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    Tortured Truths
    Tortured Truths
    Tortured Truths
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    Tortured Truths

    By Randy Attwood

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    Once a journalist, always a journalist. Until the Hezbollah get a hold of you and show you just what a coward you are. Phillip McGuire was already a burnt out reporter when he's kidnapped in Beiruit and gives up all the details he knows about that Marine barracks that will be blown up killing 237 soldiers. His psyche blown to smithereens, his left hand a tortured mess, he returns to his college town to own and run a bar. Local drug plots and a young journalist's prying bring him full cycle back to the hands of the Hezbollah.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandy Attwood
    Release dateApr 11, 2019
    ISBN9781386331704
    Tortured Truths
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    Randy Attwood

    I grew up on the grounds of a Kansas insane asylum where my father was a dentist. I attended the University of Kansas during the troubled 1960s getting a degree in art history. After stints writing and teaching in Italy and Japan I had a 16-year career in newspapers as reporter, editor and column writer winning major awards in all categories. I turned to health care public relations serving as director of University Relations at KU Medical Center. I finished my career as media relations officer of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Now retired, I am marketing the fiction I've written over all those years. And creating more.

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