The Man Called Brown Condor – Gold Medal Winner Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) 2015Īmazon Amazon UK B&N Wal Mart Indie Bound Fish Pond Amazon CA Amazon Japan Amazon India The Book Depository BAM Amazon France Amazon AU Amazon Germany Amazon Italy Amazon Spain Google Play Kobo Powell’s Books HPB Hudson Books COPIA IDreamBooks Waterstones WH Smith Angus & Robertson Wheelers Wordery Scribd Waterstones Marketplace GoodReads This sets off an unimaginable chain of events affecting his new wife, Isabel, in international intrigue, and a family’s struggles across the twenty short years between the end of World War I, a period that includes the influenza epidemic, the roaring twenties, prohibition, the great depression, and the start of World War II. Ansel Quinn is assigned to the French Army Headquarters in Paris as a neutral observer. In 1917, when all the world was waiting with bated breath to see if the United States would come the rescue of Europe, Lt. Published by Open Road Integrated Media No Promise for Tomorrow Reviews No Promise for Tomorrow, the third and final story of the Quinn Saga Fate’s cards trumped them all.įrom rural Mississippi to the trenches of Verdun, no one is who they say they are, nor will anything ever be the same again. Wilson had vowed to keep America out of another war. Her diary, coupled with Europe on the brink of WWI, sets off a chain of events, sending Ansel on an epic quest for honor and self. When the Lusitania is torpedoed and sunk, taking with it his beloved aunt, Beverly Bethany Quinn, Ansel Quinn finds he is the last of his family line. The Last Quinn Standing – Book Two of the Quinn Saga An Appendix, Facts of Interest and Note to Readers list the documentation, bibliography, and newspaper articles to authenticate Simmons’ research. Wars, love, friendships, tragedies, clandestine shipments and harrowing escapes – life.Īs unbelievable as it may sound, the events mentioned in this manuscript did actually take place. Perkins in Vicksburg, and subsequently her Uncle Jonathan who lives in Cuba. Having been hid in a basket by her mother, Annielise, she is found by the Quinn’s nanny, Arabella, and taken to be raised by Dr. Two year old Beverly Bethany Quinn is the only survivor when a trio of crazed Yankees slaughters her family. The only persons to know of the “bullet baby” were her immediate family and Dr. Perkins diaries which brings us to that fate-filled day in 1863 and takes us on a journey we will never forget…ĭuring the siege of Vicksburg July 1863, sixteen year old Annielise Quinn is shot by a stray bullet which had passed through the groin of a confederate soldier and lodged itself in her pelvis nicking her uterus, thus impregnating her. In preparation for the trip, she re-reads her mother’s and Dr. An era she thought long past is resurrected in the last “special cargo” shipment to England to aid the allies in WWI. Simply put, one of the best manuscripts I have had the privilege of reading and representing.Ī most incredible life and tragic end begins in 1915 as Bethany Quinn receives a call from the British Crown saying she is in possession of a cache of arms stored in her sugar mill warehouse in Cuba. Published by Open Road Integrated Media By Accident of Birth Reviewsīy Accident of Birth is an epic account of the life of Bethany Quinn, based on a true story. Faulkner,” was published in The Oxford American, a literary magazine founded by John Grisham. He is the author of The Man Called Brown Condor, Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air, Escape from Archangel, By Accident of Birth, The Last Quinn Standing, and the last of the Quinn Trilogy, No Promise for Tomorrow. He has also written numerous magazine articles, an example of which, “Growing Up with Mr. In the late 1950s, he served as an artillery officer in Korea. Tom was once the commercial captain of a seventy-foot sailing vessel, has been a pilot since the age of sixteen, (3000 plus hours in the air), has flown professionally, and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit bi-planes. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Alabama. Simmons grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, attended Marion Military Institute, the U. Simmons Amazon Author Central Simmons Events Simmons Mediaįacebook LinkedIn YouTube Meet the Author – Thomas E. Represented by Jeanie Loiacono exclusively for the following: Simmons, 85, of Gulfport MS has taken the last flight West in the company of his family on March 16, 2022.
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