Category: New work

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....

On one of my forays through Miami I recall hitting the south end around midnight. I was too tired to go any farther, so I checked into the first motel I saw. It seemed like the thing to do at the time, but I was kept up most of the night by the girls parading up and down the street under my ground-floor window.

I now have a manageable first draft of Dead Reckoning at 28,000 words. Let the cutting begin.

During Harry's R&R on mainland Mexico, he picks up something that doesn't belong to him that forces him to cross the Sea of Cortez. While hiding out on an isolated Baja beach, two gringas show up unexpectedly, leading him on a wild chase to rescue his friend from people who want to recover stolen goods.

I had a misspent couple of years (off and on) reconnecting with some bad boys I used to know in another life down Mexico way back in the '70s. This has allowed me to refresh my memories of time spent on the shadier side of all the borders that I know and used to enjoy crossing when I was young, dumb and full of—something or other.

I've been plugging away on Dead Reckoning, a new line about a couple of hapless losers who take the bait and subsequently wind up being chased up the Baja by banditos in search of stolen loot.