The Daddy Book

The author, Robert Wheeler, takes the reader on a hilarious journey from swinging single college student, pursuing girls, through marriage into fatherhood. There, this journey meets a new challenge of midnight feedings, diaper changing, cradle rocking, and all the wondrous things which occur in the events of being a father.

In the humor which only comes from the combination of love, affection and frustration, laughter mixed with joy and sadness, and the struggles to understand the mysteries of children in their growth and semi-maturity of teenagers, the male of the human species treads a fragile path from bachelor to father and on to grandfather.

It’s a book all fathers and prospective fathers should read, laugh and enjoy as they inevitably fumble their way into fatherhood.

Seven Years a Mariner

Kenneth Clarke’s ‘Seven years a Mariner’ is a series of true exper-iences involving a young British mariner in the 1950s.

Immersed in these stories you will travel through the eye of a typhoon, feel the suspense of real life espionage in Burma, China and North Vietnam, visit exotic locations, experience a collision in a harbour, encounter the dangers of the deep, and share in many more adventures.

Book Excerpt:

The Serpent and the Healer.

Its lower body coiled tightly into a powerful spring. The neck curved gracefully back. As its mouth opened wide, the fangs dropped. Hissing revealed its irritation. Its eyes focused on its target — a Burmese stevedore. With the legendary speed that gave its prey little or no chance of escape, the viper lunged forward, plunged its fangs into the Burman’s thigh and pumped its toxic venom into the man’s bloodstream. He screamed and fell to the ground.

The Synar Deception

In the rough and tumble of multinational corporate intrigue, Charles Youngberg, 45 year-old engineer at the John Austen Corporation, suddenly is thrust into a top level, senior position to solve the problem of a sinister fraud being perpetrated on his company involving millions of dollars.

At the same time, the Middle East oil producing countries suddenly institute a dramatic rise in the price of crude oil, repeating the oil crisis of the 1970's. Long gasoline lines form at the service stations of America and around the world. While the industrial countries are in an uproar, Charley Youngberg may be the only person who can unravel the complexities of a new technology which could release the United States from reliance on foreign oil imports.

During this crisis, Charley Youngberg is also immersed in attempting to solve his own family problems, trying to understand the demands of his own sexuality, and coping with a deteriorating, loveless marriage. Caught between the responsibilities to his company and to his family, he must balance his loyalty on a thin and fragile fulcrum.

In a rapid paced drama, the author takes the reader through the international corporate jungles of Zürich, Frankfurt, London, Vienna, Washington, Boston, and Denver, revealing how corporate executives lie, cheat, steal, and make deals using bribes, prostitutes and secret bank accounts. Danger of failure faces Charley Youngberg at every moment as he is beset by ruthless financial manipulators who have no compunction in destroying careers and companies at a mere whim.

How Charley Youngberg finally takes charge of his own life and that of his company is a compelling sequence of events which mirror today's world-wide, multinational business environment and discloses in raw detail the continuing threat of unscrupulous corporate leaders

WELLSPRING

In 1969, a lone Colorado author tried to bring the Muslim terrorist threat to the attention of the public with his book, WELLSPRING, the story of how terrorists attempted to poison the major rivers of the western half of the United States.

At that time, in 1969, few people recognized the terrorist threat from fanatical Muslims, and the author of this amazing book did not have access to secret Pentagon reports under the Freedom of Information Act; but had to rely substantially on correlating and understanding seemingly unrelated scientific reports, personal observations, and individual interviews with many persons surrounding the events which occurred in Colorado in the summer of 1968. Many of those people are now deceased or unavailable. Over the past 30 years, events involving terrorist attacks on world-wide cities and aircraft, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the U.S. determination to rid the world of the evil of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, and the continuing threat of nuclear proliferation by Iran and North Korea, confirm the author’s suggestion that the events of 1968 were, indeed, real.

Prisoners of Devil's Claw

In the waning days of the American Civil War, when the Confederacy was struggling to stay alive. The prison camps for Union soldiers were filled to capacity with starving men. A renegade officer of the Confederacy, took more than a thousand Union soldiers on a long trek to the American west, into a deep canyon where they were held like slaves. Here they mined silver in a hidden mine, with the proceeds going back eastward to support the efforts of the Confederate States of America in purchasing weapons, clothing, ammunition and food.

Many stories have been told of those dreadful days, but the story of the prisoners held in Devil’s Claw Canyon in the southwestern part of what was to become the state of Colorado has never before been revealed. Many died on the march to Colorado. Those who did survive were sick and weak from the journey, but enough survived to extract thousands of dollars of the precious metal for to support the cause of the Confederacy. The Prisoners of Devil’s Claw is the story of how Al Palmer, U.S. Marshall rescued the prisoners.

The author has gleaned important research information from the scraps of information in the forgotten files of the then War Department and U. S. Army. The author’s grandparents and great grandparents provided additional insight through oral history accounts. It’s a story you will not, and should not, forget about man’s inhumanity to man.

Wing of the Hawk

For those who care about history and the record of the white man’s treatment of the American Indian, a great deal of the background of this story is true. The places are real and the time is factual.
The Denver newspaper accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre by the territorial volunteer army in 1864 on the plains of the Colorado Territory are fully documented. After the vicious atrocities committed at Sand Creek, a group of young Native Americans of the Arapaho Tribe, led by a fierce young teen warrior, Hawk Wing, sought seclusion and shelter in a hidden valley in the vast reaches of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. This is their story. The valley, identified by the author as Latashi, is real and still exists, one hundred, forty years later. It is situated on the western slope of the Continental Divide in Colorado, as it was when the remarkable events of this story took place. The author will not reveal its exact location. If you care enough, you’ll have to find it for yourself. It is holy ground to thousands of Native Americans.

Bloody Rails to Little Nell

In 1871, the railroad from Cheyenne had only arrived in Denver, Colorado Territory, the year before. By that time, the gold and silver ore from deep in the Rocky Mountains was putting a strain on the wagon facilities of countless mule trains bringing the raw ore to the Denver Smelter. Railroads into the mineral rich Colorado Rockies was a necessity if this new and rugged western territory was to succeed and become a state. .

Numerous eastern railroading interests were vying to obtain rights-of-way and grants from Washington, D.C., to give them control over these priceless subsidies. It was a time of violence, political payoffs and reckless adventurers who did anything to be the first into the vast wilderness of the mountains.

Into this seething mass of intrigue, murder and chicanery came United States Marshall Al Palmer, Civil War hero of the Confederacy, to find the identities of the men who were killing and bribing their way to success and fortune with millions of dollars from the hidden coffers of eastern money.

Al Palmer, famous lawman of the West in the late 1800's, blood brother to the Oglalla Sioux, deadly quickdraw with his British Landers seven shot revolver, takes on the entire devious railroading interests, ridding the western mountain frontier of corruption and graft, and almost loses his life in the process.

The story of building railroads into the Colorado mountains and to the fabulously rich Little Nell gold mine is western history at its best.