Mark Young

Santa Rosa Police Detective Tom Kagan is assigned to work high-profile crimes in the Organized Crime and Investigations Section (OCIS) in California. Gang crimes, domestic terrorists, and human trafficking are a few of the case that come Kagan’s way. The 30-year veteran must push back tragedies in his past to concentrate on the case at hand. His time in the U.S. Marines in the Middle East, and the loss of his 12-year-old son are a part of his history that haunts him. Each new investigation seems to raise the stakes. Each story will keep readers on the edge until the last page.

These high-stakes thriller novels step into the nefarious world of high technology though the experience of Gerrit O’Rourke—ex-cop, ex-war veteran, ex-MIT graduate. Gerrit possesses a memory that never forgets. Seven years ago, his parents were killed in a car bomb in Seattle, WA., while he was fighting in Iraq. Returning home, he began a search of the killers as a cop, only to learn he has been marked for death. Strangers pull him from his home moments before it is turned to splinters. They introduce O’Rourke to a world of high technology that becomes their only means of survive. Corrupt government agencies have joined private business enterprises on an international scale that aims to create control beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.

Ex-cop Travis Mays finds himself walking between two worlds after taking up residency in central Idaho Mountains on the edge of the Nez Perce Reservation. A personal tragedy forced Mays to resign as a California detective and move to Idaho, where he accept a position as a Criminal Justice professor at a nearby University. While teaching, he builds his own cabin along the beautiful Clearwater River in his journey to find solitude and inner peace Beautiful Jessie White Eagle, daughter to Nez Perce Tribal Police Chief Frank White Eagle, breaks through Mays’ solitude and defenses, when her brother turns up missing. Her plea for help forced Mays to reluctantly create an investigate team with Frank and Jessie—along with other law enforcement members—to find the truth. The case leads to other investigate crimes on or near the reservation which this group tackles. Wild and scene rivers and the towering Idaho Mountains make provide the backdrop for each crime novel