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Tom Kane

Tom Kane

About

Tom Kane was born in the English Midlands in 1955. After a career as a computer programmer, Kane has started writing and publishing his own fiction novels.
He lives in Cyprus with his wife and their two Springer Spaniels.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

Story Behind The Book

The Roots of Operation Werwolf The idea for this story came from my Dad's stories about his experiences in World War 2. The death of Odilo Globocnik in the story is based on truth, my father was the sergeant who got him to confess to his true identity. The rest of the story is pure imagination, although there are elements of truth in there too. There was an Allied operation geared up to find and retrieve Nazi secret weapons. This was called Operation Paperclip. Some of the secrets discovered led directly to the Apollo moon landings in the late sixties and early seventies. There was an experimental jet bomber, called the Horten 229. The Nazis did carry out experiments aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.

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<p><strong>5* Kindle Review</strong><br /> Excellent read. Could not stop reading until I had finished it.<br /> I will be looking out for more kindle books from the same author.<br />                                                      *<br /> Great stuff. I really liked the beginning, the letter from Einstein. That definitely set me up for expecting lots of catastrophic action and mayhem to come.<br />                                                      *<br /> Well this is a rollicking read! Great stuff mate! Loving how you told the funeral and then her telling the story at the bar! Liking this a lot mate! A lot of realism and blood and guts too. Awesome!<br />                                                      *<br /> I accidentally found the book while looking for another one, I'm glad I did. The book is a fiction, but written has if it really happen. There are so many things happening, that you really need to pay attention. The author hints about things not being what you think it is. Tom Kane does let you know, &quot;what if the Nazis had a A-Bomb.&quot;</p>