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    The Flame: Book 1 (Tales of the Shehkrii)
    The Flame: Book 1 (Tales of the Shehkrii)
    The Flame: Book 1 (Tales of the Shehkrii)
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    The Flame: Book 1 (Tales of the Shehkrii)

    By Ian Martin

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    Are you afraid of the future?
    Be very afraid, because it’s already here!!!

    Journalist, Mark Todd, has pursued the gunrunner, Paul Gareth for nearly a decade ... now, Todd is about to get his man.

    Or is he?

    What Todd has stumbled over is something far more sinister. Unfortunately, he’s not alone. Gareth is the target of the C.I.A. and a secret Australian government department.

    In their quest to capture an international criminal and eco-terrorist they will uncover the Shehkrii ... inheritors of a hidden human heritage that is the last hope for the survival of the species ... the spark of humanity in us all that should have been a raging flame, but has instead become a dying flicker!

    And they will know Terra.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan Martin
    Release dateSep 3, 2011
    ISBN9781465927767
    The Flame: Book 1 (Tales of the Shehkrii)
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    Ian Martin

    Ian Martin has led UN human rights and peace operations in countries including Rwanda, Timor-Leste, Nepal and Libya. A former Amnesty International secretary-general, in 2011–12 he was Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s post-conflict planning adviser, then UN support mission head, for Libya. His publications on UN intervention include Self-Determination in East Timor.

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