Author: Richard McStay Publisher: Richard McStay ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 147
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A mechanic from Pittsburgh seeking a new life after a wrongful conviction. A Plastic Surgeon on a brake from her life and fiancee in Cleveland. When their plane goes down in a remote part of the Pacific they are the only survivors. Normally they wouldn't make a good match, but they make a good team against the sea and pirates who want to see them dead.
Author: Richard McStay Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781728819709 Category : Languages : en Pages : 177
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When flight 387 goes down due to a terrorist bomb, only two survive the crash. Richard Buchanan a mechanic from Pittsburgh is traveling to China for a job, since he is unemployable at home. Susan Ryan a Surgeon from Cleveland on the same flight is on her way to do charity work in Indonesia for a break from her controlling family and fiancé.Together, they build a raft from floating shipping boxes before the wing goes down. On the fifth day, they are out of water and have only caught one fish during that time. They are beginning to irritate each other, but then she suggests they make love, since they will soon die together.Their raft being driven by currents and storms brings them to Bokak Atoll, which is a deserted island. Unknown to them, an old pirate was hiding on the island guarding a plunder of drugs. While searching for water, the two find a cave that two Japanese spotters used during WW II and find Ishi's swords. The swords were made by a famous sword maker and are considered a treasure in japan.They discover the old pirate Jean in their Lean-to. He is sick and malnourished. Susan treats him as best she could with the little they salvaged. The old bearded man becomes their friend and lies about how he became stranded on the island. He also spots Rich's tattoo and brings out Rich's background. He'd been wrongly convicted of a crime and joined a gang while serving time. Only when his partner Gilly finally comes to pick him and the drugs up, is his story blown. Jean's partner is a psyco and doesn't want witnesses. When his men try to kill the couple, Rich uses the sword known as Cherry Blossom to dispatch two and scare off a third.With prospects of the pirates coming back, Rich accelerates his plan to build a bigger, sail driven raft. When the raft is nearly finished, he is bitten by a small shark while retrieving a sail. Susan treats his wounds and helps finish the raft. By now, she has feelings for him and afraid he will die from infection.After a few days on the raft, a boat is spotted behind them and Rich is feverish. She worries the boat is the pirates, because it is the same type of boat Gilly has. Signaling planes with a mirror as planned, she hopes he will live. When she sets off a homemade flare, the boat behind comes to their aid. The Yamora family was heading back to port when they saw the flare and they become friends with the couple as a result of their assistance.They stop at the hospital to check rich's latest blood work and get antibiotics. She has a shock when the clerk also gives her blood work results. According to her tests, she is pregnant with his child.Rich recovers quickly, but news is portraying them as unlikely lovers. The news deepens their insecurity about their relationship, but they are stuck in japan until they can get new passports. They take up the offer to spend a few days on a commercial fishing boat with their new friends. It turns out to be a great trip with full holds. On the way back, Rich can't stand the confinement of their small cabin and fishes with a rod. He catches a near record size marlin and they head haply toward the fish auction.Nearing Tokyo, they have to go through narrows where boat traffic slows them down. Gilly and his men take advantage and attack the fishing trawler loaded down and with a huge fish tied to the stern. Rich is shot, but comes up with a plan to stop the pirates. He uses the fishing gear and ropes to entangle his prize catch in the props of the pursuing boat. While treating Rich at Tokyo General, her fiance shows up and reinforces her decision to be with Rich by trying to control her. She is concerned that Rich won't make it, because he is long overdue to wake up. A police Sargent brings Rich's swords to the hospital when they are released. He tells Susan a sword can help its owner and she is surprised when he improves while his hand rests on the antique sword.
Author: Kevin Kinne Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059510021X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 363
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Book Description: In the year 2032, because of their corruption and self-destructive course, Humanity is all but wiped out by the Skendri, a species that Humans themselves had created. 5000 years later, Prince Krell, ruler of the Slaadikaar Holy Order, is attempting to negotiate the return of the rest of his people to their ancestral home. Political and territorial divisions with the Skendri Confederation keep tensions high. Religious strife between the monotheistic Slaadikaar and the polytheistic people of the Nihanese Empire erupts into outbreaks of terrorism. Prince Krell’s trusted top-ranking Admiral Dormuz, who has own dreams of Empire, secretly manipulates events so as to start an all-out war. Win or lose, the war will cause the downfall of Krell and place Dormuz himself upon the throne…or so he thinks. However, when the war doesn’t go as planned, Admiral Dormuz makes a Faustian deal with an ancient race named the Guareg. Now, all sides in the conflict may pay the ultimate price of Dormuz’s ambitions… Author's Biography: Born on January 2, 1967, Kevin Kinne grew up in the small western New York town of Busti before moving to Largo, Florida in 1988. Kevin is an avid hunter and fisherman who still visits his hometown every autumn. He is a fan of science fiction and fantasy, and of animation.
Author: Richard McStay Publisher: Richard McStay ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
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John Buchan snatches Susan Ryan from a line of captives being taken to a re-education camp run by Krotch Industries. He didn’t pick her, because she was beautiful and wearing a nurse’s uniform. He picked her by size, but she was more than he could have hoped for. He swore he wouldn’t allow himself to get close to her. He wanted to avoid the pain of seeing another he loved gunned down by government contractors. She believed her fiancé was dead or implanted, so she didn’t feel guilty falling for John. They were thrown together by fate, only to be separated when Richard shows up. He is not the man she remembered. Pursued by a relentless and psycho sniper John is desperate to save some of his group and decides to split up rather than see them killed off. He loses another close to him and stumbles onto Susan who has been drugged and shot. He surrenders rather than see her further harmed, knowing she will be forced to kill him. Love is stronger than the hypnotic drug and she disobeys orders; shooting her captives instead.
Author: Richard McStay Publisher: Richard McStay ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 453
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John Buchanan believed Partners were mere mindless drones grown for the rich and used to take away jobs from humans. He like most believed they had no sole and were and mere appliances like a car or toaster. Filling out a job application without its instructions would change his mind about Partners and take his life into a direction he hadn’t imagined.
Author: Richard McStay Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1682999726 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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A mechanic who's been to prison and a highly skilled plastic surgeon are certainly an unlikely match. Richard Buchanan, wrongfully convicted, is now looking for a new start by taking a job in China. Dr. Susan Ryan is taking a break from her controlling family and fiance to do some charity work in Bangladesh. But their plans go awry when their plane crashes into the Pacific and they are the only survivors. Only their ingenuity in building a make-shift raft from debris keeping them alive. After a week of eating raw fish and battling the weather and sharks, they reach a small island, thinking they've returned to civilization. But they're wrong - they only find more problems. They get to know each other and fall in love as they fight off storms, injuries, and drug-dealing pirates who want them dead. If they succeed in returning to civilization, can they also fight public opinion opposing their love?
Author: Publisher: Richard McStay ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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After being caught up in a roundup phase of the coup and sent to a re-education camp, Eric Blare is trained in Alt Speak. He hates his job at the Ministry of Truth. He hates being separated from his wife and son. He hates what he is forced to do; to cover up what the party has done to people. He hates changing records, news and erasing people from existence. He goes along with rewriting history hoping it will allow him to be back with his family. He hates pledging loyalty to those responsible for what happened to his country. It is as if they know his mind is corrupted by memories of the truth when they torture him in the Ministry of Justice.
Author: Richard McStay Publisher: Richard McStay ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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In the 1600s New York a group of orphans survive in the town by theft and sharing what they stole. After being chased out of town by authorities and the Black Hand Gang they find a beached ship to winter in. Fixing holes from cannon fire was a challenge, but they got afloat by spring. A former first mate of the pirate ship shows up as they prepare to sail away; though none of them knows how. Capitan John would teach them what they need to become rich as pirates. They named their ship Orphans revenge to show they weren’t the worthless trash they were seen as. Becoming Buccaneers under Henry Morgan would make them rich without fear of the Hangman. They were getting rich, but were worried about becoming ruthless and violent like the rest of Morgan’s fleet. In the end, they decided to go their own ways.
Author: John Wegg Publisher: Brassey's ISBN: Category : Airplanes Languages : en Pages : 264
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Highly acclaimed for its comprehensive coverage of the aviation industries and their products, from the turn of the century to the present, this popular series includes an abundance of photos and highly accurate line drawings. Each volume provides fascinating evaluations of aircraft design and construction and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.
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