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Jim Nash and Maddie Spence, partners in business and in life, are going through some tough times. Business has been slow. The pair is on the verge of losing Jim’s private investigator business. The only thing they have going for them is the office building and the residences they operate. They own the building outright.

When Nancy Boyle walks in and tells Jim she needs him for a job, he accepts. Even though she’s light on details, that doesn’t bother Jim. He knows Nancy, and trusts her. When she tells him the job is for the feds, alarm bells begin to ring. In Jim’s past, he worked jobs for the feds as an independent contractor. He ended up getting screwed every time.

Nancy explains that the job is top secret. It will involve moving certain items out of the country for safekeeping, Jim is intrigued. With no further information forthcoming, he demands to be paid up front. What he asks for is no small amount. When Nancy steps out of his office to make a phone call, Jim figures the job offer just flew out the window along with the money he wanted paid in advance.

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Harry Delaney has finally accepted the offer from his partner, Mike Williams. He has sold his 49 percent share of the flying business to Mike. Harry and his family and Ziv Frakter have deserted the cold weather and moved on. They’re living in Spain, where they’re enjoying the good life of warm weather, blue sky, and constant sunshine. Thanks to the anticipated income from the sale of the business, he and wife Sasha and daughter Christa have put down a multi-million dollar deposit on a huge, modern villa.

When Mike and daughter Meeka show up in Málaga sporting a 50 million dollar airplane, Harry and family know something is up. They just don’t know what. Following a family meeting, Harry and Mike are back in the thick of things in North Africa. Their beat-up, raggedy DC-3 with the faded paint has been replaced with the new airplane. Neither man wants to be responsible for getting it shot up, insured or not.

They’ve brought their old crew together to help them navigate the twists and turns of the blowing desert sands, but will that be enough to keep the cash coming in and the new airplane out of danger? Only time will tell.

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Fourth book in the Harry Delany Adventure series following DEAD RECKONING, UNCHARTED, and GO-AROUND.

Harry Delaney is living the good life. He’s flying the airplane he loves. He’s able to spend time with his family on a regular basis. When he closes the hangar door at the end of the day and comes home, his wife and daughter are happy to see him. It’s taken him a long time to get to that, but it’s all good now.

It’s all good, that is, until two men from his past on the African continent show up at his front door. They come bearing tales of a scheme that could take Harry back to a time he and his business partner Mike Williams want to forget.

Despite his better judgement, Harry wants to say yes to the plan, but it would mean upending everything he has worked for. When Sasha, his wife, overhears their visitors’ crazy proposal and that Harry is considering it, she puts her foot down. In fact, she puts both feet down. They all go, or nobody goes.

That’s all right with Harry, because he thinks his family would like to visit some of Africa’s big game parks. Unfortunately for Harry, his wife, Sasha, has other ideas.

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Third in the series after DEAD RECKONING and UNCHARTED.

Harry Delaney is back on the Horn of Africa, smuggling guns and falling in love while partying it up on a Nairobi R&R. When Kari, his latest love interest ends up in his desert camp, she saves a squad of his men during a shootout. The episode only serves to convince him she is the one. A DC-3 flight into Djibouti and revolution is a harbinger of problems to come as Harry’s men take their favorite hotel without firing a shot. Hawaiian shirts, dancing, and explosions put Harry on the warpath to avenge the loss of his one true love.

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Jim Nash is a private detective who has occasionally made his living on the shady side of the street. In his past, he has done off-the-book work for the Feds. One of those old jobs has returned to haunt him.

A women he long thought dead comes back into his life when she shows up at his office unannounced. He’s not real happy when he sees for himself the woman isn’t dead. Now, Lucky Lucy, as he calls her, is just another Fed looking for a sweet deal. This time, he’s got the paperwork all filled out. Until it’s signed, sealed, and delivered, he’s not going to do the work.

Jim’s partner, Maddie, isn’t happy, either. Neither is Luz. She almost kills the interloper when Lucky Lucy kidnaps Jim in an attempt to force him to go to work. All this before the contract with the Feds has even started.

A trip to Bimini, drug and people smugglers in the Keys, and an exploding fastboat all figure in the Nash crew’s latest adventure when it turns out to be No Free Ride.

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