Spiteful

Viral Assault , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min

One woman’s journey into medical hell and the lessons that will help cure millions....Life has always been a personal battle for Julia Hugo Rachel - but, hey, she is typical of millions of people. A fun-loving, outdoorsy American girl, Julia lived close to the military community and saw early on how conflict and the trauma of war can scar a person - on the inside as well as outside. Her own demons began to appear as a child at the hands of a spiteful mother. Unable to understand, Julia slipped unnoticed into the grip of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Meanwhile, she watched as the lives of veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq she had befriended were crushed by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).When her sport-loving son, Blake, came close to death after succumbing to CFS, she decided something had to change. She had to fight medical ignorance and government cover-ups. Perhaps her fight with her mother was worst.But Viral Assault is Julia Hugo Rachel’s powerful response: Debilitating diseases like CFS and PTSD are not all in the mind. In her own words: "There are millions of men and women who have been lumped together under the general heading of ‘mentally ill’ as a convenient way of evading the diagnosis of more complex illnesses." Julia’s story will be felt and understood by every family that has suffered from years of misdiagnosis and frustration.Julia Hugo Rachel has spent a lifetime in intelligence working with various agencies both in America and overseas. She is close to many members of the Special Forces and has experienced firsthand the cost of war for veterans and their families. Julia has applied all of her training in intelligence and analysis to peel back the veil of denial and secrecy that surrounds a whole family of illnesses from CFS to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Gulf War illness (GWI) that seem to have common cause and that impact millions of active military personnel, veterans, and ordina ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Marcin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147754/bk_acx0_147754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Dead Need Nobody: The Cornish Detective, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 733min

Murder victims are like buses - they arrive together. Two corpses are found within minutes of each other in Saint Ives Bay. DCI Neil Kettle is a keen amateur painter, so the bizarre death of an arts graduate, found underwater encased in a concrete statue, enrages him. And is she linked to a down-on-his-luck Latvian trawlerman washed up on the rocks of Godrevy Island Lighthouse, his throat cut? Neil is exhausted after running four murder investigations in the previous five years. He was looking forward to a quiet summer, his personal life back on track, after moving house and coming to terms with being a widower. It's the height of the holiday season, the seaside resort and art colony packed with tourists. The chief constable wants the murderer caught. Gossip flows among artists, resentment of success a gritty lubricant. Questioning painters, sculptors, and art-supplies dealers, the finger of suspicion points at Tobias Taube, an eccentric and elitist art gallery owner. Wildly successful, he's a man from another age, dressing as a Victorian dandy. Unmarried, reclusive, and spiteful, he lives for his art - but would he kill for his art? Neil is repelled by him, and his cunning and great wealth make him a difficult suspect to pin down. In the meantime, an expert cat burglar is raiding the mansions of the wealthy, taking antiques, vintage guns, jewelery, and paintings to order. He's even stolen from the art gallery owner - and is going back for more. Bungling twin brothers are less skilled thieves, pulling car park ticket machines from the ground for the money inside. Raising their game, they attack an ATM machine with a bulldozer. All three thieves have been the clients of an aging prostitute, a tart with a heart of lead and a salty mouth. The cat burglar paid her for sex using a painting stolen from Tobias Taube, thinking it a fake, but she believes it's worth hundreds of thousands. Looking for a way to fund her retirement, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Whybrow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233170/bk_acx0_233170_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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