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Governor Richard Smithers and Warden John McMurray conspire to move prisoners from Lodge Point Prison to Daniel’s Island to develop a casino enterprise in Bermuda with the help of a New York crime boss. Steve Kerns is a DEA agent assigned to the Witness Protection Program in Bermuda after his successful breakup of a drug operation in Central America. Kerns uncovers the Smither’s scheme to defraud the Bermudians of their land. Kerns operates under the alias of Doctor Kevin Garrett to conceal his identity; however, he falls in love with the governor’s wife, Rhonda Smithers, and compromises his alias and reunification with his family. His wife, Beth, is determined to seek the truth about her husband’s disappearance and works feverishly to locate her husband, despite the recalcitrant DEA chief, Roger Branson. Kerns is ultimately reunited with his family after the heroic efforts of his wife, Beth. Governor Smithers and his cohorts are exposed, and the integrity of Bermuda is maintained. The author brings the sights and sounds of this island paradise in an action thriller that intersects the worlds of espionage, romance, and government intrigue.
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Mike Calvert is an aging cop whose career was going nowhere until the day Charlotte Johnson was murdered. The likely suspect is Charlotte’s husband, a car dealer in Austin, Texas, who is losing money with the electronic transfer of funds into an undisclosed offshore account by a nineteen-year old computer hacker. The husband moves from suspect to corpse in a scheme that involves greed and corruption in a high-profile law firm that stands to make millions in a central Texas real estate scam. A power-hungry, real estate broker is behind the Johnson murders as he attempts to finesse the gubernatorial bid of an impotent politician through extortion and greed. This plot is carefully orchestrated around the political machinations of state government and regulatory agencies charged with the responsibility of safeguarding the public interest.
A parallel plot involves Mike’s girlfriend and female protagonist, Kim Barker, who is a computer information specialist for a large Austin health care corporation. Kim is a Princeton graduate in biomedical engineering and is on the verge of developing a technology that allows for rapid transmission of imaging data for hospitals and managed care companies. Her work is sidetracked by a crazed ex-surgeon who is hell bent to bring Managed Care to its knees. As the story unfolds a sniper is taking head shots at CEOs in Los Angeles and Austin.
| |  | | Low Country
Stan Davidson, restaurateur, teams up with his old army buddy who heads up FBI¡¯s Atlanta office to solve the murders of three federal prison wardens. Two parallel plots involve drug money and land schemes extorting the mayor of Savannah.
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) serves as the backdrop for this mystery thriller as Thomas Pierson is on the take for placing crooked wardens in federal prisons to mastermind his global, terrorist plot to cripple the U.S.¡¯s intelligence community. Pierson plots the escape of four cons, who assist him in Operation Black Widow, to sabotage an orbital satellite, instigate a nuclear disaster in south Texas, destroy peace talks in the Middle East, and threaten U.S. relations with Taiwan and China.
Scenery includes Georgia¡¯s barrier islands of Tybee, Saint Simons, and Jekyll. The personalities of the islanders provide an interesting cast of characters: the trustees, the moochers, old and new money,am artists, drunks and druggies.
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Dr. Brandon Cowley finds himself immersed in a conspiracy to defraud the federal government billions of dollars in a research protocol designed to put the majority of vascular surgeons out of business. The Heart Assisted Device (HAD) is designed to obviate the need for more expensive and traditional cardiac bypass surgery, but positive research results must support the government’s claim that the HAD is superior to the more expensive CABG surgeries. Brandon uncovers a plot to murder his patients to report favorable results and thus make the FDA’s case for the new procedure. The FBI is called in to investigate the unexplained deaths, that eventually leads to a syndicate boss in California. A parallel plot involves Mexico’s intent to steal American biotechnology to create a financial empire for Louis Luchini, an international crime boss, by corrupting the American medical community and the FDA. The reader moves quickly from the Nation’s Capitol to San Diego, Austin, and La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur. This page-turner throws the reader into the worlds of medical research, governmental bureaucracy and conspiracy, and the sordid underground world of organized crime.
| |  | | Reflections From a Business Coach
Coaching entrepreneurs and small business owners is tough work, but rewarding if you can tap into their enthusiasm and knowledge.
Why would anyone want to coach businessmen and women who may be tired of their corporate careers or may just want to turn their hobby into a business? Why would anyone want to be a coach? I’ve asked myself these and other questions many times when I left the “safe” world of being a therapist where the rules of engagement are well prescribed. It’s safer in being the expert whose job it is to listen and help reassure folks that they are not losers, that there’s meaning in their lives, that all they need is to have a passion for life. The world of coaching is a different arena where coach and cli | |  | | Reflections From A Psychologist: An Autobiography
A compelling story of the author's childhood experiences that led him to become a psychologist and take up a writing career.
P class=MsoNormal>The author minces few words in describing his early childhood and reasons for becoming a psychologist. This book should resonate with the “boomers” who are now in their fifties and approaching retirement. The extensive training in becoming a clinical psychologist is described in highly defined, visual sequences that follow the author through college, graduate school, internship, and postdoctoral training. Patient stories bring the reader inside the therapist’s office to listen to the remarkable people brave enough to come to therapy to seek meaning and stability in their liv | |  | | Retirement is for Sissies
This book provides a holistic approach to retirement that prepares one for this most important transition from work to recreation, leisure, home business, and other lifestyle changes.
You've got the 401k, the back porch overlooking a pond stocked with bass, the grandkids, the wife, sunrises and sunsets, so what do you do now? The only constant you need worry about is time. No more eight am meetings, traffic gridlock, stained white shirts from leaky pens, spam emails, and cute greeting cards reminding you that you're a year older. You sit on the back porch with your wife of forty years sippin' on Starbucks dark roasted Columbia blend as the sun casts an orange hue over the pond rippling with large-mouth bass enjoying the morning cool air in the Sandia Mountains. Route 66 and | |  | | Silly Little Love Poems
If you have been blessed or hurt in love, this book is for you. The author offers hope in broken relationships and words to heal the soul that transcends all human love.
Silly Little Love Poems is a compilation of poems describing love as not a beginning or ending, but a process that transforms the human heart to people, places, and moods unknown or unimagined. In preparing this collection of love poems, the author presents thematic examples of this “thing called love” that is part of every song and life. Whether you are currently in or out of love, the author’s words speak to you—that love is a journey that sometimes leads us into dark places and unhappy endings. The book is divided into six sections that describe: love’s moods, love’s delights, love’s hurts, | |  | | Symbiosis
Detective Mike Calvert returns to the Austin Police Department from his retirement two years ago to help his former partner, Frank Murphy, solve the case of a serial killer who has killed in three states. The psychotic murderer is a twin who harbors resentment towards his birth parents and proceeds to go on a killing spree that leaves four sets of twins dead. Other university students are terrorized and killed as Nathan Harrison, AKA The Silencer in this suspense thriller, terrorizes the university community in Austin, Texas. His MO includes slicing his victims’ throats, running a metal stake through their chest cavities, and tying them up in a symbolic gesture of perpetual enmeshment. The deranged assassin eludes the APD, FBI, and Detectives Calvert and Murphy, continuing his senseless rampage. Mike’s intelligent and beautiful wife, Kim, is abducted by Harrison and flown to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where she is held hostage. Follow Mike Calvert as he attempts to save his wife and bring the gunman to justice. The beautiful town of Cabo and its people serve as a backdrop for the last third of this suspense thriller that will leave the reader in shock.
| |  | | The Kauai Connection
Jack Cahill uncovers a family secret after fifty years about America's entry into WW II. The CIA wants him dead to protect the President's upcoming trade agreement with Japan that threatens the economic survival of our NATO allies.
Jack Cahill returns to his boyhood home of Kauai to spend his retirement after a tumultuous career with Global Dynamics. He is surprised to learn of a family secret that his father had worked for Japan during WW II by sharing intelligence information about American naval vessels. Cahill enlists the support of his boyhood friend, Nathan Kaleo, to decipher records found in an old island fort that lead to a startling discovery that the elder Cahill did not act alone. The CIA is determined to kill Cahill before he uncovers the truth about Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor., Jack Cahill returns to his | |  | | The Protocol
Doctor Robert Appleton is a promising young research psychiatrist who has patented a new drug to curb violence in humans. He recruits young women to consent to his sordid research design by injecting them with a street-drug “cocktail” of PCP, Ritalin, and cocaine. The U.S. Government is interested in Appleton’s work to quell a Muslim uprising in Indonesia in retaliation for the U.S. victory in the Gulf War. However, the U.S. intelligence community is compromised when Appleton’s secret obsession of sexually molesting young women is uncovered. Hounded by the Houston police, Appleton goes undercover with the CIA’s help. However, Appleton’s predilections propel him to kill again and again, safe within the government’s witness protection program. The reader is quickly immersed in the worlds of psychiatric research, espionage, and detective work as the CIA vows to protect Appleton’s identity at the expense of young girls dying to his sexual fantasies. At stake is global economic stability and the U.S. Government is not about to sacrifice its international reputation.
| |  | | The Reunion
Texas football, Vietnam, and mega mergers serve as a backdrop for this coming of age story of Jack Conners who becomes disillusioned with football and is instantly immersed in the atrocities and loneliness of war. The historical fictional piece takes place circa 1963-1990 and follows Jack's career from college to a horrific tour in Vietnam, law school, corporate law, and finally returning to his roots in South Texas. It is a coming of age story when times were simpler and goals more attainable. Throughout the book is the lingering loss of boyhood friend, Sean Rogers, who is paralyzed at thirteen from a diving accident and his death at eighteen. Jack becomes disillusioned with football and quickly learns the atrocities and loneliness of war. Jack returns from Vietnam as a double amputee and marries Courtney Shaw in law school. He develops an addiction to Vicodin for his leg injury and admits himself to a rehab facility for Vietnam veterans. Throughout the book is the post-trauma of his Vietnam experience and his inability to deal with "survivor guilt." After a successful rehab, he takes an early retirement to marry his high school sweetheart after a painful divorce with Courtney. This is a story of youth and ambition, achievement and loss, euphoria and pain, dreams and nightmares.
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