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    A Bolt From The Blue.
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    A Bolt From The Blue.

    By Robert James Bridge

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    The time is 9am on a cold snowbound scenario in Halifax Nova Scotia, a snowbound scene that is soon to become blood begrimed by the amounting death toll. The year is 1917 and the month is December.

    Most of the residents were on their way to work or at work when two ammunition ships collided in the Harbour of Halifax and Dartmouth. The explosion was to take almost 2,000 lives nd many injured from flying glass as they ran to the office windows wondering if the war had come to them?.

    John Smithers and his elder brother Jack were aiming snowballs at each other as the disaster struck. This is a story of heroism we can only admire even though the characters are fiction the explosion did happen and John instantly goes about helping with the dead and injured regardless of his own life ,not knowing he had lost all of his family in the tragedy. A tragedy no less than the Titanic some years earlier, a tragedy not so well known as the Titanic but nonetheless a tragedy that change the face of Halifax for many years. Had it not been from the help of the people of Boston USA  who came to thier aide without a thought to their own lives, Things may have been worse!.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert James Bridge
    Release dateMay 11, 2018
    ISBN9781386568117
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    A Bolt From The Blue.
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    Robert James Bridge

    The Black and White House has been reviewed by ramonaportelli@hotmail.com and a small section is attached to this intro!. Just been informed A Bolt From The Blue-The Halifax Explosion is to be published alongside Sealed With A Loving Kiss and The Black and White House at penitpublications.com or https://www.smashwords.com/ I am a prolific author of many books, books that may never see the light of day or indeed get published, but I love what I do and that gives me the hope that one day I see one of books in the stores. I do not write one specific area, infact my books are mostly diverse for instance. A Bolt From The Blue is historical fiction woven around a true story.A story that has mostly been erased through the sands of time . Un coup de bleu L'explosion de Halifax Available at penitpublications.com A Bolt From The Blue-The Halifax Explosion . The bells ring out in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada each and every year on December 6th at 9am to remind folks of the tragedy that happened in 1917 when two ammunition ships collided in the Harbour of Halifax and Dartmouth. A tragedy that took almost 2,000 lives. Kinmel Revisited is another of historical fiction woven once again around the fascinating story of the Kinmel Camp Riot in 1919 in North Wales. This book is also available at penitpublications or blazingheartpublishing.com The Black and White House is a on the edge nail biting thriller that will leave readers maybe thirsting for more of the same as Joshua Jenks a poor coloured boy from Memphis goes on to defy the odds by becoming a Senator and this is where his troubles begin!. At this stage I would like to introduce adult readers to my series of adult fictional crime. I say adult simply because each book contains explicit references suitable for adults. I have four books in the series and the first is now on Smashwords entitled Hell Bent on Murder,followed by Hell Bent on Revenge and if this has wetted your appetite then to come shortly is Hell Bent on Corruption followed by Hell Bent on Blackmail, all featuring ex met cop turned private eye Jim Bent. It is my hope one day to continue with Hell Bent on Collaboration, but at this juncture please by all means read of Jim Bent and his adventures when he leaves the met after fifteen years and takes on the role of a private eye.If you have enjoyed the first two in my series then Hell Bent on Corruption and Hell Bent on Blackmail will leave you thirsting for mor...

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