This the first story in the saga of two families, Dean and Egan, drawn together by friendship as well as desire to give justice to the small communities in a raw Wyoming. They dealt it as it should be done, swiftly and surely.They had little time or patience with those who would take and waste lives of those who would strive for life in the harshest of environments.The Deans and Egans were epitome of hard work, endurance, and justice in the late1870s. — The author

The train is hijacked by the prisoners and they escape to form a renegade bunch which turn the Japanese occupiers into twists and turns trying to re-capture them. There are American Marines, Australians, and several Chinese captors who are very inventive. They are there for over two years and finally taken out to return to duty. Lively action, personal heroism, and life and death struggles.This is not to reinvent World War II, but to tell a piece of history that might have actually...

The woman was treated to everything a woman might want, jewels, finest hotels, marriage by a priest in the most sacred of Texas towns -- San Antonio, and trips to New Orleans and finally to Richmond, Virginia. You know the destination, but the why is really important. She had been seduced by the man who would take her to be sold into a high class prostitution ring featuring well placed politicians and leaders in the new government after the Civil War. The woman was a mere trophy to the sed...

The blood was everywhere. The man they hung for the murder escaped and went to Mexico. The young man who helped him was a stranger in town. How did all these things come together to solve one of the oddest things to ever happen in Sabana Pass? And how did the Marshal afford that brand new Duryea? Turn of the century is only a few years off and this is the most important case in this city's short life. Clearly the woman was missing. Had she been thrown in the canyon and lions or wolves drag...

Terror and Revenge makes two people who are married, happy, and have a family subject of a terrorist who has no regard for the people hurt in his attacks on a government who in his opinion is repressive. The character of this story is the son, grandson, and great grandson of a long line of law enforcement from the early days of the settlement of the west. He joins with a Scotland Yard detective to solve this almost impossible to solve case and come to some closure with a tragedy in his own...

The action about WW I, starts in 1918 and races across two continents. The vision of exploding shells and machine guns firing just over head, the risks and the rewards are there, but unattainable. The two detectives hope to find their man, but as moments slip by, they are left stranded on a dock in New York City.— Ken Timmerson,Retired Police Officer

Start to finish, this book goes through drugs and money and jewels and fast paced all the way; it includes a dash of international intrigue for those who like ocean spanning crime. Murder of a whole family: mother, father, and two children is the kick off to a very bad day for a police detective who is certain it isn't drugs. His lieutenant is certain it's drugs and wants to dump this on the Narcotic division. It says a lot about how staff builds an ivory tower and then the damn thing fall...

When the doctor died, he held the secret to all the things his friends had done.He wanted, clearly, to make a better life for himself, but in the end, it all came to a bloody end in the middle of his office.The wife, almost helplessly and hopelessly inept, had to struggle through the death, the burial, and the life without his guidance to help her.The detectives were relentless in the search for the killers of the popular and successful doctor. They didn't have the sli...

Edge of the Knife is a book which deals with spies both in the United States and Germany during WWII and how they go about their tasks. The failures of both and the success of the efforts of two young people who have gone from small Arizona ranches to the towers of power in Washington DC during wartime.

The History Channel ran a program on July 16, 2007 and again on July 25, 2007 with many facts about how pirates are rampant in the South Pacific, murdering, pillaging, and plundering no less than happened in the 19th Century by such as Blackbeard and his crews and others who had no regard for human life. Driven by only greed, these pirates take for profit and have no concern for human life.Pirates still roam the seas. The South Pacific is almost a haven for these vandals. They inter...

Jim was able to survive a catastrophe and follow the trail of a man so evil he had not once cares who he killed or how badly he treated people. But, Jim was not going to let this evil man get away with the kidnapping of that "woman on the stage." And when he found she was after the Comanchero herself, he joined up with her and they trailed and found the man. The results were as expected. But, before the end of his career, it was a hard task and even then the man escaped the gallows and ret...

Gene Hamilton walked the heated streets of Yuma, Arizona Territory and felt good. But, the heat was almost unbearable. He did try to stop a fight in front of the saloon. Big mistake. He turned and struck someone he thought was interfering with his peacemaking: Sheriff Sweeney. The 3 months in Yuma Territorial Prison was the sentence. It wasn't long before he found his ranch was taken away from him for failing to pay the taxes. Who? That led him to a strange and tangled mess of unknown peop...