In The Red Wolf, it's five years later. Jo is now executive officer of a secret
special ops unit, Pallas Group, and her first mission is to lead a team behind
the Iron Curtain to prevent the assassination of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
by a rogue KGB agent. Cut off from U.S. support, hunted by Soviet and
Hungarian agents, Jo has to find and then defeat the most dangerous man
she has ever faced, with the fate of the Cold War hanging in the balance.
The Bronze Leopard finds Jo in East Africa, and after wrapping up a mission,
she and a colleague set out to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro before returning home.
She doesn’t know that the rebel leader she captured, an East German soldier
determined to revive his grandfather’s dream of a German empire in Africa,
has been freed from prison by GDR mercenaries. Now, the Bronze Leopard
himself, backed by a team of elite East German troops, is determined to track the Vixen up the mountain and eliminate the biggest threat to the mercenaries’ future operations. Pursued to the top of Africa, outgunned and weakened by the extreme altitude, Jo Geary faces the fight of her life against a desperate foe in one of the harshest environments on the planet.
The Silver Falcon floats across Alaska, invisible to radar, unable to be photographed. Air Force jets watch helplessly as it crosses the border into Canada and comes down in the mountains of the Yukon. The White Vixen is dispatched to assist Canadian Rangers in the hunt for the UFO. As they start their trek, Jo Ann gets a sat-phone call from the Pentagon, warning her that an unknown aircraft has come in from the Arctic and dropped paratroopers north of the object's landing site. Who are they? Why do they want the Falcon? And, most importantly, what is it? Jo's phone goes dead before she can get any answers. Now she has to lead an outmanned and outgunned team into the wilderness, with no idea who, or what, they're going to find.
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the sense of honor he felt he lost when his wife died, while Mark is contemplating retirement and wonders if life as a civilian will be as honorable as his time in uniform. In lawless Somalia, an al-Qaeda chieftain decides to defect, and that decision will bring the Hayes brothers back together, involving them in a terrorist plot to bring America to her knees.
A year later, Quest for Vengeance finds the brothers honeymooning with their new brides in Italy, but their presence has been detected by a Serbian warlord, who has an old score to settle with Mark. He decides to strike quickly at Mark’s wife, luring the brothers into a battle he will make sure they cannot win.
Quest for Redemption finds Jim and Gina encountering a crisis in their marriage, brought on by complacency and maybe a little boredom. After being at the tip of the spear, Jim finds life on a Wisconsin lake and work as marketing director and combatives instructor at his brother’s security firm to be a little boring. Then, on a road trip providing security for a young singer, things get a little too exciting. Gina, overloaded with work as a nursing director at a hospital, finds the attention of an attractive young doctor to be a little too tempting. To find redemption and rebuild their bond, Jim and Gina head to Peru to hike the Salkantay Trail, fifty miles through the Andes to the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu. But once on the trail, the troubled couple will have to deal with a lot more than just rough trails and high altitude. Shining Path guerillas are on the march, and their target is the group of American hikers. Jim and Gina will have to rediscover their trust and rely on each other, and their skills, to make sure they and their fellow hikers make it home alive.
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THE DANCE WE SHARED
Ben Fletcher seems to have it all going for him. In his early fifties, he’s in great shape thanks
to a disciplined regimen of weight training, swimming and martial arts. He has a job that pays
him a good living in the charming Wisconsin city of La Crosse. Divorced a quarter-century
earlier, he remains close to his two grown children and grandkids. Ben is content with his life.
But he’s not happy. Twenty years ago, he was, during that glorious year and a half he was
dating the glamorous Veronica Starr. They were an “item”: Ben, the city’s highest-rated
radio announcer, and Ronnie, an award-winning TV newscaster. They were starting to talk
about the future, one that would include marriage and kids. But then, Ben made a stupid
mistake, and it all came crashing down. Ronnie broke off the relationship, met an older man
and married him. Within a year she was gone, moving with her new husband to the Twin Cities.
Ben had no choice but to move on with his life the best he could.
One day, he’s cleaning out a file cabinet in his office and finds an old catalog. Before throwing
it out, he riffles through its pages, and an envelope drops onto his desk. Opening it, he finds a
card. In handwriting he immediately recognizes as Ronnie’s are a phone number and the words, “Please help me.” When he looks again at the envelope he sees the postmark: it had been sent five years earlier…just before Veronica Starr left her husband, quit her job and disappeared.
THE men of honor series
The Heights of Valor – Jake Dawson gave up an All-American wrestling career
in college to become an Army Special Forces soldier like his grandfather Dennis,
who was killed in Vietnam. Early in his career, Jake receives a gift: the diary
written by his ancestor Charles, who fought with the Rough Riders under
Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Nearly every Dawson
man since then has answered his country’s call, and their inspiring letters are in
the diary. Now it’s Jake’s turn. But on his long trek to the Green Beret, with the
weight of his family legacy growing, Jake’s valor on the battlefield can’t overcome
the tragedies of comrades lost and the bitter taste of enemies escaping justice.
Finally, with his goal in sight, Jake faces his greatest challenge yet, and he’ll need
his Rough Rider ancestor’s help to meet it.
The Man in the Arena – Scott Armstrong grew up on the Mississippi in Wisconsin, dreaming of Big 10 football glory, but he promised his dying grandfather to attend the Air Force Academy. His career in Special Tactics takes him all over the world, battling his country’s enemies, but then it all comes crashing down. His marriage implodes, and when his final mission goes sideways, the Air Force tells him it’s time to retire. The only place he knows to go is back home. As Scott settles in to rebuild his life, he learns that an evil force has invaded his placid home county, poisoning young people with drugs. Trying to stay above the fray, he focuses his attention on Beth, a divorcee whose teenage daughter, Emily, is a budding volleyball star. But when Emily becomes the target of the criminal enterprise that is turning from drug-running to trafficking, Scott is forced to once again become “the man in the arena” his grandfather always called on him to be.
THE WHITE VIXEN SERIES
When America and its allies are in trouble, they send their best to solve the problem. Jo Ann Geary is the White Vixen, an officer in Air Force Special Operations and expert martial artist and linguist. We meet her in my debut thriller, The White Vixen, set in 1981-82. On a mission with British Royal Marines in Hong Kong, Jo helps rescue an MI6 agent held captive by the Chinese. Months later, MI6 calls on Jo again, this time to go undercover deep inside Argentina on the eve of the Falklands War. She uncovers a shadow government led by a man thought long dead, mastermind of a plot that could touch off World War III.
THE QUEST SERIES
Jim and Mark Hayes are brothers who grew up in southern Wisconsin, then went their separate ways. Jim went to college, married and started a nondescript career, but when his pregnant wife was murdered in front of him, he dedicated his life to training in the martial arts, so the next time his help was needed, he could respond. Mark attended West Point and entered into a long career as a decorated Army officer. As they enter their fifties, the brothers are wondering what’s next. In Quest for Honor, Jim is still seeking to regain
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