David Lema

Operation Ersatz (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Deep in the throes of a project to document the stories of Californians who were World War II veterans of the Pacific Theater, a University professor and her research assistant inadvertently stumble onto an al Qaeda counterfeiting operation hidden in the jungles of the Philippines.

While working to verify reports of a counterfeiting operation run by the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippines in the 1940s, the professor uncovers the phenomenal stories of both the Japanese counterfeiting efforts in the Pacific and those of the Nazis in Europe. She tracks the bogus U.S. $100 bill printing plates used during WWII down two trails from their origins in Nazi Germany and Japanese-occupied China finding that both sets ended up in the hands of the Soviet Union.

Secretly holding both sets of plates for over 40 years, in 1989 the Soviets use the plates as bargaining chips with Iran in one last-ditch effort to save their crumbling Union. Iran promptly uses the plates in a prisoner-swap bargain with their archenemy Iraq who then hatches a sinister partnership with the upstart al Qaeda to establish a counterfeiting operation in the Philippines along with an ancillary operation in North Korea.

About to leave the Philippines, the professor and her assistant are taken captive and held for several months by Abu Sayyaf, one of the most brutal al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the world. During captivity they are tortured and forced to witness some of the most horrendous acts of violence ever carried out against humankind before a last desperate rescue attempt in led by the professor's long-time boyfriend.

Pieced together with real events, this story reveals a strategic approach of al Qaeda as they resurrect an age-old tactic of counterfeiting as a way to undermine the strength of their enemy. Operation Ersatz also portrays the undaunted heroism and determination of those who find themselves in the position of confronting the vile aspirations of al Qaeda.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780615478111
• Artikelnr.: 45518280

Autorenporträt

Mr. Lema is proprietor of D. R. Lema & Associates (DRL) in Elk Grove, California providing business management, strategic planning, information technology and marketing consulting services to government agencies and private sector firms. As an independent consultant since 1989, Mr. Lema's firm has completed engagements nationwide which have resulted in significant savings, increased efficiencies, greater sales and more operating flexibilities for clients.

The firm has specialized in providing consulting services for high profile, large, multi-jurisdictional, multi-disciplined, complex government projects and private undertakings including business process and work flow improvements.

In 2009 he e-published his first novel of historical fiction "Operation 1420" followed in 2011 by his second such work "Operation Ersatz". He is currently writing the final work of the trilogy, "Operation Aeolus", slated to be e-published in 2014. D. R. Lema & Associates is the publisher of his works.

Mr. Lema has been a lecturer to government and private sector audiences in over 20 state capitols and numerous major cities throughout the United States and overseas. He has written scores of columns and editorials on the subjects of information technology in government and business settings, and the changing dynamics of business operations which are being driven by information technology. From 1987 to 1993 he was Editorial Advisor of Government Technology magazine.

Mr. Lema was an Associate Professor at California State University Dominguez Hills, in the subjects of political science and U.S. history and was an Adjunct Professor at California State University Sacramento in business management, information technology and executive development. As an Adjunct Professor at CSUS he also lectured in the Executive Leadership Forum Program for the University. Mr. Lema holds college instructor credentials in Business and Industrial Management and Computer and Related Technologies.

Prior to establishing his independent consultant practice in 1989, Mr. Lema was appointed to serve as the Director of the Stephen P. Teale Data Center of the State of California, a position he held for over eight years. The Teale Data Center, (since renamed the Department of Information Technology), is the state's general purpose information technology service bureau, operating as an enterprise fund, and providing a broad range of services to over 12...