The Space Traveler by   Tony DePetrillo

Dead in By Sight by Tony DePetrillo 

THE SPACE TRAVELER  an exciting story of a boy growing up and trying to follow in his father's footsteps and realizing the greatest dream in his life. To travel in a spaceship trillions of miles through the void of space to reach a distant planet that is similar to his home planet. Imagine building a space station to launch the largest space ship ever built. Building the station and then testing the spaceship with a new propulsion system that would speed them through space faster than anyone has done before. Witness a dead star, go through meteor or asteroid belts, see planets large and small with no life for trillions of miles. At the end of the voyage behold the planet of destination. What kind of inhabitants will live on this world? Travel to different planets in this galaxy and witness a meteor crashing into a planet and spreading devastation thousands of miles in all directions. View volcanoes erupting and spewing their ashes and dust miles up and around the base with heavy lava rolling down its sides. There is also tragedy and death on this voyage.

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DEAD IN MY SIGHT   An exciting story of a boy that comes from Sicily to the United States with his parents during World War I and grows up in New England . He likes to hunt and shoot and loves Firearms. His main ambition is to design weapons so he enlists in the Marines to learn all he can about these weapons.

He becomes a deadly Expert Sharpshooter in his training with the Marine Corps at Parris Island but because of peacetime his extended training puts him in the newly formed Amphibious Division of the Marine Corps. He is transferred to the Hawaiian Islands to train the amphibious force whether Army or Marines. While in Hawaii he designs a deadly and accurate sniper’s rifle and builds a model with a fellow Marine.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor throwing the United States into war he is drafted into the OSS the espionage agency activated during World War II. Because of his expertise in the languages of Italian, French and German and his ability to hit targets at great distances he spends the War behind enemy lines constantly destroying and sabotaging warehouses, truck convoys and rail transportation systems. He also was called upon to eliminate high-ranking officers and enemies of the allied forces.

His espionage work carried him through North Africa , Sicily , Italy . France , Germany and finally Switzerland to assassinate a German high-ranking officer fleeing to a country with no extradition with accumulated money extorted while running a concentration camp. 

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Tony DePetrillo, 76 years old and retired after 50 years in the appliance, TV and electronics field. He resides with his wife of almost 50 years in Johnston , Rhode Island , 02919 . He loves cooking and making pizzas. He currently has a web site on the internet (www.pizzarecipes.com) that has a cookbook with 42 recipes and tips on making sauces and pizza. He also has a CD with over 400 pizza and dough recipes. Another CD has 100 burger recipes and over 20 different sauces.