The Next Generation Series

The death of his wife during the last operation caused him to enter a period where he reevaluated his life, his morals and his judgment. His decision to distance himself from the Agency just sort of happened as he stayed away and pursued careers in body guarding and private investigation work. But his friends on the squad were not about to let him mope around feeling sorry for himself, particularly when they needed his skills on another mission. After several attempts to draw him back into their clandestine line of work he finally agrees to help out, not because he knows much about the operation but because of the unwavering lifelong bonds formed in an earlier time with his friends in the military service. As it turns out, the squad was taking on a crime organization that dealt in violence, drugs and human trafficking so in many ways it seemed like a rerun of the last operation which for him turned out to be a disaster. The question was, could he overcome the ghosts in his mind and his self doubts and get back to being the old agent that was one of the best in the business. The plot is filled with several twists and turns as an old hollowed out agent tries to reclaim the mojo that he lost several months ago during the last operation with the Agency. FARM BOY’S WISDOM depicts the struggle of a good man who wrestles with all the problems that come up for undercover agents who serve the country and raises questions about the demands that are placed on them.

Gone are the early days of a ruthless agent who’d convinced himself he was invincible. Now approaching middle age, C. L. Jones’ military man who goes by the name of Wisdom, only wants one thing: to stay off the grid, mind his own business, and get on with a fairly comfortable life doing some body guarding and private investigative work with friends from his old line of work in the Agency. But out of nowhere he gets a call from an old military commander who he remembers from his early days in the service. The guy is now a general, still in the service, and has his eyes set on making a run for the White House. Out of a sense of duty and against the advice of friends, he travels to the small town where the General lives and works, for a meeting. The General tells him a bizarre story about how his daughter has turned up missing and asks for help. Grudgingly Wisdom agrees and the General delivers a folder loaded with information about the missing daughter. So it starts. He decides to spend the day and night in the town and talk to its inhabitants about the missing daughter. On the surface, these people seem friendly but there is an undercurrent of something that is not quite right. Eventually he is joined in the town by three friends who are partners in his small PI firm and they continue to investigate something that turns out to be more than a missing person’s case. Adding to the intrigue is the recognition that they are being watched by a secretive club within one of the government’s alphabet groups called the Scorpions, which in Wisdom’s days in the Agency, was rumored to be an elite group of special forces people. Later it’s discovered by Wisdom and his team that this elite group is operating a sadistic training compound in the mountains in the northwest part of the country which unfortunately they get to experience firsthand. Filled with quirky characters, unexpected twists and turns, romance and adventure, Enough is Enough is another episode of a good man’s battle against corruption and the sadistic nature of people who believe they are untouchable by the normal laws that govern the world. The real question is - - Why have the Scorpions come after Wisdom? Could this somehow be linked to his father, aka “Pops”, and his father’s Crew, who just so happened to conduct an operation in the same part of the country? Above all, this is a story about what happens to men who see unspeakable horrors as they serve their country and how they spend the rest of their lives battling the personal demons awakened during their service.

It might seem glamorous but being an Agency operative is hard work, morally questionable and occasionally things don’t end well. Fortunately there are people in our country who have an uncanny ability to do what it takes, be immune to the immorality of the work, make peace with death and still be a good warrior. Our hero seems to be that sort of guy. The assignments so far are pretty normal if you overlook the seedy part of the work that includes using sex and violence as common tools of the trade. All goes well until Agency orders come through to infiltrate a crime organization called the Trio which has its tendrils in many political and financial aspects of the local government and police. In his profession, paranoia is the main ingredient that keeps him alive and for this assignment the only premonitions he’s having are bad. Nevertheless, he uses a prearranged code to tell his wife that he will be absent for awhile, sets aside his normal life and goes undercover. Unfortunately the assignment goes horribly wrong and the Agency washes its hands of him, leaving him shaken and wondering where to turn. Enter three of his closest military buddies whose friendships were formed during field combat. Their bonds are unwavering and therefore nothing can be said to dissuade them from setting things straight. The four of them join with Agency assets who are loyal to their cause and unleash their own form of justice with a few twists in the plot along the way. Needless to say there is enough satisfaction to go around.