Travis Bayne was a highly decorated Army Special Forces Sergeant. After two tours in Iraq, he retires and joins the CIA as a paid assassin. During this time he sees civilians treated as fodder, and vows revenge on his CIA boss's. His approach is to get them to hunt him, thereby laying the trap.

In "Goldie's Garden" a yellow Labrador retriever and four siblings are born to "Daisey, in an animal shelter. the pups open their eyes, and each of them is tied with a different color ribbon, for identification. Goldie is adopted by Josh, 13 years old, a member of the Flowers family, who lives in Biloxi, Ms. Goldie becomes a larger part of the family as times evolve. Her main task is to watch over her adopted mother's fruit and vegetable garden. Josh drops out of college only 2 weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, joins the Marines, and is stationed in Afghanistan. The story shifts to and from...

Josh Flowers is character developed in a previous book by me, Goldie' Garden. In his early 20's, Josh starts a security company which provides personal protection to the many sports and entertainment figures who are featured at the many (over 50) casinos in Biloxi, Ms. Josh is a young man who was a highly decorated Marine until being seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Josh received a hip replacement which left him unable to remain in the Marine Corps, but is able to function almost without restriction in private life. He is surrounded in this novel by his dad, who is assistant G.M. at a large...