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    Hard Target, the Origin
    Hard Target, the Origin
    Hard Target, the Origin
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    Hard Target, the Origin

    By Randolph Giles

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    From the sins of the father a new superhero is born . . .
    Step into the fast-paced world where everything lurks in the shadows, and in that darkness, something will rise to exact vengeance! Witness the rise of a new superhero in Hard Target: The Origin!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandolph Giles
    Release dateMar 14, 2014
    ISBN9781310860362
    Hard Target, the Origin
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    Randolph Giles

    I remember a young boy of six saying he could fly like Superman. He said if Superman can do it so can he. Whatever happened to that little boy that little boy that was me?By Randy GilesI was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York a stone throw distance from the old Yankee Stadium. I have been writing since I can remember. I always enjoyed telling stories and have been doing so since first grade when I wrote my very first one.As an adult I worked for a HVAC wholesaler and retail company as their Computer Systems Administrator. I supervised the computer departments for their three branches located in New York City and State.I have studied martial arts from the age of 11 and have earned black belts in five different martial arts styles and my students and have performed demonstrations on Johnathan Burke’s Martial Arts Forum on HBO as well as Westchester Cable. Due to my martial arts training I have been head bouncer (head of security) at various clubs in New York for both hip hop and Latin Music. I have also body guard or were personal security for the rock band Van Halen in the early 80’s.My students and I have performed for the Dance Theatre of Harlem at their open houses and various cultural functions. I was also an extra for the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s ballet Sherherazade and performed with them in the City Center and Kennedy Center where I had the privilege to shake President Ronald Reagan and the first lady’s hand.Various topics interest me, but I love action/suspense/drama and romance as Ian Fleming is one of my favorite authors. I feel that people love to get away from their everyday lives and go to a place that is rarely, seldom shared called the imagination.When the Eagle Flies with the Dove is my very first novel which is now entitled NEX FORMA, which I wrote in 1985 and copyrighted in 1990 I am hoping is one of those stories that will take your mind away from the day to day where you find it difficult to put the book down. And once it’s over I’m hoping that you wish that it didn’t end.I have also written a book of short stories (Flash Fiction) as it called due to he stories being 250 to a 1000 words in length. The stories encompass various genres, hence the title "Flash Fiction Menagerie". In Flash Fiction Menagerie you will discover stories for just about everyone, from, fantasy, romance, mystery, drama, suspence, spooky, comedy, sci-fi and more. Flash Fiction Menagerie also includes a story entitled “GLIMPSE” which is an homage to one of my favorite writers and television show hosts Rod Serling and introduces my first comic book hero HARD TARGET and his origin.Please keep an eye out for more of my books as I am currently revising others that I have written or currently writing.You can check for updates on my work at www.lankymania.com also visit www.eagle-dove.com for character bios, locations, music and more for my novel entitled: NEX FORMA!Thank you,Randolph J. Giles

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      Hard Target, the Origin - Randolph Giles

      Hard Target, The Origin . . .

      Randolph J. Giles

      Copyright 2014 by Randolph J. Giles

      Smashwords Edition

      Narrator: It is said that a boy becomes a great man like his father or he could end up baring his father’s sins. I was nine when I discovered that my father, uncles and their cousins who were all on the police force were corrupt. During their Saturday night poker games they would get intoxicated and boast about their illegalities and indiscretions and how much money they had made. My father wasn’t bad he was just a typical father, a man who never grew up and had more time for his friends than his own family. He tried to include me in some of his hobbies, like going to shoot guns at the gun range, but it was always way too loud for me and made my head hurt and body tremble. The sound of a gun being fired disturbed me as it meant the solution was final as it took the place of judge, jury and prosecutor and once it was done it was done and that frightened me.

      I was closer to my mom, who was the one who truly raised me. She was an archetypal mom, she once loved my dad as they were married young, but as she got to truly know him, she gradually fell out of love with him, but she couldn’t abandon us, so she stayed for the sake of the family, she stayed for me. My mom was my best friend and she taught me how to be a man, but it wasn’t only my mom who made me the man that I am today, I owe most of that to my father as he taught me what kind of man I didn’t want to become, he taught me how to survive in this unjust world a world where most of the victims are just as guilty as villainous scum that preys upon them.

      The neighborhood that we lived in was tough and my mother made sure that I had plenty of things to keep me occupied in order to keep me off of the streets. I attended the Cub Scouts every Friday after school where I learnt how to shoot the bow. I loved it when we had archery class it was so quiet and calm, peaceful even. It blocked out the roar of the El train, the fire truck and police sirens as I became one with the target. The bow unlike the gun is a beautifully crafted instrument from; the Japanese long bow to the American Indian self bow, back bow and composite bow too today’s recurve and compound bows. I prefer the recurve bow as it is less forgiving than the compound. It requires great skill to shoot a recurve accurately. The risers and limbs make the bow a very elegant weapon not to mention it being silent and deadly. Believe it or not, for a while the bow was far more precise than the gun and I still believe it to be so.

      Anyway, during the other days of the week I spent learning martial arts at the Martial Arts School of Inner Peace and Strength which sole purpose was to try to

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