THE JACKSON BOYD TRILOGY
Entertaining thrillers available in paperback and ebook formats.
Crash Course
CRASH COURSE is the story of three disaffected twenty-somethings and determined terrorist wannabes from Des Moines who intend to carry out a large-scale attack on San Francisco. They know the best day and the most effective method to create...
Bloody Waters
In book two, JB and his friend Art Pritchard, both highly decorated Coast Guard search and rescue volunteers, expect to enjoy a relaxing holiday boating in the Florida Keys. But after hostile encounters with a belligerent, gun-toting Keys transplant, our heroes'...
Drug Island
In book three, Jackson, his wife Sharon and friends Art and Stephanie charter a luxury catamaran for a week-long holiday in the British Virgin Islands. Their floating vacation gets violently blown off course when a novice drug runner mistakenly stashes cocaine at their dock...
BITE-SIZED READS IN EBOOK FORMAT ONLY
Road Rage
ROAD RAGE is based on actual events. As a favor, Tim Lewiston sails a friend’s sloop south from San Francisco three hundred miles to the oceanside town of Ventura. Tim's wife Carolyn and daughter Briana drive from the Bay Area to meet him at the Ventura...
Awestruck!
If you can answer the following fourteen questions, you need NOT buy Awestruck. Otherwise…spend a buck and have some fun. What astronaut's famous words from the moon were, to prove a point, predetermined at a cocktail party? Why did a...
Manure
During four summers while in my early teens, I spent time at my Uncle Rod's farm. My dad drove our trusty Studebaker the 330 miles from Omaha to his brother's place in southwest Minnesota. We all spent a couple days at the farm, and then...
Miss Fit
In September of 1964, as my family's green Chevy pulled away from campus, I choked up. I wondered what the heck am I doing? I know NOBODY here, and I am seven hundred miles from home...
Bad Altitude
You are flying cross-country in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. I'll bet you an overpriced on-board sandwich that three-quarters of your fellow passengers can't explain how that half-million-pound machine stays aloft. "It is something about lift...
Over Seas
Since I published OVER SEAS, many aspects of our lives have greatly improved. Computers and mobile phones, previously crude and unreliable, are now slick and omnipresent everyday tools. Today, devices remind us to take our medicine as easily as...
UNAVAILABLE
I'm such a tease.
Memorable Scenes
MEMORABLE SCENES FROM AN ORDINARY LIFE is an anthology of personal tales and family history written as a sort of time capsule for my progeny. Someome of my ebook short reads are excerpts from this. I intend to release more content in blog/ebook format.