title: The Texas Book of the Dead
author:  Dick Browning 
description: Listed for 20 years in THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the worlds greatest tumbler ever. Eleven years as a Navy pilot. Twenty-five years flying the big jets for American Airlines. Forty years active in metaphysics. Dick Browning has written four novels. In addition this is his second book exploring spiritual matters.
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  The Iron Dirge
  
  A Grave of Empires Novella
  
  Sam Sykes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2020 by Sam Sykes
  
  Excerpt from Ten Arrows of Iron copyright © 2020 by Sam Sykes
  
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