Dust Be My Destiny
by Joseph Cowley
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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
In addition to being listed in Who's Who, International Who's Who of Authors, Strathmore's Who's Who and other reference volumes, Joseph Cowley's biography will be included in the reference volume, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, to published by International Biographical Centre, Cambridgeshire, England, late in 2005.
Taking early retirement in 1982 to devote himself to fiction, he moved with his wife Ruth to Lebanon, Ohio, to be near the eldest of their four children and the two grandchildren existent at the time. They now have seven grandchildren: Jesse, Noah, Sarah, Samantha, Eliot, Sophia, and Sean, and have moved to Greenport, NY.
Joseph Cowley is the author of the novels Dust Be My Destiny Denlinger's Publishers, Ltd.) and The Chrysanthemum Garden (Simon & Schuster, 1981, out-of-print but available on-line @bn.com), the novellas Another Great Day (Morris Publishing, 1997, available on-line gbook.com) and Three Novellas (Morris Publishing, 1998), the play The Stargazers, (Morris Publishing, 1996, available on-line @bn.com) and, with Robert Weisselberg, The Executive Strategist, An Armchair GWide to Scientific Decision-Making (McGraw-Hill, 1969). His articles have appeared in trade and science journals, and his short stories in Prairie Schooner, New-Story, The Maryland Review, Ohio Short Fiction, and other literary journals and anthologies. His one-act play Father and Son, based on a short story by V. S. Pritchett, was read at the 2nd Writers' Conference at the Cultural Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio, and more recently by the Vail-Levitt Players in Riverhead, NY. In addition to his published work,, he has completed three other fulllength plays, a horror novel called The House on Huntington Hill, a novella called Home by Seven (part of which was published as "Another Great Day"), and a collection of novellas and short fiction called The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories. He is currently working on a sequel to Dust Be My Destiny, writing a thriller called Don't Shoot, I'm Not the Enemy, and doing research for another full-length, historical drama.
In his new novel, DUST BE MY DESTINY, Joseph Cowley, author of the sensitive and moving THE CHRYSANTHEMUM GARDEN, applies his unique talents to a story of Central American intrigue.
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Joseph Cowley To Be Profiled in a Marquis Who's Who Publication
Greenport, NY - July 2, 2001 - Joseph Cowley, of Greenport, has been selected to be included in a biographical directory published by Marquis Who's Who, the leading biographical reference publisher of the highest achievers and contributors from across the country and around the world.
Cowley, author of the novels The Chrysanthemum Garden, Dust Be My Destiny and other works of fiction, will be profiled in the 2002 edition of Who's Who in America, which will be available in October.
Since 1899, When A.N. Marquis printed the First Edition of Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who has chronicled the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field of endeavor - including politics, business, medicine, law, education, art, religion and entertainment.
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This title was nominated for the Frankfurt eBook Awards.
The central figure of DUST BE MY DESTINY is Michael Reles, agent provocateur for the CIA. The novel moves with relentless passion as Reles and his sidekick, Pancho Gonzales, are caught up in the swift action of a band of rebels determined to overthrow the tyrant who rules his country with an iron hand. While the country and characters are strictly imaginary, the vivid writing makes the scenery and the people compulsively alive.
Among the main characters are: Michael, a divorced man whose ideals force him into continuous danger as he battles to free an oppressed people; Pancho, a hot-tempered peasant who is oblivious to danger, except of the dark; Lillian Trebasco, a beautiful woman of the upper-class, ultimately willing to sacrifice her love for the cause; her brother Tony, a successful businessman who aids and abets the revolution; and the mysterious Colonel Calderone, cool, resourceful master-mind of the coup.
This swift-moving novel reaches a climax when Michael and a group of commandos free Lillian from prison, kill the guards responsible for her rape, and in a taut scene bring the cruel dictator's life to an end. A page-turner, this novel, with its realistic touches, is bound to please the most discerning reader as well as those who simply want a good read.
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