Biography
I was born on May 25, 1943
smack in the middle of WWII. My
first eight years was spent with
my family in a bungalow on
Williamsburg Road in Sandston,
VA near the Richmond Army Air
Base, a training base for P-47
pilots. My earliest memories are
of life in a small town that was
really a functioning part of the
military as many families in the
community rented rooms to
service men and their wives
stationed at the air base. Post
WWII was a simple and lovely
time in Sandston; a Norman
Rockwell small town of tree
lined streets with white frame
houses. A new car or someone
getting a television created a
wave of excitement, but it was
also a time when great change
was just beginning to occur. It
is truly fascinating to look
back as witnesses to the
extraordinary changes that have
taken place from that simple
time to the present, and it is
part of who I am today.
From the very beginning of my
education reading and
comprehending what I had read
seemed to come easily and
literature was always a passion.
I also had the ability to make
up tall tales on the fly and
could enchant my friends by the
hour with my make believe yarns.
When I was in the third grade
one of these friends told our
teacher about my ability with
off the cuff storytelling. She
was intrigued and invited me to
the front of the class to
demonstrate this alleged gift to
spin a yarn. I remember how she
along with the rest of the class
sat seemingly mesmerized as I
rambled on with some tall tale
of high adventure. My mother was
especially excited when the
teacher called that night to
tell her about this unusual gift
that I seemed to possess. She
was excited because at that
early age I had shown an
aptitude for exactly nothing
except reading and eating.
Unfortunately reading and
comprehension proved to be one
of my few early academic
accomplishments. The simple
truth is that if something
didn't interest me I had little
time for it, and that included
much of what exasperated
teachers were trying to pound
into my head. After graduating
near the bottom of my high
school class I had a brief stint
in the Army before enrolling in
the old Richmond Professional
Institute (now Virginia
Commonwealth University)
majoring in journalism.
Unfortunately that would also
prove to be brief as my
financial situation made full
time work a necessity.
For the next 40 years I
worked in construction related sales
and marketing. In 1979 I started my
own manufactures rep agency that I
ran until 1999 when I closed it to
become the military sales manager
for a Chicago based company. After a
mild heart attack resulting in a
coronary stent I decided to take
early retirement and fulfill my
passion to write. My first novel,
The Great River Disclosureis
is in the editing process and will
be published by Brandylane
Publishers in early 2009. My second
novel, Satan's Angel
will be completed by years end. Both
are thrillers with much of the
action taking place around and on
the Chesapeake Bay that I know so
well. In addition, my extensive
travel with military sales has given
me an in-depth knowledge of many
areas around our great and beautiful
country. Hopefully this knowledge
will allow me to develop accurate
plot scenes from many areas
expanding the depth of my plot and
characters.
I have been married to the same
lovely lady for 41 years. Alice and
I along with our two boys moved from
Richmond to Heathsville in 1989.
After both of the boys married we
moved to Callao in 1999 and built
our present home in Callao in 2004.
Our oldest son, daughter in-law and
five granddaughters live in New
Braunfels, Texas just north of San
Antonio. Our youngest son and
grandson live near Heathsville.
The
Great River Disclosure - Short
Synopsis
The elegant Great River
Resort nestled along the tranquil
banks of the Great Wicomico River
near the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia
has earned the coveted 5 star
rating, but the resort also has a
closely guarded secret. The
beautiful resort sits atop a highly
classified government facility
called the Chesapeake Emergency
Command and Planning Center or CECPC.
The existence of the classified
complex is known only to the
President of the United States, a
limited few high level government
and military leaders, and resort
owner Bill Russell.
This secret facility will
be the catalyst to place the resort
at the center of the greatest story
of the millennium, the disclosure of
which will forever affect the lives
of every man, woman and child on the
planet. The story and its
revelations are so earth shattering
that a few will stop at nothing,
including murder or the
assassination of the president, to
prevent disclosure.
Ted Carter, former Navy
SEAL turned golf pro and now resort
CEO, his fiancée Ruth Bennett and
owner Russell find themselves in the
cross hairs of a deadly
confrontation between the White
House and a few leaders of the
military industrial complex. These
corporate leaders, men of great
wealth and power, are bent on
stopping the president from the
public disclosure of a 60 year old
black project-a project that has
grown into an above top secret
shadow government.
Satan's
Angel - Short Synopsis
Tragedy struck Pam Jarvis
when the sixteen year old girl
was raped by her brutal father.
In a drunken rage the
billionaire industrialist had
strangled her mother to death
before turning on his
daughter. Fleeing the rape and
murder her father moved to the
east coast leaving her the
house, money, servants and
pregnant. For the next sixteen
years the young girl lived a
life of seclusion in their
Honolulu mansion raising her
mentally challenged daughter and
fighting the demons of her past.
When the father is killed in an
attempt to assassinate the
President of the United States
Pam inherits his fortune and his
twenty one high tech businesses.
Now 32 years old, the
beautiful young woman and her
daughter are staying in a
Virginia resort while attorneys
sort out her business interests.
By chance Pam meets Matt Laveau the
son of flamboyant TV Evangelist
Luther Laveau. There is instant
chemistry and within a few short
months the couple is married at
the Laveau Texas ranch.
The joy of her new life and
that of her daughter and husband
is soon
threatened. Sinister officials running
one of Jarvis's businesses
involved in black government
projects finds the removal of
Pam from the business to be in
their best interest. Using New
Orleans mob boss Sonny
Balboa these men attempt to have
Pam and her family
murdered. Working behind the
scenes and unknown to Pam or
Matt is a shadowy figure known
as The Swimmer.
He is a paid assassin and the
only person who can prevent the
murders.
The action races from the
Great River Resort on Virginia's
Northern Neck to the South Texas
Planes and across the Pacific to
Honolulu and Oahu. A killer
tries to stop the murder of this
young girl, her husband and her
remarkable daughter, while he
avenges the murder of a man with
whom he shared the secret of his
own life.
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