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Born and raised in Dallas, I'm a retired USAF officer (and pilot) I have a BBS from Texas A & M University and a MA from The University of Texas at Dallas. During my 20 odd years in the AF, I was stationed in North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Colo., New Mexico, Utah, Texas, Alaska, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, The Philippine Islands and Vietnam. While in Vietnam in 1968-69, I flew 165 combat missions and was awarded The Distinguished Fly Cross, and The Air Medal with 7 Oak Leaf Clusters. I'm widowed with 4 daughters and now reside in Texas.

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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.<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>

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Review by Kirkus Discoveries Aformer World War II POW goes on a vengeful murder spree only to be hunted by the Japanese soldier whoonce saved his life, in Littlejohn’s debut novel. The narrative begins in 1941, two years into World War II, when American soldier Jack Collins is taken prisoner in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan. Like most POW camps, the one that confines Jack is a hellish nightmare, most powerfully underscored by the Bataan Death March, during which innumerable detainees are raped, disemboweled or—mercifully—just beaten within an inch of their lives. It seems Jack’s number is up when he is nearly on the receiving end of a bayonet stabbing. Amazingly, a compassionate Japanese officer, Lt. Kenji Tanaka, deflects the attack, allowing Jack to live and return to America upon emancipation. Forty three years later, Jack descends on Tokyo to exact a bloody revenge on the men who terrorized him and, as the body count rises, he finds himself pursued by an unlikely adversary: Kenji, now a Tokyo police officer. The novel is decidedly less literary than cinematic, but that doesn’t much matter. Littlejohn hinges his narrative effectively and vividly on one of the lesser-pillaged events of World War II and delivers a nail-biting thriller. The setup is a somewhat rickety but, like any book of this genre, the implausibility is eclipsed by the deft employment of pulse-quickening action. This is a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse complicated by the fact that both Jack and Kenji are fully developed, likable characters. With readers rooting for both sides, it becomes impossible to foresee or want an outcome. Littlejohn could let go of some of the loftier literary aspirations that creep in from time to time—especially the superfluous epigraphs—but even they can’t slow this fast-paced, suspenseful effort. Whether the book falters on its own ambition or not, it proves a rewarding read. A suspenseful thriller equipped with the volatility of a ticking bomb. Littlejohn, Walter B. IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH BookSurge (330 pp.) $15.99 paperback October 21, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4392-0045-2 Kirkus

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