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1991. The Cold War is dead. The Gulf is about to catch fire.

 A young Marine Corps officer, Josh Cavanaugh, struggles to survive the most elite flight school in the world, explore friendship, find love, and make sense of the new world order. Shortly before Desert Storm, without UN authorization, he accepts a dangerous secret mission, Operation Wet Campus, to destroy a weapon system that was illegally sold to Iraq by a rogue American defense contractor. The mission goes exactly as planned, then horribly wrong, throwing the young patriot and his American dream into chaos. 

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Second Lieutenant Joshua Cavanaugh is no ordinary Marine Corps pilot. He’s AWOL, with Syrian assassins, Saudi police, and an elite Navy Intelligence team chasing him. After narrowly escaping through villages full of unpleasant Houthi rebels in Yemen, he boards a cargo ship bound for China with Anna Song, a resourceful yet mysterious new companion. Lying about his military background, Josh claims to his new Chinese friends that he’s a former aircraft mechanic. Arriving in Shanghai, he dives headfirst into a lifestyle filled with hard drinking, fast women, and high times. He’s living large until he receives an offer he can’t refuse: a job for China’s most ruthless black ops team. Entangled in a web of sex, lies, and intrigue, Josh Cavanaugh is plunged into the dark realm of international espionage, where the fate of nations hangs in the balance, violence prevails, billions of dollars are at stake, and truth becomes the grandest deception of all.    Crosswinds © All Rights Reserved

                          Complete at 170,000 words. 

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Shanghai, London, Venezuela, and the South China Sea. Wanted by the FBI, NCIS,  and one of America’s most dangerous covert rendition teams, a long-haired and morally muddled Cavanaugh sneaks back into the US and rekindles an old flame with a Navy Intelligence Officer. After a long, slow journey, hitch-hiking and stowing away on trains, he finds the widow of the soldier he accidentally killed on the original mission. His old friends from China find him in Nevada and warn him that his nemesis, a rogue American arms dealer, is out to kill him. Cavanaugh puts together a team of ex-Navy SEALs, supplemented by a couple of spec-ops guys from the Chinese Navy, and together, the Chinese and Americans hijack two ships in the South China Sea, capturing the corrupt arms dealer and destroying a dangerous shipment. 

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                             Complete at 90,000 words.

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                                Partially complete - 100k words

Meet Jack Plane. To everyone, Coast Guard Lieutenant Plane appears conservative, ordinary, and law-abiding. He attends church, assists the local chapter of Big Brothers, and serves on the board of his condominium association. By day, he's an upstanding citizen. No one would ever suspect he leads a secret life as a plane thief. That’s right; five or six times a year, Jack and a covert team of dishonorably discharged misfits come together for a high-risk, high-reward ‘job’ to redistribute the aviation assets of the wealthy and despicable. After funneling a lifetime of cash into his offshore accounts, his intense passion for a local dancer and his empathy for lost causes compel him to risk everything in one final heist: a magnificent Learjet owned by a murderous kingpin, carrying a cargo that spins his world into a nose dive.  

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