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| Meet J. M. Taylor and Flash the greyhound's stunt doubles at the Ybor City Fresh Market at 10 am, Saturday, 17 Jul. Taylor joined the greyhounds and their friends to celebrate his release of Gulf Winds. A portion of the proceeds were donated to Bay Area Greyhound Adoptions, Inc., a nonprofit organization in support of dogs laid off from the racing industry.
GULF WINDS
Uly is tough, but a roadside bomb on the road to Baghdad killed his best friend and left him with a busted leg and Flash, a retired champion greyhound. Gulf Winds won First Place in the Mystery/Thriller (Unpublished) category of the Florida Writers Association 2007 Royal Palm Literary Awards Contest. In Gulf Winds Grant has returned to his old home along the banks of the Homosassa River and his life as a fishing guide in the waters in and around the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on the Florida Gulf coast where, as you might suspect, a woman leads him astray and conspiracies abound as he diddles terrorists bank accounts and siphons off their money. Click HERE for more about Flash and research in Homosassa and Chassahowitzka along the Florida Gulf coast and HERE for a review of Gulf Winds. MISSING STICKS
MISSING STICKS WON THE EPIC Award for best Historical Fiction for 2010. MISSING STICKS also was named the Military Writers Society of America's Book of the Month for June, 2009 and won Honorable Mention in the Florida Writers Association 2009 Royal Palm Literary Awards.
Click HERE for the MWSA review of MISSING STICKS. Purchase MISSING STICKS directly from Screaming Eagle Press or other Fine Retailers. begins with Corporal Harry Stoner as a young Special Forces soldier thrust into the middle of the disastrous and short-lived Cuban counter-revolution, then takes you with an far older and, perhaps wiser, Stoner when he is summoned from his Washington DIA office to revisit the seamy side of Tampa's Ybor City, drawn into the middle of a drugs-for-arms transaction. Not just guns, this time the stakes are higher - a nuclear weapon stolen by fanatical terrorists, the beginning of a wild ride across today's South Florida and the Florida Keys where romance with a member of the Conch Republic threatens to sidetrack his mission.
Trade Paperback ISBN 0-7599-4288-9 COMING SOON A significant revision of the out-of-print thriller Behind the Green Water
Do you think Saddam really had a nuclear capability before we invaded? Read what might have been in Desert Winds. A thriller with roots in the first Gulf War, Desert Winds foretells the crisis between nuclear-capable nations of the Middle East and the religious conflicts that feed the fires of destruction. Behind the Green Water, although fictional, may help you understand the tensions and terror American and Allied forces are trying to keep at bay. Desert Winds explores the mystery of Christ and his family coupled with a mystery that predates Leonardo. Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-879043-07-7
(Photo is not current - taken in the Fall of 1965 while on a scenic tour of Southwest Asia as a member of the Screaming Eagle's 1st Brigade task force. Click HERE for a more recent photo.)
Interested in how to write action and adventure, other military and thriller authors? Doing research on the Taylor family? Some of the older articles in the Library might provide some insight, such as:
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Awaiting a Minor Repair - JCSE Jump - MacDill AFB circa 1985
Rocky supervising the day's output. Click on the photo for Rocky's transformation from Sheba, a clip of his evening performance and a view of our exotic plants and animals. |
This was a very special birthday for a visitor to the Fresh Market. She had asked to come to the park especially to see the greyhounds and found that they loved her as much as she loved them. She kindly put part of her birthday money in the Bay Area Greyhound Adoption Organization donation dog pouch.
Devon sometimes wished he were back in the Carolina swamps puffing his grandpa's pipe instead of tromping the Iraqi deserts and mountains with the French woman. After the first Gulf War but before the full invasion of Iraq, US Army Major Nash Devon is sent into the Northern Iraq Sanctuary Zone on a search for Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. There he discovers a nuclear conspiracy that includes America's allies.
Dig deep and you will find a bunch of Vietnam photos and more recent events. Photos of the 101st Airborne Division from 
