The Train

The Train - Paperback

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The Train - Paperback

The Train - Paperback

by Tony Jordan
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Insightful, poignant, and inspiring-with touches of humor throughout-The Train chronicles the coming-of-age of a young man living on the Gulf Coast of Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s. It is the story of how one thoughtful boy-gradually forged "as a Damascene smith might have shaped a blade" by his father, his heroes, his family, and his friends-becomes "a harder, stronger substance that will take a keener edge."

This debut novel by Tony Jordan, a former senior CIA operations officer and Air Rescue pilot, introduces Jack Jourdain and Jean-Louis Thibodeaux, two remarkable young men-who are showcased in future volumes-as they confront real-life military and national security challenges.

Inspired by actual events, the book considers the importance of imagination and visualization as it explores how family and community influence the formation of core personal values including love, duty, and honor.

The author "knows the human heart and the way of the world like Faulkner, but writes like Hemingway." -Daniel W. Jacobowitz, USAF (Retired)

The Train is "a compelling read that shows you can't go wrong with a classics education."-Ruth Overman Fischer, George Mason University (Retired)
ISBN9780692456002
Author Tony Jordan
PublisherSpy Hill Publishing
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages164
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Tony Jordan

Tony Jordan is a highly decorated former senior intelligence officer of the CIA National Clandestine Service and award-winning author of the novel The Train. Prior to joining the CIA, he was a rescue helicopter pilot as well as an instructor, test pilot, and squadron commander in the US Air Force. From the jungles of Southeast Asia to the headquarters of the CIA, MI5, and MI6-with hot deserts, smoke-filled rooms, and dangerous back alleys in between-Jordan was involved in special military operations and covert intelligence work for more than forty years. He writes in the tower office of his cottage on Spy Hill Farm, in the foothills of the Crab Orchard Mountains of Tennessee, where he is ably supported and appropriately encouraged, when needed, by his wife, Anne, and his BFF, Tailwagger Jack.

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