Long Live The King – John Rowe

This book review is half coincidence and half on purpose after . This book is pretty much a manual on how it would go if Prince Henry assumed the throne in real life.

The plot starts when an IRA bomb kills George’s brother Richard, a few other members of the Royal Family and the Prime Minister.   George is quite like Prince Henry in real life – a bigoted and flamboyant rich kid.   Now King, George has to cool the relationship he has had for a while with Rebel Fitzpatrick – a very successful Catholic American singer.

In this book George is a King more than usually involved in politics and frequently has talks with the Prime Minister Rupert Kitchener about various problems such as union strikes, and the complete evacuation of British troops and willing Protestants from Northern Ireland.

Various events such as getting stopped by a traffic policeman in Germany for speeding, getting into a barfight with members of an Irish sports team,   and an arrogant and racist confrontation with two black Americans in the military make this book full of twists and turns.   One event in this book that stands out is when George sneaks off to Northern Ireland unannounced and without security to join his old army mates.   Upon taking a ride in a tank… the group of tanks he is travelling with are attacked by the IRA using rocket propelled grenades.   Instead of shrinking away from the attack, the King commands his gunner to engage and kill the IRA members who come very close to killing him.

George eventually becomes interested and starts courting the Prime Minister’s daughter Anne.   After a while George marries Anne and she becomes the Queen.   The relationship is fraught by George’s emotional attachment to Rebel, and Anne’s insecurities about Rebel.   George commits adultery with Rebel and eventually makes her pregnant.   George convinces his long time friend Harry to publicly admit to being the father so that Anne doesn’t find out.

Eventually Anne does find out about George’s philandering which turns their marriage into one full of coldness and suspicion, and provokes her into doing something irrational which is eerily similar to an alleged incident that happened with Diana, Princess of Wales.

All in all this book I think is a remarkable insight into the minds and way of thinking of our real life Royal Family… right down to the ingrained bigoted view of England’s old school aristocracy regarding anyone who is not a WASP.

This is definitely an awesome read which I have done so numerous times and definitely reckon you should too.

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Fade – Kyle Mills

I picked this book up at a bargain bookstore in the mall here in Kenora. Floating around, as you do in a bookstore, I saw Kyle Mills name and immediately picked it up and bought it based upon the strength because of .

One thing I liked about this book is that in this day and age, the chances of the United States of America having an Arab Muslim in their highly trained special forces ranks just doesn’t seem to be realistic.   However, Kyle Mills manages to write the story in a way that makes it believable.   You’d think that with the main character having an Arabic name the storyline would be about him being a spy for a country hostile to the United States like Iran or Syria – the plot is excellent and so is the car in it.   This is one of the ones you need to check out for real!

Synopsis:
A former Navy SEAL who speaks perfect Arabic, Salam al Fayed (a.k.a. “Fade”) had been one of the deadliest weapons in America’s arsenal – until a mission gone wrong put a bullet in his back, requiring risky surgery the government refused to pay for.

Embittered by a wound that could one day paralyze him, Fade isn’t exactly cooperative when Homeland Security insists on putting him back on the payroll. But they’re not taking “no” for an answer – and what is meant to be a foolproof deceptions turns into an explosive bloodbath.

It falls to an estranged friend of Fade’s named Matt Egan to clean up the mess made by his superiors. But it isn’t going to be easy – because Fade is gunning for the men who set him up. And Matt is at the top of the list…

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Nazi camp doctor ‘died in 1992′

Aribert Heim, one of the most wanted Nazi criminals, has been dead since 1992, German’s ZDF television reports.

It says Heim, known as “Doctor Death” lived under a pseudonym and died in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.

ZDF says it found Heim’s passport and other personal documents in a hotel where he lived.

Heim was a concentration camp doctor and was accused of killing hundreds of concentration camp victims, using horrific medical experiments.

In its report, ZDF quoted witnesses, including Heim’s son, as confirming that he died in 1992.

The German TV channel also said Heim had converted to Islam.

Leading Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre said he had not seen the documents found by ZDF.

But he added that if confirmed, the news would be “earth shattering”, the Associated Press reports.

Heim was one of the last major Nazi fugitives believed to be still at large.

He is accused of carrying out horrible medical experiments on prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II.

After the war he lived in West Germany, working as a doctor.

He disappeared in 1962 when police opened an investigation into his past.

25 Things About Me

1. I think crying is for wimps – I only ever remember crying about four times in my life.
2. I get very seriously offended when people don’t believe what I say or call me a liar.
3. I was pleasantly corrupted by an 11year old girl when I was 9.
4. I’ve a deep passion for 80′s music. I’m almost a male version of those burnt out 80′s chick you still see walking around with big hair and leggings on.
5. I don’t like my smile and have only ever seen three photos of myself smiling which I liked.
6. I miss rollerblading to work in London.
7. I get hot under the collar when I smell pumpkin and apple cinnamon candles (both at the same time).
8. I feel horrible waking up if I sleep more than four hours a night.
9. I used to have a recurring dream where I could hover / fly horizontally about three feet off the ground by jumping into the air and straightening out, and have always wanted to see if I could, but am too afraid of breaking bones.
10. Most of the time I successfully handle emotional problems by ignoring them. Dealing with them head-on doesn’t work for me. If I just ignore something I’m all good!
11. I’ve gone hungry more than once so I could lend a friend $10 to buy tampons.
12. I think drug dealers of any sort are unpleasant people who deserve a bullet and a ditch.
13. I get irritated when people act surprised when they learn I’m half black.
14. Forgiveness is not in my nature. I can let things slide, but I don’t forgive and never forget.
15. I don’t love often but when I do I fall like a ton of bricks – it’s all or nothing.
16. I fall in love far easier than I fall out of love.
17. I’ll forever be ashamed that I once told my mother her hair was embarrassing me when she visited me at More House about 15 years ago.
18. I want to do extremely harmful things to my high-school bully Anthony Marr.
19. EVERYONE who’s ever done me wrong in my life has been female – with the obvious exception of that silly person Charlie Hursey.
20. I very badly want more children, even though common sense is telling me I shouldn’t yet.
21. I dwell on the past about 10 hours out of every day.
22. All I ever want now a child, a house made out of bricks, and a kickass Yamaha Clavinova piano.
23. I feel most comfortable when I’m sad – it’s what I’m used to.