Bill Nash's journey explores the complexities of faith and success, illustrating that both are often filled with twists and turns. His experiences reveal the challenges he faced and the lessons learned along the way, highlighting the importance of resilience and personal growth. Through his story, readers are encouraged to reflect on their own paths and the role of faith in overcoming obstacles.
In May 2005, Lieutenant Colonel Bill Russell Edmonds of the U.S. Army Special Forces, a decorated counter-terrorism expert, was deployed to the Iraqi city of Mosul, which was boiling over. His job was to advise an Iraqi Intelligence Officer on the art of interrogations, collect intelligence, and monitor the capture and interrogation of insurgents, while applying the brakes on more extreme tactics and torture. From a makeshift basement prison, he would witness a never-ending cycle of some of the darkest things humanity could create.It was a soul crushing minefield of mutually exclusive moral mandates. Edmonds' training offered little practical guidance for the nuances of the Iraq War, so he had to draw his own red line: what level of torture he would tolerate and what level he would not. A year later he returned home morally and spiritually hollowed-out, with post-traumatic stress and acute moral injury. At first, he thought his distress was from the inevitable adjustment of returning home. In God Is Not Here, Edmonds has gone beyond a blood-and-body-count war memoir, revealing his emotional, psychological, and spiritual trauma—and the tortuous process of his reassembly—while providing a raw look at what happened overseas.
When a fog delay at San Francisco International Airport complicates his escape from a bank-bombing he has committed, James Donato becomes explosively angry. Heâ s a demolitions expert, and when something upsets him, he makes it disappear. Now, Donato has sworn revenge against San Francisco International Airport. The head of security at SFO, Victoria Kilpatrick, and veteran firefighter, Mark Saxon, will face the most dangerous challenge of their careers as they try to stop Donato. Kilpatrick and Saxon will oppose the FBI, ATF and others as they try to apprehend Donato before he can destroy the airport, and their careers.
Mingle with the most extravagant handlebar moustaches in Britain, pay your respects at the dog cemetery in Hyde Park, visit a Masonic temple, take trapeze lessons in a former power station, pray in a floating church, sail on a disused reservoir, discover the stone from which Arthur drew Excalibur, admire the sacred penis of a pharaoh, take aim on the City’s last bowling green, go stargazing at Greenwich Observatory, examine a rare cucumber straightener, a stuffed mermaid or a cow’s heart... Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, London still holds hidden treasures for those who know how to wander off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew London well, or who would like to discover the hidden face of the city.