J. J. McFarland

Broschiertes Buch

His Name is Jacob Harris

Beschreibung

In His Name is Jacob Harris (2ndEdition), the main characters of the book are loosely based on the author's great-great grandfather, Jacob, and Jacob's brother, Lorenzo. They were adopted when quite young after Indians massacre the rest of their family. They are plunged into an historical background that will be surprising to many readers, such as the Confederate Navy, connections to Canada and England, secret societies, and the financing of the Confederacy. Although a love story is woven into their adventures, the backdrop of the romance is the Civil War and the Confederacy's effort to keep the Southern way of life. The story introduces many aspects of the Confederacy's attempts to win the war; their naval threat against Union shipping, the smuggling of arms from Liverpool to the port of Charleston, the Confederate Secret Service's subversive activities in Canada, and how secret societies such as the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Sons of Liberty, and the Copperheads Order sabotaged northern transportation networks and even national elections. Elements of the Civil War not often discussed in other books are included in this book. Surprises in it might challenge current thinking on the War Between the States and the brave men who fought it. Betrayal, conspiracy, romance, and adventure are the themes portrayed in this narrative. The story is more than romance, spies, Confederate organizations, and the conflict of opposing armies, however. It is a tale about people, the choices they make, about families separated by war and what that sacrifice means, and about men and womentrying to rebuild their lives after the war. It is also about loss, as well as acceptance. Although the previous edition ended on a cliffhanger with no promise of resolution, this 2ndEdition contains one additional chapter that changes the ending.

Autor

Although J.J. McFarland was born and raised in eastern Indiana, his father, grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather were born in Burke's Garden Virginia. As a child and through his teenage years, he regularly visited family members still residing on the family homestead in Burke's Garden. Since his teenage years, J.J. has been an avid reader of spy novels and dreamed of one day working in the arena of spooks, spies, and espionage. He spent 20 years in the Intelligence Community, six of them in Seoul, South Korea, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, Germany in Human Intelligence, i.e., intelligence gathered by means of interpersonal contact, as opposed to the more technical intelligence gathering disciplines. In the Air Force, J.J. spent his first 2 ¿ years in the U-2 Spyplane program where he met the most famous U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, who was shot down over Russia on May 1, 1960. For two years he planned B-52 bomber missions originating in the United States and Thailand. J.J. worked in two Indications and Warnings Centers in Europe and South Korea, respectively and in 1980, he was assigned to a Tactical Training Group at Nellis AFB, Nevada, where he briefed Middle East threat to combat aircrew members participating in Red Flag, a program similar to the Navy's Top Gun program. While at Nellis Air Force Base, he also taught Soviet Missile Development at the Tactical Air Command's Officer Advanced Intelligence Course and sat on national-level committees examining Soviet Missile capabilities. When he retired from active duty, he held a Bachelor's degree in Politics and Urban Regional Planning and a Master of Arts degree in Communication Arts. He also was an Adjunct Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turaspublishing
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780998221540
• ISBN-10: 0998221546
• Artikelnr.: 55315847