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The banner headline reads "PROVOS GO AIRBORNE' when Rick Moreno becomes embroiled in yet another complicated, danger-filled adventure far from his Houston home. A quick trip to the Canadian Maritimes to pose as an active engineer on behalf of a kit airplane manufacturing scheme leads him to an involvement with the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Before his sojourn in Ireland draws to a close Rick Moreno finds himself a participant in one of...

Life Under the Freeway is a series of short glimpses into the life of a man as he falls from grace and lives as a down and out, homeless drifter. It chronicles his realization that salvation is possible and leads him at last to a place of peace and contentment. Though often dark, this is a tale of hope. Its message is that no life is without value or beyond redemption

MaxSec, the final solution for prison overcrowding in America, holds many surprises and unintended consequences. Reporter Jimmy Slade, in his quest to get the story of the century, seeks to be the first person in over fifty years to enter MaxSec and get back out alive. What he finds on this journey will change his life forever.

Brian McFee is The Preacher. Kidnapped as a child from his home in Ireland and pressed into duty as a cabin boy on a clipper ship, McFee eventually found his way to America and a new life as a western outlaw. His spiritual awakening came while in prison in New Mexico and placed him on an entirely new path, that of a circuit riding minister. But his past would not stay in the past. The Time of the Preacher is the story of McFee's attempts to fi...

Someone is kidnapping immigrant labor crews in the western United States. All signs point to them being smuggled across the border into Mexico. When Victor Aguilar, the head of the country's largest agricultural labor brokerage, is also abducted Rick Moreno sets out to find him and to discover why these crimes are taking place. Tracing the vanished braceros leads Rick on an adventure into completely unexpected areas of human endeavor and into ...

Baby Pictures is a look into the little known world of child care photography. It offers a behind the curtain glimpse into intrigue, secret affairs and betrayal played out against the backdrop of what might be considered the most benign of industries, photographing small children. Kid Star Portraits, a fictional company located in St. Louis, Missouri, operates cameras across the country. Its far-flung empire is staffed and managed by people wh...

Rick Moreno styled himself as a skip tracer. He worked out of Houston Texas during the turbulent years of the cold war and although his job description would seem to limit his activities to chasing after bail jumpers, dead beat dads and such, his talents led him far afield into a world of political intrigue, international espionage and global politics. Ripped from the pages of history, The Case Of The Very Hot Car is presented here as recorded...

1987. The Cold War is winding down but don't tell that to the major players in the struggle for global superiority. Rick Moreno, working a routine assignment to corral a Filipino seaman who has jumped bond on a drug charge, is plunged into a convoluted web of intrigue and mystery involving a missing ship, Soviet attempts to gain a foothold in the Caribbean region, the Puerto Rican separatist group (FALN) and is treated to a stay in a Cuban ...

WALLER COUNTY, TEXAS, is a relatively small county, ranking at 62 out of 254 counties and there are 53000 stories in Waller County. The six stories contained within these pages have in common that they all take place entirely, or in part, in Waller County. Our little county is generally regarded as sleepy, sort of backwoodsy, by our more sophisticated neighbors in nearly all surrounding counties but that image is merely a facade. Dig into the ...

Nuts Bolts & Feathers is a random styled collection of poetry, musings, haiku and whimsy. There are no separate categories within this book, the aim is to allow the reader to dive in at any point and find something to amuse, edify, provoke a thought or simply provide a brief enjoyable interlude.

Thought and After Thought is a book of free verse and the consideration of random subject matter describing, among other things, the human condition, lost love, the gods of Mount Olympus, the loss of the mammoths and roller coaster rides, all somehow fitting together in this visit into the thinking processes of the author. While you may not agree with every entry, you are certain to find some that strike a cord and that will embed themselves i...

An Eclectic Reader' is a mixed bag, a collection of action-adventure short stories and a few whimsical musings. The characters you will meet within these pages come from a multitude of varying backgrounds and bring with them tales that will inform, entertain and amuse. Within these pages you will meet an Air Force officer who seeks to hijack an airliner and a runaway groom who finds his most important answers while in a jail cell in Prescott, ...

A comprehensive, complete guide to Child Care Photography based on thirty years of hands-on experience. This manual allows you to avoid the common mistakes made by many who enter into this field without a guide. It is a jump start to your success.

Known only as 'The Process', this super secret organization is the invisible hand behind much of the activity generally regarded as unfounded conspiracy theory. In this narrative the agents of The Process are tasked with preventing Iran from getting materials to create a super weapon, one that would reduce any of its enemy states to a radioactive wasteland. The action crosses three continents as it answers the question: By what right does an o...

The mission is to prevent the leader of a major drug cartel from abandoning his illegal operation thereby upsetting the status quo in the war on drugs. Major economies are financially dependent of the controlled flow of narcotics and the super secret international organization know as "The Process" has fielded a team of contractors to thwart the cartel leader's plans to replace his income through other means. As they pursue their goal the team...

They tamed the planet, destroyed the dinosaurs, built the pyramids and genetically kick-started the human race. This is the story of not only how, but why these things were done. The Genesists had a routine that worked for them on every planet they altered until they reached Terra, accidentally created new race of humanoids and had to throw the book away and invent new ways of doing their job.

A Mixed Bag is a collection of free verse poetry, presented in random order, that cuts a wide swath across human experience. This book aims to take the reader on a thought provoking journey of discovery, touching on many seemingly unconnected subjects and leading toward the conclusion that we are all on this celestial ark together, sharing many common touchstones.