Kirjahaku

The combined edition of the Lee Thomas Novels. These three books start the memoirs of Lee Thomas, a southern boy hired as a secret agent. Spy Dreams: The story begins with a mission that goes wrong. Sand Trap: Hostage rescue in Libya. Cigarettes for Two: the mid 1980's, cocaine, boats, fast cars and even Russian agents. The new spy in town has an accent and it is definitely not British.

July of 1990. The world is once again a dangerous place. The powder keg that is the middle east is once again ready to explode. The small oil rich country of Kuwait has been invaded by the forces of the Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq. The world is on the brink of war as a coalition is formed and preparations are made. Lee Thomas is once again right in the middle of the situation even before it starts. Sometimes your dreams can turn out to be nightmares, or even worse they can turn out to be reality. From Washington, DC to MI6 Headquarters in London England and then to the hotbed of the Middle East Lee is once again a witness and participant to history.

1985 South Florida. The cocaine cowboys are out in force. Fast cars, beautiful women, smugglers, automatic weapons and enough cocaine to use as a ski slope. Throw in some Columbians, Cubans and maybe even some Russians. Lee Thomas once again finds himself in the middle of some dangerous situations. With skill, determination, some luck and help from his friends he will deal with being in the middle of the drug wars of the 1980's. See the Bahamas, Cuba and South Florida, meet interesting people and try to avoid being killed by them. The game is on again, but this is no game

In 1981 the war on terror was still in its infancy. Americans had been held hostage in Iran for 444 days from November 1979 until January 1981. The attempt to rescue them had ended in embarrassing failure for the United States Military. The new administration had decided that we would not be put in that situation again. The twenty four hour news cycle was beginning to drive the actions of people and groups shouting for attention. These groups were learning to manipulate the media for their own ends. During this period in history there were many events that "officially" never occurred. Operation Sand Trap was one of these.

What if you grew up watching James Bond movies, the "Man from Uncle" and all of their imitators? What if you daydreamed about being that suave secret agent? What if you read all of the books: James Bond, Matt Helm, Mack Bolan, Remo Williams and all of the others? Perhaps someone like you did more than just dream about that future. Perhaps someone taught themselves the tradecraft and techniques to prepare for that career. Sure to you it was just a dream, a Spy Dream, but what if someone got really good at it? What if the right people found out about that person? What if they got the chance to live the "Spy Dream" that you had only fantasized about? Would you have taken the chance?

What begins as an attempted robbery of a Big Box store quickly becomes more than the thieves bargained for when one is killed and the other three taken into custody. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lee Thomas does not look for trouble, but it seems to find him and Lee faces trouble head on and full tilt. Someone has to do it and he has the will and the skill set. Going after an experienced member of a clandestine agency is not a smart move. Involving his family is a very bad thing if you are a member of that gang. When you go after a man with the ability to bring the full force of the US government down on you it will not end well. From the opening shootout to a clandestine operation in Guatemala with weapons of mass destruction, human trafficking and smuggling in between it does not go well for the bad guys. Even worse for them is involving Lee Thomas's family. You don't mess with family and threatening a man who does not care if you live or die is a bad thing to do. "unFriendly Persuasion" continues the action and attitude that people have come to expect from Lee Thomas.