Citizen-Surgeon takes readers into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the U.S. led war in Afghanistan, amidst a defining U.S. Marine Corps' offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] U.S. Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and congeal as a medical unit in Southern California, transport from the United States to their tents in Dasht-e-Margo (the "Desert of Death") in...

Citizen-Surgeon takes listeners into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone.In the backdrop of the US-led war in Afghanistan, amidst a defining US Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] US Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and congeal as a medical unit in Southern California, transport from the United States to their tents in Dasht-e-Mar...

Jack’s Rogues Trilogy: Part I—Operation Agos; Part II—To Hell and Gone; Part III- Death’s Door. Intense, fast-moving, unpredictable, unique. Multi-genre: Metaphysical Fiction, Magical Realism, Military Fantasy and Action/Adventure. Jack’s Rogues is a continuation of prequel “The End.”God (Adonai) and the Devil (Samael) have worked together for billions of years creating Nature; for the last few hundred million it’s been with intent to create a species capa...

U.S. Marine Captain Francis Xavier O'Rourke has a big problem: He is dying. Afghanistan, gunfire, and a helicopter crash have left him in pieces. Hospitalized and in critical condition, there appears a bright light at the end of a long tunnel…. When Francis visits the afterlife the concepts of heaven, hell, angels and demons initially seem confusing and at least fifteen degrees off of what he expected. Far from it being a beatific, peaceful, and dull plane of existence, he sees that life a...