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Book Details:
Book Title:
Semper Fi Brothers: A Hero's Dangerous Journey for Redemption by A.C. Turner
Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 150 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction / Military Action Fiction
Publisher: Write My Wrongs LLC
Release date: March 16, 2022
Content Rating:
PG-13 (some f-words, violence, non-explicit sex scenes)
Book Description:
Yarmuck, Syria is under attack. ISIS goons under the command of ruthless
Commander Abu, have infiltrated the village and are determined to purge it of
its Yazidi heritage... by any means necessary.
Meanwhile, half a world away in California, tormented Shamus "Gunny"
O'Malley-retired Marine and Vietnam Vet who's done nothing but drink his way
through civilian life as a TV personality and bar owner-learns his young
Yazidi bartender, Quassam, fears for the lives of the family left behind in
Yarmuck.
When Quassam, "Q" to his friends, announces his plan to save his mother and
sister from the ISIS goons, Gunny's hapless best friend (and best customer),
Buzz, decides he's going to aid young Q on his journey, and does everything he
can to convince Gunny to come along for the ride.
With time running out and ISIS tightening its grip, Gunny has a decision to
make. As the son of a white father and black mother, O'Malley knows from his
time in the Marines that race can never break the bonds between semper fi
brothers. Will he stay brash and boozy in sunny California, or will he take a
leap of faith and journey to hellish, war-torn Syria to help his brothers and
slay his-and Yarmuck's-demons?
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Guest Post
How I
did my Research for “SEMPER FI BROTHERS”
By AC
Turner
My
research on the Yazidi people and I.S.I.S concentrated on why the group
called I.S.I.S. hated these peaceful people so much. It turned out that they believed that
the Yazidis had bastardized Islam and to them - it gave them
permission from Allah to bomb and destroy their villages and to enslave,
torture and rape their people.
My best resource in my
research came from my daughter Leanna, a U.S. Army intelligence officer. After
finishing a tour in Afghanistan, they sent her to Iraq to debrief fleeing
Yazidi refugees from Syria. She had been trained in Arabic by the Army so this
was right up her alley. She could not tell me everything she found out, but
what she did was enough to put a chill down my spine.
Fun fact: For nearly ten years, I had worked
in television as a Location Manager. As a matter of fact, I worked on a
show called The Yellow Rose and an actor named Sam Elliot was the star of the
show. It was he who I originally based the Gunny O'Malley character on. But Sam
became too old and I thought it would be kind of neat to make Gunny half African
American and half Irish. Plus I had coached football at mostly Black High
Schools throughout Los Angeles and I wanted to give my players
a positive Black hero that is not some kind of Marvel character, but like a real
person with real flaws who fails but never gives up.
Meet the Author:
A. C. Turner's writing career began in the 1980s with a focus on screenplays.
In that time, and with the help of his agent, Anne Getty, he was able to
option two of them, Shoplift and Hercules Down and Out, to major film
companies. Unfortunately, neither went into production, but that didn't stop
the Los Angeles Times from featuring him on the front page of their Sunday
edition on up-and-coming writers in Los Angeles. He then moved on to write two
plays, Chickenscratch and Down and Out in Sioux Falls, which were produced at
the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles. He achieved all of this while raising
three kids and coaching high school and junior college football, predominantly
in inner-city Los Angeles. After taking twenty years off from writing, he got
the itch back in his mid-fifties. He wrote Semper Fi Brothers as a screenplay
and entered it in Final Draft's screenwriting contest, where it placed third
out of nine thousand. The story was inspired by the military exploits of his
career-soldier dad and his three overseas tours in World War II, Korea, and
Vietnam as well as his Army daughter's four tours, including one in
Afghanistan. The script was given to a large production company again, which
was exciting at first, but when Covid-19 hit and the script found itself on
the back burner, he decided to run with it and turn it into a novel, feeling
the story was too inspirational not to be told.
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