二战B-26轰炸机的投弹手马歇尔·桑德(Marshall Sunder)摧毁了纳粹德国巴德沙伊德尔(Bad Scheidel)的桥梁。在战争结束后，马歇尔被分配到占领军，他和一个寡居的德国女佣克里斯汀坠入爱河。桥梁的破坏导致了克里斯汀的女儿和母亲的死亡。当她发现马歇尔就是投弹手时，她感到震惊和无法原谅。个人悲剧摧毁了年轻的飞行员:一名机组人员的死亡，另一名机组人员的报复性阉割发生。而且，他认为克里斯汀是在她家被破坏时被杀的。马歇尔被转移回家，出院了。途中，他在旧金山遇到了一位战争遗孀艾琳(Eileen)，他们互相同情，享受着近乎色情的性爱。在家里，他对家族企业不再抱有幻想。知道自己违反了诫命“不可杀人”，他为克里斯汀的孩子和母亲的死而哀悼。在他的副驾驶加里的拜访下，他得知克里斯汀并没有被杀，而且还怀孕了。 Sure that he is the father, Marshall returns to active duty and goes to Germany, intending to marry Kristine, and discovers that her husband, thought killed, has returned.
这本书以一个美国家庭如何在20世纪50年代成为国家对苏联侵略的关注的一部分的故事开始。他们建造了一条1500英尺长的地下隧道作为自己的防空洞。这条隧道是在美国内华达州中部的山腰上开挖的，目的是开采放射性铀矿石。一般的想法是，在核攻击之前，每个人都要到地下去。过了一段时间，他们都出来了，沐浴在灿烂的阳光下;重新开始一切;打开咖啡，生活就会变得美好……减去邪恶的苏联!在这个地区有很多致命的响尾蛇，他们甚至考虑把一些响尾蛇连同铀的订单一起送到当局，只是为了让事情变得有趣一点!也许仅仅是威胁向俄罗斯人投掷一大堆愤怒的响尾蛇炸弹就足够了!谁知道!在这次内华达州的冒险之前，他们一直在爱达荷州积雪覆盖、崎岖不平的山区开采金矿。 This saga also included, at one point, having to be rescued by the US Airforce! Even before all of that occurred, the head of the family had spent 10 years in Alaska as a mining man and a bush pilot. The whole chapter of his Alaskan arctic adventures reads almost like something out of an Errol Flynn movie! The family then moved to the isolated and remote interior of British Columbia, Canada, where a whole new endeavour in placer- gold mining and pioneer living, was begun. Airplanes and bush pilots became a big part of those stories, as well! This book was written by the oldest son of the family and contains first-hand, exciting, informative and entertaining glimpses into a way of life in North America that is rapidly disappearing. Hopefully, for the older readers, these stories will surely bring back vibrant memories of their own past adventures and for the younger readers, this book will be a call to action to find and live their own dreams. Through it all, this family definitely had their share of: Rattlesnakes, Airplanes and Gold
“拥有瞬间成功的所有要素:阴谋、反阴谋、神秘、勇敢的骑士，以及充满破碎的心、欺骗和背叛的开花关系。它会让你娱乐几个小时，适合所有年龄的人。推荐给所有幻想读者的永久图书馆。——书籍和电影评论，罗伯托·马托斯(关于《巫师的戒指》)摩根·赖斯的奇幻系列《巫师的时代》(龙的宝座和龙的诞生)的第二和第三本书。以下是两本最畅销的小说，都放在一个方便的文件夹里，总阅读量超过15万字。它也是完美的礼物!在龙的宝座(巫师时代-第二卷)中，戈德温国王动员他的军队穿过大桥，入侵南方，营救他17岁的女儿莲娜。但是莲娜被囚禁在南方的深处，在拉文国王的监视和仇恨的目光下，如果她有任何逃脱的机会，她可能必须学会自己逃跑。她的哥哥罗德利，走在国王手下的前面，深入敌对地区，独自执行拯救妹妹的任务，而她的另一个哥哥，瓦尔斯，则给她上了一堂怯懦和背叛的课。德文跟着格雷，渴望了解更多关于如何利用他的力量和他是谁。 Greave travels to remote regions to find the house of scholars and to try to save his sister, Nerra. But Nerra, sickened by the scale sickness, is dying on a remote isle once touched by dragons. And her only chance of survival may just compel her to risk it all. And all of this will culminate in an epic battle that may just determine the fate of the two kingdoms. In BORN OF DRAGONS (Age of the Sorcerers—Book Three) Lenore is safely returned to the North—but not without a price. Her bother Rodry is dead and her father, King Godwin, lies in a coma. With the rulership of the North in question, her treacherous brother Vars may just find an opening to rule. But Vars is a coward, and King Ravin, smarting from defeat, mobilizes the entire South to invade. The northern capital, never defeated, lies protected by tides and canals—but Ravin can happily lose scores of men. The most epic battle, it seems, is yet to come. Book #4—RING OF DRAGONS—is also now available!