HIGH-MINDED TURNS INTO DEADLY, AND DEADLY INTO ANOTHER SIDE THAT WAITS... THOR, a Green Berea veteran trained to be deadly, lives quietly in a New England suburb and receives secret assignments as the President's Man. NAOMI, an older sister, is dedicated to watching Thor's back until he can stand safely on his own...then she can finally live a life of her own. DEANNE, a competent head nurse of a hospital crisis unit, in private life gives up a lover in order to keep him and in the process enters the back end of a dark cave. TAALIA AND JUAN MARCUS, two Ecuadorian orphans, grow up in the United States and overcome traumas from dangers experienced in childhood. RACHAEL, a dark-eyed Spanish countess, marries a prominent Russian physician while faithfully harboring the legacy of a powerful, duopolistic father. COLONEL AND JULIANNE, a brilliant, black military commander with clandestine Pentagon and White House ties, whose wife artfully handles bold warriors. CACHÉS, the intelligence community's name for a small, unknown international group bent on world control, maintaining secret identity by deadly self-regulation. ...FOR NIGHT'S END TO APPEAR. Another Side of Deadly, as well as Richard Hardy's previous books, Heaven's Climbing Tower and Seven Keys and Ghostly Lovers, describes life as continually spinning towards wholeness. Journey races forward in the solitude of prayer, reality uncovers the ghostly, and the deadly can have heart. Opposites are in the hands of the same outreach. In the words of poet William Blake: "...this mystery shall never cease; [ how] the priest promotes war and the soldier peace." With a fifty-year background in ministry, personal and group counseling, health care practice, and finance, Richard Hardy becomes a storyteller to divulge diverse perspectives from a core wealth of experience. Discovery without holding on is crucial.