Bøger af Russell F Moran

A Reunion in Time - A Novel of Time Travel Unless you invent a time machine, time travel never happens when you expect it, right? It just happens. What if you're a 37-year-old man visiting his old high school for an alumni committee meeting? What if you instantly become a 17-year-old kid? You're suddenly in a different world, and because of that, you don't even know what questions to ask-or who to ask them of. A calendar on the wall says it's September 6, 2001. Oh my God, you think. It's only five days to 9/11. You've got to warn everybody. But who will believe you? You're a 17-year-old kid who claims he just time traveled from 20 years in the future. Rick Bellamy is a 37-year-old FBI agent, in charge of the New York office of the Counterterrorism Task Force. His life just changed, and it wasn't something he planned on. While visiting his old high school to help with an alumni committee, he was suddenly attacked by a short man in a black robe. Instinctively, to protect himself, Rick pummeled the little man, leaving him semi-conscious on the floor. Three other brothers came running to the scene of the commotion, one of them, Brother Francis yelling, "Young man, come to my office immediately." The sign on his door said Dean of Men, but Rick remembered him as a guidance counselor. He wanted an explanation of Rick's behavior toward Brother Morris. "My goal was simple, Brother-to defend myself against that sadistic little prick." As they spoke, Rick looked around the familiar office. He saw a team photo of the championship football team from 1999. He stood in the back row. Then he realized that Brother Francis looked quite young, in his 30's, but that was impossible because Brother Francis should be in his mid-50s by now. Brother Francis asked Rick if he knew what year it was, thinking that Rick may be suffering from a mental disorder. Rick said it was the year 2021, although the calendar on the wall showed the year to be 2001. Brother Francis then told Rick to look at a full-length mirror in the corner of his office. That's when Rick realized that the world had changed, and his life with it. He was looking at a kid who appeared to be 17 years old. Brother Francis takes Rick to a psychiatrist who specializes in hysterical psychosis, suspecting that Rick suffers from this. The psychiatrist gives Rick a clean bill of mental health and recommends that Rick see an acquaintance of his, a leading expert on time travel, a professor at Princeton. While Rick meets with the professor, his wife, Ellen, tries to find him, along with some of Rick's FBI colleagues. While they looked around the grounds of the high school, Ellen steps on a grate and disappears. She emerges, still at the high school, but it was a different place from where she was a few minutes ago. Ellen walks into the school, and a friendly brother informs her that Rick is, indeed, there and escorts her to the room where Rick was meeting with the time travel professor. On the way to the room she looks at a full-length mirror, and instead of seeing a beautiful 36-year-old woman, she sees a scrawny 16-year-old-herself, 20 years in the past. They try to convince anyone who will listen that they are accomplished adults in their mid-30s, Rick an FBI agent, and Ellen a famous architect. When they accurately predict the horrors of September 11, 2001 just a few days later, people start to believe them. Rick, Ellen, and a boy named Jack (another time traveler) who is an accomplished author and journalist, set off to explore their strange new (old?) surroundings. They visit Ellen's favorite uncle who introduces them to yet another time traveler, a man with a secret knowledge of a nuclear terrorist plot in the near future. They know they have to get back to 2021 to warn the authorities of the horrors that await, horrors worse than 9/11. "A wild time travel yarn to keep you up at night." Buy this page turner and get set for the ride of your life.

Leonardo MurphyA Coming-of-Age ThrillerYou just launched a satellite into space without a rocket.You took a $1,000 gift from your father and turned it into $1,600,000 in two years after you read a book on stock trading.You invented a computer algorithm that writes novels.You've just entered Harvard University on a full scholarship after completing high school in two years.Not bad for a 12-year-old kid.Leonardo Murphy, age 12, changed his name from William to Leonardo to honor his hero, Leonardo da Vinci. Young Leonardo, with the second highest IQ ever recorded, just launched a satellite into orbit using a helium balloon and a small jet engine he bought on eBay. Among his many projects, he read books on stock trading. At age 10, he took a $1,000 gift from his father and turned it into $1,600,000 in two years.Realizing that he could easily become an insufferable obnoxious brat, he heeded the words of his beloved great-grandfather, Ezekiel Murphy, who was also a genius. "Don't be an a...hole," grandpa Ezekiel told him. Leonardo always recalled those words-and tried to obey them. At the urging of his father, a high-level FBI Agent, Leonardo is hired as a consultant to the FBI. Using his software design skills, Leonardo wrote an algorithm that tracked down the world's most dangerous gang, MS-13, enabling the FBI and local law enforcement to end the gang's activities.Leonardo is fascinated by Artificial Intelligence. While a freshman at Harvard University, at age 12, he designed a computer program called Jane Austen, that could write 10 novels a month.At age 20, Leonardo received a PhD in physics from Harvard. Shortly after that, he entered the Navy to follow in his parents' footsteps as a naval officer.After he left the Navy, Leonardo, now 25 years old, met a beautiful young woman named Janice Reynolds, and fell madly in love. They married a year later. By that time, Leonardo had become a fabulously wealthy multi-billionaire from his stock trading and patent royalties. Janice loves to teach at a nearby private college. When the college hits financial problems and is about to close, Leonardo buys the school.Janice loved to say, "My husband used to be a cute little nerd. Now he's a tall, handsome, rich nerd." Janice and Leonardo, who she calls "Lee," collaborate on various secret projects with the CIA and FBI. But their activities with law enforcement and intelligence put a target on their backs. They narrowly escape four assassination attempts, including one on their honeymoon cruise. It was then that Leonardo discovers that his sweet, pretty wife knows how to use a gun. Leonardo and Janice, despite the dangers, love to help law enforcement. They admit to themselves that they enjoy being spies, or spooks. They even bought a Golden Retriever and named her "Spook," Whenever he's hired as a consultant, Leonardo insists that Janice be included. "We're a package deal, a twofer," he would say to any official who objected to Janice working on top secret matters. After one of their adventures, Leonardo looks forward to getting back to a normal life. But then he realizes that they don't lead a normal life, so why bother.Leonardo Murphy is a breathtakingly fast coming-of-age thriller about one of the most fascinating characters you will ever meet in literature. Instantly you are shoulder to shoulder with the world's most amazing genius.Grab your copy of this thriller now.

The Skies of Time A Novel of Time Travel "Are you ready, honey?" "Honey? Hey, Ashley, you're an admiral. Aren't you supposed to call me 'lieutenant' or something?" "You're my husband, dammit, and I'll call you whatever I want-honey." "Aye aye, sweetheart." As they launched off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Ashley and Jack thought they were on a simple public relations flight dreamed up by the Pentagon to celebrate Ashley's promotion to rear admiral, making her the youngest flag officer in the history of the United States Navy. The flight would also publicize their story-book marriage. But Ashley and Jack aren't the average couple of married naval officers. They're time travelers (yes, they've done it before), and they were about to encounter a time portal or wormhole-in the sky. After they experienced a strange and violent turbulence in a cloudless sky, they realized something was wrong. As they flew toward their destination, LaGuardia Airport in New York City, they noticed that familiar landmarks were no longer there. Ashley piloted the F/A-18 F Super Hornet around New York City to take a look. No Verrazano Bridge, no Throgs Neck Bridge, none of the familiar sites of New York City in 2016, the year from which they took off. After they landed at La Guardia Airport, scaring the hell out of anyone who saw (or heard) the modern jet fighter, they realized that they were in the year 1940, 76 years in the past. Now what? They befriended an admiral who was the superintendent of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, who also provided them with accommodations. Admiral Tanner had a hard time believing that they had time travelled, but they were used to skepticism. Time travelers are a small group. Ashley and Jack realized that they had one objective-they had to find a way to read the Black Box, or cockpit data recorder from the Hornet. Without the data from the Black Box, they would never be able to find the location of the wormhole. But digital technology hadn't been invented yet. The contents of the Black Box would remain a secret unless they found a way to unlock its secrets. Without that they would be stranded 76 years in the past. They would live out their years, starting in 1940, never to see 2016 again. They consoled themselves with the fact that they had each other. Admiral Tanner arranged for them to meet none other than the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt himself. They saw Roosevelt as the key to helping them find a way back to 2016. But Roosevelt, although he took a liking to them, had other ideas. He saw them as key allies in the upcoming war, and he wanted them to share the mysteries of the F/A-18 F Super Hornet. They hated to admit the bad news, but Roosevelt was not on their side. The Skies of Time is a riveting romp through history, with enough plot twists to make you think you've gone through a wormhole. It's a thriller, a mystery, and a story of love and dedication. According to one review, "Moran has a wonderful way to weave fact and fiction. And when the facts include major historical figures, it becomes that much more of a compelling read." The Skies of Time won't let you go until the amazing ending. Grab this time travel thriller for the ride of your life.

A book that will literally change your life. Our bodies are fueled and maintained by what we put into them.While researching an ideal diet to eradicate heartburn, Russ discovered a sustainable path to weight loss and renewed energy levels.This book acts as guideline to a healthy lifestyle. Russ walks you through such a simple approach to maximum health through the use of basic, original, sustainable and organic foods consumed at the right times in the right quantities

Sideswiped A Matt Blake Legal and Political Thriller You're a famous courtroom lawyer at the top of your game. You've just signed up a huge wrongful death case. Your beautiful client's husband was killed in a sideswipe car collision, and the evidence of defendant's negligence is overwhelming. But something bothers you. Is the evidence too overwhelming? Your senior investigator starts to turn up some strange facts, facts that indicate that this may not be a negligence case at all. Is it a murder case? Matt Blake is a Chicago trial lawyer and highly decorated Marine combat veteran. After losing his beloved fiancée in a tragic car accident, he finds that he has more battles to fight: alcohol and drugs. He gradually realizes that his life is spiraling downward, and that he needs help with the battle. He seeks the help of Dr. Benjamin Weinberg, a psychiatrist who's also a family friend and consultant to his law firm. With Dr. Weinberg's help, Matt tames the monsters that sought to devour him. After rehab, he turns his attention to one of the most serious personal injury cases his firm has handled. It involved a sideswipe car accident in which his client's husband, a famous political journalist, was killed. The case looked almost routine from a liability point of view. Numerous eyewitnesses gave sworn statements that they saw the defendant motorist talking on his cellphone just before his car slammed into the plaintiff's husband. The eyewitness evidence pointed toward negligence. At first it looked like an open-and-shut personal injury case. But evidence began to mount quickly that the "accident" may have been intentional-that it may have been murder. But Matt and his team struggle with a big question: Why would James Spellman have been murdered? Matt finally meets the firm's client, Diana Spellman, James Spellman's widow. She's a strikingly beautiful university professor and well-known writer. Matt, having licked his alcohol and drug problem, as well as the loss of his fiancée, finds himself swept off his feet by the lovely Diana Spellman. He shares his past drug and alcohol problems with her, and she shares her similar problems with him. Besides having lost lovers in similar type car accidents, Diana and Matt discover that their lives have a lot in common. But Diana has another problem-she's a murder target. As James Spellman's informal editor, she knew every story that her husband was working on before his death, stories that contained secrets-secrets that threaten the highest levels of government, secrets that someone or some group does not want out in the open, secrets for which they're willing to murder in order to keep quiet. Matt's attraction to Diana is mirrored by her attraction to him. It occurred to Diana that they were both playing a polite game of cat and mouse. So, one Monday morning Diana showed up at Matt's office unannounced. She sat in front of his desk and looked him in the eyes. "I love you Matt. I drop dead friggin' love you." But their love is soon complicated by assassination attempts on both Diana and Matt. They enter the FBI's Witness Protection Program, which was not as protective as they expected. During a wild gunfight with terrorists who are trying to assassinate them, Diana risks her life to save Matt. What began as a routine personal injury case suddenly evolved into a vast terrorist conspiracy-and Diana was at the center of it all. Sideswiped is a crime drama, a legal thriller, a tale of terrorism, and finally, a compelling love story of two people who dedicate their lives to each other. It's a story of enduring love, kept alive in the face of crippling fear. The book will grab you by the gut, as well as by the heart. Buy Sideswiped now for one of the greatest thrillers you'll ever read.

The Maltese IncidentA Novel of Time TravelYou're on a beautiful cruise ship.The April sky is full of stars.Suddenly, the ship rumbles, and instantly the stars disappear."What the hell was that?" Captain Fenton yelled."Beats me, captain. I've never seen anything like it," the first officer said.They would soon discover that the ship, The Maltese, had just traveled through time-millions of years to the past.The captain, Harry Fenton, a highly decorated naval war hero, realizes the greatest battle of his life lay ahead of him.Captain Harry, a widow, falls in love with a beautiful passenger, Meg Johnson, an executive with the company that owns the ship.After a whirlwind romance, they marry-in the ship's ballroom.Captain Harry convinces the passengers and crew that they must move ashore to a tropical island because the ship is running out of fuel and supplies. Captain Harry organizes a group to go ashore and inspect the island. An ancient forest inhabited by dinosaurs awaits them.Meg wants to go with them. Harry, fearing for her safety, tries to convince her to stay on the ship. Meg demonstrates that she is proficient with a gun by taking apart a rifle and reassembling it-in 15 seconds. Harry marvels that he's never seen such an expert gun handler- or accurate shooter. So, AR-15 in hand, Meg joins the inspection party. Charging dinosaurs are no match for Meg Fenton's firepower.Will the 1,000 souls ever make it back to the time they came from, or will they remain stranded in the distant past?A scientist aboard theorizes that, to return to their present time, they need to go back to the time portal, or wormhole, that brought them to the past. But the ship doesn't have enough fuel for the journey.Realizing that their lives have hit the reset button, the crew and passengers construct a community in the forest-Malta Town. Under Harry and Meg's leadership, they create a court system, a legislature, and all the elements of a small budding democracy. Meg figures out a way to harness hydroelectric power from a nearby waterfall. Everybody thinks of Harry and Meg as the heart and soul of Malta Town. They begin their new lives-among the dinosaurs.The Maltese Incident is a page turning tale of time travel, love, courage, and horror. Get the book now.

So, you think robots are wonderful labor-saving devices, right? So, you think Artificial Intelligence is our exciting future, right? What if these wonderful technologies become weapons of terror? Instantly, your world changes, from one you thought you knew, to one you fear. Mike Bateman is a visionary and highly respected businessman, the creator and CEO of the fabulously successful chain of stores, Robot Depot, a company dedicated to selling robots and Artificial Intelligence machines for a variety of uses. One of Robot Depot's engineers invented the world's first sentient robot, one that is aware of its own existence. That robot's name is Angus, named after a famous inventor. Angus invents an algorithm that revolutionizes medical science, a program that accurately diagnoses an illness and recommends a treatment, within 15 seconds. Whether it's a floor cleaner, a window washer, an intelligent drone, or a medical diagnosis algorithm, Robot Depot has a device for you. The company is a darling of Wall Street and is the most popular destination for consumers and businesses looking for labor saving devices. But the company has caught the eye of terrorists. They discover a great way to deliver bombs - using the products of Robot Depot to kill people. Within a matter of days, a skyscraper is destroyed, houses are burned to the ground, a cruise ship is disabled, Yankee Stadium is attacked, and a children's sailing regatta is bombed. Overnight, Robot Depot changed from a popular company to an object of fear and hatred because of the tampered products it sells. Mike Bateman and his wife Jenny discover the true horror of terrorism one frightening summer morning. Your world will never be the same. Get this page-turning thriller now.

The Thanksgiving Gang A Novel of Time Travel - The Sequel to The Gray Ship It happened again. I didn't see it coming. I never do. My name is Jack Thurber, and I'm a time traveler, not a title I thought I'd aspire to, but having done it three times before, I guess it's who I am. I slipped through wormholes before, once travelling back to the 1920s, once to Pearl Harbor in 1941 while it was being attacked, and once to the Civil War. This is getting old. But this time it's different. I've tripped into the future, two years to be exact. Moments ago it was 9 AM on July 1, 2015. Now, according to a news ticker on a building, it's July 1, 2017. I had been walking through an abandoned lot on the East Side of Manhattan doing research for a magazine article for the Washington Times on underutilized real estate, when I stepped on a storm grate. I felt dizzy, a little nauseated as I always do. The scenery didn't change much. The lot was still abandoned but it had sprouted two more years-worth of weeds. It was pouring rain. In 2015, a few moments before, it had been a bright day without a cloud in the sky. It's a strange feeling to step on a grate and go from sunshine to rain in an instant. The gloomy weather wasn't helping my mood. I've got the drill down by now. The grate was a wormhole, also known as a time portal. Step on it and you're in for a weird trip. Your world changes fast, very fast. Here's what I've learned: When you step through a wormhole, the way to go back is to find the wormhole and just step on it again. So right now I can simply step on the grate and go backwards two years. But I'm an investigative journalist. How can I pass up a story, even one that I may never tell? Could you resist the urge to know what happened in the past two years? Thank God I resisted the urge to go back. I took out my phone to call my wife Ashley, but I stopped. There's no one in the world I like to talk to more than Ashley, but I didn't want to upset her. A Navy captain, she had just taken command of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, and they're putting to sea today (today?) for a two-week training cruise. Then I thought: how can I make a phone call two-years into the past? Time travel plays strange tricks with your head. I'll call Bennie, of course! Dr. Benjamin Weinberg is a detective and psychiatrist with the New York City Police Department and my best friend. He collaborated with me on a book I wrote about, what else, time travel. My phone service had been stopped, so I walked into a store and paid cash for a cell phone with pre-purchased minutes. "Bennie, it's Jack, Jack Thurber," I said when he picked up the phone. *** Jack's meeting with Bennie was the worst experience of his life. Bennie told him that he was killed on Thanksgiving Day, 2015, along with his wife Ashley and a few thousand other people. Jack was Ashley's guest on the Lincoln, when a terrorist-planted nuclear bomb exploded, killing everyone aboard. Within five minutes, four other American carriers were nuked by terrorist bombs. Dare he try to go back and change history? Dare he not? Jack's got to go back to the past, the past when he and Ashley were still alive. But he knows he needs evidence to convince the government of the past that a tragedy is on its way. To do that he forms a group of people to help him. They call themselves The Thanksgiving Gang. "Rip roaring, gut wrenching suspense wrapped in a story of friendship and courage." Grab this time travel thriller today.

The Gray ShipA Novel of Time TravelRevised Edition, November 2018"Captain, we have a problem."I hit the reply button on the intercom next to my bed."What is it, Lieutenant?""It feels like we're going aground, ma'am."No, they weren't going aground, but yes, they had a problem-a big one.Get ready for the time travel adventure of your life.The USS California, a nuclear guided missile cruiser, slips through a time portal or wormhole on its way to Charleston, South Carolina for a commemoration of the Battle of Fort Sumpter. They experienced a rumbling throughout the ship, leading the officer of the deck to report to Captain Patterson that they may have gone aground. The ship's captain, Ashley Patterson, is a 36-year-old African American woman. She dispatches a SEAL platoon to go ashore and report back.The SEALs reported the impossible. The California was no longer in 2013, but in 1861, two days before the start of the Civil War. Southerners who saw the California, called her The Gray Ship.The ship's chaplain suggests that Ashley consult with a sailor aboard, Jack Thurber, a man her age who had written a best-selling book on the science of time travel. He joined the Navy as an enlisted man, although he had advanced degrees from Ivy League universities, so he could do research for a book on the lives of Navy enlisted people.Ashley meets with the sailor, and their meeting goes on for hours as Jack explains the phenomenon of time travel to Ashley. Before long, Ashley, a widow, falls madly in love with Jack, who is a widower.Captain Patterson is faced with the most agonizing decision of her young life. Abraham Lincoln wants to win the war, and he sees this ship as a key to victory.But Captain Patterson and her crew want to return home to the 21st Century. For them, the Civil War was history. Now, they find that it has only just begun.Does she risk mutiny, or commit treason?If she changes history, what will the future look like?You're in for a nail-biting adventure, one of danger, courage, mystery, and romance. The characters, the startling plot twists, and the scenes pull you into an amazing story. According to Kirkus Reviews, The Gray Ship is "not only wildly entertaining but also profoundly moving."Grab your copy of The Gray Ship now, and get ready for the thrill of your reading life.http: //amzn.to/16GPumH

To start or run a business without a business plan is like taking a ship to sea without plotting a course: either one can end in disaster. The APT Principle: The Business Plan That You Carry in Your Head plots your course for a safe and successful voyage. It is a diagnostic toolbox that enables you to conceive, write, and most important, to stick to a business plan. Too many business owners put off writing a plan because they think the process is too complicated. Even those who have written a plan often file it, never to be seen again. This is the phenomenon of business plan avoidance and it leads to the sorry spectacle of an organization that lurches from one crisis to another. The APT Principle tackles this problem - lack of a plan or ignoring a plan - and inserts into the process the most important missing element: a paperless set of guidelines that you always carry with you - in your head. It is a set of tools that breathes life into your business plan. Conversational in tone and laced with humor, The APT Principle is written by a businessman and lawyer, who has started and sold successful businesses. APT stands for Attitudes, Practices, and Technology. According to Moran, everything - EVERYTHING - that happens to a business, both good and bad, is a function of one of these three things.