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(More customer reviews)Where ever this author has been hiding he needs to be hunted down, captured, locked in a room and forced to write more books. Fear not that Clancy may have peaked and is now on the downward slide... Cherish the Magic, with its main character Gianni Giancarlo will make you ask, Jack Ryan who?Based on an uncommonly enthusiastic recommendation of a friend I ordered Cherish the Magic online and had completely forgotten about it by the time it arrived but was more than pleased when an intended few minutes of reading on a Friday night turned into a reading marathon early Saturday morning. After a few hours of much needed sleep and household chores put on hold the conclussion of the book was not a wanted respite... indeed it accomplished what few others have been able to do...wishing for another hundred pages.Based in the Vietnam time period Cherish the Magic is far from a book about war or its all too well known vulgarities. It's about doing the right thing... even if it's not in your best interest. Perhaps the book is so powerful because it is such a sharp contrast to our declining values or perhaps it's refreshing to see a teenager unashamedly voice his love for his parents or perhaps it's because of a dog that seems to value his master's life as much as his master values his. No matter the reason, whether you're sixteen or sixty-five if you don't laugh until you're blue in the face and cry until you buy stock in Kleenex you're not human.It's a shame that this book came out by a small publisher, I've never heard of iuniverse, had it been promoted by a large, well known house surely there would be countless reviews and at this moment be sitting on the bestseller list.Don't let the 'first time author' moniker scare you... buy, borrow or steal this book, you'll be glad you did.
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DENY THEM THE NIGHT Credo of a little known fighting force, half of which spent their combat career without pay, without complaint, and until now, with little if any praise. Cherish The Magic brings home those who were left behind in a gripping novel of men tasked with doing the right thing.In a war where high technology and military might dominated the daylight, pajama-clad peasants and pith-helmeted North Vietnamese regulars were masters of the darknessand in that darkness, the fate of downed American flyers lay.Gianni Giancarlo, a Fort Lauderdale teenager too scared to join the Army enlists instead in the Air Force, where only pilots see combat, or so he thought, and is thrust into the journey from youthful innocence to the hellish realities of manhood. From the sandy beaches of Florida to the jungles of Vietnam, partnered with a mule-eared German Shepherd named Shadrack, Gianni learns that survival can be worse than death and that doing the right thing is the true measure of a man.Cherish The Magic is more than a novel; it is how we all would like to live.
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