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(U.S. Army, Ret.) Lieutenant Colonel Timothy R. O’Neill (U.S. Army, Retired) and West Point professor of engineering psychology can be called the father of digital camouflage with the development of Dual-Tex and his understanding of visual biophysics and human visual performance makes him the leading expert in the field of camouflage.
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Shades of Gray (Mass Market
Paperback)
by Timothy R. O'Neill Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly: West Point psychologists Sam Bondurant and Liam FitzDonnell
are assigned to find out why cadets living in a certain dormitory suffer
especially disturbing nightmares and wake to the chill of a sad, benevolent
presence in their room. The problem is given historical dimension by Maggie,
Sam's wife, whose research shows that since the 1850s, the ghosts of a
former teacher and his daughter have been sighted periodically in that
area. The skeptical Sam and Liam, whose interest in Gaelic runes will tie
in with the sightings, set up video cameras, tape recorders, EEGs and EKGs
to monitor the sleeping cadets and the mysterious room. First novelist
(and Lt. Colonel) O'Neill knows West Point, its environs and campus almost
too wellhis detailed descriptions of the lives of instructors and plebes,
complete with banter and vulgarity, are not as interesting as the supernatural
events he chronicles. When he sets technology to the study of parapsychology,
however, O'Neill makes good use of today's adult mechanical toys in a well-turned
ghost story.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal: When bloodthirsty ghosts haunt his barracks room, West
Point cadet Barstow, terrorized, disappears. Skeptical staff psychologists
Sam Bondurant and Liam FitzDonnell, attempting to solve the unsolvable,
stalk the nightly visitors with an incredible array of scientific equipment.
Meanwhile, Sam's wife Maggie, determined to solve the mystery herself,
also turns sleuth. Despite the attempted enigmatic interference by a stereotypically
crabby old librarian, Maggie unearths the eerie history of the haunted
room. Intertwined with the subplot of a fated, bittersweet romance, the
story builds to an effectively chilling climax. Although some passages,
partly due to an excess of technical terminology, are rather slow and awkward,
this is an impressive and skillful first novel based on an actual incident
at West Point in 1972. Ronald L. Coombs, SUNY Downstate Medical Ctr. Lib,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. AMAZON.COM: Shades of Gray by Timothy R. O'Neill |
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