Courage, Confidence and Silence

History

Woods-Knight, Judy

World

Dan River Pr

Kickapoo

Use same annotation subnitted for paperback ISBN 0-89754-215-0

Literature & Fiction

Wilson, Thomas

Genre Fiction

DOUBLE DAGGERS is the story of a curse that spans the ages . . . The curse begins with the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. The chief conspirator in the assassination is Marcus Brutus who mints a coin celebrating his role in the heinous plot. Today, that coin is known as the Eids of March or Double Dagger Denarius and it is the most famous coin in all of ancient antiquity. Double Daggers is the story of four men's unrelenting obsession to acquire the coin, and what befalls them once they finally have it in their possession. The four men are: Marcus Brutus, a knight traveling on the Crusades, an SS lieutenant under Hitler, and a modern day Wall Street trader. But these men have something more in common than just their obsession to possess the famous coin-- And that is the true mystery and curse of the Double Daggers.

Double Daggers

Clifford, James R.

Contemporary

Literary

What happens to a reasonably intelligent, moral and patriotic young man when he is taken from his comfortable American life and transported to a place where his only purpose is killing and the people around him are all killers? He lives in the most primitive conditions imaginable. For food, clothing and shelter he must rely only on what he can carry on his back. He is exposed to a variety of poisonous snakes, scorpions and centipedes and to swarms of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. When it is hot, there will be no escaping the heat. He will toil and sweat until it seems there is not a drop of moisture left in his body. If it rains for a month, he will be wet for the entire month, his feet wrinkling and cracking, his boots disintegrating and his clothes turning to rags. And if all that isn't bad enough, everywhere he goes little brown men are lurking in the bushes and trying to kill him. It does not take the reasonably intelligent young man long to figure out that he is in a world of hurt. How does this knowledge affect him? That is the subject of this dark, intense novel. Jungle Rules follows the transformation of Andy Cullen, a clean-cut American boy, into a hardcore "boonierat" in the jungles and rice paddies of Viet Nam. The novel describes the process of dehumanization that affects every soldier in a combat environment. In its milder form, this process is reflected in the happenings at an Abu Ghraib Prison; at its worst in the horror and tragedy of a My Lai Massacre. Americans idealize their military and expect them to live up to the highest moral standards. In our World of automobiles and houses with hot and cold running water and refrigerators and televisions and computers, where we all live in accordance with a rational set of rules, such standards are easy to impose. In the jungle, the rules are different.

Jungle Rules

Crittenden, Gaz

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