Bøger af Ted Hovey

Ars PoeticaI have stories to tell -- from my heart and my memory.I have songs to sing -- in the language of Poetry.With metaphor, metonymy, and metrical line; with syllables, symbols, and syncopation; with repetition, rhythm, and rhyme; with accent, anaphora, and alliteration;Poetry brings joys and fears to light.In my eighth decade now, a life lived long, I want transparency to be my way. To tell my tales, to sing my songs; to show my happy days and darker nights -- all my joys and fears from yesterday.So, I tip my hat to Poetry, for all that it can do -- to help me face life honestly, and see it all anew.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, a small nuclear weapon has been stolen in Munich by the KGB. Mistakes are made by both the KGB and the CIA. The Americans must act quickly if the United States is to maintain its nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union

Ted Hovey is a man of the twentieth century. Born to the second generation of immigrants from Norway; rooted in the American Midwest; raised in a broken and reunited family; moved frequently as a child; profoundly shaped as a young soldier; and anxious about the horrors of nuclear war. Hope is his favorite word.

Mike and Elizabeth Barrett are living a comfortable life in Munich. Mike is with U.S. Army counterintelligence, serving as a linguist screening newly arrived immigrants from East Germany. Elizabeth takes care of their two children and serves as the president of the Munich-American Elementary School. Then it all falls apart. It is hard for Mike Barrett to see and feel the humiliation his wife, Elizabeth, feels from being accused of being a Communist sympathizer. Only a few years earlier, the House Un-American Activities Committee and McCarthyism ruined so many reputations and careers. Was it happening again to the Barrett family?

John Carew grew up in the shadow of his deceased father's heroic war acts. Seeking his own identity, John joins the military and goes on a harrowing journey that begins his quest to find God. Along the way, he makes some bad choices that bring heartache in his personal relationships. Although he achieves many of his life goals, he yearns to know how to love. He wants understanding of God and peace for his spirit. His searching causes yet more heartache for his family and leads him to write his book, An Imperfect Man.

As German armed forces invade Norway in 1940, six Americans are stranded as the bombs drop around them. Their lives get more complicated when a wounded British soldier arrives on their doorstep. He desperately needs help, and the only help to be found is with the Germans. Consequently, Professor Wes Burton leads the Americans as they are escorted through Nazi Germany by the Nazi regime itself.The Americans hold their secrets close as they begin to realize just how menacing the Germans have become in their efforts to control Europe and beyond. Wes and the Americans simply hope to get out unscathed, with their secrets intact. Their goal is Genoa, Italy; it is there where they need to board an American ship and sail to New York. They have ten days to do it. It is possibly their last chance to flee continental Europe as World War II grows in scope and intensity.