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Allen Stevens - The Red Dragon's Eye continues the story of The Problem Solver. The dragon is a symbol of power and strength in Chinese culture, while the eye represents surveillance and espionage. Allen is approached by a Chinese man who threatens his family in order to intimidate him into providing classified information to the Chinese espionage agency. When Allen refuses, assassins are sent to his mountain home to kill his family. Allen and SAD operatives kill the Chinese agent in D.C., and Rawhide grants a sanction for the extermination of the Chinese Embassy official who ordered the killing of Allen's family. The Chinese Embassy imports one of their best assassins from the mainland to kill Allen. A cat and mouse game ensues between Allen, the Chinese embassy intelligence officer, and Chinese assassins. A new Chinese assassin emerges and shoots Allen while he is on his way to work. The wound is life threatening and the resulting car crash places Allen in a coma. Allen finds himself in the midst of his biggest challenge. While he struggles to regain his memory, he must also try to keep himself and his family alive.

Texas Ranger Zack Branson is tasked with the job of going to Montague County and finding out who killed a deputy sheriff. Once he gets involved in the investigation, he discovers that there are lots of factors at work. Homesteaders are being forced off their property, and the foreclosures are being bought for a fraction of their value. Zack runs into a cousin who is a U.S. Marshal, and they team up to find stolen gold coins and a killer. Zack's involvement causes an assassin to try to terminate his involvement in the investigation. The story has twists and turns. Just when Zack thinks he has it figured out, he is surprised by the final events.

In 1903, Creek Rivers is traveling to Chicago by train to find the kidnappers of Harold McCormick, Jr., the grandson of John D. Rockefeller. As he dozes, his mind returns to his greatest challenge in tracking a criminal. In 1888, Creek was tasked with the responsibility of going to Norfolk, Nebraska, to catch a man who had killed a judge. The chase continues day after day with one obstacle after another as he and the killer travel through the Dakota Territory. The ordeal finally ends at the Canadian Border with a surprise ending. While investigating the kidnapping, Creek finds several twists and turns. As his investigation gets more involved, it becomes difficult to determine who are suspects and who are merely adding to the confusion.

The story of Hannibal Brinks and Stumpy Smith continues. Hannibal and Stumpy travel to Kansas and purchase Amos, a prized shorthorn bull to breed their cattle. Rustlers try to steal the prize bull, and pay for their folly at the end of a rope on a giant catalpa tree on the ranch. Stumpy rescues a girl from Comancheros and then fights the Comanche Iron Kettle and his braves to get back home. He ends up keeping the Indian alive and hangs him from the giant catalpa tree. A demented preacher hires men to kidnap the girl Stumpy rescued. Billy and Tipi Kunkle have horses stolen. He and Todd go after the thieves and hang the one that survived the gunfight on a giant gambel oak tree. Hannibal and Stumpy head out on another cattle drive to the mining fields, only to face a new adversary.

Jacob "Stumpy" Smith left Missouri at age sixteen and made his way West. First on his own, then on a wagon train, and then by himself again. Stumpy Smith and Hannibal Brinks met by chance while both were searching for feral horses. They formed a friendship that led to a partnership. They rounded up feral horses, saddle broke them, took them to Bent's New Fort, and sold them. After they amassed enough money to go into the cattle ranching business, they headed for Northwest Texas and the Neutral Strip to round up feral cattle. After putting together a large herd of Texas longhorn cattle, Hannibal and Stumpy headed the herd for California. Comancheros kidnapped Hannibal's wife, Morning Star, to sell in Mexico. Hannibal set out alone to find and return her. After securing Morning Star and other girls release, Stumpy and Hannibal sold the cattle as planned, and headed back to Kansas Territory. Now it was time to build a ranching operation

Allen Stevens: The Problem Solver, is the story of an ordinary guy who is trained to the point that he has extraordinary skills. When Stevens is going through basic training at Lackland AFB, he is interviewed by the base chaplain of all people and given the opportunity to volunteer to serve with a special unit. After going through special forces training at Fort Bragg, Stevens is sent to the CIA farm to have his skills further honed. He and a female operative help a Russian defector escape from Hungary. Stevens assassinates an American spy who works at the Naval Research Laboratory, a drug lord in Columbia, terrorist brothers routing money to the PLO, and a Russian GRU agent who knew too much. His last mission is to Cambodia to kill an American who is a gun importer and supplier for the Russians and North Vietnamese. He's wounded during the mission and his survival becomes uncertain.

The Native Land II continues the story of the western migration on the Santa Fe Trail. This time the story deals with the Oliver Rogers family and their decision to use the Cimarron Cutoff. After they are attacked by Indians, and their numbers reduced, Oliver and two other families join with a group of Mormons headed for Utah to continue their journey. Oliver finds a wagon train scout who was captured by the Kiowa and managed to escape. He joins the wagon train and enters into an agreement with Oliver to form a partnership on a ranch once they arrive in New Mexico. Oliver and Bascom build a ranching operation. Oliver catches a magnificent wild stallion, saves a runaway slave from slave hunters, and he, Isom, joins the ranch crew. Indians and a 600 mile trail drive to Sedalia, Missouri, tests their resolve and brings building a profitable ranching operation into question.

The Texican is a fictional account of one man's experiences during the middle to late 19th century in Texas. Honks Pickens decided to kill two Apache that stole his cattle; an ill-advised decision that led to the Indians killing his family and a series of tit-for-tat vengeful killings that would last for years.From his military service in the Mexican-American War, work as a range detective, days as a bounty hunter, Indian fighter and scout for the Army, Texas Ranger, and U.S. Marshall Honks Pickens embodied the spirit of the rough and tumble life on the western frontier.Whether in the capacity of rancher or gunfighter, Honks remains the constant in an ever changing and violent Texas during the day when the gun was the only law that ruled the land.Honks Pickens represents what is the best and worst of us; an imperfect man attempting to deal with his demons during a time of violence and retribution.

Allen Stevens is summoned to a meeting at a cabin in the mountains of Virginia. After a briefing, he and three former Navy SEALs are given the opportunity to exterminate some of Washington, D.C.s most corrupt politicians. After weighing the dangers of the operation, the four men accept the mission. They execute the Speaker of the House at a public meeting in San Francisco. Then the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee is killed in his D.C. apartment. The group's director sends a letter to the House Ethics Committee demanding that the Veteran's Care Act be passed by a certain date. Their demand is disregarded, and a Senator is executed on his yacht in the Potomac River. The FBI is frustrated because the killers have committed three murders without leaving a clue. Then a fourth Congress member is killed. It becomes obvious that the killings are going to continue until the Veteran's Care Act is passed or the killers are caught. The Solution is a classic action-suspense novel. While the story is fiction, it mirrors some of the problems America faces today within the corrupt Washington political establishment. It may have readers hoping the killers don't get caught.

Allen accepted an operation to Veracruz Province in Mexico to terminate an American citizen who was an arms dealer. The operation becomes convoluted, and his former Navy SEALs friends are brought in to extradite him and his pardner. When he returns to his work at Fort Bragg, he enjoys a few months with his family and then gets called to discussed a new mission. The operation was to assassinate a North Vietnamese General at a wreath laying ceremony at the base of Chu Pong Mountain in the La Drang Valley in Vietnam. The General got sick and didn't show. Then the problem was how to get back to Pleiku Air Base with more than 100 NVA after Allen and his team. Later, Allen was asked to go to Los Angeles to terminate the officer who ordered the massacre at Taejon, South Korea. Captain Smith and his team at sent to North Vietnam to rescue two B-52 crews that are being temporarily held captive before being transferred to the Hanoi Hilton.

Allen Stevens received an invitation for him and his family to visit the California White House. He was informed that he had been selected to be the new director of operations for The Committee. Allen was given a new civil service cover position with the ISA, a newly formed intelligence group. His first task, as director of operations for The Committee, was to put together three teams to coordinate the terminations of the ringleaders of the plot to kill the president. The men, in three different time zones, were terminated at roughly the same time. The next operation was to terminate the Muslim terror group trainer of the Turk who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The mission was a success, but the two operators were surrounded by Syrian terrorists and were forced to seek refuge in a Syrian's home, where they were protected by Islamic hospitality law. A ransom for release was established with the terrorists for the two operators. The president wouldn't allow the money to be paid, setting up a confrontation at the Syrian/Jordanian border crossing.

MAGGIE' PLEASURE HOUSE - The Murder of Thelma Goodrich is a classical whodunit set in Dallas County Texas during 1874. U. S. Marshal James Boutwell stumbles upon the body of a young woman while delivering a prisoner to Dallas.Boutwell gets himself appointed to investigate the murder only to realize that he has bit off more than he can chew. There are several suspects, but no clear cut evidence to connect the murder to anyone. No one has a clear motive, but the woman is dead. Then there is another young woman killed in Fort Worth adding to the mystery.

Tipi Morris was a twelve year old girl and part of a wagon train headed west. She was up early and went into a draw, leading her foal, Sundance, to relieve herself and let him graze. While she was hidden from sight, Indians attacked the wagon train and killed everyone including her parents. After the screams stopped and the Indians rode off, Tipi went to the wagons, and buried her parents. She scavenged everything she could find that was usable for the wagons and the Colt Baby Dragoon pistol and money that was hidden in her parent's wagon. Armed with the pistol and a fair amount of grit, she started walking north. She found and hid in a cave. She shot an Indian that was pursuing her with her pistol, and left him in the cave to be found by his friends, took his horse and rifle, and rode off. She comes upon a cabin and some outbuildings. When the owner, mountain man Sidney Barfield, comes home, they form a friendship, and she lives with him in a grandfather/granddaughter relationship. Together, they build a horse breeding operation, fight Indians, and the elements.