Böcker utgivna av Rick Destefanis

When Army sniper Duff Coleridge is recruited into a CIA advisor's Special Operations Group in Vietnam, he little realizes how much of his soul he will be required to sacrifice. Vietnam is a world away from Melody Hill, his home in the mountains of East Tennessee, and Duff quickly finds the clear moral lines of life back home are blurred in the glare of an enigmatic war. His CIA boss, who seems more rogue than company man, is dealing arms on the black market while delivering a seemingly arbitrary and ruthless justice to the local populace. When Duff meets and falls in love with a beautiful young South Vietnamese woman, Lynn Dai Bouchet, he is left to his own instincts to decide if her advances are based on true affection or are merely a means of exploitation. Is she as his CIA boss claims, a Vietcong spy, or is she someone like himself, trying to do her part while making the best of a bad situation? Duff soon realizes he must get out before it's too late, but only then discovers he is already trapped in a lethal game of cat and mouse.

Billy Coker is a nineteen-year-old squad leader in the final 30 days of his one-year tour of duty in Vietnam, yet he realizes that if he survives, he must find a way to get past the horrors of war and seek out his future. Although he knows his predicament was self-created by his high school obsession with the opposite sex, he can remember but one truly meaningful relationship from those years. That was with a girl he mostly shunned because she was an over-weight nerd. Bonnie Jo always said he was too cynical-especially when he called their classmates egotistical jerks. If only she could see him now. He'd perfected cynicism in Nam. It was his forte, and he'd raised it to its highest form.A love story, a war story, a story of hope and redemption, Raeford's MVP is by turns deadly serious and side-splittingly funny throughout. Award-winning author Rick DeStefanis introduces readers to the world of the 1970s through the eyes of combat veteran Billy Coker. Billy has escaped death in battle but faces the futureless void of post-traumatic stress syndrome and psychological impotence that plagues him at the worst possible times. His only hope for finding himself is to find someone special he lost along the way.Buy this book now and discover why author Rick DeStefanis has won three literary awards for his Vietnam War Series.

For Jack Hartman, the town of Tallahatchie, Mississippi, is an accidental destination. One day he has it all: a beautiful home on the Gulf Coast, an even more beautiful fiancée, Acey Kimmons, and an assured future as the CEO of his family's multimillion-dollar business. Then he meets talented young Blues singer Cici Cannon and recruits her for his Uncle Tuck's nightclub. Too late, Jack discovers she's a tortured alcoholic. His efforts to help Cici cause her to self-destruct, and his world comes apart when Acey, believing that he's been unfaithful, walks out on him. Jack's guilt compels him to relocate to Cici's hometown and try to rectify the harm he has caused. Thus, he finds himself in the Mississippi Delta as an assistant general manager at an antiquated and failing furniture factory-one he likewise feels compelled to save.A hopeless idealist, Jack plunges into saving the factory and the hundreds of jobs that depend on it-jobs hard to come by in the Delta. As he struggles to gain the respect of the factory's quirky and unpredictable employees, he also hopes to help Cici regain her health. But will his plans to help Cici squash any hope he has of someday reuniting with the love of his life, Acey Kimmons? Jack's quixotic journey teaches him as much about himself and the human condition as it does about life in the rural Delta. Southern fiction and dark comedy at its best, Tallahatchie is a story that is as hilarious as it is tragic.