Books with author Alan Cook

Charlie Ebersole is good at his job as a securities analyst for International Industries in Los Angeles in the year 1962, but he is also somewhat bored at being tied to a desk most of the time. He jumps at the chance to join the fraud section of II, and is immediately put on a case that will take him and another employee, Elizabeth Reid, to Buffalo, Fort Lauderdale, and possibly to Fidel Castro’s Cuba, although the Bay of Pigs fiasco is a recent memory, and relations between Cuba and the United States are not good. Charlie and Liz find out that uncovering a Ponzi scheme isn’t all just fun and games, but it can be dangerous too, especially when somebody is intent on them not discovering the truth. Before they are through they may wish they were back at their nice safe desks in Los Angeles.

Matthew and Mason are intrigued by the painting on their wall, and with the help of Amy, a girl in the picture, they enter the land behind the painting. What they find there is a dystopian world far different from the idyllic picture, where people have chips in their heads and thought control is practiced. The three must attempt to destroy the people who are in control of the tyranny before they are thrown into the Bloody Tower where dissidents are imprisoned, or, in the case of the boys, executed.

A Lost ChildhoodThis is the story of injustice and cruelty experienced by one boy during his years spent in the care of a West Riding County Councils Childrens Home, from being an infant of two until the age of seventeen. Memories which have stayed with him to this day are recorded in this book. They stole my childhood, something I will never forgive them for.

A Lost Childhood This is the story of injustice and cruelty experienced by one boy during his years spent in the care of a West Riding County Councils Children's Home, from being an infant of two until the age of seventeen. Memories which have stayed with him to this day are recorded in this book. "They stole my childhood, something I will never forgive them for".