Written by Ed Marohn
Legacy of Evil, by Ed Marohn, is the second novel in the action-adventure series about Psychologist John Moore, who works for the CIA. He finds himself in the middle of a “factions war” between the present second-in-command of the CIA, James Woodruff, and a rival connected to the neo-Nazis, who will stop at nothing to unseat him.
Woodruff sends Moore to Holland and Germany to help expose any neo-Nazis who had infiltrated the CIA. In the process, he meets with former members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, an anarchist group that committed murders and bombings in West Germany and other parts of Europe starting in the 1970s. He soon learns that a nuclear device fell into their hands and is unaccounted for after all these years. John rushes to Finland, and eventually, Lapland above the Arctic Circle, to locate the nuclear weapon for the CIA. However, an elaborate international neo-Nazi group aims to find the atomic device first as part of their plan to create a new world order. A dangerous chase sequence develops as John Moore, his fellow CIA partner, and his Finnish guide race by dogsled on the Arctic taiga pursued by the fascist group.
Throughout, Moore struggles with his demons from killing in the Vietnam War. Ironically during his last mission for the CIA in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to pursue war criminals, he befriended his former North Vietnam enemy, Colonel Tin, who he fought against in the war. He also became a friend to national policewoman Hieu, who partnered with him to catch the bad guys. Now Tin and Hieu try to help him against the neo-Nazis. Along with a mafia hitman who had saved John’s life in Saigon during the war.
Woodruff sends Moore to Holland and Germany to help expose any neo-Nazis who had infiltrated the CIA. In the process, he meets with former members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, an anarchist group that committed murders and bombings in West Germany and other parts of Europe starting in the 1970s. He soon learns that a nuclear device fell into their hands and is unaccounted for after all these years. John rushes to Finland, and eventually, Lapland above the Arctic Circle, to locate the nuclear weapon for the CIA. However, an elaborate international neo-Nazi group aims to find the atomic device first as part of their plan to create a new world order. A dangerous chase sequence develops as John Moore, his fellow CIA partner, and his Finnish guide race by dogsled on the Arctic taiga pursued by the fascist group.
Throughout, Moore struggles with his demons from killing in the Vietnam War. Ironically during his last mission for the CIA in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to pursue war criminals, he befriended his former North Vietnam enemy, Colonel Tin, who he fought against in the war. He also became a friend to national policewoman Hieu, who partnered with him to catch the bad guys. Now Tin and Hieu try to help him against the neo-Nazis. Along with a mafia hitman who had saved John’s life in Saigon during the war.
In my first novel, Legacy of War, a PTSD patient triggers Psychologist John Moore’s traumatic memories of his days in the Vietnam War. Moore is forced to return to modern-day Vietnam, a journey confronting his past war demons: the dying on the killing fields, a rogue CIA agent, two corrupt South Vietnamese Army officers, the father he never knew, and the war’s killing machine—the Phoenix Program. In the decaying jungles he once more fights his anguish compounded by his wife’s death and his growing attraction to a national policewoman.
My non-fiction article, Going Back to Nam, pages 219-231, was published in the 2021 Edition of The Limberlost Review. It is a reflection of my journey that encompasses the Vietnam War and afterward, years later in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The Limberlost Review is a literary journal and available on the website https://www.limberlostpress.com or at these Idaho independent bookstores: Rediscovered Books, Boise, BookPeople, Moscow, Walrus & Carpenter Books, Pocatello, and Iconoclast Books, Hailey.
The Limberlost Review is a literary journal and available on the website https://www.limberlostpress.com or at these Idaho independent bookstores: Rediscovered Books, Boise, BookPeople, Moscow, Walrus & Carpenter Books, Pocatello, and Iconoclast Books, Hailey.
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In the November 2019 issue of Idaho Magazine is my recent non-fiction piece, The Cold War in Idaho. It's about being raised in Boise by a mother who survived the Nazis, and how the early Cold War years were not placid. See link: https://www.idahomagazine.com/article/the-cold-war-in-idaho/
Short story, "Retirement" starts on page 55 in Hardboiled mystery magazine, February 2012 issue, number 44. While confronting his mark, an aging mob hit man decides that he needs to retire to Florida even though he has no 401K, pension, or medical insurance.
"Almost American" published in July 2011 issue of Idaho Magazine.
In the 1950s, a little boy arrives in Boise from Europe with his mother and sister, and tries to assimilate to America. Written as a creative nonfiction story.
"Making National Meetings Work" published in November/December 1999 issue of Selling Power Magazine.
The article advises on how to conduct an effective national sales force meeting to kick off the new fiscal year in sales and marketing.
The article advises on how to conduct an effective national sales force meeting to kick off the new fiscal year in sales and marketing.
"Three Days to Better Prospecting" published in the June 1999 issue of Selling Power Magazine.
The article advises to work with the top sales performers--they need the steady reinforcement.
The article advises to work with the top sales performers--they need the steady reinforcement.
"Rate Your Professional Performance" and "Nine Ways to Improve Your Professional Performance" published in the March 1993 issue of Selling Power Magazine.
The two articles focus on improving one's selling skills through self-evaluaiton as oulined in the first article and then using the nine steps described in the second article.
The two articles focus on improving one's selling skills through self-evaluaiton as oulined in the first article and then using the nine steps described in the second article.
"Brainwashing: Man Over Mind" published in the August 1973 issue of Army Magazine.
The process of thought reform is neither so arcane nor so certain in effect as the popular myths would lead us to believe.
The process of thought reform is neither so arcane nor so certain in effect as the popular myths would lead us to believe.
