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Keys to the "V" Door
Keys to the "V" Door
Keys to the "V" Door
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Set in New Orleans and offshore during the oil boom of the late seventies and early eighties, Keys to the "V" Door is a coming of age adventure story of privileged youth who, instead of getting to enjoy a maturity of social advantages, finds he has to redress a wrong he committed as he tries to prove his father didn't cheat the

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Release dateJan 10, 2021
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Keys to the "V" Door
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Curt Orloff

I'm a Yankee who became a damn Yankee when I wouldn't leave the South. When I did leave it, was for overseas where I comfortably acquired the moniker of "yank". I have two bachelor degrees. The one in geology I use to support myself, the one in history just showed I am curious about human nature. This curiosity culminated in Thunder in the Wind after I found out about a Cree named Almighty Voice while I was engaged in geologic fieldwork in Montana. His revolt almost united the tribes. I was an Army 1st Lieutenant, lived for golf as a youth and got to play on the University of Houston golf team, and was an Eagle Boy Scout. I've been writing books for over two decades, getting only to the agent level. At present, one agent is peddling a novel I wrote about the oilfield. I was a well-site geologist for fourteen years and a petroleum engineer, mostly overseas, for seven years.

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