Edward Cline

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Edward Cline (1946 -) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating from high school (in which he learned nothing of value) and a stint in the Air Force, he pursued his ambition to become a novelist. His first detective novel, First Prize, was published in 1988 by Mysterious Press/Warner Books, and his first suspense novel, Whisper the Guns, was published in 1992 by The Atlantean Press. First Prize was republished in 2009 by Perfect Crime. The Sparrowhawk series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period has garnered some critical acclaim (but not yet from the literary establishment) and universal appreciation from the reading public, including parents, teachers, students, scholars, and adult readers who believe that American history has been abandoned or is misrepresented by a government-dominated educational establishment. He writes regularly for such political and cultural blog sites as Rule of Reason and edwardcline.org. He is dedicated to Objectivism, or Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason in all matters. His best sellers are the popular Cyrus Skeen detective novels and the Sparrowhawk series.

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Sparrowhawk, Book Six: War Dec 2, 2013

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Jack Frake and Hugh Kenrick resign themselves to the likelihood of war with the Crown. Hugh returns to England on urgent personal business, while Jack prepares for the coming conflict. In the meantime, Jared Turley, an agent of Earl Basil Kenrick, posing as a Customs official, sets his sights on Hugh Kenrick to punish in the name of his employer. He allies himself with the detested new royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, and confiscates the Sparrowhawk. Jack Frake and his men march to Boston and Bunker Hill. And during a final battle on the York River in Virginia against the Sparrowhawk, Jack must again face an agonizing choice, one he had made in Falmouth, England, years before.

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Sparrowhawk, Book Five: Revolution Jan 4, 2014

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As the British Crown plans to exact its Stamp Tax on the North American colonies, Hugh Kenrick, Jack Frake, and their friends in Caxton, Virginia, plot to foil the arrival of the hated stamps in the colony. Edgar Cullis and George Mercer, also Virginians, however, scheme to switch sides. Reverdy Brune returns to Hugh’s life, and Etáin, Jack’s wife, acquires a new friend. Dogmael Jones and Baron Garnet Kenrick join in the debates in Parliament over repeal of the disastrous law; Jones delivers his finest speech in the name of liberty.

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The Black Stone: A Detective Novel of 1930 (The Cyrus Skeen Mystery Series Book 6) Jan 30, 2014

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After having some breathing room from his last case, which brought him up against Communist spies and fifth columnists, Cyrus Skeen is faced with a new problem and a new peril: Islam. A young girl is brutally and savagely murdered. When the police are unable to solve the crime, the father privately asks Skeen to investigate and possibly find the killer. The crime is of a nature and hideousness unknown to Skeen or any of his colleagues, or even to the city. He fails. But then a new murder is reported, of a maverick newspaper reporter on the run from vengeful religious police, and Skeen is able to link the two murders. Is the relic the murdered man stole genuine, or a fake?

Set in San Francisco in February 1930, Skeen moves around in a familiar milieu dampened by the Depression and the growth of Hooverville shanty towns of foreclosed and impoverished men in the shadow of the city's wealthier neighborhoods. "Reality," Skeen tells his wife, "has called in its markers" of inflation and fatal government management of the economy. Dilys, his wife, is beginning a new painting, and Skeen's first political article has been accepted in a prominent cultural magazine. At the end of The Chameleon, Skeen had told his wife that "Something wicked this way comes." In The Black Stone, he runs head on into a wickedness he could never have before imagined.

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Sparrowhawk, Book Three: Caxton Dec 2, 2013

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Jack Frake, now a successful planter, meets newcomer Hugh Kenrick, who has bought a bankrupt plantation as an expression of his independence. They become neighboring planters and friends in Caxton, a town on the York River not far away from Williamsburg, capital of the colony of Virginia. They also become rivals for the hand of Etáin McRae, daughter of a British merchant in town. Jack Frake is respected by the town’s planters and merchants, while Hugh, the scion of British aristocracy, is a mystery to the town’s population and to the lieutenant-governor, Francis Fauquier.

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Sparrowhawk, Book Two: Hugh Kenrick Dec 17, 2013

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Book Two introduces the second young hero, Hugh Kenrick, a member of the British aristocracy. While he has all the advantages that his rank bestows on him – family, wealth, prestige, and an assured future – his quest to preserve his self identity, his liberty, and his independence clashes violently with the demands of his station. Ultimately, he will find a better home in colonial Virginia.

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The New Sparrowhawk Companion Nov 27, 2013

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The Sparrowhawk Companion has become an indispensable reference book for readers, containing, in addition to essays about the series and period in which it is set by the author and other contributors, a chronology of Acts of Parliament from 1650 onward up until the conclusion of the American Revolution, an extensive glossary of 18th century terms encountered in the series, a simple guide to British currency, a handy list of the 375 characters that appear in the story, a list of all the naval and merchant vessels, and a selective bibliography of some of the author's sources. The Companion was originally published in 2007. This is an edited edition which includes a new essay by the author that was omitted from the original edition.

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Running Out My Guns: A Collection of Advices (The War of Ideas Book 1) Nov 19, 2013

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This volume of “advices” represents a small fraction of my nonfiction efforts over the last twenty years, and focuses chiefly on what I have produced and seen published in one form or another since 2001. Most of these pieces appeared originally on Rule of Reason, the blog site of The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism, and later on, on The Dougout and Family Security Matters. They have been picked up by or linked to numerous other Internet venues, here and abroad. They are exercises in comprehension, stages of anger, and etudes in identification. It has been a thankless job with very little in the way of prize money. But it is a necessary task, if freedom is to be preserved or recovered.

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Collectables: A Handful of Observations (NonFiction Book 22) Feb 20, 2019

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Collectables, the fourteenth title in this series, is a collection of my columns from Rule of Reason, one of my blogspots, including an essay from the Journal of Information Ethics from 1995. The essays range from a discussion of faith (Islamic and Christian) to the current brouhaha over the censorship of “conservative” sites on the Internet by the high-tech companies of Silicon Valley and overseas (chiefly in Germany and the U.K.)

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The Ghouls of Grammatical Egalitarianism: And Other Essays (Wizards and Ghouls Book 13) Feb 25, 2019

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Ghouls is about Politically Correct writing and speech and focuses on the destructive means and ends of Politically Correct Speech and how it subverts one's mind, and compels one to think "A can be non-A at the same time."

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Cogitations: Recent Reflections on the State of Things Sep 7, 2015

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Presented in this volume of nonfiction, in no particular date or subject order, is a collection of some of the author's Rule of Reason columns. Included are excerpts from two of his Roaring Twenties detective novels, Stolen Words and An August Interlude. The subjects range from Islam to education to immigration to censorship to our cultural malaise to book reviews. I have also written Sparrowhawk, a popular six-title historical series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period that has been in continuous publication since 2001. His articles and reviews have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, the Journal of Colonial Williamsburg, and Marine Corps League, and numerous other print publications. My political, critical, and cultural columns can be found on the weblogs of Rule of Reason, Capitalism Magazine, Family Security Matters and other venues.

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From The Crow's Nest: A Miscellany of Observations (The War of Ideas Book 6) May 27, 2014

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From the "crow's nest" of my own ship of life – not for me a comfortable billet below decks, snoozing with others in our swaying hammocks – I gain a long-range perspective on what is before me, around and below me, and what is on the horizon. This is the sixth anthology of commentaries and essays collected from Rule of Reason and other weblogs over the years. They focus on current politics, Islam, freedom of speech, various cultural issues, and miscellaneous subjects. The startling and unexpected reelection of Barack Obama in 2012, in spite of all the evidence of all his policy failures, abuses of executive power, and threats and tantrums, for another four years – against all reason – to continue what frankly should be deemed a nihilist campaign to "deconstruct" America, should cause anyone who values his freedom and his life to enter into a state of permanent trepidation. For a while, I had contemplated titling this volume There is only the fight to recover what has been lost…," cadging a line from T.S. Eliot' s1940 poem Four Quartets. The sentiment would have been appropriate, because most of the articles here are about what has been lost or demolished in contemporary politics and culture. But, I too much associated that line with that political harridan, Hillary D. Rodham (Clinton), and her 1969 Wellesley College senior thesis, "There is Only the Fight…: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model." She quoted the line at the end of a long chunk of Eliot's poem, "East Coker," which I have read and was consequently depressed by its intrinsic and gloomy determinism. Her thesis is an encomium of Saul Alinsky, the Chicago theoretician and socialist political strategist and advocate of "community organizing." Unfortunately, Clinton, Alinsky, and Eliot were too intimately linked in my mind to everything I detest in "practical politics," so I chucked the idea of appropriating the line for myself. What has been "lost" has been a great portion of our freedom under the weight of the Progressive welfare and security state. Long Live Lady Liberty!

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Corsairs & Freebooters: A Collection of Pungent Remarks (The War of Ideas Book 3) Nov 19, 2013

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A third anthology of the author’s published essays and commentaries on a wide-ranging field of subjects, from the nemesis of Islam, the rise of OWS, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. It follows “Running Out My Guns” and “Broadsides.” Its subtitle is “A Collection of Pungent Remarks,” guaranteed to raise any reader’s dander.

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