Abe March

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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.

Commitment

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It’s hard to be committed to anyone when you don’t know whom to trust.Alexis Toles, a former FBI agent turned undercover CIA agent, is quickly finding that out in Nancy Ann Healy’s newest political thriller, Commitment.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.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.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.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.

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They Plotted Revenge Against America by Abe F. March Reviewed by Malcolm R. Campbell for PODBRAM 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. This is the arena of Abe F. March's chilling novel They Plotted Revenge Against America. 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. They Plotted Revenge Against America 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. 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. 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. 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. --------------------------------------------------- They Plotted Revenge - Reviewed by Ron Kruger, newspaper columnist for over 30 years and author of A Higher Good. - This story stuck with me. In fact, after reading it, I thought about it every time I approached a chicken dinner. Of course, it’s just a story, but it could happen. Two Iraqi youths (one Christian and one Muslim) lose their homes and their entire families during the invasion of Iraq and vow revenge. 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. 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. "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. 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. This is a story for our times, and it makes some pertinent points about the Middle-East conflict that threatens us all.

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