CRAZYHEAD

Book Description: Sometimes you just try to get along, a little guy in a big pond. You're young, in the center of your luck (the Vietnamese believe in fate, you know), doing okay. And then love shows up. She's the most unlikely woman in the world, but somehow, from that time on, everything you relied on to get through your day is blown to splinters. Hey, that's love and it happens all the time, I suppose. But for me, the time was the mid-60's, and the place was Saigon. Dangerous times, and a dangerous place to lose my head over a girl gone so bad I'd sworn I was going to blow her away. I had my job, Top Secret Codeword crap over at the White Shack on Ton Son Nhut. I had my sworn enemies, the C.O. and a dopey spook who were convinced I was dealing grass to the righteous. (They were right about that. I didn't say I was an angel.) But above all, I suppose, I had attitude. I felt betrayed. Everywhere I looked was a blank space where someone I'd counted on had deserted me. Friends, family, country...what a joke! And Just when you think you've got nothing to live for, something crazy happens. The zips have a word for it, they call it "dinky dao". It means 'bats in the head'. You know, CRAZYHEAD.Author's Bio:During Vietnam, John Klawitter left a graduate fellowship in English at UCLA and enlisted in the army to discover what all the anger and shouting was really about. He studied the Vietnamese language at the Defense Language Institute and the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, and was stationed as an intelligence cryptographer and linguist in Washington, D.C., and then Saigon. In the years since, he has become a successful Hollywood writer, producer, and director, working for Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, NBC, Hanna-Barbera, and many other companies. His writing credits include the screenplay adaptations of the novels Styx and Hobberdy Dick. Crazyhead is his first novel.Quote 1: "The one book to read when you think you've read it a

Crazyhead

Klawitter, John

Literature & Fiction

Dancing Bear Publishing

Ballantine Books

crazyhead: the cult classic novel of love and war

Contemporary

Dancing Bear Ent. LLC

Vidmaker 101

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Orange Glory: The Zoomins Must Die

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"This book's going to raise a howl," promises Deacon Jones. "You wait and see!"From a small rural town in Florida to the NFL Hall of Fame, this is the story of Deacon's rise to the top of the heap in the National Football League. "Headslap" refers to the lightning move popularized by Jones in the early days of the game, when a player could rattle the cage (or at least the helmet) of a blocker by belting him alongside the head. And Deacon did this better than anyone in the game. They weren't jabs; they were full left hooks and right crosses. So devastating was this move that the League outlawed it.More than a simple sports story, Headslap brings to full view the NFL during the 1960s and 1970s - a time of incredible social upheaval and change in the United States. Deacon's story reveals the difficulties that all black players confronted trying to break into the NFL.

Headslap: The Life and Times of Deacon Jones

Biographies & Memoirs

Jones, Deacon

Community & Culture

Prometheus

A financial advisor and amateur rock collector gains control of a ski resort only to discover the person he's outsmarted is better at murder than money. Thus begins a web of intrigue, action and adventure where greed comes up against deceit and crime.

Death Drop

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Fiction4all

In 1964, in an attempt to clean up the mess he has made with his Orange Glory Project, Charley Birch takes an agency operational vehical disguised as a garbage truck and attempts to assassinate one of his subjects, the Zoomin Kate Twillinger. He fails miserable, and yet one of his assistants takes on a life-long vow to kill her. Kate's family home is soon burned to the ground and the locals make her the prime suspect in the deaths of her murderous grandmother and the old woman's lover. Kate is placed in a convent school. Kate, who seems of a dreamy and drifty nature, talks to animals and pictures on the wall, and is quietly considered nuts. She would be committed, but there is a family trust fund that squirts out dividends with a certain regularity, and so she is given special treatment. Ten years later, she seems not to have aged much, and yet has with fingers crossed taken on the vows of a nun and is teaching biology in Southern California. Charley Birch is now dead, but his agency crew is still intent on killing Kate. Kate leaves the protection of the convent, dons a tight red t-shirt that says "Nuns Do It By Habit" and heads for rural Kern County for a substitute teaching job. Here she struggles to understand herself and her strange powers even as she angers a powerful local rancher who seems to run the entire county. Her troubles come to a head as she sleeps with the rancher's son (her student, even though he is in his mid-twenties). The rancher, who has secretly murdered his own wife, dopes and rapes her, and leaves her for dead in one of his remote orchard wells. Now is the time when Kate must find her way or be lost forever.

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Double Dragon

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History

Munkel, Wayne

Americas

DoubleSpin Publishing

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