| Author: | Dr T William Hefferan | ISBN: | 9781311265920 |
| Publisher: | Dr T William Hefferan | Publication: | December 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Dr T William Hefferan |
| ISBN: | 9781311265920 |
| Publisher: | Dr T William Hefferan |
| Publication: | December 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Just over a decade before Dr. Will Ryan found himself leading a covert US government agency Congress is unaware of, he was a farm boy in the Midwest. A burning question continued to haunt Dr. Ryan. How did he evolve into his current job given his farm roots? Dr. Ryan reveals his transition into a world he never knew he was destined to enter.
The 21 year old farm boy never could have imagined how, during his time in the U.S. Army, he would lead an organization that butts heads with the Italian Mafia. Dr. Ryan has long since concluded his path to who he is today was pre-ordained all the way back to President Lincoln’s presidency. His Army tour must surely have been an integral part of his intricately planned destiny.
In order to uncover more about why his destiny began so long ago, this adventure-thriller Prequel looks back to the day Will Ryan receives his draft notice in 1971. Will knows he’s heading for the dangerous rice paddies of Vietnam. However, mysteriously he is sent to Europe where he lives in what he calls his own personal grey area.
Will Ryan’s evolution includes a dream world he created – a dream world in which reality is far stranger than fiction. Will’s incredible transformation comes alive through exciting adventures and sequences of events. He learns how insidiously power corrupts with the unstoppable casualness of reversed enlightenment better known as obfuscation and denial.
Will begins small with his creation of a restaurant, followed by a nightclub with live entertainment. Together with the Sergeant Major, his European empire grows to 17 restaurants, 13 nightclubs, 16 Brothels, a Champagne and wine distributorship, a flying service, to name just a few.
Even though Will focuses entirely on working for the greater good and the success of his fellow soldiers, his process leads to self-interest and self-destruction. Will Ryan’s moral compass slowly becomes far from what he wants it to be -- some days his farm boy compass is missing altogether. Daily, he struggles, hoping he can find it again. But his new-found morality – steeped in the drug called power -- pleases him. Power corrupts inch by inch, step by step by step.
Will is against carrying a gun or killing someone himself. Yet it’s second nature for him to order others to, “Kill them all!” Money is no longer his driver when he determines he can simply take what he wants. Driven by conflicting personal rules and goals, Will capitalizes on Army networking that ensures excessive force will maximize his own effectiveness.
We experience what happens when one person controls his very own personal Army – 175 soldiers trained and fully equipped to take over an entire country if it is ordered to do so.
We all have hope that love will conquer all. Yet some connected lovers face unintended consequences that destroy those things that brought them together. Will learns how our hidden social narrative reveals contemporary misgivings that affect romance whether he likes it or not.
Denial and self-delusion mean one thing for Will Ryan: he knows he is fooling himself in his make-believe world filled with conflicting contradictions, yet they occasionally imbue his soul with hope. His reality reaches in and out of the grey area where he exists. Will Ryan is denying the inevitable reality of the abrupt end to his self-fabricated world.
Just over a decade before Dr. Will Ryan found himself leading a covert US government agency Congress is unaware of, he was a farm boy in the Midwest. A burning question continued to haunt Dr. Ryan. How did he evolve into his current job given his farm roots? Dr. Ryan reveals his transition into a world he never knew he was destined to enter.
The 21 year old farm boy never could have imagined how, during his time in the U.S. Army, he would lead an organization that butts heads with the Italian Mafia. Dr. Ryan has long since concluded his path to who he is today was pre-ordained all the way back to President Lincoln’s presidency. His Army tour must surely have been an integral part of his intricately planned destiny.
In order to uncover more about why his destiny began so long ago, this adventure-thriller Prequel looks back to the day Will Ryan receives his draft notice in 1971. Will knows he’s heading for the dangerous rice paddies of Vietnam. However, mysteriously he is sent to Europe where he lives in what he calls his own personal grey area.
Will Ryan’s evolution includes a dream world he created – a dream world in which reality is far stranger than fiction. Will’s incredible transformation comes alive through exciting adventures and sequences of events. He learns how insidiously power corrupts with the unstoppable casualness of reversed enlightenment better known as obfuscation and denial.
Will begins small with his creation of a restaurant, followed by a nightclub with live entertainment. Together with the Sergeant Major, his European empire grows to 17 restaurants, 13 nightclubs, 16 Brothels, a Champagne and wine distributorship, a flying service, to name just a few.
Even though Will focuses entirely on working for the greater good and the success of his fellow soldiers, his process leads to self-interest and self-destruction. Will Ryan’s moral compass slowly becomes far from what he wants it to be -- some days his farm boy compass is missing altogether. Daily, he struggles, hoping he can find it again. But his new-found morality – steeped in the drug called power -- pleases him. Power corrupts inch by inch, step by step by step.
Will is against carrying a gun or killing someone himself. Yet it’s second nature for him to order others to, “Kill them all!” Money is no longer his driver when he determines he can simply take what he wants. Driven by conflicting personal rules and goals, Will capitalizes on Army networking that ensures excessive force will maximize his own effectiveness.
We experience what happens when one person controls his very own personal Army – 175 soldiers trained and fully equipped to take over an entire country if it is ordered to do so.
We all have hope that love will conquer all. Yet some connected lovers face unintended consequences that destroy those things that brought them together. Will learns how our hidden social narrative reveals contemporary misgivings that affect romance whether he likes it or not.
Denial and self-delusion mean one thing for Will Ryan: he knows he is fooling himself in his make-believe world filled with conflicting contradictions, yet they occasionally imbue his soul with hope. His reality reaches in and out of the grey area where he exists. Will Ryan is denying the inevitable reality of the abrupt end to his self-fabricated world.
