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Tarnished
Heroes
Bryan Marlowe
 UK
Price £8.38
$15.95
in US
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Tarnished Heroes
by Bryan Marlowe
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UK price: £8.38
US price: $15.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 5 x 8
Pages: 228
ISBN: 0-595-40750-1
Published: Aug-2006
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It's the cold war in the Far East and a chain of deadly circumstances forces two former world war heroes to form an alliance to save those they love in a final desperate act of heroism and redemption.
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Book Description
Group Captain Randolph Tremayne, RAF, the British Air Attaché and Lieutenant Colonel Bradford Rantzen, USAF, the United States’ Assistant Air Attaché, both serving in their respective embassies in Bangkok, are embittered and disillusioned men. Passed over for promotion and beset by family discord and tragedy.
Both men are former heroes, but are now tarnished by their experiences or weaknesses. Tremayne is a gallant, but philandering, self-indulgent opportunist and Rantzen is a heroic, but war-wearied veteran, suffering nightmares over the time he was a prisoner of war in Korea and fears he’s losing his grip on life.
A chain of deadly circumstances forces the two men to form an alliance to save those they love more than life, in a final desperate act of heroism and redemption.
Quotation
Tarnished Heroes is saturated with believable
characters, humour and dialogue that fits snugly in with a terrific story,
which has more twists and turns than a HimalayanYeti trail, complete with
a surprise ending. It's a tale that is bound to please more than 99.999%
of its readers.
Carl Morris Miller, Bolivar,
Missouri USA
Reviews
“A good, old-fashioned war yarn, harking back to
when men were men
who took their drink hard and their broads harder, Bryan Marlowe's
Tarnished Heroes, based on the author's own RAF experience, engages
and amuses, only occassionally slipping into pastiche. To be read in one
sitting, with a large glass of Remy Martin to hand."
— James Drew - Brussels-based film writer, sub-editor and reporter.
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"Tarnished Heroes is
a worthwhile read, with a story that will keep
the reader on edge and wanting more. It has all
the right ingredients: action, intrigue, romance
and roguish heroes."
—
Terry Clamp,
Acomb, York
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I can highly recommend the novel,
Tarnished Heroes. For me it brought back memories of working in
Bangkok and meeting the author's RAF associate, assigned to the
British Embassy. Bryan Marlowe was our best man at our wedding in
Bangkok.
— Jennie D. Sefton
(American)
About the author
Bryan Marlowe was born in Holborn, City of London, 1930. He attended 22 schools, leaving at the age of 14. He had numerous jobs before National Service in the Royal Air Force 1948/50. He rejoined the RAF in 1951 and retired in 1971. Marlowe worked for 20 years with a northern police force. On retirement he took up voluntary work with Victim and Witness Support and worked as a newspaper columnist. He has travelled extensively through the five continents and lived abroad.
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Also by Bryan Marlowe:
Memoirs of an Errant Youth—a tongue in cheek account of the author’s early years of employment in wartime Britain and the immediate post-war period of austerity.
A romantic saga dedicated to those who have lost the love of their life and live in hope of one day regaining it.
Be warned; don’t be fooled by Gary Remington’s
gentlemanly demeanour. He’s a tough, war-hardened ex-sergeant major, who
exercises unremitting relentlessness in whatever he undertakes. He’s now
on a mission of merciless vengeance and he’ll take no prisoners!
Tense, gripping and with a rich seam of black humour,
Settled Out Of Court is the latest thriller from Bryan Marlowe—a man
with a literary mission of his own.
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