Thirty years of nightmares and Frank Morgan is given the chance to end the horrors. Every glance brought Morgan a memory of a green-eyed Vietnamese beauty, dead from a bullet between the eyes shot from Morgan's silenced .22 Hush Puppy. She was innocent, and even a cup of tea reminded Morgan of the dirty water next to the blood from her skull. Now, in a London casino three decades later, Morgan meets another stunning green-eyed Asian woman in trouble and he uses his skills as a CIA trained assassin to rescue her. They end up traveling to Hong Kong to meet up with a Chinese Triad leader who directs them to Ho Chi Minh City for a clash with an old enemy thought long dead. From there, the two take R & R in a small island off the Greek coast, nurturing the budding relationship. The book finally concludes with a trip down ancient tunnels in Jerusalem. At the beginning, Morgan is obsessed with wrongs he committed in Vietnam, As the story progresses, he begins to see clearly for the first time in many years, all a result of his growing love for Hatati, the ex-beauty queen from Malaysia. The story is filled with action, adventure, intrigue, love, and the redemption of a tortured soul. While the locales change around the globe, so does Morgan as he opens his heart to something other than guilt. Trained to kill by the CIA and practicing his trade across SE Asian jungles, an older Frank Morgan is still struggling with his demons. He's given a chance at redemption by saving a stunning Malaysian woman he meets in London. Their blood-filled adventures take them to Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, and the Middle East before Morgan finds peace.
About the Author: Born Irish Catholic, I was shaped more by the nuns than the priests. Even with the pull of the Vatican and the Sisters of Providence, I escaped into the 60's like a penniless starving boy crawling toward freedom. The evolution of a small town star quarterback, married to the head cheerleader, was the path of least resistance. Armed with a university degree and time in law school, I began my adult working career as a car antenna assembler, soon moving up to a sheet rock hauler. A daughter crawling around the house brought a change in my views on the worker's revolution. I began to exploit my comrades like every reborn capitalist. The highlight of these years was my company's planting of nearly five million trees in the blast zone surrounding Mt. St. Helens. Tree planting was seasonal, and the hot weather found me trying to squander all the profit on some scheme to make millions. Eventually, I ended up in a paternity testing lab, helping design a program to accept and track specimens. HIV/AIDS was just surfacing. The condition was called "gay cancer" and the lab was attempting to expand their services by introducing the newly developed mechanized HIV antibody test. Exploiting the minds of numerous research scientists, the result was invention of a rapid home test utilizing both blood and saliva for the detection of HIV antibodies. The company went public in 1992 and I became the CEO, fired in a corporate coup in 1996. Since then, the medical diagnostic field has held its allure and several faltering companies have resulted. The late 1990's and early 21st century was the start of writing and learning to write. I didn't know the word "craft" applied to writing, but was prompted to educate myself by a girlfriend who read my first semi-autobiographical work. Recently, I died 19 times. Of course, I wouldn't be writing this unless I had been revived by both CPR and the paddle. I don't remember much except hovering over the turmoil of a guy flopping around on the carpet, frantically being attended to by unrecognized men. As I nonchalantly watched, I drifted toward a bright tunnel of light. Now I know this is a relatively common response by those who have died and are re-born. The experience has prompted me to compose a non-fiction book entitled I Died and So Can You. Self-publishing became a reality through the prodding of the wonderful woman with whom I am now living. She not only encouraged through her kind actions, but also put in cash.