The Stories
The Parabaloni
Hooded murderers
Deadly black boxes
And two lone strangers hoping not to be alone anymore
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Simeon Lee has spent his life keeping America free from terror. Which makes the discovery of a band of hooded murderers sparking fear from coast to coast a very unpalatable shock. Someone is trying to change America from the ground up, and whoever they are has no qualms about murdering the weak in their way. But as he takes hold of faith and leaps out into the fight again, Simeon begins to suspect God might have an ulterior motive in driving him back to work. Happiness, the elusive sweetness in life the old spy has long given up hope of finding, could be waiting for him in the smile of an unexpected young man.
Book 1
The Slingshot Effect
Two friends
A French sharpshooter
And a room full of high explosives
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a room with a large hunk of C4 armed and ready to go off? Simeon Lee and Vincent Tolliver find themselves in this disturbing situation, along with another uncomfortable sensation. Who they thought were allies, are now covering them with sub-machine guns with very malicious intent. Add to this the knowledge that only their action can save thousands of their fellow men from dying in a matter of minutes, and then ask yourself, "What would you do?" I can tell you one thing. What you would do relies a good deal on what you believe.
Book 2
As the Eagle Flies
Christian convert,
Meets terrorists...
Not good
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A week can contain an intensive amount of change. For Peter Aziz a single week finds him sold out by his team, captured by Islamic terrorists, shot at by camel herders in the Empty Quarter, nearly drowned in a Yemen river, almost blown to bits while rescuing a king, and shot out of the sky while wearing a pteranodon-styled flight suit. This world can be a surprising place. But when new friendships begin to form, for Peter Aziz life's surprises begin to switch to the good kind instead of the nightmares it's been for the past year.
Book 3
Solitaire
Four friends
One God
And 70,000 mosquito drones
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Simeon’s best friend is in trouble, framed for terrorist activity by someone calling themselves ‘Solitaire,’ and that’s not something the Parabaloni are willing to overlook. At a singularly ugly warehouse the four spies must bring together Gigan’s family of Parisian smugglers, all the law-enforcement they can pack into three rooms, a crowd of Islamic terrorist, one crooked inventor, and this unexplained Solitaire. But once there, will Simeon manage to draw a confession out, or will Solitaire end the night by his favorite method of igniting TNT, and blow them all straight to minuscule pieces?
Book 4
Adélie Angst
Slaughtered Penguins
Arid outer space
And a band of mismatched spies
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A peaceful holiday season never lasts when your job description is expert trouble-shooter. But at least Antarctica poses a pretty landscape for an approaching Christmas, and anywhere can be home if you have a heated house-plane, family near, and Christ’s joy in your heart. Until your heated plane is shot down in frigid water, and you find yourself stranded in an ice cave with one of your family members half dead and the group of killers who shot you down only a mile’s easy march from you. But on the bright side, the short distance from well-supplied enemies is nice for raiding purposes. And there’s nothing better on a cold night than a game of riddles, and this situation poses a doozy; what’s the link between slaughtered penguins, famous pieces of art, a drilling site, arid outer space, a 1st century band of Christian brethren, and a group of mismatched American spies?
Book 5
Blind Leader
Team leader down
Nuclear fallout in the Texas panhandle
And Donald Duck gone rogue
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Algernon Fitzkkin (codename Donald Duck) used to be at the top of the game of lies and spies and agents. New interests have claimed him now, and he is not pleased to be pulled out of his not-so-quiet retirement to have a mysterious Eastern beauty shoved into his arms. But after a few minutes conversation, Algy knows she needs him. And a gallant gentleman never turns his back on a lady in distress, no matter how old he might be, or how impossibly in the dark he is in this situation where no one will tell him anything. Flying blind while trying to lead rarely works. But sometimes a man can stumble through the darkness to find…what? Algy has the uncomfortable feeling this situation is going to take him only to a deeper darkness, with death seeking its way like red dust blown in a high wind seeping under the door. Help is needed to navigate through this one alive, and all Algy can do is throw himself on the One who makes the blind to see. Even so, something tells him he isn’t going to be feeling just ducky by the end.
Book 6
Gathering Shadows
A mastermind whispers,
“Can you find all the pieces of my game? Just how good are you?”
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It started with a simple phone call. Once again, the Parabaloni are on a careening run to stop terrorist plots and save lives on two different continents. The clock is ticking and world war hovers in the wings. While the rest of the team is on that detail, a routine business matter sends Vincent digging into his past, where he finds more than he intends. As they work to rescue the world, events draw the two matters together, and Simeon realizes the complications are building into a challenge: one laid out just for them. Who is targeting them and why?
Answering those questions may take more than the Parabaloni can give.
Book 7
Why I wrote the Parabaloni
"Every day when you get up and look in the mirror and say, ‘Who shall I be today?’ you answer it from a starting point, from your own worldview. You have a position. So does the random person you see riding the metro to work, or that guy who sits in the cubical behind you."