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Title:  Point Deception  
Author:  Jim Gilliam     
Publisher:  BookLocker.com            
ISBN:   9781609106218
Pages:  250, Hardcover  
Genre:  Fiction/Thriller  


 
Synopsis
 
Surviving the mean streets of New Orleans in 1956, young Tim Kelly begins a young Indiana Jones style adventure by lying about his age to join the Coast Guard at fourteen.

Almost a decade later, Kelly transfers to San Francisco where he immediately runs afoul of his new executive officer. In lieu of a court martial Kelly volunteers for combat duty in Vietnam where three of his friends are killed in a friendly fire incident. Deeply mourning the loss of his friends, he releases his rage in an Air Force officer's club and is punished with a less than honorable discharge.

Back in the U.S. Kelly embarks on a new career as an undercover narcotics agents, entering the shadow world of drug and human trafficking sponsored by his old friend Rodolfo Guzman, a kingpin in the powerful Campeche drug cartel. His failure to check in with his handler alerts a team of Texas lawmen who embark on an illegal, clandestine, armed incursion into the sovereign territory of Mexico to rescue Tim, or recover his body. It is a bold and dangerous plan. Will the rescue team arrive in time?  See Point Deception by Jim Gilliam
   

   


About the Author
 
 
Like his protagonist, Jim Gilliam ran away from home and joined the Coast Guard at 14. He has recently retired from the Navy's Military Sealift Command and is currently writing the sequel to his novel. He lives with his wife Laura in Warwick, New York.