These Are the Times that Try Men's Souls

 





“These are the times that try men’s souls,” so said Thomas Paine in The American Crisis,” circa 1776. Now, we jump 244 years to another trying time, 2020, the year of the worldwide pandemic.

But rather than “cry wolf,” or do a Chicken Little with “The sky is falling,” I opt to say “Change is not pleasant, but change is positive. Only when we change and grow, we’ll see a world we never know,” from the Wisdom of the Orange Woodpecker.

And that is what we shall do – encounter change, grow, and be positive. Something I learned decades ago was to find a new world in books. Read. Then read some more. Whatever your genre of choice, a world awaits you in books.

The genre in which I write is founded on my career in the criminal justice field. From the depths of street crime to the white-collar criminals found in the ivory towers, I worked and learned, always moving forward, and never bowing down to what could be perceived as a never-ending series of crooks and crimes.


After a career that ranged from street cop to Chief of Police, and education that ranged from the police academy to the FBI National Academy and on the Senior Management Institute for Police at Harvard,  I turned my energy to presenting my stories in police docu-dramas, starting with Color of the Prism, my work dealing with the Mexican cartels. That was followed by Sweet Emily, a serial murder case located in the Dallas, Texas, metro area. Then came the Christie Cole trilogy of Voices in the Fog, The Spy Among Us, and The Arrows of Allah, fact-based novels with a strong female lead in the form of FBI undercover agent Christie Cole in the war on terrorism.

More recently, work has begun to finish the Border War Series that started with Colorof the Prism with the just-published, We Were Young Once…, and with the final episode of the series, The Russian, coming out in 2021.

The eBooks are available starting at $2.99 with my only biblical novel, The Third Dawn. All of our novels can be found in eBooks and audible on Amazon.

The Christie Cole Trilogy is sale priced right now at $24.95 for all three autographed print books on my website. Additionally, all novels from this website are mailed within 24 hours of the order, and are autographed.

Enjoy life and meet today’s challenges head-on, and read, read, read. 

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