Books with title The whirlwind

When border tensions in South America reach a boiling point, the United States provides Columbia with military assistance to help in a struggle against rebels supported by neighboring Venezuela. The “police action” quickly escalates, and six captured Americans are publicly executed. The president, a disabled Vietnam veteran himself, commits troops to battle.U.S. forces are withdrawn when the president loses his reelection campaign, but during the withdrawal a top American commander and his staff are captured by the Columbian rebels.Enter Major General Arlie Grant, chief of the Pentagon’s contingency deployment. He sends in a team to save the Americans, led by Colonel Jack Patterson, a close friend. The result: a successful rescue of American prisoners. The cost: the lives of Patterson and three other officers. But the jubilant national mood is shattered when it is learned that 34 innocent civilians, including women and children, were massacred in the action—supposedly by U.S. forces.Someone has to pay the price for the alleged misdeed, so Arlie Grant will face the highest-profile court martial since the My Lai trials of the Vietnam War. But that is only the beginning, as he chooses Major Paula Patterson, Jack’s daughter, as his defense counsel and is further accused of sending Patterson off to be killed so that he can have the woman he loves, Jack’s wife . . .With the scope of a Tom Clancy adventure and intrigue of a Nelson DeMille thriller, THUNDER IN THE WHIRLWIND takes the reader behind tomorrow’s headlines and paints an unforgettable inside portrait of the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad.

In Firestorm, the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, seventeen-year-old Jack Danielson saved the world's oceans, but at great personal cost -- his parents were killed and everything he knew and believed in was turned upside down. Now Jack has come home to see P.J., his girlfriend and sole remaining touchstone. But she's missing, and blame falls on Jack. On the run with Gisco, his crafty canine sidekick, Jack is literally caught up in a whirlwind as he travels to the heart of darkness to rescue P.J. -- a journey that will bring him face-to-face with the father of his old nemesis, the colonel, aka the Dark Lord from the future. Jack's quest becomes all the more complicated as he discovers that the only person who can stop the Dark Lord is another time traveler, the wizard Kidah, who has disappeared in the present. Book 2 of the Caretaker Trilogy mixes heart-racing adventure with an urgent ecological warning about the fragility of the world's rain forests and the importance of respect for indigenous peoples. Readers will be drawn into the vortex of the quest -- whether or not they're familiar with Book 1.

Denise, Josh, and Nathan are again caught between good and evil in the land of Fayrah. Josh, who wants to understand the power of the bloodstone, is convinced by the Illusionist and Bobok, the evil villains in Fayrah, that they can make him a perfect creature. He falls into their trap, and Denise and Nathan must find someone truly perfect or Rebreathed to save Josh from the Sea of Justice.

Gordon Labuhn's life has been one high-speed, non-stop adventure, starting adjacent to the inner city of Detroit where, he directed the exploits of a teenage gang. Despite the lack of high school preparation, using gang manipulation strategies and perseverance, he clawed his way into the business world with a bachelors and masters degree and no debt. He achieved twenty-six years of executive director status of non-profit and for-profit corporations. Gordon's had intimate experience with theology, political office, restoration of antique cars, African American and Native American Indian relationships, sailing the great lakes and Oceans, theater acting, the carnival and more. His unique journey through life produced numerous adventures laced with humor, danger and love. Gordon enjoyed flying high nineteen hours a day, in spite of the weather - clear or cloudy, sunny or rainy, -- with a smooth or bumpy ride. He believes that "Life is enhanced by adventures of the mind." So come fly with Gordon and experience his WHIRLWIND life, laudable achievements and amazing misadventures.

Here is the much-begged-for sequel to Shadow Horse. With a feisty female protagonist, a little romance, a lot of mystery, and a barnful of animals just waiting to be loved, this young adult horse mystery novel will have young girls galloping to the bookstore to grab their copy.When thirteen-year-old Jas Schuler found her beloved mare Whirlwind dead in her padlock, she thought her heart would break. But now Jas knows the truth: Whirlwind is alive! Wealthy horse breeder Hugh Robicheaux faked the mare's death, collected insurance money, then sold her to an unsuspecting buyer. And he's going to get away with his crime, too—unless someone can find Whirlwind. And that's exactly what Jas plans to do.But hunting for Whirlwind is dangerous. Hugh has threatened to destroy everything Jas holds dear unless she stops her search. As she struggles with her desire to find Whirlwind without endangering the people she loves, Jas must ask herself: Should she risk so much for a horse she may never find? This heartfelt YA novel by a highly regarded equestrian author will have young readers chomping at the bit for more.From the Paperback edition.