A slam-bang, hair-raising adventure involving a million dollar diamond heist in a rebellion-torn, third world dictatorship and a slapstick social commentary all rolled into a thoroughly entertaining, if sometimes shocking, reckless romp!

Firmly by the tail: A novel

GWYNNE, P. N.

PUTNAM

AN UNCONVENTIONAL NOVEL... ABOUT AN UNCONVENTIONAL WAR. "Amerika", 1972. Green Beret 1LT J.J. Henderson had had a semi-rough year in Vietnam, But he found it hard to fit in with civilian life back home. To put it mildly. So he signed up for another tour - in a different country. But... same-same war. Praise for "IMPERIALIST WARMONGER PIG" of AN OCCURRENCE AT LANDING SITE-ECHO: "As an intelligence gatherer in Laos in early 1971, this story not only rings true, but brings back some vivid memories. Gwynne's novel accurately portrays the immortal frivolity of youth and the deadly hostilities in which our nation was involved a half-century ago. This may be a work of fiction, but it's 'the real deal'." -- GORDON EVANS, Captain USMC 1965-74" P.N. Gwynne is politically incorrect to the max, but his entertaining novel certainly captures the sense of what it was like in Southeast Asia during the late 1960's and early 1970's for at least some of the 'Secret Warriors.' He tells with great authenticity the story of a young First Lieutenant at a remote fire base in Vietnam who then goes on to even greater danger when he is assigned to the Secret War in a nearby country." - BRIAN J. O'CONNOR, Retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer, and former member of the National Intelligence Council. Praise for P.N. GWYNNE "The author's sensibility, however disturbing, is always expressed with wit. Mr. Gwynne can write." - THE NEW YORK TIMES The pseudonymous P. N. GWYNNE is a much-traveled American businessman who's lived and worked throughout sub-Saharan Africa. As a US Army 1st. Lieutenant he was awarded the Bronze Star in Vietnam. He was later a CIA Clandestine Service officer, with a paramilitary tour in northern Laos. He currently divides his time between Europe and his native New York. His previous novels are FIRMLY BY THE TAIL, PUSHKIN SHOVE, and THE BRONX BOMBING. https: //www.pngwynne.com/

"IMPERIALIST WARMONGER PIG": or AN OCCURRENCE AT LANDING SITE-ECHO

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Amazon Publishing Inc.

Farce and moral ambiguity in a pre-digital 1994 French diplomatic outpost in Balkan War-buffeted Eastern Europe. *** Young Michel-Ange never had to worry about much. Now the dignity of the French Republic is at stake in the ex-communist Balkan backwater of Gryaznia, where Paris suddenly expects him to hold the fort. Does the insouciant diplomatic dilettante have what it takes to stave off an international fiasco and personal humiliation? Merde, alors... *** "Now you listen to me, petit, and listen well, so that we have no misunderstanding: I am a Sergent-Chef of the Légion Etrangère, verstehen? And when not sleeping, drinking, fucking or shitting, I kill people. That is my boulot, that is what I do. "You, on the other hand, are sensé to be a diplomat, however half-arsed, and as such, and to the extent that you have any purpose in this life at all, it is to make precisely the kind of call I am hereby ordering you to make, right now. Compris?Have I made myself clear?" Michel-Ange's face was blank - whether from paralyzed shock or mere bemusement was unknowable and, in any case, moot. "Bon. Execution. Et qu'ça saute. Hop it, my lad." (p. 193) *** "Few connoisseurs of failed diplomacy can hold a candle to P.N. Gwynne, whose latest hero, Michel-Ange de la Fassederad finds himself unworthily promoted to Chargé d'Affaires at the French Embassy in Gryaznia, which sounds like an over-the-counter remedy but is actually a disremembered capital somewhere in the Balkans. Almost immediately, Michel is fighting for self and country in a bureaucratic riot that unfolds in three languages. This is where Gwynne sprinkles his original English/French/Russian mix through the narrative as few writers can, a welcome and truly shameless salute to international affairs." -- A.J. PANOS, Chargé d'Affaires, U.S. Embassy, Bangui, Central African Republic *** "Gwynne is satiric and deliriously funny. He has a fine feeling for the absurdity of things. His sensibility, however disturbing, is always expressed with wit. Mr. Gwynne can write."-- THE NEW YORK TIMES *** "P.N. Gwynne has a sharp ear for accents and a quick eye for the ridiculous." -- THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE *** "Gwynne packs his novels with a very funny assortment of types who speak in accurate, ingeniously spelled dialogue." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *** The pseudonymous P.N. GWYNNE is a much-traveled American businessman who's lived and worked throughout sub-Saharan Africa, where he also served for several years as Honorary U.K. Consul. Earlier, as a U.S. Army 1LT he was awarded the Bronze Star in Vietnam, after which he became a CIA Clandestine Service officer, with a paramilitary tour in northern Laos. He currently divides his time between Europe and his native New York. His previous novels are Firmly By The Tail, Pushkin Shove, The Bronx Bombing, and "Imperialist Warmonger Pig" or An Occurrence At Landing Site-Echo. PERSONA NON GRATA P.N. GWYNNE A NOVEL BY AMAZON

PERSONA NON GRATA

Humor & Satire

Amazon

It was just a matter of time......and then time ran out."Sir. Major. If I may. Here's the situation as I see it. One, we got what looks to us like a 90% sure-thing, imminent terrorist attack. But two, there's nothing that would hold up in court, no smoking gun, not even close. And three, there's a 50-50 chance that the info we do have, we got from a source we weren't supposed to listen to in the first place. So we're stuck. But I'm thinking, sir, that we've gotta move the needle on this sucker or we're gonna find ourselves in a world of hurt, and probably soon. "From Canada, senior Jihadis plot a mortar attack on Yankee Stadium.A disgruntled Muslim ex-US soldier and a Hezbollah-type set up in the south Bronx, then travel to Fort Drum and, disguised as pizza deliverers, steal a mortar and ammo.A small Army Intel "monitoring" team accidentally stumbles onto what it fears might be something horrendous, but is worried about, and hampered by, ambiguous regulations. Finally, an exasperated CPT Vic Paisley and 1LT Rita Patel decide to take matters into their own hands...Forget "legal." Will they succeed in stopping the carnage? They've gone rogue... but time's run out...."THE BRONX BOMBING is a supercharged terror-thriller that captures the current political dystopia. P.N. Gwynne is le Carré on steroids."--- EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN, author of THE ANNALS OF UNSOLVED CRIME and HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS"Chalk up another win for canny P.N. Gwynne, as his operatives struggle to stop a satanic plot to explode opening day at Yankee Stadium."---- RICHARD A. PHALON, ex-NEW YORK TIMES Asia Bureau Chief; veteran investigative reporter for FORBES Magazine"P. N. Gwynne is Back! THE BRONX BOMBING is an exciting, fast paced thriller that only Gwynne can uniquely contrive."--JAMES E. HORN, former American "Diplomat" and author of EXPERIENCING ISLAM and ISLAM IN THE WORKPLACE"A grippingly ingenious novel by the always-entertaining P. N. Gwynne. Full of terrifying possibilities, THE BRONX BOMBING is an impossible-to-put-down excursion into the War on Terror."-- PETER ALAN LLOYD, author of BOMBED OUT! and screenwriter of M.I.A.: A GREATER EVILPraise for P. N. GWYNNE: "The author's sensibility, however disturbing, is always expressed with wit. Mr. Gwynne can write." - THE NEW YORK TIMES Book Review

The Bronx Bombing

Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC

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Firmly by the tail: A novel

"IMPERIALIST WARMONGER PIG": or AN OCCURRENCE AT LANDING SITE-ECHO

PERSONA NON GRATA

The Bronx Bombing