The Rebeca Hoffmann Files Series

It was the Sixties. Jay-R left the backwater of Desolation Valley in search of romance and adventure, and Paris seemed like a good place to begin. His aspirations are time-honored and usually simple for a young man, and falling in love with Cait was as natural as…well, this is where it got complicated. Cait was married to somebody she now hated, but she probably loved Monet. And everybody wanted to love Monet, but Monet was Roxanne, a spy. Jay-R knew or suspected most of this, but he was young and love is blind, so he overlooked the complications.             With all of the love and intrigue in the Parisian air, what entropic vortex could suck ordinary people like Jay-R into a backwater sectarian war? Actually, there's no need to create an imaginary scenario. Look no further for the vortex than the weird, delusional schizophrenia of England, that plucky little island that stood up to Hitler all by herself (not really), ruler of Britannia and the high seas (not really), Lords of an Empire where the sun never sets. Again, not really. Tribal conflict and oppression reigned as the sun was setting on the Empire one insurgency at a time. The really virulent Trouble was brewing in England's own backyard, Ireland. It would take a miracle for Jay-R to escape the spiral, or a lot of luck.

On the day that Major Baker's wagon rolled into Watervaal Farm loaded with spoils from the Boer War in South Africa, nobody suspected that it was of much importance. Two tons of ivory and a four-ton boulder etched with prehistoric native art, though, would alter the lives of three generations of the Davies family and their native African friends. It would be up to Jay-R, some ninety years later, to leverage the primitive mystique of the stone against development of modern weaponry, namely, nuclear, chemical, and biological devices capable of genocide. Must the acolytes protect the myth or does the stone have enough magic? Perhaps, with a little help from a few friends, the rock can serve one more purpose. Is it possible to cripple the operations of some of the wealthiest and most powerful of men using primitive means? To succeed, Jay-R must infiltrate the inner circle of a treacherous arms smuggler and become a trusted asset. He'll need the help of his mentor and fellow spy, Roxanne, as well as his own father, a cast of native African allies, and an old comrade. The con job requires revealing the stone's provenance, but of necessity, the story unfolds a family history of clandestine endeavors spanning three generations of African families whose lives and fate were molded by war, oppression, and inhumanity on a vast scale. Jay-R finds a way to combine business and pleasure in his mission when he becomes involved with the lovely Julia, who helps him get inside the gunrunner's trusted circle. But it's a complication that may put her life in jeopardy along the way.

Step back four decades in time and explore Baja, sailing and diving the Sea of Cortez in these stories of romance and adventure. Peel back a few layers of international smuggling, misguided policy, miscreant spycraft, bad intelligence and conspiracy theories in remote parts of the world. Follow Bill Barrett as he heads south of the border attempting to escape his personal demons, only to have his life complicated by a Mexican girl whose baggage leads them down a dangerous path. Their idyllic life is turned upside down by Ronald Reagan's 'War on Drugs' when Billy and Pearl agree to become DEA assets. The transformation triggers a journey through the backwaters of Mexico and Central America, and ultimately to clashes with the forces behind international drug and weapons trafficking, assassination, and Iran-Contra. You know how that ends; or do you? 300 pages.

The Agent Provocateur, Jay-R is back in action as the Vicar. In Mexico now, It's been ten years since he escaped the war in Northern Ireland.  He is fresh from the jungles of Central America and a survivor of a near assassination by the Guadalajara cartel. His new adventures put him in the middle of the remote village of Colonia Búfalo where the townsfolk are fighting for survival against cartel forces, government corruption and natural disasters. He meets Juan Carlos, a clever bartender at the Buffalo Bill Saloon, himself a key figure in the survival of Colonia Búfalo. Oh, and Jay-R still has an old score to settle with the cartel.