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Paperback ISBN 13:
978-1-936185-17-7 |
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Paperback ISBN 10:
1-936185-17-2 |
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EBook ISBN 13:
978-1-936185-16-0 |
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EBook ISBN 10:
1-936185-16-4 |
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Release date: June
2011 |
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Genre:
Fiction |
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| The Hour Before Dawn is a
multi-generational novel that explores the lives of Adam,
Jack, and Sam Berlin, first cousins, separated by time and
place, yet bound by the belief that there is no higher good
then to stand against tyranny and
oppression. |
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| Jack, Adam and Sam Berlin are
first cousins, separated by time and place, yet bound by blood
and heritage in the belief that there is no higher meaning in
life then to stand against tyranny and
oppression. |
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| Jack, the eldest cousin, joins
the Army Air Force and pilots a B-17 through 25 missions over
Nazi Germany. He survives the war, only to find home is no
longer a place he belongs. He returns to the peaceful English
countryside. His heart cries out for Betty Goodman, his first
and only love. He sends for her and steps into the fire of a
destructive cauldron |
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| Adam, the middle cousin,
barely eighteen, moves to Israel to fight its wars. Seventeen
years later, on the Upper Syrian Plateau, he orders his men
forward, although the map grid no longer matches the terrain.
His unit is ambushed. Wounded and bleeding, he is the sole
survivor; a hero, who lives in the morass of his own guilt.
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| Sam, five years younger than
Adam, fights his war in the courtroom. He is the criminal
defense attorney of Dr. Mark Renette, a prominent Orange
County physician, accused of murdering his wife and her lover.
Sam finally locates a witness who can alibi Mark, but Mark
threatens to change his plea to guilty if the witness is
exposed and testifies. Sam is caught in the moral dilemma of
saving an innocent, uncontrollable client from the lynch mob
of the jury and state imposed death by the
needle. |
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Ross Gallen
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| Ross Gallen was born in New
York and raised in California. Growing up in the turbulent era
when the Soviet Union threatened the free world with nuclear
destruction, he was acutely aware of the lack of civil
liberties in the Soviet hegemony. This ingrained a
lifelong belief that the Constitution was all that protected
ordinary Americans from arbitrary government action. His
writing career began as an Op. Ed. writer for his high school
newspaper. Graduating from the University of Redlands, he
simultaneous received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology
and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. After a short
stint in graduate school at the University of California he
proceeded to Cal Western Law School, where he earned his Juris
Doctor degree. |
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| Ross is a member of the State
Bar of California and the State Bar of Texas. Employed
as a Deputy District Attorney he argued the landmark case of
In re Kay before the California Supreme Court. He honed
his skills as a trial lawyer by working as a deputy Public
Defender representing clients charged with capital murder and
serious felony crimes, and went on to become a managing
partner in a civil litigation firm. He has been a Judge
Pro Tem of the Orange County Superior Court and is recognized
as a preeminent lawyer in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register
of Preeminent Lawyers in America. Ross currently devotes
his time to writing fiction and practicing law. Both of his
sons are airline pilots and his daughter is a speech
pathologist. He and wife Lynn make their home in
Henderson, Nevada. |
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