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ISBN 10: 0595220959 ISBN 13: 9780595220953
Editorial: iUniverse, 2002

Sinopsis

An old Indian blessing which becomes a curse, shadows Bryce Harringtons early life during summer stays at his stepmothers family farm at Kickapoo Crossing in northeast Iowa.The blessing of the Kickapoo Indians follows him as a young U.S. Navy intelligence officer serving in the Soviet Union and France during World War II. But the Kickapoo blessing urns into a curse by careless actions of a 4-F guitar-playing bootlegger at Kickapoo Crossing while Bryce Harrington is gone, and destroys virtually the entire family who nurtured him in his youth.But Bryce Harrington is protected by a special talisman given him by his dying Grandma Susie; and, following his return to the U.S. for further education, he learns of the colossal Russian blunder of not recycling precious palladium pellets used in fertilizer production by former Soviet munitions make Azurite Fertilizer Works.He returns there as a businessman and also as an undercover agent for the U.S. Pentagon to learn new secret Soviet methods with codes that were shutting down U.S. surveillance of Russian military operations.Bryce Harringtons success in this endeavor and subsequently in business, and his resolution of the Kickapoo curse, follow in a thrilling, mysterious conclusion.

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Reseña del editor

An old Indian blessing which becomes a curse, shadows Bryce Harringtons early life during summer stays at his stepmothers family farm at Kickapoo Crossing in northeast Iowa.The blessing of the Kickapoo Indians follows him as a young U.S. Navy intelligence officer serving in the Soviet Union and France during World War II. But the Kickapoo blessing urns into a curse by careless actions of a 4-F guitar-playing bootlegger at Kickapoo Crossing while Bryce Harrington is gone, and destroys virtually the entire family who nurtured him in his youth.But Bryce Harrington is protected by a special talisman given him by his dying Grandma Susie; and, following his return to the U.S. for further education, he learns of the colossal Russian blunder of not recycling precious palladium pellets used in fertilizer production by former Soviet munitions make Azurite Fertilizer Works.He returns there as a businessman and also as an undercover agent for the U.S. Pentagon to learn new secret Soviet methods with codes that were shutting down U.S. surveillance of Russian military operations.Bryce Harringtons success in this endeavor and subsequently in business, and his resolution of the Kickapoo curse, follow in a thrilling, mysterious conclusion.

Biografía del autor

Donald Krist has been a newspaper reporter, editor and successful public relations executive. A journalism graduate of Drake University, he is the author of the recently acclaimed short story colleciton Lost Chameleons and Other Tales, Kiss'd To Sleep, a brilliant first novel, and Chicago Cowboy, a best-selling musical western.

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0595220959
ISBN 13 
9780595220953
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
226
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