Bøger af Jim Hawkins

Book Two of the Almond series, and ex-detective Johnny Almond is back in Corfu looking after Tina's apartment block while she is in hospital. Nice cushy job, with perks. Turns out to be a lot less cushy than he expected. A film unit is making a drama about Odysseus' shipwreck on Corfu, which leads to complications. Exactly who are the two suspiciously young girls sharing a villa with the leading actor? The answer to that question leads to danger and potential murder. Funny and entertaining, this is a story of drama and love, set in the real Greek village of Agios Stefanos NW. If you're on the beach this book will be a good accompaniment. If you're not, sit back and take a virtual trip to sun, sea and wonderful food.

Jim Hawkins has worked in almost every aspect of firefighting, beginning as a wild land "Hot Shot", working as a radio dispatcher and firefighter in Arizona, assisting with arson investigations and almost 25 years as a firefighter and EMT for the City and County of Denver.He is quick to acknowledge that anyone working in emergency services will have a catalog of "war stories" to relate. In this book, he has assembled many of his experiences that range from humorous to unbelievable. He has made an effort to show the human and sometimes flawed life of a professional firefighter/medic. Although, possibly entertaining, "blood and guts" situations are not the focus of his stories.Looking back through the smoke and sirens, you will be able to glimpse the everyday workings of a big city fire station, the slang vocabulary that becomes a working language inside the department and some of the bizarre situations firefighters encounter.

"Not in my wildest boyhood dreams did I ever envision that a World Series would come along and I'd be the seventh game pitcher." Despite all odds, and a grueling nine-year stint in the minors that would dash most any other ballplayer's hope of reaching the major leagues, Jack Sanford found himself starring in the dramatic 1962 World Series, which pitted the San Francisco Giants against the mighty New York Yankees. This is the story of Jack's turbulent journey from a working-class childhood in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to baseball's ultimate stage; it is the story of perseverance in the face of continual discouragement; and it is the story of one boy's greatest dream turning, in an instant, into the unshakable nightmare that would haunt him the rest of his life.