Grant Me Timely Grace
Tim Woods
Washington, D.C., June 1863. It is the week before the Battle of Gettysburg, and the nation’s fate hangs in the balance.
A Union officer was not court-martialed after disobeying a direct order during battle. Why?
Major Russell Johns is being manipulated by puppet-master Gerard Chantier, transplanted New Orleans businessman and toast of the town. Chantier hosts the city’s most lavish entertainments, attended by members of Lincoln’s cabinet and Washington elite. Little do they know Gerard is coordinating an attack with Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry to take over the city, kidnap Lincoln and bring victory to the South.
When Russell’s probing brings him in contact with Chantier’s daughter, Thérèse, he has to face his most difficult moral choice: manipulating her to get to her father or honoring the one thing that has sustained him through years of battle and loss – his own integrity.
Beth’s Book
Tim Woods
Beth Shepherd is a 49 y/o, twice divorced mid-list crime novelist. She can’t write. Her latest book in her NYPD Katie Shields series is behind schedule; her drug-addicted younger brother, Stephen, has just shown up on her doorstep after his umpteeth failed round of drug treatment; she can’t sustain a relationship with a man. And now, her grown gay son in San Francisco is reuniting with his father who ran out on the family over 20 years ago.
To add to her problems, Beth is shocked to discover that her protagonist from her crime novels, Detective, Katie, hijacks her author’s psyche in order to solve the biggest case of her career: the heinous crimes of her author, Beth Shepperd.
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Never Trust A Hero
Tim Woods
Never Trust A Hero pits a burned out CIA agent, Nick Faraday, against an even more cynical Ex CIA agent, Thaddeus Polanski, AKA, Tadpole.
Tadpole dropped off the radar years before and is living as a jack-of-all trades and ne’er do well in L.A. From a first Iraq war wound, he suffers from priapism. Every time he makes love he reflexively breaks into the CIA Oath.
Just back from years of overseas service as a CIA assassin, Nick’s last job is to hunt Polanski down and liquidate him. Nick is not enthused because he is looking to start a new life; but to be released from the clutches of the CIA, he must complete this last mission.
Once they meet, Tadpole turns everything around and becomes Nick’s spiritual mentor, albeit, for Nick, reluctantly. Both men feel guilty about their prior CIA duties and are trying to learn to live without killing people.
Nick has been played the fool by his L.A. station chief, Becky Glenn, and fallen in, then out of love, with a CIA plant, the lovely Tessa Poole. Along the way we meet Tadpole’s friends, Timitrin Platinum, a nymphomaniac and successful bodice ripping author; Toe Paz, Tad’s friend and classic crap used-car salesman; Manuel, gardener for whom Tad sometimes works; and Prime Chuck, an African American friend with blonde dreadlocks and Venice Beach body-builder–and sometime television and movie extra. Prime looks tough but can’t stand the sight of blood, is useless in a fight and speaks in a falsetto.
By story’s end, the reader will have laughed and hopefully broadened their view of what constitutes America’s Foreign Policy Interests.
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