The Boy From Sweden

The Boy From Sweden

Craig Smith

Children's / Music

An adventure that will take you on a journey where your values of love, friendship, compassion and forgiveness will be challenged.Expecting an experience of a lifetime Gunter gets more than he ever imagined when he arrives in South Africa as an exchange student. Being badly injured in the crossfire of a hijacking, considering the circumstances he decides to stay against his parents' wishes. Creating a perfect life there, a tight bond with his host family, new friendships and falling in love with a girl. All of a sudden his perfect life takes a new direction, where those tight bonds will be pushed to the limits. An adventure that will take you on a journey where your values of love, friendship, compassion and forgiveness will be challenged.
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The Horse Changer

The Horse Changer

Craig Smith

Children's / Music

"ROME 46 BCDreaming of service to the great Gaius Julius Caesar, the young Tuscan knight, Quintus Dellius, secures thepatronage of the youngest of his generals, the dissolute Cornelius Dolabella. Dellius distinguishes himself inCaesar's Spanish war against Pompey, becomes a tribune of cavalry in Caesar's army and looks forward to anassured and glittering career.But when his hero is assassinated the Roman republic is plunged into chaos as both his heirs and enemiesjostle for power. In the civil wars that follow, Dellius is soon caught up in a maelstrom of shifting allegiancesand the young soldier will need to discover reserves of both tenacity and ruthlessness if he is to survive.As he journeys from the orgiastic salons of Rome's Palatine Hill to the Palaces of Alexandria, the rockyfortresses of Judea and the bloody field of Philippi, he manages to incur the enmity both of Egypt's queen andRome's future emperor, but also to snare the affections of a beautiful and cunning...
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The Painted Messiah

The Painted Messiah

Craig Smith

Children's / Music

SUMMARY: Kate Kenyon, the wealthy young widow of an English aristocrat, has an addiction to mortal risk. She feeds it by engaging in the armed robbery with her accomplice and lover Ethan Brand. Their latest target is a priceless "Byzantine" icon. So far they have never had to shoot anyone—this time will be different. Retired CIA man Thomas Malloy isnbsp;hired by a rich but ailing televangelist to courier his newly acquired painting from a Zurich bank to the local airport. Malloy anticipates trouble, but not the maelstrom of bullets and betrayal that threatens to pull him under. Sir Julian Corbeau is an international criminal holed up in Switzerland to avoid U.S. extradition. He is also the sadistic head of the modern Knights Templar. He had the painting and nownbsp;seeks a bloody revenge on those who stole it. The secrets of the painting gradually unfold to reveal how the only true image of Christ could exert so malignant an influence on all those who possess it.
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The Blood Lance

The Blood Lance

Craig Smith

Children's / Music

SUMMARY: Kufstein, Austria, 1939At the foot of a mountain known as the Wilder Kaiserlies the body of Otto Rahn, Himmler's own archaeologist. Rahn's pursuit of the legendary Blood Lance of the Cathars has set in motion a tragic chain of events reaching far beyond the holocaust. Switzerland 1997Lord Robert Kenyon is a wealthy financier and a senior member of humanitarian order the Knights of the Holy Lance. While climbing the Eiger with his new bride, he is attacked and murdered and his wife Kate left for dead. New York City 2008When billionaire Jack Farrell cuts loose after defrauding his own company, ex-CIA agent Thomas Malloy is assigned to track him down. The trail leads to Germany and the Order of the Holy Lance. With his friends, former art thieves Kate and Ethan Brand, Malloy set out to unlock the secrets of the order: Malloy seeks his man while Kate must find the truth about what happened on the slopes of the Eiger 11 years beforeand exact her vengeance.
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