G. S. Youngling

All a divorced, police detective named Will Staples wanted to do was take some personal time off and drive from Virginia to the mountains of Colorado. He wanted only to take a breath, relax and just get away... Midway, interrupted by a blinding late night blizzard, he had to leave the interstate highway finding himself in a totally different and unfamiliar world within a small town somewhere in Indiana. A brutal murder and the disappearance of two young girls introduce a combination of circumstances, interesting people and bizarre events that changed his life in that small town...That town was named Hartford City. G.S. Youngling is also the author of the action-packed book, Ozzi's Boys. He spent nearly 40 years within the law enforcement/security community in a number of different capacities. Retiring from the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia as a detective, he continued his career with the Department of Justice in Haiti. He developed and presided over a private security, investigation and protection company for over a decade traveling throughout Europe and the middle-east. He finally retired again from the Department of Defense as a law enforcement professional with the U.S. Army, completing two full tours of duty in Iraq between 2008 and 2011. He received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia - where he also taught Criminal Justice and Sociology. Currently he is living in Tucson, Arizona and volunteers with the US Forest Service for the Santa Catalina Ranger District. Refer to [email protected].

Set in the early 1970's, imagine five young men as members of the Central Intelligence Agency's team of top lock and safe technicians who were hand picked by the director of NSC (National Security Council) and trained to do both overt and covert operations. One op reveals an object involved in the assassination of an FBI undercover agent, the involvement of an anarchist college professor, and exposes both the directors of the CIA and FBI to catch the killer, stop the professor's disruption and prevent a National Security upheaval. From the jungles of Cambodia, to Washington DC, Indiana, Illinois, Bulgaria, and the USSR - this story takes you on a whirlwind adventure in the lives of these five team members, known only as Ozzi's Boys. G.S. Youngling was once a trained lock & safe technician within the US Government, then proceeded on to a law enforcement career in Northern Virginia, retiring as Master Police Officer- Detective. During his career he was assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration working covertly on the Clandestine Laboratory Task Force, Vice-Narcotics, Crime Analysis and Criminal Investigations. Post retirement, he teamed with security training for the 1996 Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and later joined the Department of Justice's ICITAP program (International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program) and became assistant director in Port Au Prince, Haiti and Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. Later he served two full tours in Iraq with the US Army, fully embedded, uniformed, armed and ranked as a Law Enforcement Professional and senior advisor, ending his service in 2011. He received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts Degrees from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Currently he is living in Tucson, Arizona and volunteers with the US Forest Service for the Santa Catalina Ranger District.