A Third Book in the Works

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With two books under my belt….book two Burned is still being edited…I have just penned the first few pages of my third book in this trilogy. The book, currently untitled continues the story from both Hate and Burned. The following is an excerpt from the book:

Marine Second Lieutenant Glen O’Conner, platoon commander, squats down in the dirt and vomits repeatedly until he has no more to vomit.  He stares into a ditch of some 20 dead men, women, and children.  He notices several teen girls are naked from the waste down and have their white cotton underwear purposefully tied around their necks. Their legs are vulgarly spread wide.   Each of them have a single bullet hole in their forehead. 

Operation Pegasus was launched in March 1968.  The operation was an overland relief expedition to shore up Marines who were under siege during the battle of Khe Sanh at the Khe Sanh Combat Base.  The operation was a joint Marine, Army and South Vietnamese task force. 

It was during this mission that Glen O’Conner’s life changed forever. The Vietnam War in 1968 had just one universal mission, which was kill anything that moves. 

BURNED: A Story of Retribution, Rebirth, and Influence

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BURNED: A Story of Retribution, Rebirth, and Influence

Once again Craig and Cate, with help from others, fight to right an injustice. This time it’s a flamboyant, bombastic billionaire who has a secret that hits close to home. The pair work with a troop of expert computer hackers to drain the river of dirty money from the billionaire.

They hatch a plan and with pinpoint precision, siphon off the billionaire’s world-wide, offshore bank accounts. Ruined financially, his creditors, the Mexican Cartel and the Russian Mafia, come calling for the billionaire. In a game of international cat and mouse, the cartel eventually makes their way to Craig and Cate too.

With over two billion in stolen, dirty money and with help from Craig’s sister, a U.S. Senator, the pair embarks on using the money to change the American political landscape in the 2016 election.

Burned - The Sequel to Hate

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I am over half-way completed with my second book. It is currently called Burned. 

Once again the pair, with help from others, fight to right injustice. This time, it’s a flamboyant, bombastic billionaire who has a secret that hits close to home. The pair work with a troop of expert computer hackers to drain the river of dirty money from the billionaire.

They hatch a plan, with pinpoint precision, to siphon off the billionaire’s world-wide, off-shore bank accounts. Ruined financially, his creditors, the Russian Mafia and the Mexican Cartel, come calling. 

I'm guessing it will be ready for publication sometime in July.

 

A Story Gets Hatched in a Hot Tub

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The storyline for the book Hate was hatched sitting in a hot tub late at night in 2003.  I can’t even remember the genesis for the book.  I had always wanted to write a novel.  Although, I consider myself a decent writer, I just didn’t how to start.  After a few “ugly” paragraphs, I switched gears and thought I am a very visual person.  Perhaps not a novel, but a screenplay?

I wrote probably 20 pages of an 80-page screenplay.  I can’t even remember why, perhaps life got in the way or perhaps the writing spark had no longer been there, but the screenplay laid dormant.  14 years later, in 2016, the writing bug bit again.  In a matter of months, the screenplay had been completed. The next year, I had an idea of using the screenplay as an outline for the novel, since the characters were fleshed out and the dialogue had been written.

I wrote a dozen pages and asked my wife Zoe to read it and tell me what she thought.  She hated it!  She said it was like reading a newspaper.  Back to the drawing board.  I re-wrote the dozen or so pages and asked her again to look at it.  She liked it!

Over the course of three months, the book seemed to pour out of me.  I worked with Zoe on edits, re-writes and plot twists. March 17, 2018, the book was published on Amazon/Kindle.