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My Books

Welcome to my projects, both published and on their way

The unforgettable prequel to the Lazarus Smith Thriller Series

A young Marine struggling with a life changing decision stumbles into life and death. 

How does Lazarus become Lazarus? The man who just might change history. 

Coming in late May 2025!

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Book 1
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Lazarus Smith Book One

Ripped from the pages of today's headlines - a stolen AI, human trafficking, and a brilliant oil billionaire turned kidnapper, and hellbent on becoming a trillionaire. 

 

Through the swamps of Louisanna, across the Gulf of Mexico and into the skyscrapers of Houston, Lazarus and Ananya are Racing Death until Lazarus turns hunter.

 

An off book black ops specialist, codenamed Lazarus, searching for a friend's kidnapped daughter uncovers a massively dangerous plan—A plan to control the world's oil and become a trillionaire by using the stolen AI to create catastrophic ecological tragedies all along the massive North American pipeline grid.

Book 2

Racing Darkness

Lazarus Smith Book Two

From a sniper's hide in south Texas to a global arms race against time. Lazarus confronts an MIT educated arms dealer with re-engineered Stinger-style missiles poised to terrorize the skies world wide. But that is just the beginning. As he peels back the layers of deception, he uncovers the true target: America's nuclear plants and the power grid they support. When Racing Darkness - It is not just lives at stake but the very fabric of Western civilization.

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Book 3
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Racing the Storm

Lazarus Smith Book Three

From a deadly ambush on galveston's beaches through the back alleys of DC to a desperate chase through blinding snow. Lazarus moves from hunted to hunter, when a brutal kidnapping forces his friend and tech overwatch into betrayal - Lazarus  must confront an enemy who knows his every move. 

Behind books one and two in the Lazarus Smith trilogy there llies a megalomanic tech genius who has been pulling strings since the beginning. Now he is not just after power or money - he wants to control America's most elite black ops organization. In Racing the Storm Lazarus faces his most personal battle yet. Because this time it is not just a mission - it is family.

Book 4

Falling

Part of the Lazarus Series

Falling is the novella that wouldn't quit. I wrote it in late 2021 and sent it to my editor. She sent back the standard notes and edits, but there was one line at the very beginning of her summary email that stuck out. "This is a fine little novella, but it keeps wanting to be so much more." And she was right, as I wrote its 42,000 words it kept wanting to grow. Holding it back stunted the story. It is at least a trilogy in the Lazarus series.

A CRISPR scientist creates a gene tech that has amazing potential to cure almost any disease.  But also and quite unexpectedly those it cures get physically younger. Her twin sister, an FBI agent, tries in vain to find her, but she is gone and her agency won't help. Long ago she worked with an Agent code named Lazarus. Finally, in desperation she reaches out to him. 

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