John Wayne Falbey

Quixotics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Quixotics is a tale of coming of age in the baby Boomer generation. The time is 1970, and three young men have returned from military service in Vietnam. Like other returning warriors of that era, they've become disenchanted with a country that no longer feels comfortable or welcoming to them. Restless and troubled by what they see as a loss of individuality in an increasingly one-size-fits-all society, they decide to escape it and find an environment more to their liking.

They pool what little cash they have and buy a barely seaworthy sailboat. Their plan is to sail leisurely though the Caribbean, living life on their own terms one idyllic day at a time, determined to find adventure and right the wrongs they find along the way. Combative with society and each other and lacking sailing and navigational skills, they set off in the small, cramped boat.

To earn some badly needed cash, they grudgingly agree to deliver a cargo of weapons to anti-Castro insurgents in Cuba. The start is rough and the voyage rougher, but all hell breaks loose once they reach the island. Captured by Castro forces, they're imprisoned in an ancient Spanish dungeon. Eventually, they escape and join the rebels in the Sierra Maestro Mountains. Here, their talents for guerrilla warfare, honed in the jungles of Vietnam, assert themselves.

Before this tale of adventure, romance, and self-discovery is over, each man will come to realize, as Cervantes said, "Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780985518721
• Artikelnr.: 45444884

Autorenporträt

John Wayne Falbey writes thrillers set in the contemporary world of international espionage and geopolitical intrigue. He wrote his first book while he was a student at Vanderbilt University School of Law. He subsequently practiced law in his native state of Florida and later became active in land development. Along the way, he earned masters and doctoral degrees in Business Management. He also spent five years in academia, creating and chairing a Master of Science program in real estate development at a graduate school of business in Florida.

In 2010, he returned to his first love, writing, and began creating his Sleeping Dogs series of thrillers. His debut novel in the series, Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening, reached international best-seller status. He followed it with Endangered Species, Year of the Dog, Dogs of War, A Deadlier Breed, The Devil's Litter, and The People's Republic of America. A Deadlier Breed won the Whammy Award at the 2019 Southwest Florida Writers Conference for the "single most impactful writing" as determined by a panel of literary agents and editors in attendance. He also has written and published two stand-alone novels: The Quixotics and The Taxman Cometh.

All books are available in print at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. DigitaleBookversions of all books are available at all major online book retailers. The first book in the series, Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening, also is available in audio format from Amazon.com or Audible.com. All other books are available in audio format through Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Falbey&c=books.

Wayne can be reached at: [e-mail]