Richard B Christie

Gebundenes Buch

Out of the Shadow and Across Strange Lines

Beschreibung

The early morning opening procedures at a New England ski area become very unusual when a ski patroller finds a dead body of an obviously murdered man lying frozen on the trail. As the state police begins their investigation, they find that the dead man was a United Nations security investigator following the trail of a missing representative. As the report of the murder finds its way through the various local state and federal channels, it coincidently turns out that the lead ski patroller at the scene was a US Navy Reserve SEAL. When he was on active duty, he had been attached to a navy security team, and the investigation experience he had is going to be needed again. After being reactivated into the regular navy, he joins forces with a local state trooper and his previous SEAL team members in Washington DC to follow and find where the murdered man's investigation had been compromised. The trail turned quickly from a local murder case into an international chase to rescue and save a kidnapped woman. The action goes from South America to Europe and finally back to Vermont. The twists and turns that involve murder, kidnapping, international energy sources, illegal finances, international transfer of money, and political entrapments make this a case of intrigue and corruption at the highest levels of education and government.

Autor

Richard B. Christie was born in New Jersey in 1944.When he got out of school and finished his time in the Navy, he created and owned a technical engineering company that performed testing, balancing, and critical adjustments on many industrial-grade air-conditioning and high-performance sterile systems; for almost fifty years. Those systems are used in hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, and research laboratories. They include special areas where high-class clean rooms are required, such as surgeries, sterile suites for production, and special testing facilities. Much of that work included writing and preparing the technical specifications and validation procedures needed for those systems. Once he retired from the business world, that writing experience proved to be the inspiration needed to prepare for a literary future.The work took place in various countries and locations worldwide, and he frequently needed to travel abroad. Thus, it seemed inevitable that he would be fascinated by the world's historical sites, locations, and events. When he was not traveling overseas, he found himself at home or skiing in Vermont most winter weekends. As a member of the National Ski Patrol System and as a Certified Patroller at a major Vermont Ski area, he was trained in advanced first aid and remote mountain rescue procedures. Once retired, a love for the reenactment of early American history just seemed to be a normal result. Of course, living in Florida, the early Spanish period was what he would be involved with. Thus, he joined several groups of reenactors in nearby Saint Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied city in North America.Working as a volunteer reenactor, he again found himself demonstrating and describing many of the historical actions and daily events of the 16th, through the 19th centuries, to the many visitors who came to see the town.While traveling, he had always enjoyed reading many mystery and suspense novels written by many famous authors. That made him want to create stories that exhibited many of those special features.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wordhouse Book Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781685471576
• ISBN-10: 1685471579
• Artikelnr.: 67289616