PADDY KELLY, B.A., M.Ed.
Novelist - Script Writer
NOVELS, NOVELLAE & ESSAYS
Operation Underworld
WWII has yielded many stories, but few know the story of how the U.S. Navy were duped into using the Mafia to guard the New York City waterfront! Read the only full account ever written of how the framed and imprisoned NYC Mafia leader, Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano, not only got out of prison but went on to establish what became the International Drug Cartel.
The American Way
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America became an industrial power following WWI, but not many realize that that power was firmly established on the exploitation of immigrant labor. This is the story of how the immigrants finally fought back!
Children of the Nuclear Gods
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Kennedy and the Cuban missile Crisis stand out as a time when the world faced possible global disaster. We escaped that one. However, in September of 1983 the order actually came down from Moscow to prep for all out war against the U.S. and her NATO allies.
Despite multiple Soviet system warnings that a nuclear attack was imminent, there was one general who refused to press the button and start WWIII, a spy who convinced the Americans there would be no attack and a small group of unknown operatives who pulled it all together with literally minutes to spare! This is the story of a small group of strangers caught up in what has come to be known as the 1983 Nuclear War Scare.
The Wolves of Calabria
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In July of 1943 the invasion of Sicily was in full swing and while the British slogged their way north to Messina, taking heavy casualties under an indecisive Montgomery, Patton's 3rd Army had a secret weapon to help them get to Palermo and cut Sicily in half. Their secret weapon – The Mafia.
Politically Erect
There is little to laugh about when it comes to war, but sometimes things become so dire that you either laugh, cry or seriously consider suicide. This is a look at one man's search for the best of all possible worlds amongst the lighter side of war, namely death, mutilation and political ineptness on an international scale as it led up to the U.S. evacuation of Saigon in the Spring of 1975.
American Rhetoric
In a dystopian future Ronald Lump is in his fifth term as president, 1% of the population controls 99% of the wealth and the U.S. has slipped to the world's fifth economy is 17th in production and 27th in education.
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Out of the obscure factory smog steps Thaddeus Enoch Pervers from Brubaker, Ohio. A hero who is propped up and inflated to rise to the challenge of saving the United States from the shackles of the two party system and a country which is clearly in trouble. Again.
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Problem is, nobody tells Pervers.
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There's an App for That!
This collection of short stories and essays touches on several world events which have affected the course of Western culture as experienced by the author during the Sixties, Seventies & Eighties.
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Don't Eat to Live. Live to Eat!
An captivating collection of recipes from around the world highlighted by stories of how they were discovered by the author and who furnished them.
Luck & Fame Are Four Letter Words!
It's the early Sixties and Rand Publishing, Ltd is in trouble. But a young journalist accidentally stumbles
over a way to save everyone's job! A comedy novella.
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There's An App For That,Too!
More obnoxious opinions offered in opposition to the PC culture! A second collection of essays as a sequel to There's An App For That!
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All works available in:
Palm MOBI EPUB Sony Reader (LRF) MS Word PDF MS Reader Text RTF
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BOTH Essay collections available in:
Text-to-Speech is available for the Kindle Fire HDX, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle (2nd generation), Kindle DX, Amazon Echo, Amazon Tap, and Echo Dot.
