Blown
Switchback Press
Pub Date May 19 2015
Description
Gregg Kaplan is not an ordinary man, but a man with special skills, courtesy of the United States Government.
His assignment is to stay off the grid when he innocently stumbles into a blown witness protection detail in Little Rock, Arkansas. He simply could not walk away from the impending mayhem.
After the dust settles, a mortally wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal makes him promise to personally deliver the witness to a U.S. Marshals Service safe site.
Not just a promise, an oath. A pledge between ex-Army Delta Force comrades.
A trust that could not be broken—Once in, never out.
Kaplan soon suspects the witness he vowed to protect has secrets of his own; secrets that go beyond his testimony for the U.S. government. When he discovers the witness is being tracked, Kaplan teams with a WitSec Deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to recover the witness, but soon realizes some merciless people are dead set on preventing the witness from reaching the safe site.
But the witness has a hidden agenda of his own—One that could cost Kaplan his life.
Fleeting Visions
Pub Date Dec 30 2013
Description
Fleeting Visions is a work of fiction, but it relies on three actual facts: illegal immigration, prostitution of minors and the sense of displacement the children of immigrants often feel. The case is made by Louis Saura, a teenager caught between two cultures, the Mexican he absorbs in the family, and the North-American he gets acquainted with at school. Orphan at the age of two, he is raised by his uncle, who is old and in poor health. When the uncle dies, he becomes pray to Camilo Estorbar, a cruel man who deals with drugs and manages a small but profitable under-age prostitution ring using teenagers brought into the country illegally.
When a prostitute is taken to the hospital in severe conditions, Detective Stevenson of the London Police Service is called to investigate. The no-name, no-papers young girl dies soon after. Louis’ path crosses with Stevenson’s and the two play cat-and-mouse: Stevenson wants to extort info from Louis, Louis wants to avoid any involvement with the authorities.
Louis doesn’t seem a sizable opponent for Estorbar; yet he manages to escape most of the traps Estorbar sets up for him and offers Stevenson a chance to confront the criminal.
