Bøger af Bill Getz

This is the exciting story of the most biologically bizarre brothers known to medical science and how they turned their difference into an effective tool in World War II and in their post-war life. High adventure, hope and inspiration fill the pages. Like the brothers, humanity is not the result of cookie-cutter creation; all people are different, some more so than others. Nature does not always get it right.

A professor of Asian Studies at a small Midwest university unexpectantly receives an ornately carved ivory box that contains five scrolls dating to 13th Century China. The scrolls describe the life of a young Chinese Apprentice Physician, who at the age of fourteen is responsible for saving a dynasty and the world's largest city from destruction His father is the personal physician to the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty. The time of the story is during the Mongol invasion of China.

Prepare for an intellectual and controversial journey into the unknown. A distinguished group of medical researchers at a major private university undertake a project to examine the death phenomenon on the basis that medical and legal death definitions have changed over the centuries. Although much research has been done about life at conception and after birth, little has been done to explore life after death using scientifc methods of research. What these researchers find shakes the foundation of current understanding of death of the human body, and causes an uproar in the news media and among religious leaders.

Opportunity sometimes falls from the sky as it did on September 15, 1943. A German pilot is shot down over the English Channel and rescued by the British. It is discovered that he is a high ranking ace, and one of several royal princes flying for the Luftwaffe. His capture also opens a whole new avenue for British and American intelligence to determine the effectiveness of their counterintelligence activities to deceive Adolf Hitler as to Allied intentions for an invasion of Europe. Operation Gemini is launched and is one of the most successful spy operations of the war.Although this is a work of fiction, many of the characters were real and worked in the positions portrayed in the story. The main characters are fictitious. Wars are replete with secrets, deceptions and lies, prompting Winston Churchill to have famously said, and oft-quoted, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." This tale could be one such lie. Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu said, All warfare is based upon deception. So are novels. 575 Pages.