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Zap Branagan

Zapp Brannigan

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Captain Zapp Brannigan (born June 30, 2972)[1] is an egotistical military officer for the Democratic Order of Planets and Earth's Government and captain of at least a ship: usually of the Earth ship Nimbus, but briefly of the luxury liner Titanic. Later in the series, he is introduced as a Twenty-Five Star General or General Major Webelo.

Although Zapp Brannigan is considered a great military hero by many people, most who have met him are less impressed by his goofy, arrogant, incompetent, perverted, phallic, selfish, mean-spirited, egotistical, cowardly, chauvinistic, bossy, cocky, manipulative, supremely vain personality, as well as his incredible stupidity. Unlike Fry who has enough common sense about what is right or wrong, Zapp possesses none of this quality and always considers that all of his actions are right no matter how much it can endanger everyone around him or how immoral it is. However, due to the obliviousness and somewhat ineptitude of his superiors, he always gets away with his misdeeds and becomes a false hero. Few people, such as his own crew, soldiers, Kif and half of the Planet Express crew, know who he truly is.

About the Author

Christopher Ray Phillips is a jack of many trades—a successful businessman, lead singer in a rock band, owner of Zane Model Stock Cars, and author. His love for stock car racing and muscle cars began early, shaped by late nights at Virginia dirt tracks and a lifelong reverence from his older brother. The Firewall series comes from his passion to tell stories from dirt tracks and real-life history—where speed, loyalty, and consequence collide.

About the Book

Men in the late fifties were built different—especially around the dirt bullrings of the Southeast. They carried a swagger and grit you don't see these days. Curtis Haywood, a natural behind the wheel and a hometown hero from Virginia down through North Carolina, was no exception.

But everything shifts the day Harlan Johnson and his worn-down family roll into the Greenville Speedway. Running from trouble with nothing but a beat-up racecar and two dollars to his name, Harlan finds safety where he least expects it—under Curtis’s wing. Two families, one white and one black, form a bond in the infields that no one can break.

When danger catches up to Harlan in Georgia, Curtis makes a promise only a real man can keep. Forced to leave the track and face down a crooked promoter and his pack of goons, what starts as a stand for a friend erupts into a war that follows them all the way back to Virginia.

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