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In the fourth in the “Hardin Hollow” series, your favorite female sniper Deputy Sheriff Billie Jean Hardin teams up with an unlikely ally to settle the score once and for all with the Peoples Temple Of Jesus (PTOJ), a pseudo-religious cult dealing in the human trafficking of young girls. If you thought Billie Jean kicked ass and took names in the previous three books, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

A few winters ago, while vacationing at Cedar Lodge, a rustic venue secluded way back in the deep woods of Northwest Arkansas, the author and his wife were stranded there by the worst ice storm in the recorded history of Newton County. Ice incased trees fell by the hundreds. Soon over a foot and a half of snow followed the ice. For nearly a week, downed trees and drifting snow choked the narrow, rutted dirt road making it impassable for the entire two and a half miles out to the paved county byway. With the power out and no way to escape the lodge, in an attempt to stay warm and amuse ...

In this sequel to “The Night Hank Williams Came To Town,” Buck Baker hooks up with Elvis when he comes to Kansas City to do a show in the Municipal Auditorium Arena on May 24, 1956. Although it’s a work of fiction, it’s based on actual events.

In July 1972, the 512th MAW was deactivated at Carswell Air Base in Fort Worth, Texas and replaced by the 301 Tactical (TAC) Fighter Wing (FW). The unit then began the tough transition from huge C-124 Globemaster transports to then state of the art F-105 Thunderstick II (Thuds), which were replaced by newer F-4 Phantoms ten years later, and F-16 Fighting Falcons ten years after that. Over forty years have passed since that day in July 1972 when Lt Col Robert (Col Bob to most) Johnston landed our first Thud at Carswell and delivered it to the newly formed 301st TFW. A good number of us from ...

On September 13th, 1951 the huge traveling medicine show The Hadacol Caravan came to Kansas City, Missouri, pitched its huge circus tent, and put on a big show. Tony Martin was the house band. There were a host of clowns, chorus girls, jugglers, and a star-studded cast of famous performers included Hank Williams and, to name but just a few, Carmen Miranda, Mickey Rooney, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, George Burns, and Gracie Allen, Roy Acuff, and Minnie Pearl. Hank Williams was at the zenith of his career. Selling records by the millions. Heard seemingly non-stop on the radio and jukeboxes. Ole ...

Three years into a comfortable retirement, the economic meltdown of 2008 wiped out any chance of Larry Preston and his wife Lynne continuing their privileged lifestyle, forcing them to deplete their devastated, dwindling savings each month. Now a rabid pit-bull, Lynne made Larry’s life a living hell, constantly berating him with a never-ending harangue that he abandon retirement and find employment. The only other option was to sell their big home in an affluent neighborhood, give up vacationing three months a year, and drastically downsize their cushy lifestyle. Larry always ended up in ...

In this tenth book in the Hardin Hollow series, the death from natural causes of an elderly lady sets in motion an angry dispute over who the rightful heir to her multi-million-dollar estate is among her greedy, money-grubbing distant relatives. This results in unexpected, life-altering events for several of them. It also eventually pits 22-year-old Newton County Deputy Sheriff Billie Jean Hardin against a family of treacherous scumbags.

In this ninth book in the Hardin Hollow series, Billie Jean Hardin returns to the mountains of Colorado to put an end to a series of vicious home invasions that are plaguing the wealthy clients of a friend’s home security company. She is assisted by both her partner Dingo, and his buddies, the Pendejos Motorcycle club.

Deputy Sheriff Billie Jean Hardin finds herself pitted against a new gang of stone cold killers in a lethal game of Hardin Seek, played in both the air over Newton County, and on and the ground, as she ferrets out and shuts down an ever increasing number of covert marijuana growing and distributing operations.

Your favorite female sniper Billie Jean Hardin is back again. As usual, when trouble finds her, she is more than ready, willing and able to meet it head on and put it down without hesitation. She breaks up an outlaw biker gang, tracks down and captures a child murderer, subdues an online sexual predator, and finds out more about her Hardin roots when she meets a cousin previously unknown to her and discovers that, just as she has always been, he and his father were both equally dedicated to seeking deadly retribution from anyone that threatened or harmed family or friends.

If you enjoyed the five previous books in the Hardin Hollow series, your will love this one. In the first story, after finding an unusual friend and protector, Billie Jean Hardin comes up against an old adversary. In other stories she must defend herself against a paid assassin, subdue a nest of Skinheads, and take down a terrorist. In the final two stories first Billie Jean and then Dingo discover surprising facts about their roots.

After a four-year hitch in the Army Rangers and over twenty years as a highly paid “Special Ops” Government contractor doing, as he called it, “Bad things to bad people”, John (not his real name) decided to hang it up. He had stashed away more than enough cash to do anything he wanted for the rest of his life. Now what do I do? He thought. The reader will be surprised to learn the answer to that question.

As the sage philosopher Forest Gump once said, “Shit Happens”, and the “shit” always seems to happen wherever Billie Jean Hardin hangs her hat. In this the fifth book in the Hardin hollow series, your favorite female sniper Billie Jean is forced to set her sights on a pair of local home grown terrorists. However, as her Army sniper father always told her, “When the goin’ gets hard, the Hardins get goin’ and Billie Jean is always more than ready, willing and able to do just that.

Your favorite female sniper Billie Jean Hardin is back again in the third novel of the Hardin Hollow series. After her run in with the scumbags from the Rocky Mountain Militia, twenty-year-old Billie Jean settled down to an enjoyable life in Hardin Hollow, attending classes at Arkansas Tec University in Russellville, and serving as a part time Newton County deputy sheriff. Unfortunately, this enjoyable life of tranquility was short lived. In less than a year, a deranged assassin began blowing away pretty blonde girls, forcing Billie Jean to take up her M-24, sniper up, and begin tracking ...

If you enjoyed reading about what fifteen year old Billie Jean Hardin did when she was unwittingly pitted against the Thibodaux clan of hardcore hillbilly tush-hog meth cookers in Hardin Hollow, you’ll love what happens three years later when she travels to Colorado and runs afoul the Rocky Mountain Militia and Pendejos motorcycle gang.

When 15-year-old female sniper Billie Jean Hardin is unwittingly pitted against the Thibodaux clan of hardcore hillbilly tush-hog meth cookers blood flows, body counts build, and maniacal mayhem ensues. Billy Jean grew up tough in rural northwest Arkansas in the heart of the Ozark Mountains in Hardin Hollow. Abandoned by her mother soon after birth, her father Hank was a disabled, disfigured former Army Sniper suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and increasing bouts of deep depression that eventually caused him to become barely functional. Soon after her fifteenth birthday, two ...

When I bought my first computer in 1987 and learned to use Wordperfect, and later Word, I discovered that I loved to write and began composing remembrances of days of yore. Over the years since then, I often wrote about events in my life, and friends and relatives. I eventually decided to collect all of these writings, edit them, and assemble them into one document that ended up being over 1,000 pages long. I have collected all these writings into four volumes. The first, Child Of The Fifties 1944 – 1967, is a collection of memoirs recalling some of my favorite experiences from those more...

A few winters ago, while vacationing at Cedar Lodge, a rustic venue secluded way back in the deep woods of Northwest Arkansas, the author and his wife were stranded there by the worst ice storm in the recorded history of Newton County. Ice incased trees fell by the hundreds. Soon over a foot and a half of snow followed the ice. For nearly a week, downed trees and drifting snow choked the narrow, rutted dirt road making it impassable for the entire two and a half miles out to the paved county byway. With the power out and no way to escape the lodge, in an attempt to stay warm and amuse ...

From the very first glimpse Henry Wilton caught of Hank Williams hunched over the mic moanin’ the Love Sick Blues up there on the Grand Ole Opry stage in the Ryman Auditorium, he knew what his destiny was: become a hillbilly star just like ole Hank. Henry changed his name to Hank, bought a guitar, formed the Rovin’ Rangers, and the rest is history. This then is the “feel good” story about how a good ole boy from Okmulgee, Oklahoma and a lil’ ole po’ girl from Foat Wuth (as Kathy Jones often referred to herself) chased their elusive dream until they finally caught it.

I actually wanted to name this book My Favorite Year: 1960, but that is too close to the title of an old movie, so I went with my second choice, If Ignorance Is Bliss, I must Have Been Ecstatic. Third choice was Sex, Booze, an’ Rock ‘N’ Roll. It won’t take the reader too long to understand why all three would have been accurate titles. Over the years, when reminiscing with friends over a few drinks, swapping humorous, alcohol laced anecdotes concerning mutual misadventures of youth, most of my fondest remembrances seem to center around events that took place the spring, summer and ...