Pinedale Incident by Texas author Allen Dark is a complex suspense-thriller interwoven with some of the most serious real-world problems we face today: corruption, unregulated private capital abuses, overpopulation, sustainability, globalization, and hazards in our food supply system. In Pinedale Incident, Cody Williams was happy with his work as a black ops assassin until he suffered career-blocking injuries during a covert nighttime operation and resigned from the Army. Seeking to find a new path and recast himself in the civilian world, he has returned to his home ground in Central Texas...

This novella, Apple in the Grass, and collection of twelve short stories provide a variety of philosophical, amusing and serious tales in which path-finding people at various stages of life venture beyond their familiar spheres and pursue new adventures, ambitions and lifestyles. Their experiences are often thought-evoking and range from laughable to disastrous. The stories take place during a time period beginning early in the Vietnam War era and extending through the early twenty-first century. While exercising personal freedom, and living with the eternal problem of balancing freedom with...