Jack Reacher

Move Over

Trenton Russell was a CIA analyst with almost magical abilities to solve problems on the world stage, until one fateful night, a mission goes south and a woman he loved is killed. He quits the company in disgust, his every waking moment filled with the pain of too much conscience. Now guilt-ridden and hollow, he fights to rebuild a life of self-respect and purpose and chooses to be an investigative journalist, exposing lies, not being a part of them. He plays high-stakes blackjack to soothe his salvage psyche and discovers a unique gift. Sometimes he sees visions in the flashing cards. Instinctual insights into mysteries he's working on, but more often than not, the stakes are not money, but human lives.

Books

Dreams are for people

who can't handle reality

The mean streets of San Francisco were never so cruel as the night they took the life of John Waters niece. Waters was deliriously happy in his new business as a security consultant for a number of hi-powered clients. Having been forcibly retired from the San Francisco police department, he employed his young niece as a secretary and gopher for sensitive documents, but when she is killed, his dreams are shattered. For he hadn't realized he was still in a dangerous profession and could get people killed if he stepped on the wrong toes, and stepped he had. Desperate for answers, he enlists the aid of Trenton Russell to help find the truth, and the trail leads through a labyrinth of bodies and betrayal so twisted, even his CIA training can't follow.

Old flames can still burn

Trenton Russell is still haunted sometimes by a ghost from the past. An old flame that he never quite got over. He sends her a birthday card and suddenly he is knee-deep in alligators. Catlin Murphy is found dead, washed up on a beach naked and alone, and he becomes the prime suspect. He risks everything to find her killer and the truth of their relationship. But things turn weird when the FBI show up investigating an armored truck robbery in southern California. Marked one hundred dollar bills that show up in her bank account. To prove her innocence, he must delve into the past and the painful memories of yesterday’s girl.

Be careful what you wish for. Not all angels are friendly

When a beautiful young woman vanishes from a locked room in a mysterious mansion in San Francisco, alarm bells go off all over Washington. For it turns out she was a key scientist working on a top secret bioweapon for the government. A virus designed by a KKK minded politician to unleash a deadly pandemic upon the world. Trenton Russell is called back into the CIA to stop the madness. However, a single person with a conscience is also trying to stop them, killing their research doctors one by one and burying their bodies in the most unlikely of places. One that sends the entire city of San Francisco into a panic. The media has dubbed the killer… Deadly Angel.

Area 51 is no place for non belivers

Gail Cochran is a law enforcement ranger for the Federal Park Service stationed in southern Nevada. She gets an anonymous call one evening that a young woman has been murdered in the desert near Area 51. She investigates and finds the body but then sees a circle of blue lights hovering in the sky. Beautiful heart stopping blue lights that mesmerize her away from the body for an unknown amount of time. When she gets back, the body is gone. An apparent UFO sighting sends her into an investigation of governmental corruption, bloodshed and terror. A chance meeting with Trenton Russell gets the CIA involved and things go from bad to worse. They find themselves trying to stop a new weapon so terrifying that whoever controls it, controls the whole world.

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