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I spent two years at Vint Hill Farms Station (the setting for my novel) after training to be a Russian translator at Monterrey, CA. After the Army Security Agency (successor to the Signals Intelligence Service) I worked in the Pentagon as a speech writer and as managing editor of an international aerospace magazine. Since then I have been an editor, writer and public relations counselor in Washington, DC and Chicago. I graduated from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and pursued an MA in American Literature at George Washington University, Washington, DC. Presently I live with my family in Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, IL.

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The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson,

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BLINDED

Larry Woods Zoeller

Suspected of espionage, a team of code-breakers accepts a dangerous mission to clear themselves and learn Hitler’s secret plans to defeat the D-Day invasion.


Documents declassified after WWII revealed America’s ability to intercept conversations between Adolph Hitler and Japan’s Ambassador to Germany. This is the story of a brilliant but naïve team of cryptographers in Army uniform, at a secret base in Virginia, who broke the coded intercepts. Off duty, they are welcomed by the last of an old Virginia family at their idyllic estate. The idyll crumbles as they learn the dark side of this aristocratic and racist culture that ignores the war in favor of horses and fox hunting.

A month before D-Day, Tokyo abruptly switches to a new code. The enemy has discovered our deepest secret. With the team under suspicion and excluded, intelligence agencies scramble to break the new code while Eisenhower waits anxiously: Only the Ambassador’s reports can tell him if Hitler knows the chosen site, if Nazi tanks are massed to massacre the assault troops as they land

Then the legendary spymaster, “Wild Bill” Donovan, takes a chance on the team--if they agree to a dangerous mission. Will they give their lives to save the lives of thousands on the Normandy beaches? Even if they return, the question remains: Who is leaking intelligence to the enemy?

 

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Hullo again, Larry. My book's on the Ed's Desk this month and, becaus....

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I wrote 702 days ago

Haven't been able to read much, as I am immersed in finishing my own novel, but I like the concept. Concerning the first couple of pages I read, I'd be careful about too many adjective. I find I do the same on drafts, which is why I spend twice the time rewriting and editing as I do on the origina... view book

I wrote 708 days ago

Reads like a Cornwell novel--and I mean that as a compliment. I love the way it starts. The cop partner being killed is a much used plot point, but you make it so real and tense, it works. We really feel the emotion. Good luck. I look forward to reading it in print. Hope you have time to take ... view book

I wrote 708 days ago

Reads like a Cornwell novel--and I mean that as a compliment. I love the way it starts. The cop partner being killed is a much used plot point, but you make it so real and tense, it works. We really feel the emotion. Good luck. I look forward to reading it in print. Hope you have time to take ... view book

I wrote 708 days ago

Reads like a Cornwell novel--and I mean that as a compliment. I love the way it starts. The cop partner being killed is a much used plot point, but you make it so real and tense, it works. We really feel the emotion. Good luck. I look forward to reading it in print. Hope you have time to take ... view book

I wrote 713 days ago

You handle the mundane moments of a longterm relelationship very well, while revealing the undercurrents subtlly with dialogue and gestures, easing the reader into the darker moments of the plot. Nice writing. Larry Blinded view book

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