This
page provides facts and synopsis for A Crooked Path, a
suspense novel by Robert A. Gallinger.
A
Crooked Path
Facts:
Fiction: Mystery, Suspense, love/war
ISBN0595210953
Writers
Club Press (Imprint of www.iuniverse.com)
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276
Pages
6 x 9
inches
Synopsis:
An
absorbing love-and-war adventure that explores the dire
consequences of a hate that destroys, and a boundless love
that endures.
In his
youth, a mean-spirited stepfather teaches Vladimir Antonovich
that the only way to succeed in life is to become highly
proficient in the art of fighting.
Vladimir's early years are filled with
fights and brutality. At the age of eighteen, he's drafted
into the Soviet Army. He swears he will kill his stepfather
someday, once the Army shows him how.
Vladimir faces a new brutality at the
Course of the Young Soldier, but survives it, and is selected
to attend an Airborne College. He's commissioned a
lieutenant, and later marries Aleksandra and has a son. His
hate for his stepfather still burns.
Eleven
years later, in 1980, he is given a special assignment to
Afghanistan. He must take a 15-man gruppa into the Hindu Kush
Mountains to kill a Mujahedin bandit. After a brutal
firefight at the target area, he loses most of his men and is
captured, but escapes to complete the job.
Returning home a hero, the hate for his
stepfather festers. He decides to visit him one last time.
While they talk and drink vodka, ugly images from the past
flash. Vladimir recalls the brutality of his youth, the
brutality of basic training, and the brutality of
Afghanistan.
His
mind bursting with hate, he picks up a vodka bottle and
stands behind his stepfather. Now, he must decide. Will the
love for his wife and son save him from himself, or will he
kill the old man and face the consequences, leaving his
family and a bright army career behind?
Synopsis for A Crooked Path. Copyright
© 2001 by Robert A. Gallinger.