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a good local read Quecnsclilf' author Jed Harl has rdeased his t'«"aprnn fiction no,·d iVi1/1oul �Van1ing. The book is based on rus Vklnam tour and coruequenl bwmess life around the world. 1lus high-powered tale follows Auslralian protagonist, Jake Hunt. a g ood -look.mg. witty, straight�hootlng guy who works u an aviation adv�r to a global oiJ company. Jake has tinlshed Wtth war unlil terrorists kidnap his boss' wife, and a routine work as.signmmL fragments. In the backdrop. a love story devdops betwttn Jake Hunt and his co-worker, Nicole
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But her ideas of right and wrung are l�l.ed to the limit wbm she rt'allies LhaL her charming and tbouglufuJ man is an incornglble risk taka. \"/hen Jake rc\'tru to his m111tary training, the trauma of his wartime experience re1urns. Then aU hell breaks loo� when the tt'JTOnsts attack 1� sultanate seeking powt'r and rel'tll�, and those invoived mwt act to protect tb�Jves and the ones they love. �lt was quite easy to write a story tbal revolVt:s a.round a Vietnam Vet and the t55ues that he would haVt: lo face after seeing so much violence anti chaos in war zones: Jed
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Jed Jlt'W cho�rs with the US Army in the .Mekong Ddta dunng the Vietnam \\far, operated hdicopters to mountains in New Guinea, spc-nt a slinl as Shdl's P e r u -based SttUril y manage and workM m Brunei and
Queensditt author J@d Hart. (S� London. �For me, writing the book ha.s been cathartic. A lot of the journey that Jake Hunt takes, my icomradcs in arms and I have LravdJed,- he r.ays. "Some of my friends are men who became !hardened by combat and have never bttn cnurdy comfortable in a peacetime world." ,v11Jiout \.V'armng ts available lo purchase !llOW, Including at Book.grove in Ocean Grove.