Bøger af Talmadge Walker

Decades after the event, an old man recalls what he saw of the Hernando de Soto expedition and the battle of Mabila, and the sorrows and happiness that followed.

Twenty short stories by Talmadge Walker, some sci-fi, some historical, some humorous, some sad.In "Independent Study" an English Lit student travels in time to meet Geoffrey Chaucer. A dinner menu creates havoc for interstellar diplomats in "Dinnertime." Two people manage to beat the system in a futuristic corporate police state in "On Ice." And in "In the Air" a hermit tries to cope when the earth is invaded by bumbling bureaucrats from out space.A poorly-named ladies' man can't seem to stay out of trouble in "The Timely Disappearance of Van Dorn Sickles Smith." In "Kunu-Ri" two buddies from Turkey try to stay alive in Korea. Bob Marley's ghost helps a reggae star avoid temptation in "A Christmas Carol in Kingston." In "Gilead" a young woman seeks to find meaning after a tragic auto accident. An age-old struggle is re-enacted in a boxing ring in "The Title." In "Desert Vision" Antoine de Saint-Exupery finds inspiration in desert hallucinations. In "Incident along the Somme" a British soldier struggles to survive between the trenches. And some deacons are confronted with an unspeakable confession in "Confession."In "William Wiley Prickett" Confederate prisoner-of-war tries to find a way home. A father-to-be covers up a sad secret in "Love and Little White Lies." In "Grandmother" an aging woman in Alabama rejects racism. And a grandmother in Virginia seeks a way to reach out to her husband suffering from dementia in "Calling Ruby."

A novella and two short stories. In The Pensioner, Harold Mims is a bitter old man, denied a Confederate pension because of the circumstances surrounding his surrender. When the opportunity arises for him to gain a pension in exchange for a paper marriage, he jumps at the chance. But then he discovers the union carries more responsibilities than he anticipated.In Christmas Eve off Main Street, two lost souls with vastly different lives come to grips with their past. And in Plagiarizing Turgenev (Or Was it Gogol?), a young man comes up with a novel way to rediscover a story he read long ago.

Five novellas and short stories set in the American southeast. In Nashoba's Lament, an elderly man recalls the De Soto expedition and it's after-effects. In The Pensioner, an aging Confederate veteran marries to obtain a pension. A drifter meets an unusual ghost in The Well. In Trespasses, a young woman finds a gold star pin and begins a journey of rediscovery and reconciliation. Raising a Ruckus in the Greene River Valley follows an idealistic young man as he tries to run for office.

An alternate history novella. A follower of Lin Biao assassinates Mao Zedong during the closing years of the Cultural Revolution. When an American journalist comes to Beijing to see what has changed, he finds the country's leadership dealing with their own guilt and anger.

The sequel to The Clutches of Circumstance, Entangled follows FBI agent Mike McLauren as he tracks the killer of a friend in 1939 New York City. Complicating the hunt is his current special assignment from J. Edgar Hoover: carrying out surveillance on numerous literati in the New York area. McLauren soon discovers that the killer he seeks has a surveillance agenda of his own.

The death of the Azcaczhi prelate on Diabra plunges three worlds into chaos, exposing them all to an old enemy and a new threat. Can their new enemy be stopped? Can their allies be trusted?