Bøger af Rod Taylor

In 1975, Nicholas Cameron, working for an American Bank in London, uncovers evidence of fraud and reports it to his colleagues, including his American boss, who informs a CIA agent. After the death of his Russian mother, Nick discovers his Cossack heritage, and that he has a half-brother in Russia. He also learns about the dramatic events at the end of the war, the 'betrayal' by the British, the terrible effects on the Cossacks, and the creation of Nick's family, British and partly Cossack. Nick is tasked by the bank to use his Russian skills in Moscow. Before he leaves for Moscow, Nick becomes involved with the American Ambassador's daughter, Joanne, spending a passionate night with her. The CIA agent has tracked down Nick's half-brother, and asks Nick to deliver a package in Moscow. Nick ends up arrested and spends ten years in a Russian gulag. Nick's eventual escape is aided by an unlikely ally: an ex-Nazi convict who reveals the tragic fate of the Cossacks, and grants Nick access to a secret Swiss bank account. With his brother's help, Nick assumes a new identity in Italy and becomes known as the Count of Monteriggione. After accessing the secret bank account and buying a farm, Nick investigates the financial markets and discovers that his former colleagues have built a successful finance company with mysterious origins. He returns to London to uncover the truth, get his revenge, and find Joanne.

David Hockney influenced me greatly during our friendship at Bradford Art College and in our CND days afterwards. I was born in 1938 and can remember being born. Happy but sometimes confusing memories of my childhood in the 1940s during the war. I spent my formative years not really knowing my father until he was demobbed when I was 7 years old. The book is a romp through the steep learning curve of childhood and adolescence which should bring a smile if not outright laughter to the reader.

Leaving what used to be a happy home to live with a girl who he had fallen in love with is an age old story. A change in lifestyle from self sufficiency farming and hand loom weaving to living on a very small canal boat. From living in a Elizabethan farmhouse with 15 acres, he must have been mad! He was madly in love and he joined her lifestyle, boating, busking and boozing. Naturally it did not last and, whilst he spent the next few years going from one disastrous relationship to another in a sexual romp of discovery looking for the perfect partner, he discover to his horror that he had been living in a fools paradise and that his ex wife had virtually been the Bradford bicycle. In parallel with all this he found himself in a battle with British Waterways, for daring to sell hand painted canal ware from his boat, which eventually resulted in another court case. Happy endings? maybe!

This is a true life black comedy telling the story of Police brutality which happened in the unlikely setting of the Bronte country in the 1980s and the years of court battles which ensued, woven in with marital complications.

In the pages of this book are a number of articles written over the past decade that reflect the ongoing need for a social awakening in Canada, first in the Christian community and then in the broader society, if we are to survive and prosper as a nation.Rod Taylor is a naturalist, a lover of poetry and history, a student of human nature and-at the time of this writing-the leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. His love of country and his commitment to justice and common-sense solutions to the problems facing Canada are driven by a deep reverence for human life and even more for the Creator of all life and of the intricate created universe that makes human life possible.Rod credits his desire for justice and his hope that humanity may yet choose paths of righteousness to the boyhood influence of his mother and father who gave much of their lives to social issues but still maintained an active and loving family environment. They instilled in him a deep appreciation for all human beings and taught him the value of relationships.Rod and his wife, Elaine, have two children and four grandchildren and have enjoyed more than four decades of marriage. Two years into their marriage, following the example of his wife, Rod came to believe in the biblical view of God the Creator. From that life-changing event in 1976, the Christian worldview has guided his work and life decisions, including his entry into politics and his efforts to defend innocent human life, natural marriage and the personal freedoms so important in a civilized democracy.