Touched with Fire
Touched with Fire, a novel of the Civil War inspired by the true story of Ellen Craft.
Ellen Craft is property; in this case, of her half-sister...
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Christopher Datta
Mr. Datta is the author of four novels, Touched with Fire, The Demon Stone, Fire and Dust and A Perfect Disguise. He has written two movie scripts and a memoir, Guardians of the Grail: A Life of Diplomacy on the Edge. His true story of the dog he adopted in South Sudan, Run Scout Run, was published in 2019. Finally, he has written two children’s books, Christopher Fries an Egg and Christopher Catches a Fish, illustrated by Christine Vineyard.
Mr. Datta is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. He spent his career as an American Diplomat and was first assigned to southern India for two years. From there he went on to a host of assignments, specializing in conflict zones. He helped negotiate an end to two wars and brought two war criminals to justice.
Mr. Datta is the author of four novels, Touched with Fire, The Demon Stone, Fire and Dust and A Perfect Disguise. He has written two movie scripts and a memoir, Guardians of the Grail: A Life of Diplomacy on the Edge. His true story of the dog he adopted in South Sudan, Run Scout Run, was published in 2019. Finally, he has written two children’s books, Christopher Fries an Egg and Christopher Catches a Fish, illustrated by Christine Vineyard....
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Touched with Fire
Touched with Fire, a novel of the Civil War inspired by the true story of Ellen Craft.
Ellen Craft is property; in this case, of her half-sister Debra, to whom she was given as a wedding gift. The illegitimate daughter of a Georgia plantation owner and a house slave, she learned to hate her own image, which so closely resembled that of her “...
Fire & Dust
Book II of the Fire Trilogy
In the fall of 1863, there is still a chance to prevent a Union victory in the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee’s most trusted senior commander, General James Longstreet, takes two Virginia divisions west to unite with General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. Longstreet arrives just in time to join in the Confederate...
A Perfect Disguise
PI Zooey Krause has no idea what she is walking into when she accepts a bread and butter assignment to investigate the car-crash death of an experimental nuclear power plant worker. Soon enough, however, she finds herself doing battle with the tentacles of a powerful and angry octopus out to destroy the framework of Democracy. Its weapons are...
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