Eva Fischer-Dixon

What War May Bring (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anders van Niekerk and Danie de Villiers were inseparable friends growing up outside Pretoria, South Africa. They did everything together, so nobody was surprised when both decided to join the British Royal Marines. There was a secret kept between the friends: one of them had a violent temper that the other had covered up, until an event in Kabul, Afghanistan, during their third tour of duty. When an Afghan family was brutally raped and murdered, the friend with the even temper confronted the violent one and denounced his actions. During a patrol, due to a questionable IED explosion, one friend watched the other one die, and after that event, his life was never the same again. After being treated in London for PTSD, he was allowed to return to South Africa, where he was supposed to continue his treatment. During his stay at the clinic, he immediately fell in love with his young psychiatrist, Dr. Gerda van Heerden. She also develops feelings for the young man in her care. Gerda investigates his background and draws a shocking conclusion that affects her not only personally but professionally as well. What happened in Afghanistan? Who truly died in Afghanistan? When the truth is revealed during a storytelling session, it becomes clear that the problem with her patient is not only PTSD. His deep and disturbing secret, which surfaced during the sessions, might destroy not only the young doctor but also everyone around her. Would she be able to use deadly force to prevent other atrocities? Dr. Gerda van Heerden has a tough choice to make and only minutes to decide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514474181
• Artikelnr.: 52579851

Autorenporträt

I came into this troubled world during the early morning hours of June 17, 1950, in the city of Budapest, Hungary. I was the first and last child of my forty-one-year-old mother and forty-five-year-old father at the time of my birth. As I did not know any better, I could not possibly understand that we were living in poverty as I was growing up with loving parents and there was always a bite to eat. My childhood was poor and saddened with tragedies. As a six-year-old child, I witnessed the bloody 1956 revolution and received the first taste of true prejudice by those of whom I thought liked us yet turned against my family. That tragedy did not match the untimely death of my beloved father when I was not yet seven years old on February 14, 1957. My mother remarried in 1959, and our financial situation was upgraded from poverty to poor. After finishing elementary school, I made a decision to earn money as soon as possible to ease our financial situation, and I enrolled in a two-year business college (high school diploma was not required). I began working as a sixteen-year-old certified secretary/bookkeeper. During the same period I began my high school education, which I completed while working full-time and attending night school. I discovered my love for writing when I was eleven years old after a movie that my childhood friend and I saw in the movie theater. We were not pleased with the ending, and Steven suggested that I should write a different ending that we both liked. Voila, a writer was born. With my family's encouragement, I entered a writing contest given by a youth-oriented magazine, and to my genuine surprise, I won second price. My desire to live in a free country and to improve my life was so great that in 1972, leaving everything, including my aging parents behind, I managed to escape from Hungary during a tour to Austria then Yugoslavia and Italy. I spent almost ten long months in a rat-infested refugee camp, located in Capua, Italy, while I waited for official permission to immigrate to the country of my dreams: the USA. In 1975, I met and married a wonderful man, my husband, Guy. Thanks to his everlasting patience, he assisted me in my task of learning the English language. He is truly my partner for life, and I remain forever grateful to him for standing by me in some tough times. It is difficult for me to describe my love for writing. I cannot think of a bigger emotional joy for an author than to see a published novel in somebody's hand and to see a story come alive on the screen. I yearn to experience that joy.