Bravos Veil

His marriage is in trouble and his business has failed, but David Collins is determined to investigate a decades old family tragedy and to bring closure to a huge void in his life. For years he has wondered what caused his twelve year old brother to leave his wartime billet on a cold December night and disappear from an isolated beach. He is increasingly obsessed with examining the role played by the people his brother was billeted with, and with determining the involvement of the officials who were charged with his safe keeping. Along with a skeptical cousin and the cousin's keenly interested wife, David travels to England to peel back years of family history and official deceptions. Bravo's Veil is the story of their investigation. It's also the story of his brother Paul's time in pre-war London and the months leading up to his disappearance in Cornwall. The activities of a beautiful billeting official come into focus. Her affair with a young police constable and her deep involvement in a local MI-5 operation are revealed, and so are requests for Paul to run some strange errands. The final clues regarding Paul's fate are found in an envelope containing his childhood keepsakes. The emotional investigation serves up many surprises. But one extraordinary and very disturbing secret shocks David to his core and changes his life forever.

The Bravo (1831) takes place in early eighteenth-century Venice, when the "Serene Republic" had lost much of its glory, leaving its oligarchs struggling to hold on to their family wealth by manipulating the government and people through secret councils and a figure-head doge. In 1844, Cooper called it "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrote" because of its depiction of the masses duped by demagoguery and the attempts of Congress to rein in President Jackson, who Cooper saw as representing the popular will. In the novel, the low-born hero, Jacopo Frontoni, is forced to become an agent of the state because his unjustly imprisoned father languishes in the infamous state prison. On the last page, Jacopo is executed as a scapegoat for the crimes attributed to him of which he is innocent, rendering his beloved insane. Only in a subplot does a noble couple escape Venice to enjoy marriage. The present text is based on all extant manuscript witnesses (including a lengthy deleted section) and offers extensive explanatory notes.

Luke Bravo was stunned when Mercy Cabrera showed up in the middle of the night to treat his prize stud. The exotic girl he remembered had matured into a skilled vet—and a sultry, passionate woman he knew he should steer clear of at all costs. Luke was a Bravo—reason enough to keep her distance. But Mercy had loved the rugged rancher since she was sixteen. And when their simmering attraction led to a night of intense passion, she knew she'd risk everything for a future together….

"The author of The Belle of Amherst, The Last Flapper, Bronte and Lucifer's Child takes you backstage at the Metropolitan opera, Christmas 1920, to meet the greatest tenor in history. You become a reporter conducting an interview in Enrico Caruso's dressing room as his valet Mario helps him prepare for a performance which, unknown to both men, will be his last"--P. [4] of cover

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Its 1943 and the British and American intelligence agencies meet in Washington DC. They cant kill Hitler, God knows they tried, so they come up with Chameleon Bravo, a long shot contrivance. IF, they can locate the right man, they will switch him with the real Adolph Hitler. His job, will be to slowly, run the Third Reich into the ground by making emotional laden decisions. Unbeknown to the allies, Stalins security forces inadvertently locate a peasant girl who is the spitting image of Hitlers girlfriend, Eva Braun. They coerce her into submitting to be swapped with the assignment of killing Hitler, when she receives a code word. The two, impostors meet, fall in love and know they can never be with the other. He cant tell her he is not the monster she has to kill someday.