Shortly after graduating from college, and searching for a fresh start, a young forester is assigned to a new job in a remote area of northwestern Montana. The locals, a hard-working, hard-living, idiosyncratic lot take on the task of educating their new co-worker in ways he never imagined. Just as he becomes attached to his new surroundings and the quirky inhabitants, new technology threatens his job and news of a new hydroelectric dam is planned a short way downstream will destroy the entire valley.

Charlie Draper only took the job of finding the missing girl as favor. He approached it convinced that the hot desert sun had likely eliminated another unprepared hiker rather than a part of the Border Wars. It didn't take long to realize his error. Then it became complicated. In less than a day he discovers that drug cartel members shot her and threw her into a volcano vent. The resulting trail leads into Mexico where his actions bring on the wrath of the cartel. The bodies start to pile up with a vengeance as he and his helicopter-flying Apache friend attempt to rescue the young women and...

The assassination of an Arizona rancher, embroils Charlie Draper in the U.S. southern border wars. His client beaten near death and when a hired killer guns down his friend, it becomes personal. Draper and his helicopter-flying Apache friend travel into Mexico to find local help and discover surprising support for the cartels from an unexpected source.

Charlie Draper takes on what seems like a simple assignment. Check on a missing DEA agent. He does not expect to find him dead; dead on the floor of a drug manufacturing house. Frustrating weeks of digging into the lives of a small town in Montana uncovers drug trafficking, human trafficking and murder for hire leaves the local Sheriff gunned down and Draper with a major headache. Then he begins to suspect all the mayhem is a ruse for the real objective. Charlie receives help from his friend DEA agent Alejandro Jones and together they uncover a diabolical plan to destroy the United States.

When Charlie Draper's daughter asks him to find and help one of her employees, he does not take long to find the young woman. The Border Patrol arrested, and charged her with smuggling over five kilos of dope. The charges are not only serious, but come with mandatory prison time, if found guilty. When Draper hears her story, he is sympathetic but knows it will be difficult, if not impossible to assist her, since her guilt is irrefutable. Her family in Mexico is at risk if she gives the information to the authorities. Draper and DeCollado rush into Northern Mexico to save the young woman's...

A retired former government agent, quietly living in Montana, becomes entangled in a widespread conspiracy to destroy the country. When his best friend is shot he gathers former comrades and using his old skills and contacts, he begins a campaign to eliminate the ones who have interrupted his calm existence.

On a quiet, warm summer evening just after the midnight chimes at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, a young researcher scans the night sky, listening to and documenting. He hears a constant stream of routine space background noise while the huge telescope slowly pans the observable universe. His efforts are mind numbing, tedious, and wearisome to a point that he is fighting to stay awake. On the edge of a catnap his trained mind hears an anomaly of beeps; a resonance foreign to the environment he is monitoring, but he knows the familiar code. The message is simple and he easily decodes...