David Dukes

DAVID DUKES was born and raised in Madison, Florida. At the age of seventeen, in 1963, he led the civil rights movement in Madison. He did voter-registration work, sit-ins at restaurants, and recreational facilities, conducted training seminars, and demonstrated in support for freedom, equality, justice, and human rights for blacks in the American South. He was subjected to harassments, intimidations, chased around at high rates of speed, arrested,...

Pt. 3. Cataclysm: Chaos has erupted in Europe as Warsaw falls and Hitler declares "The only road to peace is through Germany victory." Pug travels to Rome to meet Mussolini with the objective to arrange a peace conference between the dictator and U.S. delegate Sumner Welles. Pt. 4. Defiance: Great Britain is reeling under German air assaults as the country stands heroically alone despite being short on supplies and weapons. Pug, who has been reassigned...

The storm breaks in Europe as the Soviet-German pact has come to pass. President Roosevelt asks for Pug to be his "eyes and ears" in Germany. Caught in the turbulence of Hitler's lightning-fast sweept into Poland are Pug's son, Bryan and the woman he loves, Natalie Jastro, the niece of Jewish-American author, Aaron Jastrow.

It is Spring 1939, and the winds of war which will soon engulf the world are stirring. U.S. Navy Commander, Victor "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) arrives in Berlin to assume his new appointment as naval attache in the U.S. Embassy, unaware that he and his family are about the experience the most harrowing years of their lives.

The Russian and German armies clash, as the war grows fierce in Europe. Hitler announces new offensives against Leningrad and Stalingrad as his madness intensifies. The United States launches a bombing raid in Tokyo.

America is unaware that a "Day of Infamy" is approaching. In Russia, Pug smoothes over a diplomatic-military problem with Josef Stalin, then heads for Hawaii and his new command: the battleship U.S. California. Other members of the family are also on the move. While Byron is at sea, Natalie sets sail for Palestine with her uncle. Warren (Pug's second son) flies a mission out of Pearl Harbor.

Louis is stricken with a high fever. The assassination plot against Hitler fails. As the Allies advance on the western and eastern fronts, the Germans begin to pull out of a crumbling Theresienstadt. Natalie and Aaron begin a horrifying train journey to the death camp of Auschwitz.

Robert Bellamy, an American naval intelligence officer, is called in on a special undercover assignment by the NSA: investigate the mysterious crash of an experimental meteorological balloon in the Swiss Alps and locate the ten known witnesses to the incident. As he crisscrosses the world searching for clues, Bellamy uncovers a murderous governmental plot and a powerful international cabal of corporate CEOs. After narrowly escaping death, he goes...

A suspenseful novel of ideas that explores the limitations of science, the origins of immorality, and the ultimate unknowability of the human psyche. Rafael Neruda is a brilliant psychiatrist renowned for his effective treatment of former child-abuse victims. Apart from his talent as an analyst, he's deeply empathetic - he himself has been a victim of abuse. Gene Kenny is simply one more patient that Dr. Neruda has "cured" of past trauma. And then...