Act of Assassination??? “Killing Patton”, by Bill O’Reilly

Killing Patton jacket coverThe host of Fox News Channels, The O’Reilly Factor, has added another novel to his list of intriguing books about important figures in history. Preceded by Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus, author O’Reilly presents Killing Patton. Another in the series of riveting non-fiction novels about famous murders in history.

General George S. Patton, Jr. mysteriously died in the months following the end of World War II. In the seventy years since, suspicion has always surfaced that his death had been an act of assassination. The O’Reilly novel covers the final year of the war, and gives an accounting of the events surrounding Patton’s death. It gives the names of many powerful individuals who may have wanted him silenced. The narrative includes a description of a once very powerful man and he lays flat on his back in a hospital bed. “His upper body is encased in plaster, the result of a car accident twelve days ago. Room 110 is a former utility closet, just fourteen feet by sixteen feet”. There is a single chair for Patton’s wife, who sets by his side crocheting hoping he will soon awaken. The man laying in this German hospital is her husband, but he is also known as the brilliant General of the American Third Army whose crowning achievement was the Battle of the Bulge.

Co-author, Martin Dugard, is a New York Times bestselling author of several history-oriented books. He currently lives in Southern California.

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Is Endless Love Possible??? “The Best of Me”, by Nicholas Sparks

The Best of MeIn 2011 the author of the hugely popular novel, The Notebook, published his next novel, The Best of Me. Nicholas Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer who has published seventeen books. Eight of the novels have been adapted to film.

In quoting the book: “Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen”. High school students, Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole were very much in love, even though they were from opposite sides of the tracks. But high school teen love somehow defies reality in a small North Carolina town. As so often happens, unforeseen events tore the young couple apart, sending them on very divergent paths.

As the novel progresses, it is twenty-five years later and they meet once again, when they return to the small town for a funeral. In one week-end they will discover undeniable truths about what has happened in the last twenty-five years and will be forced to answer the question …………”Can love truly rewrite the past”?

In October 2014, director Michael Hoffman’s movie adaptation of the novel will be released. The cast includes: Liana Liberato as the young Amanda Collier; Michelle Mongahan as Amanda Collier; James Marsden as Dawson Cole; Luke Bracey, young Dawson. As a side story, Paul Walker was cast as the lead role, but passed away and was replaced by James Marsden.

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