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Synopsis

Days after the Berlin Wall came down KGB Colonel Oleg Karpinsky walked into the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm to defect. Thirty years later, Dr. Karpinsky is an American citizen and respected CIA scientist conducting research in the paranormal sciences. He uses a method similar to Extrasensory Perception (ESP) called Technical Remote Viewing to gather intelligence on America’s enemies and allies.

Presently he is enjoying his annual winter vacation at an isolated cabin in the frozen Alaskan wilderness with his personal security detail of Deputy U.S. Marshals when the National Security Agency intercepts a message from the Kremlin to its special operations submarine, BS-64 Podmoskovye. It orders the covert extraction of Karpinsky. Attempts to warn the marshals via their satellite phone are unsuccessful. The U.S. Intelligence Community assesses Karpinsky and his protectors are in mortal danger. The President orders the Pentagon to retrieve them before the Russians can attack. There’s only one problem.

The most powerful nation in human history has been rendered near impotent by a vicious Arctic storm. Alaska is experiencing severe icing weather that has grounded all military air assets within range of the cabin except for a lone Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter on the ramp at Homer Airport. The Pentagon initiates Operation Bear Trap and scrambles to assemble an ad hoc rescue team of Coast Guardsmen and military reservists and retirees for a possible suicide mission facing a highly trained team of Spetsnaz operators. Fortunately, the NSA determines a CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer and retired Navy SEAL officer, Jon Smith, has just arrived in Homer for his own well-deserved vacation. He is recalled to active duty to prepare and lead the rescue team. Can he and his ragtag group of Red Shirts save them before time runs out? The fate of the Nation and its people may rest on their success.

 
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ESCAPE FROM DONETSK is a story of love, loyalty, sacrifice, deception, betrayal, vengeance, and tons of action. CIA Paramilitary Officer Jon Smith is at his core a good and honorable man. He is also a highly trained warrior with an overly zealous desire to protect those he cares about. If that means leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake, so be it. On this occasion, he is flying back to Poland from Dnipro, Ukraine in an Agency Black Hawk helicopter after abducting a Russian SVR officer with his CIA team when he receives a satellite phone call. His best friend's widow informs him that her daughter, Jon’s goddaughter, Sister Joan is trapped behind the lines in Russian-occupied Donetsk. She has just witnessed Chechen soldiers beat her priest to death in front of their church. Jon immediately agrees to retrieve her from the hellish war zone with the help of his loyal teammate, Angie Hawkins. How does the relatively simple rescue mission of a young nun in Russian-occupied Donetsk, Ukraine escalate in less than two days to a point where Russia is on the verge of launching a tactical nuclear strike on Ukraine’s capital? Jon’s mission is simple. The execution is not.

ESCAPE FROM DONETSK is the second standalone book in the Jon Smith series of action-packed military/espionage thrillers. It’s perfect for fans of Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, and Jack Carr. If you like their books, you'll love ESCAPE FROM DONETSK. It combines all their best traits in a captivating, thrill ride pulled from today’s headlines.

 
Synopsis

Jon Smith is a CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer and retired Navy SEAL. He’s one of those anonymous, brave men we employ to travel the world battling all manner of evil to protect us and our interests. His loyal teammate, retired Australian Special Air Service Regiment Sergeant Major Angus “Angie” Hawkins, is never far from his side.

They are in Chechnya settling unfinished business with a modern-day vampire and human trafficker, when Jon receives an urgent BROKEN ARROW text from his brother, small town Deputy Sheriff Zack Goodson, on the other side of the world. The two-word code shared by the brothers means someone in their immediate family is in mortal danger and help is needed ASAP.

An unidentified assassin has accidentally blown himself up while planting a bomb under Zack’s wife’s car. Zack sends his wife and young son to her parents’ farm outside the small rural community of Farmington for safekeeping with two deputy sheriffs to protect them. While he investigates the bombing, the farmhouse is attacked, and his wife and son are abducted. An angry, vindictive man calls Zack from his wife’s cell phone to tell him he intends to torture and murder Zack’s family, but the situation is not as it seems. Jon, Angie, and Zack discover a much larger attack is planned that will endanger the entire Metropolitan Saint Louis Area while the newly elected President holds a rally downtown.

 
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In The Congo Directive, CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer Jon Smith and his teammate, retired SASR Sergeant Major Angus Hawkins, soar to new heights in a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure.

It’s July 4th, Independence Day, and while the International Space Station orbits Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, Mission Control Center- Houston (MCC-H) relays a video call from the President that is broadcast nationwide to wish the station’s commander, Captain Edwin Li, US Navy, a happy birthday and to announce his promotion to rear admiral. Surrounded by his crew, including Colonel Cindy Rider of the US Space Force and Russian Cosmonauts, Colonel Vova Yevgeni and Dmitriy Alexsandr, Captain Li thanks the President, and they celebrate with cupcakes.

An hour and a half later, all contact with the ISS is lost. While Mission Control attempts to reestablish contact, Captain Li reports shocking news via handheld laser to amateur observers on the ground on the dark side of the orbit. The message reads:

MCC-H, this is Li. Cosmonauts murdered Cindy. I am barricaded on the US side of the ISS. Comms and life support systems are inop. They are flooding the station with oxygen. Currently, 73% and rising. I suspect they are going to destroy the station. I am unable to reach the Dragon. Please advise if able.

NASA liaison in Moscow confronts the Russians. They deny any wrongdoing. Next, ground observers report seeing the Soyuz escape capsule undock from the ISS before it explodes. NASA calculates it will land somewhere in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Outraged by the blatant betrayal and sabotage, POTUS recalls CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer Jon Smith and his teammate, retired SASR Sergeant Major Angus Hawkins, from their well-deserved vacation to hunt down the perpetrators as fast as possible and eliminate them.

Soon after hitting the ground, Jon and Angie discover a far more sinister scheme that could imperil a billion people in the Western World. American and Allied Forces are quickly redirected to support their mission.

THE CONGO DIRECTIVE is the fourth standalone book in the Jon Smith series of action-packed military/espionage thrillers. It’s perfect for fans of Mark Greaney, Brad Taylor, Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, and Jason Kasper. If you like their books, then you'll love THE CONGO DIRECTIVE. It combines all their best traits in a captivating thriller pulled right from today’s current events.

Buy THE CONGO DIRECTIVE today and get a front row seat to this action-packed thrill-ride!

 
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A Jon Smith Short Story

An Experimental Top Secret US Navy Air-to-Air Missile is lost in the Sumatran Jungle and the Chinese want it!

While 29 friendly nations participate in the bi-annual RIMPAC exercise the United States demonstrates a new air-to-air missile to its ally Australia. Lightning strikes a US Navy Super Hornet as it flies through a rogue thunderstorm above the Indian Ocean causing the pilot to accidentally jettison an experimental top-secret AIM-174 air-to-air missile into the remote triple canopy jungle-covered mountains of Northern Sumatra. Once operational, the missile will become the US Navy’s primary defense against China’s hypersonic ship-killing missiles. It must be retrieved at all costs before Chinese intelligence agents locate it and take it back to their masters to be studied by their engineers. The call goes out to America’s top-tier warriors, but the risk is too high for JSOC to send the Night Stalkers and D-boys in with such short notice. No worries, America turns to retired SEAL, now Agency Paramilitary Operation Officer Jon Smith to carry out the mission.

Can Jon Smith find the missile and retrieve its Top Secret hardware before it falls into enemy hands? Taiwan’s freedom may hang in the balance!

SMOKE SIGNALS is the first standalone short story in the Jon Smith series of action-packed military/espionage thrillers. It’s perfect for fans of Andrews and Wilson, Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, and Marc Cameron. If you like their books, then you'll love SMOKE SIGNALS. It combines all their best traits in a captivating, thrill ride pulled right from today’s headlines!

 
Synopsis

A Jon Smith Short Story

On a frigid Christmas Eve morning in Florence, Colorado, Doctor Luc Devilin, a certified mad scientist, with the help of a band of homicidal cartel mercenaries, escaped from his eight-man Bureau of Prisons guard detail while on a routine medical visit to a local hospital. He was being held prisoner on Death Row at the local Supermax Prison for the torture and murders of hundreds of helpless victims.

Now they are killing their way across the frozen landscape of Glacier National Park, Montana under the cover of an unprecedented blizzard. Only one thing can stop them, Jon Smith’s team of CIA Paramilitary Officers. They are training at the ICBM launch facilities at nearby Malmstrom Air Force Base. During his sentencing, Devilin vowed to unleash a deadly plague on America that would murder millions of innocent people. He must be stopped before he escapes into Canada.

The team flies for two hours through ever increasingly difficult conditions before free fall parachuting onto the unforgiving ice of Agassiz Glacier. After releasing their parachutes, they slog on in pursuit of a heavily armed enemy over twice their size.

Their orders are clear: seek out, close with, and kill or capture Devilin and his henchmen. They are all expendable. No excuses. This is a no-fail mission.