Greed makes people do many things that often go against their principles and beliefs. Taken further, greed can force a person to enter into a deal with the devil, even if the end result would cause harm or injury to others. Tungee’s Gold: The Legend of Ebo Landing is a unique story about a man who wanted to make his fortune by panning gold during the Gold Rush like so many other people.

The time period is the late 1800’s. This historically based novel brings the California Gold Rush and us back to 1851. Finding gold and staking their claims meant a person could create a life for themselves wherever they wanted.

Author Tom Barnes weaves a web of deceit, hate, deception and neatly ties up all of the lose ends. “I might be a prisoner now, but I will never become a slave.' ,” said King Kumi the king of the Ebo tribe.

May freedom ring for all and where it does not we need to fight and change it. This book is a must read for everyone and my pick for a number one book for 2010.

Fran Lewis: reviewer and the author of the Bertha Series of Children’s books and Memories are Precious my Alzheimer’s book.

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Tungee’s Gold, The Legend of Ebo Landing is an exciting story with a twist for an ending. As I read it I began to wonder if the story was true so I “Googled” the words “legend of Ebo landing” and several sites came up, including Glynn County, Georgia where Ebo Landing is located. The thought that the story may have really happened makes it all that much more compelling.

Tom Barnes does a great job of using description to set up his storylines. His smooth conversations lend to a more believable text. Just as his first book, Doc Holliday’s Road To Tombstone was a novel based on real facts, Tungee’s Gold is a historically accurate novel.

Barnes’ stories are timeless but teach us about certain periods in history. I really enjoyed this book. It gives you the other side of slavery. The dialog with the slave king gives the reader an understanding of what it was like to be one of the African slaves being brought to America on a slave boat.

I highly recommend the book.
Sally Tippett Rains, Author of The Making Of A Masterpiece, Margaret Mitchelland Gone With The Wind (www.GWTWbook.com)

This is a well-researched and crafted mystery which will appeal to any art lover or fan of quality stories. The author goes into great detail to tell the story of how several famous paintings disappeared after World War II. The work of undercover detectives finally solves the mystery, but not without some dramatic twists and turns in the story which will keep the reader trying to guess the outcome.

Rob Rains - Amazon.com Review

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Some readers may have forgotten or never knew that Hermann Goring, Hitler's ruthless second in command, was in charge of looting and hiding thousands of museum paintings created by some of Europe's most famous artists and some whose work would become more valuable during proceeding decades. They have become known as The Goring Collection. Hundreds of these paintings are still missing today.

Tom Barnes has written a well researched, exciting story initiated by a stolen painting. Jacob Meyers saw his father's Pissarro among the paintings at The Old World Auction House in Manhattan. When he starts asking questions, the painting disappears. Since Mayers owns an intelligence agency, he immediately alerts Interpol . Two paintings, a Manet and a Cezanne sold as copies by an international cartel in Berlin show up at the Berghoff Gallery in Chicago. Mayers's agency investigates this con game of the cartel from a mansion in the state of Georgia across the country to a notorious odds maker in Las Vegas. The action and excitement of the story are propelled by the characters in the agency who are tracking the stolen paintings. Their intriguing personalities and working relationships make you hope the author writes a sequel to allow them to solve more international mysteries.

Lenora G. Smalley - Amazon.com review

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Washington: Friday Nov. 2, 2007

Allen Weinstein hailed discovery of art albums as ‘One of the most significant finds related to Hitler’s theft of art treasures to be found since the Nuremberg trials.’

In another art dispute, the US Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against Elizabeth Taylor over her ownership of a Van Gogh painting.

The Goring Collection by Tom Barnes

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‘Tom Barnes has tapped the headlines about Nazi stolen art from World War II and crafted a spellbinding mystery.’

Julie Burton, playwright and author of “Consider the Tulips.”

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Jacob Meyers is stunned to see his father’s Pissarro – taken by the Nazi’s in 1945 – among the paintings up for sale at the Old World Auction House in Manhattan. He questions management and while he reads a phony provenance, the Pissarro is withdrawn from sale and mysteriously disappears. Jacob, head of an intelligence group alerts Interpol and joins their ongoing investigation into the underground world of stolen art.

Two suspect paintings, a Manet and a Cézanne sold by an international cartel in Berlin as copies, are tracked to the Berghoff Gallery in Chicago where they are auctioned off as originals. An accidental shooting at the gallery exposes the cartel’s con game and leads to the blackmail of a Las Vegas odds maker, the murder of a San Francisco politician, and the assassination of a former matinee idol in West Virginia.

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Written from the perspective of 'being there', join, Tom Barnes in his rich-with-history account of his experiences as a navy pilot working hurricane patrol in 1944. At an altitude of 28,000 feet, Barnes describes the beauty of the 'beast', and the birth of a hurricane, as well as the intricate maze of an instrument panel. Charting storms in the Devil's Triangle during hurricane season was definitely not for sissies. Suspense and humor are joined together, along with a picture perfect depiction of numerous navigations, making this a book that's difficult to put down. History buffs will find this a treasure to read. As a bonus, Barnes has included his own history as it related to Flight 19 and its mysterious disappearance. Two thumbs up, Tom!

Reviewed by Venita Louise author of Mixed Nuts  on Amazon.com

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View A Hurricane At 20,000 Feet

Separated from his navy squadron which was sent to the Pacific, the author found himself in Florida at the Jacksonville Municipal Airport with its long runways able to handle a heavy bomber outfit. With a great deal of skill he relates his experiences during 1945 as World War II was winding down. True- to- life anecdotes and episodes move the story along.
Sent to Masters Field in Miami, after Washington ordered the military to develop a hurricane warning system, he was assigned to Squadron 114, the early Hurricane Hunters. They tracked storms from Barbados in the eastern Carribean to Honduras and Belize in the west. At that time hurricanes had Roman Numeral numbers instead of names. Hurricane #IX, a category 4, hit Miami and Masters Field. He writes from experience with frightening realism about the danger and destruction of hurricanes.
Flying many times over the Bermuda Triangle, the same area as the five planes which made up Flight 19 mysteriously lost while on a training mission, the author adds his speculation as to what may have happened to them. Interesting and logical.

I found this well written, well researched book to be riveting and compelling. Worth the read.

Reviewed by Lenora Smalley writer and poet on Amazon.com

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What can I say about "Tom's Hurricane Hunters" and "Lost In The Bermuda Triangle" that hasn't already been said and said beautifully. What I can say is that when I read the two stories the word triangle reminded me of another triangle, one of greater importance to all. The one I speak of is the universal and everlasting triangle, "The Triangle of God, Nature and Man" and their interaction. Here in Tom's remembrance the emphasis is on two thirds of that interaction: Man and Nature. To me this interaction takes on the form of one great pugilistic contest played out in a cosmic ring where two worthy adversaries, Man and Nature meet to test each others strength, knowledge and staying power. Nature enters her heavy hitter, Hurricane with her winds and rain and Man enters Tom Barnes and the Navy backed by their training, planes and technology. In the early rounds, Tom and his Navy buddies are hammered, knocked down but never out. And like most true Fighting Men they rise to fight another day; they never give up. The battle is continuous, the rounds are endless, but with each round, Man learns more about this beast from the sea with its awesome force and catalytic power with the hope that someday, he will know enough to counter, defend and even nullify this monster of Nature. And if that day comes and it surely will, we can all look back and say: "It began with those brave men of Squadron 114, the original Navy Hurricane Hunters."

A must read for all of you interested in Man's on going struggle with Nature

....Duke Howard, author of "The Damnation of Mercy Kilwick."

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I was doing some research on Doc Holliday when I came across author Tom Barnes' blog. After reading that I got his book, Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone. This book is a lot of fun. It brings back many facts I remembered from history classes but weaves them into a fascinating story. I have always had an interest in the Wild West and have read other books about the subject. The difference in this book and others is that Tom Barnes gives you the story of Doc Holliday from Holliday's point of view. It lets you see the human side of the famous gun slinger. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading.

Rob Rains- Amazon.com review

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"Tom Barnes is a champion in his field with his use of words and descriptions that guides his readers from the very first page. His first hand stories bring topics to light as well as the many experiences that make up Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone .
     Readers will discover legends, history and page turning excitement. His mastery of dialogue puts you right there in the setting and moment. Tom Barnes delivers a reader friendly book that will be re-read countless times and shared with others to gain insight and delight." Doc Holliday would be proud of the road this author has created and brought to his readers.

Gail Small
Fulbright Memorial Scholar
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities

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Tom Barnes truly captures the real-life story behind this historical legend. Follow Doc Holliday from his childhood, to his eventual and unlikely friendship with Wyatt Earp, and of course the famous gunfight at the OK corral. This book is rich with descriptive detail of Griffin, Georgia, his place of birth, his close relationship with his mother and the attitudes that fueled his hot temper and led him to a life of practiced dentistry, gambling, gun fights and saloon altercations. Definitely a must read for old west buffs

Venita Louise
Author of Mixed Nuts

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Who would have thought the legend of Doc Holliday could be connected in any way to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind.
When Doc Holliday went west after he discovered he had tuberculosis, which caused the death of his mother, he left behind a sweetheart who thought he would return after his cure in the warm, dry climate of the west. During his incredible research for the life of Doc Holliday the author, Tom Barnes discovered that this sweetheart, besides being a cousin of Doc Holliday was a distant cousin of Margaret( Peggy) Mitchell. This beautiful, girl, Mattie Holliday, wrote letters to Doc for several years and then after his death became a nun in the order of Sisters of Mercy. Margaret Mitchell used to visit her in the decade before Gone With The Wind was published. If you read the letters which appear in Doc Holliday's Road To Tombstone, you will know almost immediately which of the main characters of GWTW was inspired by Mattie Holliday.

John Henry Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia and as a young boy moved with his family to Valdosta, Georgia just before the end of the Civil War. In 1872, John Henry was graduated with honors from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. Thus when he went west he became known as "Doc" Holliday. Starting his career as a dentist in Texas, Doc soon learned he could make a better living as a gambler.

The author, Tom Barnes, uses his talent and skill in scriptwriting to portray the downward spiral of John Henry Holliday, He brings to life Doc Holliday's escapades which involved outlaws as well as famous law officers like Wyatt Earp. Those interested in the O K Corral may be more fascinated by the trial which took place afterwards. This book is a great reference for that whole period of the Old West.

Lenora Smalley
California Writers Club
Director at Large

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 " Tom Barnes' Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone is splendid. And it has the best telling of the gunfight at the OK Corral I've ever read."

-Martin Meyers
Author of the Patrick Hardy mysteries
Co-Author of The Dutchman series

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  "Author Tom Barnes has meticulously written this factual account of the life of Doc Holliday in such a way that you feel as though you are actually right there -- experiencing all of the excitement and ambience of the era in which Doc's life unfolded. A great read."

 L. McDonald  Amazon.Com review

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 "Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone is a page turner.From growing up in Griffin, becoming a dentist, his romance with Mattie and his affair with the fiery Kate, to the very interesting courtroom scenes after the shooting."

MAC, Los Angeles, CA
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