Abraham F. March (Abe F.March) is an international business consultant and author, living near Landau,Germany with his wife Gisela.
An active retiree, he enjoys hiking and exploringthe local vineyards and can also be heard singing with a regional men’s choir.Mr. March’s career has taken him around the world to work in many areas fromhis birthplace in the USA to Canada, Europe and the Middle East.
Mr. March grew up inYork County, Pennsylvania on the family farm, and he served in the USAF from1957-61.
His business career got underway with the computing sciences divisionof IBM's service bureau where he held positions as manager of administrationand operations analyst. He later joined an international cosmetic companywhere he rapidly achieved top distributor status and was promoted to vicepresident of sales development and product market management, an opportunitywhich took throughout the USA and into Canada, Greece and Germany.
With internationalexperience and an entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. March started his own importingbusiness headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, for the distribution of cosmeticsand toiletries to the Middle East markets. With ease about him and a talent fordeveloping business relationships, he also functioned as a locator of goods andservices sought by Mid-Eastern clients before the civil war in Lebanondestroyed his successful business enterprise.
Mr. March returned to theUnited States to start over, and was soon working on an international level onceagain. His subsequent work involved Swan Technologies, Inc., a personalcomputer manufacturer in West Germany, and back to the US to work with StorkNV, supporting a fleet of 1200 Fokker Aircraft.
His first book, “To Beirut and Back - AnAmerican in the Middle East” was published in 2006, and is a memoir of hisadventures that took him to Lebanon in the 1970s.
His second book, “TheyPlotted Revenge Against America” was published in 2009, was inspired byAmerica’s invasion of Iraq.
His third book, “JourneyInto The Past,” with contributing author Lynn Jett, was published in 2009. It is a time travel romance story withsetting among the ancient castles of Germany.
<p>The Race for Flugal Farm is the first book in a trilogy that charters the lives and adventures of the inhabitants of the Riding Stables at Flugal Farm.</p><div>Times had been hard for George Flugal and his wife, and this inevitably resulted in him having to sell the majority of the school's horses until he was left its just four: Pogo, Biff, Troy and an ex-racehorse called Chance.</div><div>The horses who along with a young stable hand Rachelle Perkins, a dog named Nugget, a pig called Nigel and an old family friend Uncle Dave, make up the Flugal's extended family.</div><div>When they find themselves facing the possibility of having the farm repossessed by the bank, and bought out by the odious Mr Williams, have to pull together to enter a carriage drive in order to win the prize money and save their way of life.</div>
<p style="font-family:Tahoma;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">They Plotted Revenge Against America </span><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family:Tahoma;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">by Abe F. March</span></span></p><p style="font-family:Tahoma;"></p> <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Reviewed by Malcolm R. Campbell for PODBRAM</span></span><br /><br /> Terrorism frightens people because it operates outside the traditional rules of war. It's hard to combat because the attacks are no longer limited to people wearing military uniforms at well-formed battle lines: they can happen anywhere, at any time, and they may well target people who don't have any direct knowledge of the peoples and issues involved. Part of the terror is the pervasive feeling that nobody’s safe.<br /><br /> This is the arena of Abe F. March's chilling novel <em>They Plotted Revenge Against America</em>. The novel is chilling, not because it's filled with “just more violence” in the Middle East, but because the story occurs on American soil as survivors of the American attack on Baghdad blend in to mainstream society to personally extract revenge against everyday citizens. <br /><br /><em>They Plotted Revenge Against America</em> is a plausible, sobering, intricate and effectively plotted story about a group of well-trained, well-coordinated teams who slip into the U.S. with forged papers and then painstakingly work through a plan that will infect food and water supplies with a deadly virus. <br /><br /> These team members are not the gun-wielding, grenade-throwing stereotypical terrorists we see in most TV shows and movies. They are everyday people who have suffered personal loss and who want to fight back. Once their mission is complete, they plan, if possible, to go back to their normal lives. As the mission unfolds, they alternate between excitement and doubt while trying to avoid detection, and in the process, they discover while blending into community life, that Americans are not the monsters they expected.<br /><br /> March’s story tends to humanize both the terrorists and their victims, showing Americans as largely unconcerned and ill-informed about the agendas and issues involved in the long-time conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors. On the other hand, the terrorists see themselves not as criminals but as soldiers responding to what they view as acts of war taken against their communities.<br /><br /> Since the overall mission leader is a double agent working for Israel's Mossad, group members must not only avoid Homeland Security and other U.S. law enforcement agencies, but the highly effective Israeli intelligence agency as well. This subplot is a nice touch in a book that suggests we're more vulnerable than we suspect.<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------<br /></span><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma;"><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:14px;">They Plotted Revenge</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Tahoma;">- Reviewed by Ron K</span>ruger, newspaper columnist for over 30 years and author of A Higher Good. -</span><br /><br />This story stuck with me. In fact, after reading it, I thought about it every time I approached a chicken dinner.<br />Of course, it’s just a story, but it could happen.<br /><br />Two Iraqi youths (one Christian and one Muslim) lose their homes and their entire families during the invasion of Iraq and vow revenge.<br /><br />They, along with a group of other young Palestinian men and women with similar pasts, are recruited for a terrorist plot to infect American poultry, water foul and fish with a deadly virus that mutates to humans.<br /><br />The author is a recognized expert on the Middle-East, and through his characters he presents interesting insights into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the global politics that keeps this international powder keg so near the flames of discontent.<br /><br />"They Plotted Revenge" is a suspenseful blend of intrigue and romance, complete with a double agent working with the Israeli Secret Service. He masterminds the plot, but as the day of infestation nears, Homeland Security begins to close in on him. At the same time some of the people recruited to plant the virus become acquainted with a few Americans and realize their actions could kill millions of innocent citizens ignorant of actual events in the Middle-East. Most of them back out and head for home.<br /><br />One, however, decides to carry out the plot, even after it is officially canceled. To find out what happens next, you’ll have to read to book.<br /><br />This is a story for our times, and it makes some pertinent points about the Middle-East conflict that threatens us all.</span><br /></span>