Carl Douglass

The Young Coyote tells the hard-hitting story of a boy from Cipher, Arizona who is expected to be a zero just like his town. He has no intention of fitting into that conventional wisdom and fights with his fists and his mind to get up and out of his straitened circumstances. He makes it to Stanford University with a pugnacious attitude where he meets snobbery and prejudice. At Stanford, he finds out that his real fight is just beginning. Garven Wilsonhulme will succeed at any cost.

War and the End Game is the twelfth and final book of the Sybil series: it has been a fun ride, and the author hopes you will enjoy the exciting finish. President Sybil Norcroft Daniels has one more test of her philosophy as an unaligned political figure: dealing with repression and discrimination against LGBTQQIAAP members of the navy; perhaps one crusade too many. The hostilities between the US and the DPRK escalate out of control with armed intrusions by America--dubbed a 'paper tiger' by the Precious Leader of the Hermit Kingdom--and a final risk taken by Chairman Kim and his cohort, the Supreme Leader of Iran. They fire nuclear-tipped ICBMs at CONUS, the last straw for President Daniels, who launches Operation EndgameWar. The epilogue deals with the results.

McGee on Trial for First Degree Murder is the eleventh book in the McGee & Associates Private Eyes series. The light and dark of the justice system enshroud McGee when he is accused of multiple first-degree murders with almost unassailable evidence against him. Federal courts, police and private investigators, biased cops, prosecutors, judges, drug lords, the Mafia, and his old friends, including the president, get involved. Finally, Joseph Patrick Aloysius Michael John McGee is found guilty and sent to live on death row until his execution. But is that all she wrote? You'll have to pay attention to detail to determine the what and why of the fast-moving action, complicated trials (plural), and the testimonies of honest witnesses and liars.

Book Nine of the MacGee series shines a spotlight on Ivory White, MacGee's partner and the firm's man of action. When MacGee Associates, the CIA, and FBI, team up with one of the few truly honest senior Mexican police commanders to interdict a cruel and violent human trafficking criminal organization, Ivory White is arrested and thrown in the worst of the worst Mexican prisons to send a message to US President Willets from the corrupt president of Mexico. Ivory suffers, and the world turns upside down below the US southern border. There is as much action as you could want: beatings, killings, rescues, prison breaks, work by sandhogs and Seabees in action, and revolution. And Ivory White is in the thick of it all.

Caitlin O'Brian is a most effective detective in the McGee Agency, but she does not always play by the rules... or the laws. She is angered at the core by a spate of kidnapping and trafficking of little girls. In her mind, the law is inept, and its enforcers are emasculated. There is no more time to follow that correct route, and she needs a new way. She knows all too well about a pair of influential twins who ignore the law and escape detection. Is she right in what she seems to be doing? Is she legal? Is she even safe? This book carries on from The Twinning Factor, and the story would be incomplete without Caitlin's fraught decision.

The Dutch Century: Domination of the Spice Trade at Any Cost is the second of three books about the remarkable 17th century, primarily owned by the Netherlands. It reveals--as historical fiction-the adventures, trials, risks, accomplishments, conflicts, atrocities, and crimes, of the Dutch and specifically of the Seagoing Van Brakel family.

The Twinning Factor: Perfect Murders, McGee Faces a Conundrum, Book Seven in the Joseph McGee: Private Investigator series, sees McGee assist DCIA Sybil Norcroft in the latter stages famous Beelzebub, the Magnificent dragnet, followed by his greatest conundrum ever. The story unravels the mysteries of trafficked girls, mass murders, perfect alibis, the problematical riddle posed by identical twins with one name. New Yorker, McGee ends up in a decrepit hacienda in Santa Rosa, Guadalupe County, New Mexico, as his likely last chance for success.

To Be Or Not To Be is the eighth book in the Sybil series and may prove to be one of the most upsetting. She is a reasonable government official trying to cope with an unreasonable world ruled by narcissistic sociopathic populists. The worst of the bunch is the Prime Minister of the UK--Brexit Style. She becomes embroiled in spy v. spy, navy v. navy, and ally v. ally in the most touchy, confusing, and changeable adventure of her action-packed career. It is exhausting and anxiety provoking for her and for the president who is ill.

Sybil Norcroft Meets the Devil is the seventh in the Sybil Norcroft series. The potential of high office is dangled by the president to the woman who has earned a BS degree in medical biology, an M.D. degree magna cum laude, is a FACS Fellow of the American College of Surgeons] and a FAANS Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons], and has earned a PhD in neurological studies. She has been a world-famous television medical consultant, a spy, and is now the DCIA Director of the Central Intelligence Agency]. But, there is no time to rest on her laurels. She must meet and defeat the monster--the real devil--who would destroy polite civilization, and soon. But first she has to find him, her, or it. This is her greatest adventure yet and might well be her last one.

The Rise and Fall of the Fifteenth Caliphate is as much about the involvement of American forces in regime change as it is about the Islamic State terrorists, because the two are so intertwined. This is historical fiction that has several prologues to highlight the CIA and US military covert wars in the Banana Republics, Afghanistan, Syria, Viet Nam, and Iraq and spans the period between 1903 to the present. The narrative-in-chief concerns the ongoing wars which give a fictional look into the Rise and Fall of the Islamic State--the grandiosely named Caliphate which mainstream Muslims and even most jihadist organizations insists is neither Islamic nor a state. It is about good but flawed people in a fight against colossal evil, and flawed people in a fight against Americans perceived as Crusaders. It is a no holds barred, no quarter asked and none given struggle that--at its core--is existential for civilization. It is also a heart wrenching story of a passionate platonic love of an important agent and a courageous girl.