I Rode The Wings Of The Dawn To The Farthest Oceans

Mike Barrier, in the process of running from love, inherits a yacht and five million dollars and decides to sail around the world. Along the way, he picks up five individuals- all with problems and issues that are played out on their 45yacht. Laugh and cry with the group, as they make their way around the world, finding adventure, mystery, romance, murder, sex, tragedy, and heartbreak. Its a love story of the sea, five individuals and a sailboat named, Becki, much of which is true. Its a story of fall and redemption. However, above all, its a love story.

Mike Barrier and Becki, while on a book-reading tour of I Rode the Wings of the Dawn to the Farthest Oceans in Eastern Europe, are contacted by the CIA to follow, as unsuspected tourists, a couple of suspicious interest. Their heart-pounding pursuit into Siberia finds them on the Trans-Siberian Express involved with murder. Apparently, Hilary died with a secret. A secret unbeknownst to Mike and the others that sailed on their yacht, Becki. A secret that could terrorize the entire world. An other-worldly secret. This is an intense thriller that threatens and challenges Mike and Beckis love for each other.

After surviving his trip around the world by sailboat and then being unjustly incarcerated in an old Siberian Stalinist prison, Mike is distraught over Becki's disappearance. Seemingly, she has vanished from the face of the earth. A cryptic Chinese symbol written in lipstick on a mirror is enough to send him, Juan and Mung to Mongolia, China and then, a deserted monastery in Tibet. In this third volume of the Mike Barrier Trilogy, will his love for Becki be strong enough to pursue her to the end of time? Can you unravel this complex apocalyptic mystery...before time runs out?

After surviving a Pan Am Clipper crash Michelangelo Barrier and his Sikh friend Raj find themselves caught up in the Japan-China war in 1939. Michelangelo is joined by a mysterious French-Chinese woman in search of a priceless ring developed by her late husband and a German scientist 16 years earlier. The lost ring contains a secret that promises to bring peace to a world at war. Interrupting the search, however, is their incarceration in a Japanese prison camp. They need to escape or die. They need to find the ring or the world will destroy itself in war.

The Red Leopard of the Maurya has been following Michelangelo Barrier’s friend Rajmund Singh for over two millennia. Now, as the two men near the end of their ten-year odyssey with only the Himalayas to cross into India, the secret society makes its long-awaited move to bring Chandragupta Maurya back as King of India during British independence in 1948. The two best friends have survived jungle plane crashes and a Japanese prison camp. However, can a woman who looks like Vale, believed killed in a plane crash, stop Mike’s return home or Raj’ finding his destiny on that mountain peak?

A sabotaged Pan Am flying boat crashes en route from Los Angeles to Hong Kong in 1936. It is given up for lost. However, seven passengers survive a watery death. The passenger list includes a movie star actress, society matron, newspaper reporter, Roosevelt cabinet member, African huntress, Sikh chauffeur, and a Princeton-trained lawyer by the name of Michelangelo Barrier. Without food and only the clothes falling off their backs, they stumble upon a terrible secret. Who is going to believe such an account? Who will take the word of presumed dead passengers in a dark, murky lost world?

The Speshnev family saga continues with this true story. Nikolai spends his 10 years in Siberia and is finally released only to see his son get caught up in the assault and starvation of Paris and his other son go to work for the Tsar. The Romanov family experience assassinations, affairs, charlatans and medical difficulties as they attempt to govern the country. Nikolai Lenin continues to study, espouse and push the teachings of Karl Marx while Lena begins her cross country search to find her lover Nikolai and Natalyn his actress granddaughter is captured by Bolsheviks during the first revolution.

At the heart of this collection of poems is the nature of water; water as giver and taker of life, luxuriant and lethal in equal measures. It is set against the backdrop of the shipping forecast and weaves the myths and legends of the ancient Mesopotamians through a litany of migrations down the ages to the present day.