Heroes Proved by Oliver North (English) Paperback Book

Description: Heroes Proved by Oliver North Synopsis coming soon....... FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The New York Times bestselling, "heart-thumping" (Sean Hannity) espionage thriller from #1 bestselling author Oliver North offers an epic tale of Americas future in the year 2032, about the kidnapping of a prominent physicist who knows too many state secrets for the presidents liking—especially in a re-election year.The kidnapping of Martin Cohen, an MIT physicist who is privy to sensitive scientific information, from a Houston energy conference by Islamic terrorists sparks a high stakes game of international cat and mouse. The NRA has been outlawed; the US military has been gutted; Conservative Christians, dubbed ANARKS, have been labeled a global conspiracy and have been largely driven underground. The Caliphate is now a superpower, residing in Israel. The White House is occupied by a repressive Progressive regime, obsessed with the upcoming presidential election.Peter Newman, security consultant and former decorated war hero, is determined to rescue Cohen. The president, fearful that her reelection will be endangered by the reemergence of terrorism, will stop at nothing to keep the kidnapping a secret. The White House condemns the kidnapping as the work of ANARKS, then has the authorities brand Newman an ANARK. Newman is thus forced to evade the law while also preparing to rescue the kidnap victim with the help of his father—also a decorated war hero—along with a patriotic US senator and a band of special forces operatives. Author Biography Oliver North is a combat-decorated US Marine and recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for valor, and two Purple Hearts for wounds in action. From 1983 to 1986, he served as the US governments counterterrorism coordinator on the National Security Council staff. President Ronald Reagan described him as "a national hero." A New York Times bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction, he is also host of the award-winning documentary series War Stories on Fox News. North lives with his wife, Betsy, in Virginia. They have four children and sixteen grandchildren. Visit him on Facebook and Twitter, or learn more at OliverNorth.com. Excerpt from Book Heroes Proved CHAPTER ONE DUTY CALLS NARNIA FARM 1776 RIVER ROAD BLUEMONT, VA SATURDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2032 0634 HOURS, LOCAL When the call came in from the CSG Ops Center, Major General Peter Newman, USMC (Ret.), was nearing the end of his morning ritual--twenty minutes on a NordicTrack elliptical exercise machine, twenty minutes of calisthenics and weights, and twenty more minutes on the elliptical. For a few seconds he listened to Don Gabbards verbal report over his PIDs wireless earpiece--then coasted the machine to a halt, dismounted, and walked across the room to a wall-mounted plastic panel displaying a digital photo of the Newman family assembled in front of a Christmas tree. The general touched the picture with his right index finger. Instantly the family photo disappeared, replaced by the live image of his former ops chief. In the CSG Ops Center, Gabbard could now see and hear his former commander, the high-def sound and image transmitted by tiny visual and acoustic sensors invisibly embedded in the flat plastic panel. Perspiration was running down the generals face. "Thank you for the heads-up, Don," said the general in his sweat-soaked T-shirt when Gabbard finished. "I can access Dr. Cohens file here. Keep me posted on whats happening in Houston." "Aye, aye, sir," Gabbard replied. He then asked, "Is there anyone else you want me to notify?" "Not now," Newman answered. "Keep an ear on the Gateway link and send me the feed right away if they find Dr. Cohen, ID the perpetrators, or if anything else happens somewhere else in the world on this awful anniversary. I will talk to James about this and one of us will get back to you once we see where this is going. Thank you, Don." With that he pointed his PID at the screen and it instantly reverted to the family Christmas scene. Newman walked to the door of the little gym, waved a hand at a wall-mounted sensor to shut off the lights, and tapped the miniature screen on his PID to lock the door as he strode toward the main house. The sun had already crested the Blue Ridge and the late summer day was becoming warm and humid. He stopped at the gate as the two Dobermans came trotting up to meet him. When they caught his scent--or recognized him by sight, he could never tell which--both dogs just turned and ambled back to the house. As he reached the porch steps, he again used the PID to unlock the back door, then said to the device, "Call James." In the invisible earpiece the general heard the ringtone twice and then a younger version of his own voice: "Good morning, Dad. Why arent you working out?" "Good morning to you, James," the general responded. "If it makes you feel any better, I just finished. What are you doing for breakfast?" "Mmm, breakfast . . ." came the muffled response. In the background there were several thumps and then squeals. "If it makes any difference"--thump--"I just got back from a run"--thump--"and I am in the midst of a pillow fight with two boys who dont want to get up and face the day"--thump. "They are saying something about it being Saturday and they need to sleep in." Thump. Despite the gravity of the news he had just received from Don Gabbard, the old general couldnt help but smile as he listened to the mayhem occurring a mile up the mountain to the east. After a moment he said, "I dont want to spoil the fun, but after you finish pummeling your pups and take a shower, come on down to the house and have a bowl of cereal with me. Something has come up." "I may have to bring some lounge hounds with me," came the answer--and another thump. "Is seven fifteen soon enough?" "Sure. Bring em along. Well put em on a punishment detail, cutting hay with dull scissors and mucking out every stall on the farm with dinner forks." * * * * Peter Newman and his wife, Rachel, simply called it "the farm." But their children, James and Elizabeth, began calling it "Narnia" when they were still young--after they read C. S. Lewiss Chronicles of Narnia. Every bedroom had a wardrobe. There was a lamppost--plenty of furry animals--even a stone lion. The Narnia name stuck. Tucked into a fold of the Blue Ridge Mountains and bounded by the Shenandoah River to the west, the Appalachian Trail to the east, and hardwood forests north and south, the farm had been in Rachels family for generations. The original house, a log cabin, was built in the early 1790s by a veteran of the Revolutionary War. When her mother died in the spring of 2002 and then her father later that same year, Rachel inherited all her parents property: Narnia, another farm near Charlottesville, and two "vacation" houses--one on Boot Key in Florida and another at Pawleys Island, South Carolina. In 2008, after Peter was promoted to major general and assigned to the Marine Corps Combat Training Command at Quantico, Virginia, Rachel sold the places in Florida and Charlottesville. Her timing was impeccable. Just months after the sales closed, the real estate bubble burst and the American economy began a precipitous decline. By the time the Great Recession hit hard, Rachel had renovated the old house at Narnia, turning it into a comfortable home for her family. She built a stable, where she kept four horses and boarded four more, started raising organic beef for sale in local markets, and planted a twelve-acre organic vegetable garden. Until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of "nonregistered food products," she was well on her way to keeping her vow of "making this place pay for itself." At Pawleys, Rachel invested much of her remaining inheritance to convert the beachfront cottage where she spent so many childhood summers into a year-round home on the north end of the barrier island. The children named it "Cair Paravel," another of C. S. Lewiss mythical places. Rachel said at the time she hoped Peter would retire from the Marines and they could live out their years in quiet contentment between Narnia in the Blue Ridge Mountains and Cair Paravel on the Atlantic Ocean. She got half her wish. In May 2011, the Marines tried to make Peter Newman the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans--and give him his third star. He was duly nominated for lieutenant general but the Senate Armed Services Committee refused to confirm the appointment. The Secretary of the Navy called him to give him the news. On 7 June 2011, at the age of fifty-five--exactly thirty-three years after he accepted his commission as a second lieutenant of Marines at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis--Major General Peter Newman, USMC, "entered the retired lists." For nearly two years he puttered about between Pawleys Island and the farm, pretending to write his memoirs, painting shutters, fishing in "the creek" behind Cair Paravel, bird hunting in the Carolina low country--and occasionally heading out into the Gulf Stream for some "deepwater" game fish. At Narnia he planted and harvested crops, pruned the fruit trees, took cows to livestock sales, cut miles of oak fence boards and locust posts on their sawmill, and built run-in sheds for the horses using poplar boards from trees harvested and milled on the farm. He hunted the west slopes of the Blue Ridge, fished the Shenandoah, drove James and Elizabeth to sporting events--and drove Rachel crazy inspecting for "dust bunnies" under the furniture. Friends urged him to run for political office. He turned them down, saying, "No thanks. I remember what happened to Oliver North when he tried that." Then, on the morning of 2 April 2013, an unusually damp, cold Tuesday, just minutes after Rachel told him, "Peter, you are going to drive me crazy if you dont get on with something other than hanging around here!" he received a call from Henry Hodson, a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia. In the 1990s, the Newmans and the Hodsons were neighbors in Falls Church, Virginia. Then, Henry was an up-and-coming assistant U.S. attorney and Peter was a major in the Marines. In the years since, Hodson went on to head the U.S. Marshals Service, then to an appointment on the federal bench while Newman conducted "special operations" in the Corps. They had a lot in common, stayed in touch, and occasionally hunted together. Both men were members of the National Rifle Association, until the organization was banned as an "illegal extremist entity" for advocating that American citizens violate the United Nations Treaties on Small Arms and Arms Trade by refusing to register privately owned firearms. "Peter," the judge said when Newman answered the phone, "I have a deal for you." "Oh, whats that, your honor? Is this a belated April Fools joke? Can I cop a plea for a lighter sentence?" "This is no joke," Hodson answered. "As you probably know," the judge continued, "in order to comply with the UN Convention on Small Arms Control and the International Arms Trade Treaty, Congress, in its infinite wisdom, has made it illegal for U.S. corporations to do any business outside the U.S. that involves the use of firearms." "How is that a deal for me?" "Im getting to that," Hodson said affably. "And General, just in case no one has ever told you before, patience is not your strong suit. Thats why youre such a Details ISBN147671455X Author Oliver North Short Title HEROES PROVED Language English ISBN-10 147671455X ISBN-13 9781476714554 Media Book DEWEY FIC Year 2013 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Pages 464 Imprint Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing Publication Date 2013-09-17 NZ Release Date 2013-09-17 US Release Date 2013-09-17 UK Release Date 2013-09-17 AU Release Date 2013-10-31 Publisher Simon & Schuster Format Paperback Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137629783;

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