Thomas J. Nichols

December 2021

In the Rearview Mirror

Adios, Pandemic—we hope.


 

What a year it has been. Hopefully, we can watch the pandemic in our rearview mirror. Mac Davis, where are you when we need you?

For many people, 2021 was a disaster. Our immediate family survived with only mild cases to several of us, but many others were not so fortunate. Some died, others were critically ill and may carry the virus on the long haul.

Putting politics aside, the virus has been a terrible experience for the last 18 months. Everyone should learn a lesson or two (or many lessons) from it. Nevertheless, my immediate family is striving to quit looking into the rearview mirror and looking to the long highway ahead. And it is good.

“The Russian,” the third book in the real-life inspired Border War Series will be on the market in late February 2022. Following “Color of the Prism” and “We Were Young Once…,” this book remains along the Mexican/USA border. “The Russian”  delves into the Mexican Cartels and the Russian Mafia who find a mutual interest in human and drug smuggling.

Our once pristine, beautiful, and peaceful deserts have become a war zone. There is no Military Code of Conduct or international agreements on protocols for the treatment of victims or hostages. It is only the strongest who survive.

This is a war unseen by most people, but a war being fought daily by the men and women in the uniform of city police, county deputies, state police and troopers, U.S. Custom, the Border Patrol, National Guard, and other military and quasi-military organizations.

“The Russian” will escort you on a private tour of the war.



 

 

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