hunters but the hunted …

Customer Reviews:

Lots of suspense.......2007-07-14

Wesley Stoller is out of prison, and that spells big trouble for Elise St. Dennis. On the day he was sentenced for murdering his brother, Wes threatened to find Elise and kill her. She knows her ex-brother-in-law, and is sure he intends to make good on that threat. Running scared, Elise hires Jake Rikker and May Williams, private investigators to locate the ex-con and make sure he can't find her. Jake is attracted to Elise, which gets in his way, but as the investigation turns up secrets he never expected to find, he discovers she's not all she claims to be.

Linda Hall is a new author for me, and I enjoyed her writing. Dark Water is a tightly woven, exciting blend of death and deception where nothing is really what it appears to be.

Dark Water makes for a great read.......2006-10-02

Linda Hall is one of the best contemporary mystery writers and each year she gets better and better. Dark Water offers far more than a genre novel, though it certainly has mystery galore, danger and some fascinatingly creepy characters. Hall captures voice and paints complex characters with literary precision and great insight. I sure hope to read more about Dark Water's odd couple PI team, who run a whale watching business on the side out of a purple-painted building in fictional Fog Point. Hall's left room for the villain Moon to re-emerge in a subsequent book because he was never caught. AT least I hope that's what she's planning. What an amazing character.

Intricate Mystery with a surprise ending.......2006-09-08

I love Linda Hall's newest book, Dark Water. I love the people she's created in Fog Point.
As the mystery unravelled, I was riveted, and couldn't put the book down until I found out exactly what was going on.

Fantastic!.......2006-06-25

Linda Hall is an incredible writer. This mystery captured my attention on the first page and kept me guessing through the twists and turns. Great insight on whales and a powerful, surprise ending. Can't wait to read the next book in this series!

Raw Christian Fiction, Great Read!.......2006-06-08

I love the way that Linda writes a Christian themed book without being preachy and without watering down "real life". I am a Christian and mostly read Christian fiction. I'm a huge fan of suspense and mystery. Linda is by far my favorite author, I've read all her books and go into withdrawal when nothing new is out! Her writing is awesome and like I mentioned, she makes the characters real, they have an edge to them that is realistic. Not everyone has pure thoughts and intentions. Her villains are villains, no holding back on their character. I like that because so often I think b/c people write "Christian" that they have to sanitize their characters and that isn't how life is. I recommend all of Linda's mystery books. The setting is great and she spins a great mystery while at the same time keeping in touch with Faith.

Tami Hoag CD Collection 2: Still Waters, Cry Wolf, and Dark Paradise

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Tami Hoag CD Collection 2: Still Waters, Cry Wolf, and Dark Paradise
Tami Hoag
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on CD
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ASIN: 142331588X
Release Date: 2006-09-29

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Still Waters:
When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she's able to wash away the blood - but not the terror. Unwelcome newcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenage son are treated with suspicion by the locals, including the sheriff. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town's placid surface for the truth - except the killer.

Cry Wolf:
Attorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou Breaux to seek justice. That once-burning obsession had destroyed her credibility, her career, her marriage - and nearly her sanity. But when a ruthless predator strikes too close to home, she's lured into a perverse game from which there may be no escape. Once before, Laurel's cries against a monstrous evil went unanswered. Who will listen now?

Dark Paradise:
New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Now it's up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend's death. But someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. Someone with secrets worth killing for - and the power to turn this beautiful haven into a . . .Dark Paradise.

$My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark$
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Duncan leaves me speachless...
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My Story As Told By Water

My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
David James Duncan
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ASIN: 1578050839

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

When David James Duncan was growing up in suburban Portland, Oregon, he had no river to call his own, so he would routinely create one by flooding his mother's garden with a hose. He would then revel in his creation until he received the inevitable scolding. The poor kid couldn't help himself: "Running water ... felt as necessary to me as food, sleep, parents, and air," he explains. In time, he exchanged his nozzle for a fly rod and went in search of grander gardens, eventually developing an "interior coho compass" which he has traveled by ever since.

As any reader of The River Why knows, Duncan is a master of the art of writing about fishing--which is also to say life, since the two for him are indelibly linked. But these essays deal with far more than leaky waders and rising trout. Part memoir, part activist treatise, My Story As Told by Water is Duncan's love song to wild places and the creatures which inhabit them. The book's highlight is his powerfully convincing essay "A Prayer for the Salmon's Second Coming," in which he argues that saving salmon is crucial to both man and fish alike: "A 'modern Northwest' that cannot support salmon is unlikely to support 'modern Northwesterners' for long," he writes. In this elegant demand for the removal of four Snake River dams (out of 221 on the Snake/Columbia system), Duncan declares the wild salmon "a holiness, a divine gift," a role model rather than a resource: "Salmon are a light darting not just through water, but through the human mind and heart. Salmon help shield us from fear of death by showing us how to follow our course without fear, and how to give ourselves for the sake of things greater than ourselves."

He also ruminates on the true meanings of "place" and "home"; offers a fable on the 1872 Mining Act, "the most anachronistic and devastating piece of 'corporate welfare' in the world"; and details how Montanans rallied to prevent a giant mining company from extracting gold near the Blackfoot River, the setting of the Norman Maclean classic A River Runs Through It. All in all, My Story As Told by Water is a moving collection by an exquisite writer endowed with wit, compassion, and the rare ability to appeal to both emotion and reason in equal measures. --Shawn Carkonen

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In this remarkable collection of essays, David James Duncan, award-winning author of The River Why, braids his contemplative, activist, and rhapsodic voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet.
The twenty-two essays in this collection swirl and eddy around the author's early-forged bond with the rivers of the Pacific Northwest and their endangered native salmon. With a bracing blend of story, logic, science, and humor, Duncan relates mystical, life-changing fishing adventures; draws incisive portraits of the humans and wild creatures who shaped his destiny; attacks the corporate greed and political folly that have brought whole ecosystems to ruin; and meditates on the spiritual and practical necessity of acknowledging our dependence on water in its primal state.

Customer Reviews:

Duncan leaves me speachless..........2006-02-26

The conflicted fiction and non-fiction writer delivers a masterpiece. Thank you David.

Self-indulgent nonsense.......2005-08-12

Duncan is a masterful wordsmith; this no one can reasonably dispute. But over the years, he has become so full of himself, so pretentious and self-important, that to me he is almost unreadable.

I give the book two stars because of a little bit of excellent fly fishing content, and because of Duncan's undeniable writing ability. But before you buy it, you should read Donald Miller's hilarious send-up of Duncan (whom he labels Trendy Writer) in "Blue Like Jazz." Don Miller -- now there's a guy who has something significant to say on metaphysical themes. Duncan is merely showing off; Khwaja Khadir indeed!

Stereotypical, obvious, pompus.......2004-04-03

Duncan's textbook rants are so predictable I found myself mouthing the next sentence before I read it. As someone who's work and life is submerged in environmental, water use, and preservation issues I find this type of stereotypical ranting more detrimental to the issues that concern me than most G.W. policies. Duncan preaches to the choir, but his preaching is so over the top it is a turn-off. While I agree with virtually every theme and policy he promotes, his pompus diatribes push me in the other direction. If this book were written 40 years ago it might strike a radical tone and inspire action. In these times it is merely a rehash of the new-age mumbo-jumbo that is so easy for the opposition to tear down.

This book will apeal to two audiences: new-age sheep, and right-wingers looking to bash environmentalists. The rest will find it harder to wade through than Columbia.

Henry Bugbee.......2004-03-06

For those who are interested in the life and teaching of Henry Bugbee, Duncan's account of Henry's last days makes this book worth reading.

My Story As Told By Water.......2003-11-06

My Story As Told By Water by David James Duncan was a confusing and overly political way to express the author's love for water. HIs diliverey is good, but he should keep in mind that his readers are reading for entertainment, not to hear about our government's poor decisions.

Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub

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NR-1 Crewmember revisits
A good solid read~!
Excellent history of a little-known submarine
Fascinating little known story
Muddy Waters

Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub
Lee Vyborny , and Don Davis
Manufacturer: NAL Hardcover
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ASIN: 0451207777
Release Date: 2003-01-07

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Operating alone and unarmed on the bottom of the sea, the U.S. Navy's smallest nuclear-powered submarine is one of its biggest weapons. Tied up at a pier, the boat with the bright orange sail looks absolutely minuscule, innocent and out of place beside its big brothers, the fleet's huge missile-carrying and attack submarines, but it can dive deeper, stay down for a month, and accomplish missions far beyond the capabilities of any of them. The ship has been cloaked in mystery. It wasn't commissioned or given a name, and even today it is hardly known beyond a select fraternity of sailors and scientists. They simply call it the NR-1.

The little submarine was born in controversy, served in secrecy, survived potential catastrophe on numerous occasions, and is still in operation almost forty years after being conceived. It was and remains the only one of its kind ever built.

The story of the NR-1 is told against the tense background of the Cold War and peopled with such rich characters as the acerbic Admiral Hyman Rickover, ocean scientist Robert Ballard (who found the Titanic), the designers and builders who faced almost impossible tasks to give life to the ship, the unique officers and sailors who took the little boat down into depths on covert missions, and the families who waited for them on shore, unaware that there would be no escape if the boat ran into trouble.

"Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub" is a thrill-a-minute book of submarine adventure, imminent danger, personal bravery, technological wonder and historic discovery. It will be a proud addition to the shelves of readers who love stories of the sea, history and intrigue.

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NR-1 Crewmember revisits.......2007-03-15

As a crewmember (EM1SS/DV) 1976-1978 aboard the NR-1 brings back many memories of those exciting times aboard the super-secret mini sub.

I was aboard when the tow line parted twice, the F14 recovery mission, when we lost the reactor for a time, washed overboard when making the emergency tow hookup with IC1 SS/DV Frank Smith, aboard when Dr. Heezen had his fatal heart attack.

The tremendous work load, risks taken and NO notice, care, or thanks from the Americal public, ah but we were young, idealistic and full of energy.
The book is scrubbed for security reasons but it is a great story that needed to be told.

Greg Stanosz
Captain, EN, USAR (retired)

A good solid read~!.......2006-06-27

The author, who served on the NR-1, does a good job recounting the genesis and evolution of the project and the vessel from inception to the recent past. More than a first hand account, the author provides information based on interviews and archival research. He provides insight into the military and political dimensions of the project, as well as some satisfying operational stories and character sketches (Rickover, Satchel). The quality of writing makes for smooth easy reading. Though I found myself wanting to know details, like whether the wheels on the NR-1 are steerable, the author maintains a responsible balance between maintaining secrecy and recounting a small but important piece of recent naval history.

Excellent history of a little-known submarine.......2005-12-29

Very entertaining history of the capable, unique NR-1, the only nuclear submersible yet built. The coauthors include journalist Don Davis and member of the first crew, Lee Vyborny. Mr. Vyborny tells some excellent stories from the years he spent during the NR-1's design, construction and early operating career. After Vyborny leaves the crew the boat's history is told in third person but the stories are no less interesting. For example, the interactions with Rickover are somehow written to be more amusing than irritating!

This book is similar to Blind Man's Bluff in its handling of covert cold war operations by the US Navy but the first person stories told by Lee Vyborny really pull the reader in and are very engaging.

Category: cold war nuclear submersible

Submarine(s): NR-1

Heroes: NR-1 crew and, for getting it built, Admiral Rickover

Technical content: average

Fascinating little known story.......2004-03-26

No one is quite sure when Admiral Rickover decided the Navy needed a small nuclear-powered submarine that could drive along the deepest depths of the ocean and be used for a variety of missions. The civilian world had been using deep-sea submersibles for some time, but it was not until the Thresher accident that everyone realized the need for a vessel that could remain underwater at the deepest depths for very long periods of time. It was developed and built under conditions of extreme secrecy and was never even designated a warship. It had a variety of bizarre features, including tires on the bottom of the hull that would literally permit it to drive along the bottom, and sideways thrusters fore and aft that allowed it to hover in one exact position.

Lee Vyborny was one of the original crew members on the tiny NR-1, a sub that contained a midget nuclear reactor, which developed a mere 130 horsepower, of which only 60 could be used for propulsion. The crew quarters were tiny, and there was no stateroom for the commander, who would usually sleep on the floor next to the control panel. The reactor was designed so it could be operated by one man because the crew never exceeded eight people, usually only four on duty at any given time.

In an uncharacteristic mistake, Rickover tried to keep the cost of development and building down and required that as many of the ship's components as possible be purchased off-the-shelf. He was under the mistaken impression that the commercial deep sea industry was well developed and the parts standardized. At the same time, he insisted on testing these parts under the most extreme conditions. They had never been designed for the role he intended, and the result was costly failures and time spent to develop alternatives. The early computer they used was a midget and capable of only fourteen simultaneous operations, in contrast to the original PC, which could do many thousands at once.

Rickover's presence was ubiquitous. Everyone was suitably cowed, but he knew the bureaucracy well and how to manipulate them. The story of the two dead mice is illustrative. A habitability team was due for an inspection. Their job was to verify that a new ship was liveable. The NR-1 had so many discomforts for the crew, Rickover knew he might be in trouble, so he sent out an aide to find two dead mice and to hide them in the boat. The habitability team was delighted to find a dead mouse, thinking they would be able to reprimand the famous admiral. Instead, they were the ones on the receiving end. He told them they had done a terrible job and didn't belong in the Navy. "I know there were two dead mice on that boat," he shouted, "I bought them! You only found one! Get out of here!"

When lambasted by the General Accounting Office for the NR-1's cost overruns and asked to explain the excess, Rickover replied with a sarcastic letter, reprinted in full in the book, suggesting their analysis was similar to a review of Lady Chatterly's Lover by Field and Stream magazine. The letter concluded, "A cursory review of the subject report leads me to conclude that its authors, likewise, lack comprehension in the manner of accomplishing research and development. Therefore, I believe no useful purpose would be served by detailed comments on my part."

In order to withstand the enormous pressures at depths to which the little sub was expected to go, the hull had to be perfectly round. The twelve-and-a-half-foot diameter hull could be out of round by no more than 1/16th of an inch. That required special manufacturing processes. The crew had to undergo special psychological tests to see whether they could stand being cooped up in tiny spaces for long periods. Submariners who had been successful at resisting the stresses of a regular submarine wound up in fistfights after just a few days when tested under the conditions expected on the NR-1.

The boat was expected to remain under water indefinitely, but practical considerations limited the length of the voyages: food and waste. The ship had no galley, so the crew subsisted on TV dinners purchased in large quantities and kept frozen until they were needed, and when the waste tank was full, they had to surface.

Ironically, the NR-1 has outlasted larger and more famous mega-submarines. According to the author, it continues to conduct classified missions in addition to being a valuable resource for many universities and research institutes for tamer exploratory searches of the ocean's depths.

Muddy Waters.......2004-02-14

I love books about submarines and how they are used so of course I was excited to read this book. The dust jacket lead me to believe that the book was going to detail out mission after mission that was top secret, good old cold war espionage fun. I should have known better, these types of missions are filed away as top secret and it will be years before they see the light of day. Any book that claims to have the details are usually a little more puffed up in the description then the actual details. So I dug into this book and for the most part really enjoyed it. It starts with a review of how the sub was created and the crew trained. Somewhat interesting, but to be fair I was looking for the under water fun and games.

The book did move into the subs exploits, but due to the top-secret nature the stories that were told were not all that new or exciting. And that would not have been all that bad if the authors would have kept telling me about the non secret items like finding other wrecks at the bottom of the sea and weird fish they came upon. Instead they spent just a little too much time of live outside of the sub. Ok I know these guys have wife's and families, but to be fair I do not care. I want exciting submarine stories, not issues about home life. Overall the book was mostly interesting and well written. I could have done with more detail, but there is nothing I can do about that.

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Kurt Cyrus just gets better

Hotel Deep

one of my favorites

ocean adventure
Hotel Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water
Kurt Cyrus
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Oddhopper Opera: A Bug's Garden of Verses

zoo's who

Mammoths on the Move

Fold Me a Poem

Please Bury Me in the Library

ASIN: 0152167714

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Take a plunge into the strange, surprising depths of this world inside the sea. In twenty-one wet and witty poems, Kurt Cyrus follows a lone sardine in search of its lost school within the dark halls of a great coral reef.

From a devious stonefish and a slippery sea snake to a blowfish with attitude and a line of goose-stepping lobsters, here is a realm awash with the weird and the wondrous, the comical and the spooky. No matter how long your stay, this is one hotel you won't want to leave!

Includes a visual "key" that leads readers to specific fish within the illustrations.

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Kurt Cyrus just gets better.......2006-06-20

I fell in love with Oddhopper Opera and bought it before my son was even conceived. I recently discovered Hotel Deep and ordered it sight-unseen. It is yet further proof that Kurt Cyrus is a fabulous artist and a brilliant poet. This is now my 2.5-yr-old's favorite book. He asks for it by name ("Read Toe Deep?"), and goes around quoting it. His favorite page is where the lone sardine finally reunites with his school ("Sardines! Sardinessardinessardinessardines...!") But his favorite poem is the one about the stonefish. Apparently he is able to pick up on the idea of the fish pretending to be what it isn't, and he walks around saying, "Not a stonefish, no indeed!"

A young child needs to have his hand held and be shown how to appreciate these Kurt Cyrus books, but there is so much there for both him and us to enjoy. My husband and I don't get tired of reading this one!

Okay, I have to amend this review to say that my son (still 2.5) knows the ENTIRE book by heart. He can recite the whole thing one line ahead of us. He loves to point to the sardine on every page (except the deep-sea page, where he says, "Don't see sardine!" every time), and he can find and identify each of the 28 fish named and pictured on the back page of the book. Parental bragging aside, I consider this a tribute to the book's brilliance. A 2-yr-old can enter into it wholeheartedly, but as an adult I can tell you that there are fresh details that emerge every time through. My children won't outgrow this one.

Oddhopper Opera is a fun romp, but Hotel Deep is just pure art.

Hotel Deep.......2006-04-10

Does anyone know how I can contact the author about buying the artwork for this book? Kurt Cyrus is an outstanding artist and not a bad poet either. Hopefully he will grace us with a full length book at some point. My son and daughter both love his books and often look through them just for the pictures themselves and my son, who is just beginning to read, is able to follow the text. Another excellent book by the author

one of my favorites.......2005-12-04

Hotel Deep is an amazing and beautifully illustrated book. It fun to read and each poem is about the curious deep ocean and the creatures that live in it. My 4 year old loved his other book "odhopper opera" so when I saw this, i bought it. Its style is very similiar to "opera" (which is about a garden and the bugs & creatures in it) I love both books and would give them to every child I know.
sam

ocean adventure.......2005-03-27

Hotel Deep is a book containing 21 poems by Kurt Cyrus. They all have an ocean theme to them. At the end of the book are small picture and titles of under water life to search for in the book.

The illustrations were neat to look at. They made me think of the summers my family and I spent at the beach.

This would be a great book for classroom teachers to share with their student during a unit on ocean life or poetry.

The Dark Water: The Strange Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

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Tightly written
A Bit Contrived
Fans of Holmes this is a must read
"I can justify everything I do."

The Dark Water: The Strange Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
David Pirie
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ASIN: 1933648112

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"The cliffhanger adventures of Bell and Doyle keep us enthralled, as does the -graceful flow of Pirie's evocative storytelling."- The New York Times Book Review

"Pirie's knowledge of Doyle's biography, as well as of the Holmes canon, makes [him] an intellectual treat and a downright guilty pleasure."- The Washington Post

"A convincing Victorian world of eerie moors and fearless detectives . . . with a surprising twist that ranks with the best of the Doyle canon."- The Times Literary Supplement

"I was utterly hooked. It's not just Thomas Harris; it's also Raymond Chandler and Arthur Conan Doyle himself. All of these great writers are echoed in a way that is not merely wonderful and absolutely gripping, but completely original. The series has huge commercial potential."-Sarah Dunant, #1 New York Times best-selling -author of In the Company of the Courtesan

In a literary tour de force worthy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, author David Pirie brings his rich familiarity with both the Doyle biography and the Sherlock Holmes canon to a mystifying Victorian tale of vengeance and villainy. The howling man on the heath, a gothic asylum, the walking dead, the legendary witch of Dunwich-perils lurk in every turn of the page throughout this ingenious pastiche, as increasingly bizarre encounters challenge the deductive powers of young Doyle and his mentor, the pioneering criminal investigator Dr. Joseph Bell.

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Tightly written.......2007-02-04

The Dark Water: The Strange Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes is a unique mystery novel, set in the Victorian countryside, and featuring Sherlock Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Holmes' inspirational figure Dr. Joseph Bell as the protagonists. A grisly trail of seemingly unrelated murders entangles the two, and their hunt for the killer eventually leads them to a cliffside village and a breathtaking, cataclysmic struggle with a terrible nemesis from Doyle's past. Tightly written, drawing heavily upon author David Pirie's familiarity with both Sherlock Holmes canon and Doyle's biography, The Dark Water is an enthralling literary work from cover to cover. Also highly recommended for mystery genre enthusiasts are Pirie's previous Arthur Conan Doyle novels, "The Patient's Eyes" and "The Night Calls".

A Bit Contrived.......2007-01-24

The atmospherics are there, with the gothic scene of the moor and the legend of the Dunmore witch to bolster things, and the opening scene of a drugged Doyle being threatened by a Hannibal Lecter-like Dr. Creame is riveting but ultimately the plot is more than a bit too contrived to fully satisfy. And to use a dowsing stick (dowsing is also called water-witching)to help solve the mystery?...please. Sherlock himself would raise an eyebrow or two. If you're willing to overlook a few faults, the book is very readable and some fun. I would recommend Carraher's Sherlock Holmes in NYC series for more true Sherlockian-type mysteries, i.e., more realistic crimes solved through deduction.

Fans of Holmes this is a must read.......2007-01-09

I am an avid reader of Holmes, and started reading Pirie's books several years ago. He has wonderfully blended the non-fiction elements of Conan Doyle and Dr Bell with the fiction of a "Holmes" kind of world where mysteries abound, and a bad man is murdering relentlessy across England. I am facinated in Dr Bell, who was in fact Doyle's inspiration for Holmes, and wish there were more details about his career available. Of course this is fiction, but many of the places of interest and events were based on fact (look up the town by the sea they visit, it was real!). You must read the first books in the series, however, or this book will not have the same powerful significance. It is a non-stop nail biter, I read it in hours. Also, for true Holmes fantatics, you will love the way Pirie blends in many details from several Holmes stories into his books. I like trying to recall which story they were from. I can't wait for the next book!

"I can justify everything I do.".......2006-09-18

David Pirie's "The Dark Water" is the latest installment in the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle and his mentor, Joseph Bell, after whom, many believe, Doyle modeled his great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. The year is 1883, and Thomas Neill Cream, once a friend of Doyle's, has shown himself to be a diabolical and sadistic fiend. Cream is a handsome, charming, and well spoken sociopath. He adopts a variety of aliases and presents a normal face to the world when it suits his purposes, but when his mask is lifted, he savagely kills and tortures men and women alike, sometimes just for sport.

Cream sees himself as a man of destiny, and he celebrates murder as an act of glory and freedom. In Pirie's previous novel, Cream committed a heinous crime that caused Doyle great suffering. By no means is Cream finished making mischief; he threatens to inflict even greater harm on both Doyle and Bell, whom he considers his archenemies. Since Cream is careful to leave few clues behind, Bell is determined to apprehend him using his formidable intellect and famous methods of scientific deduction.

"The Dark Water" is a complex and chilling tale in which Doyle and Bell track Cream to Dunwich, a forbidding place that is slowly sinking into the sea. Here, a legendary witch was driven to her death back in the seventeenth century. Superstitious townspeople still believe in some of the old legends, such as the existence of a "howling man" who comes back periodically from the dead to terrify anyone who sees and hears him.

"The Dark Water" is a richly textured and atmospheric story with superb descriptive writing and a variety of colorful characters, including Oliver Jefford, a wealthy gambler and fop who suddenly disappears, his concerned sister, Charlotte, who comes to town to search for him, and Dr. James Bulweather, the local doctor who may know more than he is willing to reveal. There is a juicy section in the book that will delight cryptographers; Bell must find the key to an unbreakable code in order to solve a baffling mystery. Pirie wisely humanizes Doyle and Bell, who both make crucial errors for which they pay dearly. Doyle at one point is furious at Bell for being too rational and lacking compassion. Bell responds, "Concern is never sufficient. I have to follow the line of reason." Reason, alas, has its limitations.

Pirie's themes include the ways in which superstition and gossip can harm a community, the terrible consequences of secrets and lies, the fallibility of even the most astute individual, and the necessity of balancing both feelings and logic when dealing with our fellow human beings. Pirie is a master at building suspense to an almost unbearable level until he reaches his nerve-wracking conclusion. Readers who love authentic Victorian mysteries with courageous heroes and a larger than life villain will find "The Dark Water" deliciously frightening and thoroughly engrossing.

Death in Dark Waters: A Yorkshire Mystery (Yorkshire Mysteries)

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Interesting Context
outstanding police procedural

Death in Dark Waters: A Yorkshire Mystery (Yorkshire Mysteries)
Patricia Hall
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The Carib Club is one of Bradfield's most popular night clubs, especially in the local black community-but it's in the heart of a Muslim district. Members of the local mosque are keen to get the club closed down, so when, after a night out clubbing, Jeremy Adams is knocked down by a taxi and left in a coma, the pressure on the Carib Club starts building. Jeremy had taken ecstasy tablets before the accident happened and his father, wealthy local businessman Grantley Adams, wants to know who supplied him with the pills.

DCI Michael Thackeray is put on the case but when none of the boy's friends seem willing to talk he finds himself getting nowhere fast. Meanwhile Thackeray's girlfriend, reporter Laura Ackroyd, is conducting her own investigation into Bradfield's drugs problem. A young boy has died after falling from a tower block on the Wuthering Heights housing estate-the police are blaming the accident on a heroin overdose, but his friends swear that he was clean.

A gripping and thought-provoking mystery, Death in Dark Waters is the latest to feature Patricia Hall's acclaimed Thackeray and Ackroyd, and is sure to please fans of this always fascinating, intelligent series.

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Interesting Context.......2004-04-24

As a mystery, this book comes off as rather ordinary. A boy exiting the Carib club is run down by a taxi, and that initiates
an investigation into the local drug scene. The investigation
plays out against the context of a drab, failing high-rise housing project where the misery is compounded by both official
indifference and the influx of more and more illegal drugs.
The regular police forces are warned off by superiors who claim
the whole matter is being handled by their special drug squad; the reporter who is quite interested, partly because her grandmother is living in that area, is then forced into assignments of a quite mundane nature, and she too is told the
paper's regular crime reporter is handling it.
And then nothing much seems to be happening on either front, so
both the police officer and the reporter, who conveniently are
living together, begin pursuing their own leads.
Then part of the official disinterest in the area seems to be
part of an official plan to tear down the whole complex and replace it with private housing--virtually none of which will
be affordable to the people being displaced. And there is a lot
of money, both government and private, involved, and some questions then arise about that money's distribution. Some few
people seem to be ready to benefit more than their outward
contribution suggests. And both the reporter and the local cop
both know that where there is a lot of money involved, there is
a good chance of illegal activities.
The story isn't bad, but the author presents the dialogue in
heavily accented Yorkshire dialect, with local spellings, and
this will be difficult for most Americans to follow. If anyone
thinks "English is English," this book will prove otherwise.
The story is therefore rather difficult to follow at times. This telling doesn't move with ease.
But very interesting for many readers will be to learn that the
modern England is far different from that we have in mind and
what we usually encounter in our mystery reading. Part of the story concerns the strong racial strife prevelent in many parts
of England now, where various racial groups hate and distrust
each other, and such racial difficulties lead to violence and
lawbreaking on a fairly grand scale.
Such racial conflict, and it's terrible effects on the whole of
society, is especially interesting because at the time of racial
trouble in the U.S. during the late '60s, British writers always
acted so superior by suggesting that racial strife was a direct
result of the ignorance and prejudice of the Americans. The same writers always glowed with perverse pride in what they felt
was their superior ability to be free of prejudice in England.
But that was still in the time when there were few foreigners
living in England, and their population shared the same history
and values.
Then, Britain opened their doors to considerable immigration from parts of their former empire, and the inland was flooded
with people from Pakistan and Jamaica and other islands, as
well as some parts of Africa, and then their racial unrest began. And it continues to this day.
This book hints at the problems the police have with trying to
bring into their ranks members of minorities, who all arrive with different cultural values and prejudices. So racial problems continue to grow there.
The author points out, in her story, some of the difficulties
when the Asians, mainly muslim Pakistanis, react strongly against the loud music and drug culture brought into the country
by those from Jamaica, and gangs of each form to fight the other. And the police have to especially monitor their Pakistani Constable who is facing charges of racial prejudice
by a musician from Jamaica.
These aren't pleasant subjects, but they are prevalant in many
places, and the author does a nice job of pointing out some of
those problems, so those ideas make this a book worth reading.
But the insistence on telling the story in a regional dialect
rather detracts from the whole story.

outstanding police procedural.......2004-02-02

After a night spent in the Carib Club on Chapel Street in Bradford in Yorkshire County England, Jeremy Adams is hit by a car while dancing in the street. Tests show that he was high on the drug Ecstasy and his father a very wealthy and powerful business man wants the dealer behind bars and the club closed down. Detective Michael Thackeray is assigned the case but he thinks the angry father's influence power could be better spent in the housing development Wuthering Heights.

The Heights is a low income housing project that is crime ridden and drug infested. Thackeray's girlfriend Laura Ackroyd happens to agree with her lover's opinion and is trying to do an investigative piece but the tenants are too afraid of the drug dealers to talk. The council thinks the best way to take care of the problem is to tear down the Heights and build homes for a better clientele. When a recovering addict is murdered and someone is doing their best to get the Carib Club closed using any means possible, Laura and Thackeray find that their separate investigations have a common link.

Fans of this long running police procedural series will find that DEATH IN DARK WATERS has a much more gothic atmosphere and tone than any of Patricia Hall's other books. It is very fascinating watching the reporter and the police officer run separate investigations simultaneously while trying to work on their relationship. The high quality of writing and the excellent characterizations make this crime thriller a novel that must be read by anyone who likes an outstanding who-done-it.

Harriet Klausner

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intriguing look at Venice circa 1908
In The City of Dark Waters
Jane Jakeman
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Death in the South of France

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Jane Jakeman returns with a thrilling tale of murder, love, and the artist's life, set amid the labyrinthine canals of Venice.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, among the crumbling marble glories of Venice where the nobility still dwells in ancient palazzi, one can easily forget the breakneck pace of the outside world. Here, artist Claude Monet and his wife Alice have escaped scandal and rumor in Paris so that Claude might capture the famous Venetian light on water and marble. Their fellow guest Revel Callender is a London lawyer on a year's sabbatical, eager to learn Italian and study the galleries.

But even as they glide through the placid waters of the canals, undercurrents of intrigue are surfacing. Monet remains haunted by the Parisian murder case that brought unwanted attention to his wife. And when the powerful, age-old Casimiri family hires Callender to handle some paperwork, his fascination with the ethereal Clara Casimiri draws him into a labyrinth of legend, sexual deviation-and murder.

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intriguing look at Venice circa 1908 .......2006-05-03

In the first decade of the twentieth century in Venice, British Consul Theseus Barton provides fellow Oxford graduate lawyer Revel Callender with assignments that enables the English expatriate to live reasonably albeit somewhat shabbily in the city. Theseus sends Revel to the home of Palazzo Casimiri, part of an affluent English banking family, whose elderly principessa needs legal assistance with documents. Upon arrival at the Casimiri residence, Revel finds a corpse of his client awaits him.

Still hired to organize her papers, Callender finds the swinging body of Count Casimiri hanging from a tree. He sees knife wounds all over the corpse, but the police, heeding the warning advice of a powerful patrician, insist suicide occurred. Artist Claude Monet and his wife arrive having fled Paris after the scandal of the homicide of his brother-in-law. He wants Callender to go to France to investigate the murder though both the artist and the attorney know he can do nothing but report his findings to him. In Venice, while pondering Monet's request, and ignoring the police, attempts on his life, and falling in love with Clara Casimiri, Callender continues to investigate because he knows a murder occurred.

Jane Jakeman provides an intriguing look at Venice circa 1908 using an amateur sleuth whodunit to paint a picture of a morally corrupt society in which injustice is the norm. Callender is a fine protagonist whose need to learn the truth almost becomes a fixation; so much so that the self-exiled Monet knows he is the man to send to Paris on his case. The use of Monet adds to the overall feel that the reader is visiting the era, but in the end it is the exhilarating thriller elements as seemingly folks from different walks of life want Callender stopped that keep the audience reading.

Harriet Klausner

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