Charles and Charlie - Benjamin, Tod
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Charles Stoker, in 1910, is a brilliant young engineer and inventor with a wonderful career before him. Given a unique opportunity by the powerful Collick family to test his inventions and serve his country, he enlists in the Royal Flying Corps. In 1918, Major Stoker returns home to his wife and child, bones and dreams shattered by his experience and refusing any contact with his former life and colleagues. Only after he is shockingly killed, eight years later, does the distraught Milly Stoker begin to discover the truth about her husband's war. In 1928, still numbed by the loss of his father,…mehr

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Charles Stoker, in 1910, is a brilliant young engineer and inventor with a wonderful career before him. Given a unique opportunity by the powerful Collick family to test his inventions and serve his country, he enlists in the Royal Flying Corps. In 1918, Major Stoker returns home to his wife and child, bones and dreams shattered by his experience and refusing any contact with his former life and colleagues. Only after he is shockingly killed, eight years later, does the distraught Milly Stoker begin to discover the truth about her husband's war. In 1928, still numbed by the loss of his father, their innocent son Charlie goes to college, where he is easily led into a student's life and a student's sins. When suddenly faced with an agonising crisis, however, like his father he tackles the problem head on... with devastating consequences. Charles and Charlie is Book One of the Stoker Trilogy.
Autorenporträt
Tod Benjamin left Palmer's School in 1953 for national service in the R.A.F. On demob, he set about building the first of three careers. Fifteen years in retail management was followed by twenty-five years in chemicals, taking him all over the world. Always a keen sportsman, he played golf for more than forty years and enjoyed curling, touring the United States with the Royal Caledonian Curling Club in 1986. From 1995, he devoted himself to writing and voluntary work. For ten years, he assisted in a ward of Royal Bournemouth Hospital, while also tutoring numeracy, literacy, and basic computer studies for various organisations. His published works include novels, poetry, and memoirs.