A Hero's Passage

by J D Little

Overview

What Price would you pay?

Frank had spent his life daydreaming of being the hero but had always settled for the ordinary. Now in failing health, he believed his chances were all behind him. Then came the crushing pain and a blinding white light but instead of Heaven, he awoke to find himself sprawled on a steel deck deep in the bowels of a ship with his head busted open. Where was he? And how had he gotten there?

Crawling out of that dark hole, he found himself in the middle of a mystery, playing the part of another, an officer on a tramp steamer crossing the Atlantic during World War II carrying a cargo that might change the course of the war. Up against an unseen enemy known only as the Shadow, an enemy no one else even believes is real. Will he prevail? Or will he lose it all? And what about the pretty nurse with the hypnotic green eyes? Is she really the woman he had searched for all his life? Can he trust her with his secret?

Haunted by a line from a dream. "And now they all die!" He must find the answers before it's too late. He must save them all! But what price must he pay to finish-A HERO'S PASSAGE

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798218081492
Publisher:	Jerry D Little
Publication date:	12/27/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	418 KB

About the Author

J.D. Little has lived an interesting life, engaging in a wide variety of occupations ranging from a Naval officer during which he flew in a helicopter in the middle of a war zone and chased a submarine with a destroyer in the North Pacific, to running a family-owned business in the Deep South, and working in finance with a multi-national corporation in the Oil Patch. He holds a master's degree in accounting and successfully raised four young men, mostly on his own. A fan of old movies, especially John Wayne's cowboys and Bogart's tough guys, you can usually find him hiking through the woods on a mountain trail or sitting under a tree reading a good book with a glass of sweet tea beside him, when he isn't working on something around the house.A native-born Buckeye, he has lived in every region of the country from New England to California and presently resides in the great state of Texas. He is now fulfilling a life-long dream of writing down those stories that have always filled his head and brightened his days.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Part One: A New Life

Chapter One: Denial

Chapter Two: Anger

Chapter Three: Bargaining

Chapter Four: Depression

Chapter Five: Acceptance

Chapter Six: Arrival

Chapter Seven: On the Town

Chapter Eight: Special Passenger

Part Two: Convoy

Chapter Nine: Lost in the Fog

Chapter Ten: Clearing

Chapter Eleven: Hard-a-starboard

Chapter Twelve: Storm Warning

Chapter Thirteen: Force Eight

Chapter Fourteen: Call of Passion

Part Three: Adrift

Chapter Fifteen: The Hours tick away

Chapter Sixteen: The Serpent strikes

Chapter Seventeen: Fighting back

Chapter Eighteen: Command Decision

Chapter Nineteen: A Price too High?

Epilogue

Afterword

Glossary of Terms