Brent Colton is a retired CIA operations officer now in the employ of the Creighton Corporation, a privately owned think tank that advocates various opinions on world issues, but it’s his clandestine job to solve the dirty problems for their private clients for a million dollar fee with no questions asked. When recovering stolen technology from a Vietnamese industrialist, Colton obtains evidence that he secretly partnered with a U.S. Senatorto rig the recent presidential election and elect him to the nation’s highest office.

About Terry Heath

Since the dawn of recorded time the art of storytelling has been one of the most unique and treasured of human traits. I presume that I must have inherited a large dosage of that particular gene because I have always been fascinated by the usage of words and how specific words can be used in the telling of a story. That would explain why I became a writer. Oh sure, I have been busy doing other things in my life but it always involved the use of writing in those endeavors. You could best explain me as the bored student in the classroom aimlessly staring out the window wondering what was happening out there in the real world.

The years I spent growing up always involved the reading of books, whether they were fiction or based on true events, as long as they were adventure oriented and involved a protagonist hero. A steady diet of Robert Ludlum, Ian Fleming and Robert Heinlein among other authors gave me the interest, inspiration and desire to some day attempt to pen my own thrillers. Plus I grew up during the era when the Apollo missions to the moon were taking place and I could imagine I was a part of those exciting trips and realized that one’s limit of accomplishment can only be by their lack of imagination. Now I will also admit to have enjoyed watching adventurous motion pictures and television shows such as Mission Impossible, Hawaii Five-O and The Man From Uncle because they had likeable recurring characters and interesting plots that I eventually discovered in my young teenage mind had to be written by someone so I began dreaming that one day I could pen such stories to the satisfaction of a large audience.

But I also realized at that young age that although those shows and movies were entertaining in their day neither of those visual formats is as good as the written word in telling a story because in the printed form you can use your own imagination in visualizing the events that you are reading and draw your own perspective from them. I guess it’s because the printed words on the page are fascinating because each specific word can uniquely affect the sentence it is in, then the paragraph and ultimately, the entire story and it’s the selection of those words that always fascinated me.

A college degree in journalism was attained with several years spent writing news stories on current events for small-town newspapers, followed by a trip to Hollywood, California to achieve fame and fortune in the world of show business. Ten years were spent in show biz as a comedy writer and performer as I wrote material for the top comedians and radio disc jockeys across the nation. Then a desire to fulfill a dream of completing a serious literary work of art returned so I turned serious. But whether working in journalism, writing jokes for comedians, preparing a situation comedy script or telling an exciting literary story, the words, phrases and the context that you select in emphasizing that story is what it is all about.

I enjoy writing the action oriented fiction story because I can take the reader to places, timeframes and settings that they could never go to in the real world setting because you can put anything in the reader’s mind that projects a unique image to that person. When I write I want to portray an action setting, thought and intrigue in each story told in an original style that is entertaining to the reader. I want to show that one man or one idea can make a difference to the world and want to convey that in the stories I write.

Anything is possible in the world of imagination as long as the reader accepts what you have written as being believable and entertaining. My goal is to entertain the reader with an exciting story that can be dramatic, realistic and stimulating to the one who has gone out of their way to purchase and read the offerings. I want to entertain and also inform the reader about the world. I want to leave the reader with a feeling that the story they just read as written by me can be described as a juxtaposition of words to describe the events taking place, the narration, the dialogue and action all coming together for a unique experience in their mind that hopefully will always stay with them.

Terry Heath California E-Mail readermail@terryheathbooks.com