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 Michael Banister - Mystics and Warriors.
Flor Benavides, whose Sephardic Jewish family had to flee Baghdad in the late 1940's, grew up in Chicago. When she was 10 years old, her older brother... Lire la suite
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Résumé

Flor Benavides, whose Sephardic Jewish family had to flee Baghdad in the late 1940's, grew up in Chicago. When she was 10 years old, her older brother Idris returned to Chicago from an extended buying trip with four Persian friends throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. As a girl, Flor had loved Idris's stories of that trip, especially his description of the group's encounter in Malta with a mysterious, almost wizardly, man known as Shamsuddin.
Fifty years later, Flor learned that Shamsuddin had joined forces with an underground Turkish political group known as Konrul. Turgut Evren, a Colonel in the Turkish Army, was a member of the group. Their sociopolitical aims were to undermine the Turkish government and to defeat the growing Kurdish separatist movement. When the Colonel learned of a sophisticated software program used to facilitate communication among satellite phones, he tried to have the software stolen.
He hoped to use the software to break into the communication network used by Kurdish separatist groups. However, Shamsuddin had other planns for that software, and stole the software before Evren could get his hands on it. It was only a matter of time before Evren learned of Shamsuddin's ulterior motive. And when he did, you can be sure the outcome was bound to be deadly.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    21/05/2020
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-0-463-31570-5
  • EAN
    9780463315705
  • Format
    ePub
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Biographie de Michael Banister

I was an Army brat (Japan, Monterey, Austria, Germany) until we moved to Pittsburg, CA when I was nine. I was a voracious reader, and in junior high I published two science fiction stories in my school's creative writing magazine. After a long hiatus, I began writing again in my junior year of college at UC Berkeley. I joined a group of acquaintances in 1969 who started a poetry magazine we called The Open Cell.
We contributed the content, did the layout, printed it at Waller Press in the Haight Ashbury district, and sold it on the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco. That experience rekindled my love of writing. I transferred from Berkeley (where I was a comparative literature major) to SF State as a creative writing major and wrote poetry and a few stories. Upon graduation in 1972 my first wife and I joined the Peace Corps and worked as ESL teachers in Ethiopia for two years.
Grad school followed, twice, and I obtained a Master in Communication at University of Washington and a Master in Librarianship at UC Berkeley. My writing during those years became decidedly academic and non-creative. After nine years as a librarian (including two as head librarian at Robert College of Istanbul), followed by a divorce, I decided librarians got no respect, so I went to law school where I wrote a law review article discussing a controversial Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision.
I became an attorney, remarried, and worked for 23 years at the California Attorney General's Office, Criminal Division, and wrote appellate briefs. After I retired in 2011 I began volunteering for the National Veterans Legal Services Program. I represented veterans and their dependents for seven years. In December 2019 I won a substantial award of past-due benefits for a widow whose Viet Nam vet husband had died of liver cancer due to exposure to Agent Orange.
I'm married and have two grown sons and a granddaughter who graduated from the University of Oregon in 2019. I changed my California state bar license to inactive after my December 2016 victory involving veteran's benefits.

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