Bøger af David Namerow

Ethan Swann was sure he could learn how to kill as well as his trophy hunting father and finally gain his love and respect.When a black bear wanders into his back yard he shoots at it, certain its massive head will be a trophy his father will proudly mount. But he misses, and the bullet streaks through the nearby community, its supersonic path intersecting the life trajectories of.....single mom Martina who abuses and imprisons her 8 year old son, Ryan, so she can live a wild life....Lane, who watches his bedridden wife of 60 years breathe her last, and on their park bench, toasts her memory with a glass of wine mixed with 8 mg of fentanyl....loan shark muscle Santee who, while in juvie detention, discovers his gift of taming battle-scarred fighting dogs scheduled for euthanasia....wife beater Brad who is taught a violent lesson by three masked women wrestlers, part of a Mexican wrestling tradition that derived from Aztec performances of ritual combat. ...road-raged off-duty cop Kasten, on a girlfriend breakup phone call at a green traffic light who smashes the headlight of the impatient horn-honker behind him....Carly, daughter of a Vietnam POW whose recovered skull fragment is the only piece of her father returned to her, the tale of his torture a bond in common with her Vietnamese manicurist lover, Cam....gang-raped survivor Kaneesha who finds peace as a community gardener, her faith in humanity refreshed by a precocious 6 ¿ year old imp.It misses, by millimeters, all...... except one.

In The Culminations, sequel to the Legacy, SHOOTS has become a Manila-based international corporation with Boyer Heath as its CEO, Dylan as his operations manager and Taylor supervising all PR and marketing. Its Prodigiums, resident centers in major capitals for prodigies with IQ's above 160, form a genius resource network available for contracted problem-solving to chemical, engineering, medical and biochemical research organizations.A totally sensate condom, a supra wound healer, a pain medication with the power of an opioid without the risk of addiction, a process that eliminates phantom pain for amputees, and TPX-22, synthesized from inland taipan venom, the deadliest in the world, which brings a temporary period of lucidity to those with dementia, are some of the products they've developed.Boyer refuses to sell his jungle eco-resort run by an indigenous Aeta tribe to global infrastructure giant Trident Enterprises who want to mine it for lithium. Trident is owned by three men each of whom maintain unique child sexual depravities. Caught in the act one night, they are deported on their private jet which mysteriously disintegrates over the South China Sea. Tony who wanted to go as Tanya to the senior prom at Bancroft High School in Staunton finally has sex reassignment surgery and falls in love with Virgil who doesn't know about her transition. The trafficking of young children by gangs under the control of politicians and police is stopped by prodigy Sasha, her mother Belinda, Lina, Taylor, and Dylan when they organize TRAFFIC STOP and use a paralytic injected via a blowgun dart to tattoo and brand traffickers and their customers.Victories are celebrated at HELLS GATE, a private club frequented by Hells Angels, where management demands all male patrons must change into supplied pink tutus to neutralize any 80 proof machismo confrontations.

A broken turbine blade blasts through a jet engine, destroying a window in the fuselage next to where Mike Logano is sitting on a flight from his home in Bellingham, Washington, to Los Angeles where he hopes to find Lisa, his runaway sister. He is sucked out of the plane and in 127 seconds falls 25,463 feet, every few thousand feet reliving moments in his life as he anticipates ending as a squash of raspberry-jammed organs and splintered bone.The montage from his past includes:...ignoring a plea for help from a Navy petty officer who is pushed overboard from an aircraft carrier by another sailor....rescuing a stray dog from being terrorized by street thugs throwing firecrackers at him just for kicks.... his guilt-ridden sister, Lisa, running away after falsely implying a relationship with the parish priest....the suicide of high school friend Patsy, a nerdette loner devoted to restoring an old jeep, who he took to the senior prom, mistaking his friendship for something more....chasing wannabe gangbanger, Poocho, onto a rooftop after he beat a woman Mike worked for during an attempted robbery. Trying to get away, Poocho tries to jump to another roof, falls, and is paralyzed from the waist down. But Mike is one of the lucky few who survives a free fall from that altitude, his terminal velocity slowed by a thick Olympic National Forest canopy of spruce and hemlock over a 15 foot deep snowdrift. However, beyond his physical injuries, the trauma of his fall leaves him in a deep fugue state of dissociative amnesia without memory of his past identity. He is found by Kaydee Metcaff who was hunting for elk nearby when she heard the crash through the trees. An ex-army sniper, she has sought the solitude of the forest as a refuge from her PTSD. As she nurses his physical injuries he realizes he is presumed dead and must build a new identity instead of trying to recover one he has totally lost. He decides to build his new life as Mike Logan, and discovers he is a talented chef, perhaps a remnant of his past. For a close circle of friends he creates unique wild game meals and he and Kaydee successfully open a restaurant on the shore of nearby Lake Quinalt. But he is confronted with how to create a recipe for the identity of Mike Logan with ingredients from Mike Logano's past.