John Urho Aalto, Jr., known to his many friends simply as Urho. Engineer, linguist, rifleman, archer, hunter, fisherman, intelligence officer and perhaps the last of the real mountain men in this cockeyed world. He was my best (male) friend for more than sixty years and I probably knew him as well as anyone outside his immediate family. This is his story.

In his latest novel Senator McPherson, author John Sager has created a character who can be at once admired, questioned, but never ignored. From her growing-up years in a small farming community, Sara McPherson morphs into one of America’s most influential and resourceful politicians.Recently graduated from the University of Washington’s law school, she catches on as an intern in a prestigious Seattle law firm, successfully defends two of the firm’s clients and then is elected to t...

A fictional exposé of China’s attempt to conceal the origins of the novel Coronavirus.

In his latest novel Senator McPherson, author John Sager has created a character who can be at once admired, questioned, but never ignored. From her growing-up years in a small farming community, Sara McPherson morphs into one of America's most influential and resourceful politicians.Recently graduated from the University of Washington's law school, she catches on as an intern in a prestigious Seattle law firm, successfully defends two of the firm's clients and then is elected to the state...

Enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies. Now they're "just friends." Sure.Reunited with her crew, Vice is on the hunt for Drake's treasure. But there's a good reason it hasn't been seen in two hundred years—it's hidden by fiendish clues and deadly traps. To keep her crew—her family—safe, she can't afford a single misstep. That's easier said than done with a distraction like Knigh Blackwood around.Knigh might not sail for the Navy anymore, but he's found a new place in...

St. Barnabas, one of the pillars of the infant Christian Church, is a Cypriot Jew who found his salvation in Jesus Christ. A likely author of the letter to the Hebrews, he teamed with St. Mark to establish the first Christian Church in North Africa. Beloved by his compatriots and reviled by his enemies, he paid the ultimate price in a blazing house fire, but not before leaving an indelible footprint for all believers yet to come.

Jim Dawson is a thirty year old widower with deep pockets. He’s also a committed Christian who drives an eighteen wheeler for Wall Mart. This time, his route is along Interstate 90 from Seattle to Boston and return. At each of his layovers he connects with a local church. He and its pastor then confront the issue of the day, anything from a nascent Mafia revival in Chicago to a group of troubled teenage drug addicts in Cleveland. Jim considers himself to be a traveling evangelist and his g...

St. Barnabas, one of the pillars of the infant Christian Church, is a Cypriot Jew who found his salvation in Jesus Christ. A likely author of the letter to the Hebrews, he teamed with St. Mark to establish the first Christian Church in North Africa. Beloved by his compatriots and reviled by his enemies, he paid the ultimate price in a blazing house fire, but not before leaving an indelible footprint for all believers yet to come.

Ekatarina Davidovna Smirnova, or Katya as she is known to her many friends. She’s beautiful, she’s talented and as the Russian embassy’s Cultural Attaché she is the CIA’s best-kept secret. The story follows her life from childhood, through a marriage cut short by her spouse’s demise, to one of Russia’s most admired performers, all the while increasing her know-how and talent. Toward the end, she becomes the performer most sought after by the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, Washingt...

What really happened in that Wuhan laboratory, the source of the Covid-19 pandemic still sweeping Planet Earth? In this novel, author John Sager brings his readers to understand that God’s goodness can find its way into the hearts and minds of Wuhan’s most deprived citizens: an 18 year old mother and her infant daughter, both heroin addicts. A 48 year old woman, no longer in charge of her once-popular brothel and suffering from syphilis. A 32 year old high school teacher, who admits to rap...

Uncovered is the life story of eighty-three-year-old cold war veteran John Sager. An operations officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, his postings to pre-revolutionary Iran, Gamal Abdel Nassers Egypt, and Nikita Khrushchevs Soviet Russia thrust him into the midst of Americas most tumultuous half-century since World War II.The authors memoir reveals an up-close vision of the nitty-gritty of cold-war intelligence work: recruiting and handling agents, devising ways to insert the...

In his most recent novel, author John Sager provides his readers with a fictional account of how individuals and families deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. Each chapter is a separate story, offering examples of fear, uncertainty, despair and, usually, a satisfying conclusion. At the time of writing, an effective vaccine is being distributed throughout the United States and if herd immunity eventually becomes reality, readers may consider the novel to be passe. Should that happen, it woul...