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Author Cliff Harrison was born and raised in the historical village of Ballston Spa, New York, the sister town of nearby Saratoga Springs. The Saratoga County communities are in Upstate New York in the foothills of the Adirondack Park, a six-million-acre wilderness and preserve in the northeast.

The autumn foliage is picture-book setting as seen while passing along Saratoga and driving through the Adirondacks via I-87, the Northway, which is marked as the most scenic highway in America. The ride provides some of the most breathtaking views of lakes, farmlands, and forests surrounded by the changing colors of nature as unseen anywhere in the nation or the world.

That's the region of Cliff Harrison's homeland. It is home to the Saratoga Battlefield and the Revolutionary War as well as many sites and landmarks from Early America and the Native American Nations.

Cliff worked for several years as the senior manager of a major offset-printing company where his keen eye and proof-reading ability contributed to his rising success. The commercial printing and newsprint printer was also home to several newspapers, circulars, and publications distributed throughout New York and New England.

He has spent extensive time in downstate New York City and he is well-traveled in the United States and around the world.

Cliff Harrison has been in management for most of his adult life and in the car business for his entire life. He is fond of saying he was born in a junkyard. His parents owned a small business which including used car and truck sales, new and used auto parts, a wrecking service with several tow trucks, a repair garage, and body shop, and a junkyard and salvage operation. In Vegas, where he has resided for more than two decades, he was in the car business for many years and retired from multi-level management.

Cliff Harrison is an author, editor, publisher, researcher, blogger and photographer. He is also active in humanitarian and human rights issues. He writes both fiction and nonfiction. His work covers political, social, economic, religious, culture and several other areas and genres. He likes to call his fiction mainstream, but it crosses into several genres.

Much of the fiction produced by author, Cliff Harrison, will be published by that name, his diminutive. Cliff also writes anonymously using several pen names, in many genres, in both fiction and nonfiction.

Most, but not all nonfiction by Cliff will be released as Clifford G. Harrison. The real name of a person who uses a pseudonym is an orthonym. His nonfiction author page is linked below.

Cliff Harrison is a humanitarian capitalist whose writing supports vital humanitarianism & human rights operations.

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Father River: The Street Priest Book 8: The Swimming Pond (Father River Series) May 12, 2019

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 11,883 words. Fiction. Keywords: The Swimming Pond. Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarian, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the eighth book in the series. This is Book 8, The Swimming Pond. A short read. It is a short story penned by the fictional character, Father River, as he uses his imagination while creating fiction inspired by true events.

Book 8, The Swimming Pond, is the last short reads in the book series as the author turns his attention to full-length novels in the Father River saga. The short reads helped the author become familiar with the KDP system and develop the self-publishing skills needed while fine-tuning the technical aspects of the craft.

With the first draft and manuscript written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The stories open during an era of economic disparity at the turn of the Century when Americans were engulfed in the Great Recession and joblessness, unemployment, poverty, and homelessness were at an all-time record high. Vegas was ground zero for that economic event.

The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and of those who died on them.

The characters were formed out of the observation of real people abstracted from reality and blended into the imagination to disguise realism.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became the oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in more than a few languages. Mastering such communications as Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. He became a decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

From Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States the monsoon rains often trigger the flashbacks that take him from the streets of Vegas back to the war-torn lands of jungle and tropical warfare.

Deliverance of the oppressed isn’t only a mission, it’s the motto of the soul.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Father River: The Street Priest Book 7: Wanted Man (Father River Series) May 6, 2019

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 5,160 words. Fiction. Keywords: Wanted Man, Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarian, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the seventh book in the series. This is Book 7, Wanted Man. A short read. It is a short story penned by the fictional character, Father River, as he uses his imagination while creating fiction inspired by true events.

Book 7, Wanted Man, will be one of the last short reads in the book series as the author turns his attention to full-length novels in the Father River saga. The short reads helped the author become familiar with the KDP system and develop the self-publishing skills needed while fine-tuning the technical aspects of the craft.

With the first draft and manuscript written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The stories open during an era of economic disparity at the turn of the Century when Americans were engulfed in the Great Recession and joblessness, unemployment, poverty, and homelessness were at an all-time record high. Vegas was ground zero for that economic event.

The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and of those who died on them.

The characters were formed out of the observation of real people abstracted from reality and blended into the imagination to disguise realism.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became the oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in more than a few languages. Mastering such communications as Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. He became a decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

From Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States the monsoon rains often trigger the flashbacks that take him from the streets of Vegas back to the war-torn lands of jungle and tropical warfare.

Deliverance of the oppressed isn’t only a mission, it’s the motto of the soul.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Father River: The Street Priest Book 6: Dream Train (Father River Series) May 2, 2019

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 4,541 words. Fiction. Keywords: Dream Train. Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarian, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the sixth book in the series. This is Book 6, Dream Train. A short read. It is a short story penned by the fictional character, Father River, as he uses his imagination while creating fiction inspired by true events.

Book 6, Dream Train, will be one of the last short reads in the book series as the author turns his attention to full-length novels in the Father River saga. The short reads helped the author become familiar with the KDP system and develop the self-publishing skills needed while fine-tuning the technical aspects of the craft.

With the first draft and manuscript written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The stories open during an era of economic disparity at the turn of the Century when Americans were engulfed in the Great Recession and joblessness, unemployment, poverty, and homelessness were at an all-time record high. Vegas was ground zero for that economic event.

The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and of those who died on them.

The characters were formed out of the observation of real people abstracted from reality and blended into the imagination to disguise realism.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became the oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in more than a few languages. Mastering such communications as Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. He became a decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

From Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States the monsoon rains often trigger the flashbacks that take him from the streets of Vegas back to the war-torn lands of jungle and tropical warfare.

Deliverance of the oppressed isn’t only a mission, it’s the motto of the soul.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Father River: The Street Priest Book 5: WORDS (Father River Series) Dec 27, 2018

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 12,554 words. Fiction. Keywords: WORDS, Father River, Street Priest, Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarianism, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the fifth book in the series. This is Book 5, WORDS.

With the first draft and manuscript written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and the stories told of those who died on them.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

In this fifth installment of the saga, Father River holds an open-air feeding station for the homeless and the hungry.
Gathered in Downtown Las Vegas, Father River preaches with a little sermon covering topics of interest to the street people. He recites an essay he wrote called WORDS. It is a lesson about being careful what one says and how words can hurt and wound and have everlasting emotions on those who receive them. As he recites his poetic work he speaks about expressing words of love rather than words of hatred. In this inspirational story, he teaches the homeless how to gain self-respect and suggests to work at solving their own problems without blaming others for their misfortunate, even if their should be blamed. It is basic Christian philosophy, teaching to love one another while we grow free and independent of the things that oppress us.

Father River has much in common with many of the homeless gathered at his sermon and open-air feeding session. He is a war veteran like many of them and can relate to the problems they share in common. He tells of his visions and sparks hope for better days to come. Like Father River, a good many of his followers are Vietnam combat veterans who respect this uncommon leader and trust in his decisions and sermons.

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in several languages. Mastering such communications as Vietnamese and Austroasiatic languages, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. Later he continued schooling and training and advanced in the Special Forces to become a well-decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence. His records are sealed for the safety of America’s most guarded top secrets and the men who carried out the clandestine missions.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Father River: The Street Priest Book 4: The Son of God (Father River Series) Oct 15, 2018

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 6,290 words. Fiction. Keywords: Son of God, Father River, Street Priest, Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarian, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the fourth book in the series. This is Book 4, The Son of God.

With the first draft and manuscript written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and the stories told of those who died on them.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in more than a few languages. Mastering such communications as Vietnamese and Austroasiatic languages, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. Later he continued schooling and training and advanced in the Special Forces to become a well-decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence. His records are sealed for the safety of America’s most guarded top secrets and the men who carried out the clandestine missions.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

From Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States the monsoon rains often trigger the flashbacks that take him from the streets of Vegas back to the war-torn lands of jungle and tropical warfare. A scene in this book triggers a flashback in the mind of Father River as he sleeps on the streets. He is taken back in Nam to a blazing-hot LZ where he finds himself engaged in the midst of a firefight with the enemy, Victor-Charlie, moments after stepping off the helicopter that transported him to the hot landing zone. But the trigger this time wasn’t the monsoon rain, that often sends him and other war vets back to Nam. It was something much, much sinister.

Deliverance of the oppressed isn’t only a mission, it’s the motto of the soul.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Father River: The Street Priest Book 3: Fresh Blood (Father River series) Oct 14, 2018

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 12,230 words. Fiction. Keywords: Fresh Blood, Father River, Street Priest, Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarian, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the third book in the series. This is Book 3, Fresh Blood.

With the first draft and manuscript written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and the stories told of those who died on them.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in more than a few languages. Mastering such communications as Vietnamese and Austroasiatic languages, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. Later he continued schooling and training and advanced in the Special Forces to become a well-decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence. His records are sealed for the safety of America’s most guarded top secrets and the men who carried out the clandestine missions.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

From Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States the monsoon rains often trigger the flashbacks that take him from the streets of Vegas back to the war-torn lands of jungle and tropical warfare.

Deliverance of the oppressed isn’t only a mission, it’s the motto of the soul.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Father River: The Street Priest Book 1: An Introduction (Father River series) Sep 12, 2018

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 14,708 words. Nonfiction-fiction. Keywords: An Introduction. Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarian, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the first book in the series. This is Book 1, An Introduction which is designed to explain the entire series.

With the first draft and manuscript written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and of those who died on them.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in more than a few languages. Mastering such communications as Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. He became a decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

From Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States the monsoon rains often trigger the flashbacks that take him from the streets of Vegas back to the war-torn lands of jungle and tropical warfare.

Deliverance of the oppressed isn’t only a mission, it’s the motto of the soul.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Father River: The Street Priest Book 2: One Good Job (Father River Series) Sep 1, 2018

by Cliff Harrison

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Approximately 10,762 words. Fiction. Keywords: Homelessness, Eastern Orthodox Church, Humanitarian, Social Problems, Vietnam War, Las Vegas, Street Life, Street People, War & Military, Christianity.

Father River: The Street Priest tries to help out the homeless on the mean streets of Las Vegas. This is the second book in the series, the first story after the Introduction to the saga. It is a short story penned by the fictional character, Father River, as he uses his imagination creating fiction inspired by true events. This book follows Book 1, An Introduction which is designed to explain the entire series.

With the first draft written over a decade ago, the saga begins, in Las Vegas, Nevada, inspired by true events. The experiences of living on the evil streets of Las Vegas during the Oscar Goodman administration are relived in the realities of the street people who survived them and of those who died on them.

We are taken back to revisit the times and the wars that the combat veterans fought when their nation sent them as boys to defend freedom. Only later they were betrayed as if dumped into the streets as war-damaged men in a place they called home. The unforgiving conditions soak through the souls of the men who braved the unrelenting challenges of defending freedom.

They had one mission, to liberate the oppressed, and for all of their sacrifices, they themselves became the oppressed.

They were once the masters of deliverance, now they are the enslaved by the very slavemaster that sent them to foreign lands to wage battle in a forsaken world.

Through the eyes of Father River, we witness America’s bravest becoming broken. We have to wonder, how the hell did we get here?

Father River, having progressed through several stages in the elite training of the Special Forces, is affluent in more than a few languages. Mastering such communications as Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Spanish, his clandestine preparations takes him deep behind enemy lines to subvert America’s most fierce enemies. He served several tours in Nam as a warfare medic and combat chaplain. He became a decorated commander for leading his covert commandos deep into Hell to face Lucifer’s disciples in battles unfit for human existence.

Those war experiences conditioned him for a future endeavor.

They call him the Street Priest.

From Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States the monsoon rains often trigger the flashbacks that take him from the streets of Vegas back to the war-torn lands of jungle and tropical warfare.

Deliverance of the oppressed isn’t only a mission, it’s the motto of the soul.

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

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