Play The Last Card: Volume 3 (Once Upon A Bridge) - Softcover

Normand, MR Richard Le

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975000020 ISBN 13: 9780975000021

Publisher: Richard Norman, 2013

Synopsis

Marcel's extrication from the killing business is long overdue. However Lolita, the widow of an arch enemy, Karl Shmidt, threatens to expose details of their past operations. The widow Lolita is unsucessful in blackmailing Marcel, having died tragically before Marcel was able to eliminate her. Marcel discovers that he has a son, Peter, from a former lover. Travelling in a light aircraft, when Gerda, Peter's mother reveals the truth, Marcel, angry, loses control of the aircraft. Gerda dies when the aircraft hits power lines. Much later, working with an Israeli woman to eliminate a paedophile ring and the Israeli girl dies. Marcel finally gets married and retires to Australia Much later, Marcel is asked to go to Portugal to help an old friend find his kidnapped children. In an abandoned house near the bridge in Porto, an old manstands with explosives strapped to his body. Is he to spread the word of God and gain eternal life?...

About this title

About the Author

Richard Le Normand was born in Jersey Channel Islands in 1927 and was educated at Victoria College Jersey 1936¬–1944. Richard left college early, to avoid being ‘press-ganged’ into the construction of German fortifications—most of the ‘slave workers’ having been killed off by then and labor was needed to complete their fortifications in Alderney, a sister isle. After the Islands were liberated in 1945, Richard became a farmer, later specializing in intensive flower and tomato growing under glass. Richard then established a plastics factory to develop and produce new inventions, mainly in the horticultural field. In 1987, Richard decided to retire and settle in Australia. He soon realized that retirement was not for him and became involved in marketing hydroponics. After spending nine interesting years working in real estate, Richard moved to the Gold Coast where he developed and patented an attachment for small boats. Finally, to pay for all his past sins, Richard started to write and publish books and short stories. Richard first released a self-published novel, A Killer at Large—the story that precedes and sets the scene for Escape to Death. Part three, Play the Last Card, concludes this tale, following the journey of Marcel as a teenager, through to the young man coping with the vicissitudes and indeed, horrors of war. Richard Le Normand will shortly be offering these three novels as a trilogy, Once upon A Bridge. His latest book Operation Black Swan is a crime suspense story set around the Myall lakes in NSW. Richard has also composed several poems and written some short stories. Additionally, Richard contributed three very different short stories about the random moments when we mortals lose control of time, to the anthology, A Leap in Time, a literary work published by the Carindale Writers Group.

Edition details

• Publisher: Richard Norman
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975000020
• ISBN 13: 9780975000021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284