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Toboggan, is the fourth book in the "Janitors Series, " following Baghdad Butcher, Back To Iraq, and Dog Pound. Once again, Jim Scott and the Janitors are on vacation, except for another cameo appearance, which is a continuation of their mission in Dog Pound. In this book, we have a return of Dan and Janet Orf, as well as their friend Mark Yomo. Dan and Janet investigate a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains, while Mark attempts to track down t...

Dog Pound is the third book in the "Janitors Series, " following Baghdad Butcher and Back to Iraq. However, with the exception of a cameo appearance, Jim Scott and the Janitors take a vacation in this book. A new batch of characters, three of whom join the team in later books, are introduced in this one. Three more characters herein offer varying degrees of assistance to the Janitors in later adventures of the team. When one goes to bed with...

In Devil's Brew, Book #8 of the Janitors series, the team expands greatly for a mission to deal with a major al-Qaida training facility inside Syria, even as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan rage on. Some old friends from Toboggan, and our friendly Mafioso from Dead Silent Calm reappear, some for long-term association with the team in the coming Asps series, which starts where the Janitor series leaves off, after the next and final book of thi...

In this the final book of the Janitor series, Sedona Chip, the French (under direction of the French President who has been a thorn in the side of our President during the War on Terror) make a foolish blunder. The President, General Bradley, and the Janitors jump on the blunder to have a bit of comic relief after seven plus years of dealing with the terrorist threat. During the effort to cause the French President-and a previously dis-credite...

Tthis novel, The Tickleton Affair, Janitors Book #5, is a book of industrial and military espionage, Dan and Janet Orf from Dog Pound and Toboggan meet Jim Scott and some of the Janitors from Baghdad Butcher and Back to Iraq. Those who have read Dog Pound and Toboggan have undoubtedly figured out that Dan and Janet are two of three characters who will become Janitors (they'll join the team in the next book, Saltwater Connection). In this nove...

Pool Of Blood is the third and final book of the Becker Trilogy, and Jim Scot Books #24. In this book, Bob Becker, his wife Michelle, and some other help, try to right a wrong. A man is convicted of murder due to having stepped into a pool of blood near the body of a murdered woman, whom he had been arguing with only hours before she was killed. During his investigation, Bob also deals with someone trying to kill Michelle. The case of the man ...

Jim Scott and friends (now called Janitors-as in they clean up other people's messes) are back for another kick at the can in Back to Iraq, the second book of the nine-book "Janitor" series. All the folks who helped Jim and Holly in Baghdad Butcher are back, with a few new additions. The basic team set-up at the end of Butcher is augmented by a new character. We also have a briefly mentioned character in this book who will become prominent in ...

Baghdad Butcher is the first book of my nine book "Janitors" series. The team-formed at the end of this book-which does off the books (black bag) jobs directly for the President doesn't actually pick up the name "Janitors" until the second book. Most of the main (good guys) characters in all nine books have military backgrounds, with a few still active duty military personnel included. The time frame of the series runs from approximately nine ...

With the team now two-plus years into its activities, and the build-up to the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom going on, the Janitors embark on a far flung mission to thwart more evil deeds by al-Qaida…and Hamas. In this book, The Saltwater Connection, Janitors Book #6, the line-up of the Janitors-as formed in Baghdad Butcher and refined in Back to Iraq-changes somewhat. We lose one of the members of the team and add three new ones, Dan an...

In Dead Silent Calm, the seventh book in the nine-book Janitor series, the team goes after a madman Chinese scientist who in addition to coming up with two deadly formulas to unleash on the U.S., is working with al-Qaida. And we also have a major change in the make-up of the team. Two of the new members will stay with the team until it's disbanded, and will be main factors (team leaders) in the nine-book Asps series that will follow the Janito...

Assassin I Am, Jim Scott Books #28, features three new characters who are, in time, joined by some old friends familiar to my readers. Fred Dupree and Rosemary Williams work under the direction of Harvey Puckett, as they set out to eliminate several al-Qaida affiliated imams, and also attempt to track down an al-Qaida bombmaker. The bombmaker is in America to teach his craft to others, and start a major campaign to destabilize the U.S. After F...

The Zimo Hunt is the second of the nine-book "Asps" series, and the 11th of the Jim Scott Books. In this book, the Asps work almost full-time with British SIS (MI6) and SAS-for the most part in Pakistan…with a few side trips along the way. Jim Scott and several (most) of the former Janitors assist in one way or another, as the old team seems to find ways to get involved with the new team. It has long been known that al-Qaida-along with thei...

Whodunit Did It is the first book of the Bader trilogy, and 19th Jim Scott book, though Jim and Hector Garcia only get a mention in this book. These three books will feature LAPD Homicide Detective Elmer Bader. In this one, Elmer and friends work to find a ruthless killer/thief who enjoys killing as well as stealing. He is actually quite good at his chosen profession, having gone years without being brought to justice. Good, hard, police work ...

In this the second book of the Becker Trilogy, Bigfoot Bait, and Jim Scott Books #23, Bob gets a case to work on involving the kidnapping of two coeds from the university in Columbia, Missouri, where his friend Wilbur Holder is Chief of the Campus Police. During the case, Dan and Janet Orf deal with a similar case from the university in Berkeley, California, where another young lady has been kidnapped. In the process of the two investigations,...

Birth of the Asps is the first book of a new nine-book Asps series, and the tenth book of Jim Scott Books. The plan hatched by Jim Scott with the outgoing President at the end of the Janitor series comes to fruition a few months into the administration of the new President. Even though the "War on Terror" is declared 'over' by the new President, the Asps are formed and immediately set out on a mission to uncover an al-Qaida plot on the island ...

Fido is the third book in the nine book "Asps" series, and 12th of the Jim Scott Books. Old friend Arnold Buchanan (from the Tickleton Affair, the fifth book of the "Janitor" series) invents a new item, which "Bear" puts to good use. The team engages various enemies in Colombia, Costa Rica, Pakistan, Mexico, Libya, and Egypt, with a few stopovers along the way. At times they work with Tony Henry of SIS and with the SAS team they often go to wa...

In Tears & Terrorists, the fourth of nine books in the "Asps" series, and 13th of Jim Scott Books, the team suffers some losses and a change in the team make-up as they travel the globe eliminating small (and not so small) terrorist nests, mostly al-Qaida. Also, in this book, al-Qaida sinks to still new depths with a diabolical stunt to make Lucifer proud of his Islamist off-spring…but said off-spring suffer a terrible price as a result. As ...

JSB #25 - Back To China - Dear Reader Dear Reader I've had requests for another Jim Scott book, because some readers evidently weren't satisfied with the help he gave Bob Becker in Bigfoot Bait or Pool Of Blood. So here is the requested book, Back to China, Sim Scott Boks #25. In it, the new President asks Jim to help retrieve two topflight physicists from China, where they were taken after the Chinese kidnapped them in a bloody shootout on th...

Dirty Bomb Crisis, Jim Scott Books #29, brings back Fred and Rosemary Dupree, who are invited to spend a vacation with Jim and Holly Scott, so the four of them can get better acquainted, after their experience together in Assassin I Am. On their way to the island nation of Dominica, they stop at the Cayman Islands for a day or two, because Jim has some business to take care of there. Their vacation is cut short when Fred interrupts the attempt...