SELECTED WORKS Southern Drama
In 1960 Alabama the KKK rules and law is Jim Crow. In this incendiary climate a white doctor tries to save a black community brutalized for decades under “company town” deprivation that’s now destroying their health.
It’s an improbable task, a quixotic fantasy, but the determined young dentist pushes bloodily through one physical or emotional encounter into others for a cause grown much bigger than itself and him until, in the end.... “Ash Town” rose from the ashes of a 1929 lynching and raping spree before being burned to the ground by Klansmen—and three decades later its people are still suppressed, now dying from DDT polution from the upsteam chemical plant owned by the state governor's family, a family that continues to use the populace as virtual slaves. Segregation, corruption and hate are the driving forces in The Sum of His Worth. Dentist Joe Peach makes costly sacrifices in an effort to better race relations in Woodstock. But his grand sacrifice in this war zone will be to stop the planned massacre of a busload of Freedom Riders--an indelibly heroic moment in the eyes of his young protege, Sonny Poe. There is a heartwarming story running on almost pure adrenaline to enjoy in this tragic novel.Adventure/thriller
The heat suffocation of six campesinos in the California desert was tragic enough before reporter Ray Myers discovers babies had crossed the border with them, babies now missing. The trail to find them hurls the reporter into the dangerous world of international human trafficking. The smuggling gang becomes crippled in chaos as mastermind Ricky Mendez devises a psychotic plan to snuff everyone related to the smuggling operation, including now a pesky reporter who keeps sniffing in the wrong places. Myers, along with softhearted smuggler Maggie Frazier, find themselves on the run from Mendez’ henchmen while trying to rescue the babies from a ruthless Mexican trafficker who has hijacked the children. It’s a race against time that drives them deep into Baja’s Indian country and through the seamy back streets of Ensenada.War Drama
A wartime drama of friendship and betrayal. Set in Vietnam during the decisive Tet offensive, the story takes us on a perilous Heart of Darkness journey through a war we only thought we knew. The CIA has ordered Specialist Russell Payne to befriend and rat on Corporal Daryll Willingham as part of a secret operation that, no matter how sinister, cannot boost or sustain an unpopular war. The two troops are forced into an unwitting odyssey through hell -- and into a court-martial for murder. Originally published by Simon & Schuster, 382 ppThriller
Now comes vengeance for a childhood of unspeakable evil. The time is the early 1990s and our victim/perpetrator, Janice Parrish, does not remember shooting her father at pointblank range. At age 26 Janice cannot keep friends. She's frigid, she's rebellious, she drinks too much.An up-and-coming real estate agent, she's losing clients. Finally Janice committes a crime for which she can either go to jail or in to counseling. It's with the counselor, pop psych analyst Patricia Zeck, that her nightmare begins. Zech determines she has all the "signs" of having been sexually abused in early childhood. But why couldn't Janice remember? San Diego crime reporter Ray Myers has more than a gut feeling this story will do him in. But it will be Myers alone who must find the truth--before more murders take place. |
THE SUM OF HIS WORTH
...Change electrifies an Alabama town at the violent outset of the Civil Rights Movement BABY LOVE
....Baby smuggling brews mayhem on both sides of the border in this fast-paced adventure triller YEAR OF THE MONKEY
...epic wartime drama of friendship and betrayal FROM THE SHADOWS
...a mystery of sexual abuse and recovered memory 
illustration by V.D. Smith
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