ASTRAL - a historical fiction
I hope you enjoy my first novel, ASTRAL.
When an oil tanker, the ASTRAL, is sunk off the coast of Spain just prior to America's entry in to WWII, it's lone survivor lands in a small fishing village. Although small, there is much going on as Thomas finds out. During a romantic night, the mayor's daughter and Thomas watch a stranger come ashore during a fierce storm. In the middle of espianage, Thomas becomes the focus of German, British and resistance forces. After a dramatic event, Thomas' son discovers the possible location of the Nazi known as "El Gato Malo". Landing in Argentina after WWII, will the son be able to find the Nazi and take his revenge?
http://www.amazon.com/Astral-Eric-Kaste ... 490&sr=8-1About me...
Eric Kasten, born at Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1971, grew up in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia. The son of a Navy Corpsman stationed in Camp Lejune and Norfolk, Eric joined the Army as an M1A1 Tank crewman before finishing college at Old Dominion University as an electrical engineer.
After being stationed in Erlangen, Germany, Eric worked as a Technician for GTE on international telecommunications contracts. In all, he visited or worked in eleven countries. As of 2011, he is in his fifteenth year working in telecommunications. Working and studying, Eric gained his B.S. in Business Management in 2001.
While living in Maryland, Eric joined the Screen Actor's Guild and worked as background in several major motion pictures, on HBO's The Wire and on America's Most Wanted. He was most commonly cast as law enforcement. He also worked with the Baltimore Opera Company on their production of La Boheme as the Drum Major.
It was on a Telecom project that Eric met author Lisa Rogak in the Charlotte, NC airport. Fom that meeting the wheels began to turn and the writting bug grew. It was also recent to then that Eric began reading more books, mostly non-fiction. One odd preference emerged, a preference for one word titles.
LANDSLIDE was completeted at the end of 2010.
ASTRAL was completed in July 2011.
Eric is currently working on a new fiction novel.
I hope you find my novel interesting and enjoyable. Thank you for reading.
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