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FLOW for All (The Forces Literary Organisation Worldwide - Patron Dame Vera Lynn) is dedicated to offering assistance to those who have suffered from the effects of war, especially the suffering shared by servicemen and women, their relatives and their friends.
Proceeds from the sales of their books will be used to support FLOW for All, helping them to become a registered charity and to employ counsellors for those in need of care and support.
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Description
<p>It’s hard to be committed to anyone when you don’t know whom to trust.</p><p>Alexis Toles, a former FBI agent turned undercover CIA agent, is quickly finding that out in Nancy Ann Healy’s newest political thriller, <i>Commitment</i>.</p><p>Alex embeds in a secret organization of intelligence operatives known as The Collaborative. Its partners include operatives from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, US Department of Defense, and an entanglement of foreign intelligence agencies.</p><p>It’s about half a year after the death of President John Merrow, a friend and someone she respected. But she remains committed to overthrowing The Collaborative as she works with a onetime adversary who believes the organization’s involved in the president’s death.</p><p>Meanwhile Alex; her wife, Cassidy O’Brien; and Cassidy’s son try hard to live as a family but must first overcome personal struggles, including a nasty custody battle with Cassidy’s ex-husband, Congressman Christopher O’Brien. The family has their own share of secrets that, if unleashed, could affect their hopes for the future.</p><p>There’s no place to turn without discovering people who are not who they claim to be. That can’t stop Alex. She must remain committed to the cause, both at home and as she works against The Collaborative.</p>
Story Behind The Book
The short stories in this collection are the winning entries in the 2009 FLOW for All short story
competition. FLOW (the Forces Literary Organisation Worldwide) for All is dedicated to offering assistance to those who have suffered from the effects of war, especially the suffering shared by servicemen and women, their relatives and their friends.
Proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to support the work of FLOW for All, helping them
to become a registered charity and to employ counsellors for those in need of care and support.
Our first competitions were opened in April 2009 and ran for four months. Two competitions ran alongside each other – one accepting submissions of poetry, the other short stories. We received a consistently high standard of entries covering a range of subjects, and all entries were posted on either Forces Poetry or Forces Stories. There were no official judges; stories and poems
were selected for the published collection in the most democratic way – by encouraging all visitors to vote for their favourite story or poem. The top twenty stories made it into 'Stories of the Poppies' and the top seventy poems are to be published in 'Poems of the
Poppies'.
Reading the entries, visitors to the forums met a wonderful cast of characters and nationalities, spent time in a variety of locations and eras, and experienced an array of emotions. Some
stories were uplifting, some touched on conflict and war, others reflected on loss and human dignity. Authors had written from their hearts, and this gave them the ability to reach out and touch the hearts of others.
Congratulations to the twenty authors whose work makes up this year's wonderful collection.
