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The McGowan Collection Series By Col. Lee Martin » Novels
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Wolf Laurel
…and Cause the Blood of Every Man, Woman and Child to Run in the Streets of the Great Satan (The McGowan Collection Series). Book 1
While staying at a local Bed and Breakfast, named Wolf Laurel, McGowan also becomes involved with the Proprietress of the Inn, Adrianna Wolf.
As McGowan uncovers a terrorist plot, hatched by three other Islamic fascist students, he pulls double duty…protecting Adrianna and her guests, while strategizing with the “Birdman”, his boss at CTT, and a young Charleston, West Virginia, FBI Agent, to neutralize the suspects before they can put their horrific plan into action.
Will an entire city of 100,000 perish at the hands of these extremists or will Bruce McGowan take them down?
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Provocation Return of the Weatherman
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 2
Department of State Counter-terrorist operative, Bruce McGowan returns in this sequel to Col Lee Martins acclaimed novel, Wolf Laurel. It is the Christmas season following the 9/11, World Trade Towers terrorist attack and McGowans newly appointed FBI Special Agent daughter, Caroline, assigned to the Denver office, is missing. As she is an avid lover of the outdoors, is she merely out of cellular range on a hiking venture in the Rockies or has she in fact been kidnapped? From out of McGowans past resurfaces a domestic terrorist, Jonas Karn, who McGowan rather ruthlessly took down years before when he himself was an FBI agent. And to McGowans horror, Karn, obviously out for revenge, says he has taken Caroline. As McGowans search for his daughter begins, he simultaneously uncovers a plot by Karn and his new order of the “Weatherman Underground” against the American government to set off explosive devices in several US cities. Angry, yet fearful for Carolines life, the unrelenting McGowan temporarily breaks from CTT to hunt down Karn, stop the madmans plot, and get Caroline back safely. But as Karn taunts and provokes McGowan, keeping him in the dark as to Carolines whereabouts, McGowan goes off on his own tangent, ignoring FBI orders to stay out of the investigation, and obstructing justice in the process. As usual, McGowan will dish out his own brand of justice. A word to the wise never, ever provoke and antagonize Bruce McGowan by taking something precious of his.
For the most part, I investigate and run down factions of a foreign enemy that plans to methodically destroy America by murdering its people, disrupting its infrastructure, and planting fear in the heart of every God-fearing citizen. And when I do, I for the most part make sure that law enforcement does not get its hands on them to read them their Miranda rights. And then the courts will, after a laughable trial, sentence them to life in a jail cell that is a hell of a lot more cushy than the tent or cave they’re used to living in. But then there is also an enemy within our country of the home-grown type. He might be an American citizen who was raised as a child in the most utopian of all societies to have ever existed on this earth. Then along the way as he fell in with a subversive lot, brewing up a maelstrom of dissent and contempt for America, he grew up to hate our government and its laws.
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A Hateful Wind
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 3
The most powerful figure in the world needs Americas best operative to investigate the thirty year old massacre of a Montagnard (Degar) village by an American infantry unit during the Vietnam War. Chosen for the mission not only for his investigative and special ops skills, McGowan is historically familiar with the ethnic group, having lived with the Degars in the early 1970s while training their soldiers. With a Vietnamese counter-part named Thanh, McGowan travels into the Central Highlands of Vietnam to seek out the only survivor of the village massacre to secure the statement that would bring down the former American commander, who is not only a man of prominence and wealth, but someone of personal interest to the White House.
Author recommends, reading book 12
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Killing the Viper
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 4
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Saving Eagle One
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 5
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Blood Protocol:
Avenging the Viper
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 6
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Red Kings Rising
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 7
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Sting of the Scorpion:
McGowan Collection Series
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 8
My name is Bruce McGowan, and contrary to everyone’s belief, I have not gone away. Remember when Saddam Hussein was suspected of having weapons of mass destruction, but then the U.N.’s inspectors found no evidence of them? Even though the American President, not at all convinced, subsequently invaded Iraq and fought a lengthy war over them, the world remained convinced the weapons never existed in the first place. Nonetheless, a dozen years after the inspections, I was taken prisoner by a former MI-6 madman named Alistair Chalmers who knew for a fact they existed. As he also knew of my reputation as a counterterrorist operative, code name Scorpion, by threatening to kill my Scottish cousins who he was holding, I was coerced to go on a search for the weapons. If I found these nuclear and chemical devices and placed them into his hands, he stood to net millions by selling them to Iran. But, where were the WMDs? Chalmers believed they were shipped to Yemen. I had two weeks to find them or my cousins would die. It would prove to be my most dangerous undertaking.
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A Lure to a Kill:
McGowan Collection Series
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 9
A Lure to a Kill is the most exciting and compelling Bruce McGowan novel yet. The ninth offering in the series by acclaimed author Col. Lee Martin.
Ex-counterterrorist agent Kurt Albrecht, long retired and becoming increasingly angry with the current government and its policies, is the self-appointed commander of a home-grown militia group called The Constitutionalists. As Albrecht is suspected of hatching a destructive plot against the government, the U.S. National Security Advisor engages trusted former counterterrorist operative Bruce McGowan to infiltrate Albrecht’s organization and determine the particulars of his plan. McGowan, upon learning the madman is days away from exploding an EMP bomb into the atmosphere over the Washington, D.C. grid, finds himself wrapped up in a deadly cat-and-mouse game that could cost him his life. Can he stop his former friend and associate, Albrecht, before he paralyzes the nation’s capital and surrounding cities?
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The Constitutionalists:
McGowan Collection Series
The McGowan Collection Series, Book 10
(Newest Novel Now Available)
Ex-counterterrorist agent Kurt Albrecht, long retired and becoming increasingly angry with the current government and its policies, is the self-appointed commander of a home-grown militia group called The Constitutionalists. As Albrecht is suspected of hatching a destructive plot against the government, the U.S. National Security Advisor engages trusted former counterterrorist operative Bruce McGowan to infiltrate Albrecht’s organization and determine the particulars of his plan. McGowan, upon learning the madman is days away from exploding an EMP bomb into the atmosphere over the Washington, D.C. grid, finds himself wrapped up in a deadly cat-and-mouse game that could cost him his life. Can he stop his former friend and associate, Albrecht, before he paralyzes the nation’s capital and surrounding cities?
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Bundle Book (2 in 1)
The McGowan Collection Series, Books 1 & 2, Wolf Laurel and Provocation, Return of the Weatherman, Book 13
While staying at a local Bed and Breakfast, named Wolf Laurel, McGowan also becomes involved with the Proprietress of the Inn, Adrianna Wolf. As McGowan uncovers a terrorist plot, hatched by three other Islamic fascist students, he pulls double duty…protecting Adrianna and her guests, while strategizing with the “Birdman”, his boss at CTT, and a young Charleston, West Virginia, FBI Agent, to neutralize the suspects before they can put their horrific plan into action. Will an entire city of 100,000 perish at the hands of these extremists or will Bruce McGowan take them down?