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In the winter of early 1945, a young lady fled Krakow, Poland, to escape the fate of millions of women who fell prey to the advancing Red Army of the Soviet Union. Three decades later, she would face that enemy again, only this time, her enemy (and head of a KGB operation) was hiding behind the black uniform of the most intellectual order of the Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus. His weapon of attack: Liberation Theology; her weapon of defense: the Scripture she had learned in a Paris convent.With Liberation Theology, the Jesuits had the 'alt-Gospel' they needed to justify armed struggle against poverty wherever it existed. But its selective application both ignored the institutionalized poverty of Africa and Asia and embraced the dictator-imposed poverty of Cuba. Such hypocrisy created the allies that the nun needed to prevail in this religious battlefield: a Polish Pope, a disillusioned young Jesuit, and a Salvadoran officer who had graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.The Black Crusade is fiction based on historical fact that takes the reader from mid-20th Century Europe to the last battle of the Cold War in El Salvador, Central America the week after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

A principios de 1945, en pleno invierno, una jovencita huyó de Cracovia, Polonia para escapar al destino de millones de mujeres que cayeron en las garras del ejército soviético que avanzaba hacia Berlín. Tres décadas después enfrentaría al mismo enemigo otra vez, sólo que esta vez su enemigo (y director de una operación de la KGB) se escondía tras el uniforme negro de la orden más intelectual de la Iglesia Católica, la Compañía de Jesús. El arma de ataque del enemigo: la Teología de la Liberación; su arma de defensa: las Sagradas Escrituras que había aprendido en un convento de París.Con la Teología de la Liberación, los jesuitas tenían el 'para-Evangelio' necesario para justificar la lucha armada contra la pobreza donde quiera que existiera. Pero su aplicación selectiva ignoró la pobreza institucionalizada de África y Asia, y acogió la pobreza impuesta por la dictadura de Cuba. Tal hipocresía creó los aliados que la monja necesitaría para vencer en este campo de batalla religioso: un Papa polaco, un joven jesuita desilusionado, y un oficial salvadoreño graduado de la Academia Militar de los Estados Unidos en West Point.La Cruzada Negra es ficción basada en hechos históricos que lleva al lector desde la Europa de mediados del siglo veinte hasta la última batalla de la Guerra Fría en El Salvador, Centroamérica, la semana después de la caída del Muro de Berlín en 1989.

It has been said that the most profound truths can be stated simply. One such simple truth is that our lives are primarily formed by holding onto beliefs and experiences. For many people, this holding on does not lead to the life they desire. This novel is about a man's discovery of a universal truth that freed him, how it changed his life and how it affects us all. About the Story Michael's life had not gone as planned. It was a constant struggle of grief, tension, and the belief he was leading a dead-end life. He felt stuck until he met a person who sparked a discovery that changed him forever. It turned his life around, and he realized that what he had learned for himself could be taught to others. At first, helping a few at a time and then it grew. People were able to use his discovery to make dramatic changes in their lives. While undergoing his own transformation, he falls in love with Natalie, the daughter of a US senator. Michael and the senator disagree on what our country and the people need. In a break with her father's ideology, Natalie convinces Michael that of the two ways to reach people en masse: religion and politics, he had only one choice if he wished to be taken seriously. She convinces him to run against her father in the upcoming election. This story illustrates how Michael's discovery gives us the key that unlocks the power of our soul to change our lives and the world.

Liberia emerged from the chaos of fourteen years of civil war that shattered all government functions. The West African nation slowly recovered - schools were reopened - and the populace had a sense that the tumultuous pain was behind them. What they did not fathom was the impact of the world's deadliest virus that spread like a raging forest fire. Ebola had been accidentally unleashed as a criminal organization attempted to weaponize the horrific disease. CIA and MI6 operatives were sent to dismantle the international criminal network and destroy the weaponized Ebola, only to be ultimately saved by a female Mossad agent. In the midst of a region and society ravaged by abject poverty and the virus, the operatives are in a deadly match with former KGB agents, Hezbollah operatives, and Al Qaeda cell as they fight to stop a pandemic that could kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.

From the Author: My love of mysteries, and the feeling of kinship I get when enjoying such perennial lead characters as Harry Bosch, Lucas Davenport and Alex Cross, are what prompted me to create a similar but funnier and more lovable hero in JT Dunkirk. The activities in my book are based on my growing up and living in the Washington, DC area and working for and with several defense, security and counterintelligence organizations, and my current involvement with the Fairfax County (Virginia) Police Department. Sharing the adventures of my son, a former street cop in Tampa, a Federal Air Marshall for four years, and now a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has significantly colored my characters and their situations. Throughout the book I strived to show that good police work carried out by decent people is its own reward.About the Book: The last thing the Badger wanted was to make this murder seem like a terrorist incident. Or was it? Interpreted as such it could assure the funding for the program he was part of and enable his placement at the helm of its implementation. But that could also lead to the involvement of the National Counterterrorist Center, or perhaps worse, that new group formed over at the Department of Homeland Security; The Fusion Team a high level, special focus anti-terrorist group. The decision is taken out of his hands however, and leads Fusion Team special agent JT Dunkirk into the world of secret high-tech government organizations, terrorist activities funded by common crimes and illicit financial transactions, and the investigation of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency scientist's murder.