The Gemini Project
Jan Ericson spends his days on the campus of the Corpo Academy participating in sports and playing games. The Academy has never formally taught Jan, or any of its 42 students, to read or write. Jan looks forward to moving to New London, where he will live with his father and start his career. That day will be his 18th birthday after a celebration known as the renaissance.
Dr. William Osler works at the Academy and considers himself an amateur philosopher and would-be comedian. He befriends Jan and sees the boy’s keen desire to learn. Quietly in the background, the doctor teaches his student to read. Dr. Osler knows that the 17-year-old boy will die, the same way his older brother died, in less than two weeks. However, addicted to a designer drug, the doctor is constantly high as he tries to fight his own demons.
Tre Ericson is Jan’s father. He sees his son four times a year but feels no love for him. While desperately trying to please his father, Jan discovers a tunnel that runs under the school. The tunnel contains a dark secret, which initiates a chain of events that might save Jan’s life!
The Gemini Project is must-read coming-of-age novel that deals with a dystopian future and the world of neurology. The story of Jan Ericson will take you to unpredictable places in a battle of life and death.
The Lone Piper
On June 6, 1944, Brigadier Lovat led the British Commandos ashore at Sword beach on the coast of Normandy. Accompanying him, was his Personal Piper, Private Bill Millin. Without a rifle, carrying only his bagpipes, Bill marched into war wearing his father's World War I kilt.
Brigadier Lovat was Lord Lovat, the Chief of Clan Fraser, who quickly rose through the ranks to lead the British Commandos on D-Day. Private Bill Millin was part of the Commando Demonstration Troop at Commando Castle in Achnacarry, Scotland and the Brigade’s best piper. A Clan Chief would never march his troops into battle without having the bagpipes to lead the way.
After a daring midnight glider raid, the commandos landed and advanced inland to link the airborne forces with the seaborne forces, linking Sword beach to the Pegasus bridge. Above the roar of the war, the skirl of the bagpipes could be heard sounding the liberation of France.