Bøger af Wayne Soini

MAY 7, 1945 (PARIS, FRANCE): Germany has surrendered but U.S. Army censors are holding back that fact. Accepting military orders, all of the correspondents - except one - say nothing. Working up to and then beyond the climactic German surrender at 2:41 a.m., May 7, 1945, in the former French schoolhouse in Reims, France that had become Eisenhower's headquarters, the novel quickly shifts to the Hotel Scribe in Paris. There, as war correspondents write their stories and await the censor's release, they learn that German radio has begun broadcasting news of a surrender still unknown to the people of the United States. Stunned by military hypocrisy, one of the correspondents - a legendary newspaperman here called Fred Morrissey - challenges authority and desperately seeks some way to smuggle out the biggest story of the war. As he bucks the passivity of his peers and fully accepts the certainty of instant retaliation by his own government, he works to tell people back home that Germany has surrendered and the war in Europe is over.Behind this suspenseful novel stands a true story of the end of World War II, misunderstood in 1945 and to this day not widely enough known, when history turned on the act of a single champion who rose to defend the people's right to know against all odds and opposition. Presented here as fiction for the very first time, Germany Surrenders! is an exciting historical novel that will grip anyone interested in World War II, war correspondents or the moral issues and complications that arise when fighting censorship.

Review from Publisher's Weekly Booklife: Nick Carraway, veteran, must overcome Lost Generation apathy to deal with an imminent zombie apocalypse that no one in Gatsby's circle will take seriously, any more than Commander in Chief Calvin Coolidge. High stakes surround the defense of West Egg. Sadly, Gatsby dies at the end. (see full review below) Millions have read F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical story of tragic love, The Great Gatsby.No longer under copyright, his work may be freely reprinted-or cannibalized. At long last, and without deleting a single word of the immortal text exactly as originally published, Wayne Soini has added zombies and retitled the book in a version that you can find nowhere else. Expanded by over 10,000 words the world-famous novel now unfolds uniquely as two stories, both the familiar and forever fascinating story of the fabulous Jay Gatsby and Daisy, and the totally fresh one of Nick Carraway, the disillusioned veteran of the Great War who must shake himself loose from the Lost Generation to deal with the gathering zombie apocalypse President Coolidge refuses to confront. In the zany genre of cannibalized classics, The Great Gatsby and the Zombies by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wayne Soini will devour your brain if you are not careful. Those who embraced The Great Gatsby as their favorite book-those who own every zombie book-and those eager to enjoy cameo appearances by the Marx brothers and Al Capone in literary masterpieces, will all want to own a copy of this recut gem.***Full Publishers Weekly Booklife Review: "Forgive me at this point for diverting, as all of our attentions have been diverted of late, to the brain eaters," Nick Caraway pleads to readers early in this zombified version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's epochal novel of glitz and disillusionment. Inspired by the likes of 2009's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which kicked off a spate of prankish revisions of classic literature to include horror elements, Soini (author of Gloucester's Sea Serpent) brings the conceit into the modernist era, on the occasion of Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece entering the public domain. Significant portions of the original text still appear-the green light on Daisy's dock continues to transfix, and the novel still peaks with that climactic glimpse of "a fresh, green breast of the new world." But it's transmogrified by Soini's inventions, chief among them what President Coolidge called the "disruptive interruption" period-a war with "Homo Zombiti" and its aftermath. A laugh-out-loud scene imagines a delegation of zombies signing a peace treaty; here, it's this conflict that has shattered a generation, rather than the First World War. Soini's prose can't quite measure up to the jeweled romance of Fitzgerald's, but it's strong, and he's more generous and successful in his additions than the authors of some works in this curious genre. An encounter with Groucho Marx at a Gatsby party is a delight, and jokes about the Cubs and talkies, plus cameos from luminaries like Maxwell Perkins all contribute to the sense of play. Gatsby remains a tragedy, albeit one whose Jazz Age highs allow room for fun. Soini, thankfully, has thought through that tragedy, taking it seriously as he springs undead surprises. Whether this illuminates the original or is instead a sort of party trick is left to readers to work out, but it's fair to say that Soini's additions aren't just clever-as Carraway likens that lonely ol' sport Gatsby to "a sort of zombie outside of his horde," they have weight. Takeaway: The undead roam Fitzgerald's classic, but the story still has weight. Great for fans of: Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sherri Browning Erwin's Jane Slayre. Production gradesCover: A-Design and typography: AEditing: A

Examines the rarely-covered relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his most influential ancestors, and demonstrates how that relationship drove Lincoln's self-image and his enduring popular image today.

Called 'Mr. Radio' and 'The Poet Laureate of Radio' by critics, Norman Corwin was the top writer at CBS when CBS reigned supreme in radio, and when radio itself dominated public attention. This biography tells the story of Norman's unlikely rise from a tenement in East Boston to the top rung of radio writers during the Golden Age of Radio.