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David Alan Hall

    Distant Connections
    The Paradise Vendor
    • The Paradise Vendor

      • 572 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      General Motors. Chevron. OPEC. Wall Street. Big names. Big business. A bulwark of opposition standing in the way of Casey Raymond, a wealthy entrepreneur risking his life to market gasless, hydrogen-powered cars.{line space}Drugs. Violence. Homelessness. Race hatred. Powerful prejudices. Powerful social forces imprisoning Samuel Towers, a black teenager from inner city Los Angeles who skirts the law to escape his past, to finance his dream of filmmaking by working for a nameless company who pays cash for killing, for the ultimate assassination of a white man who dares to challenge the oil-based economy of our world.{line space}Rarely does an action-adventure novel transcend the genre and offer a new vision for living. Spanning twenty years and three presidential administrations, The Paradise Vendor is a panoramic epic examining the costs of empowerment, the price of intimacy, and the simple affirmation of the value of oneself

      The Paradise Vendor
    • Distant Connections

      A Collection of Short Fiction

      • 244 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      A sculptor who gives himself amnesia so he can critique his work objectively. A World War II private, training for D-day, who writes the President with a scheme to bring down the German economy. A foreman who must transport a two-ton block of stone using only brute strength and brains. A woman, disguised as a man, who fights in the American Civil War. A surveillance expert who owes his success to a flying saucer. From ancient times through the present and into the future, these fifteen stories of adventure, passion and discovery explore the Distant Connections between those who serve their countries and those who serve themselves.

      Distant Connections