James Clay

A group of mage martial artists gave Zed a choice: indentured servitude or death. They belong to a military sect whose whole purpose is to kill invaders like Zed and the Earthlings that are coming in a year and a half. The group's leader spares Zed for unclear reasons. Still, he forces Zed to steal, destroy, and kill for him. Zed desperately wants to return to the refuge he was creating for humanity with his friends. He slowly realizes, though, that if he wants to escape his captors and save a portion of humanity, he may have to let go of his own.

FUSAICHI PEGASUS WON THE KENTUCKY DERBY RACE IN 2000. THE FIRST FAVORED HORSE TO WIN SINCE 1979. That win set off a riveting tale of a global race to acquire the horse for breeding. A tale that involved the richest horse farms in the world. A race that culminated in the greatest price ever paid for a racehorse. No other racehorse has ever generated such interest or price. This true story details the personal journey of James Clay. An attorney, working on the sunny side of the Big Island of Hawaii in the provincial town of Kailua-Kona, when a phone call about a golf game with a Japanese stranger set the wheels in motion for this engrossing tale. He ended up representing the Japanese owner of "Pegasus". The only non-Japanese representative on a small team of Japanese that travelled on an 18 month journey circling the globe to complete the largest sale in the history of thoroughbred horse racing. A story not so much about horse racing, rather about the racing industry, controlled at the top by the richest horse farms in the world. Sheik Maktoum of Dubai, John Magnier, owner of Coolmore Farm in Ireland, along with Ashford Stud in Kentucky and Coolmore Australia, the largest and richest farm in the world, Robert Clay, owner of Three Chimneys in Kentucky where Seattle Slew stood. Terry Yoshida of Shadai Farm in Japan. Billionaires. All jousting for the privilege of purchasing Pegasus to control breeding for the next 20 years. Come into this rarified world of private jets to California, Kentucky, New York, Paris, Ireland and Japan as the author attended three winners' circles. How he set up a revolutionary auction for the sale of Pegasus, complete with envelopes under the door. How he had to resurrect the final sale after being mislead as to the ownership of Pegasus causing the richest contract to be cancelled. Learn about syndication and how it affects the price in todays racing world and why the first Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup Classic winner, American Pharaoh and Triple Crown winner Justify will never run again.

When Boyd Matheson rides into Gradyville, Arizona, he discovers a town that lives in fear of a despot. Bull Grady founded the town, yet now demands that all business establishments pay him `rent'. Those who disobey risk death. Grady has summoned Matheson, a hired gun, to kill the town's sheriff. When Matheson refuses, Grady has the sheriff murdered and Matheson framed for the crime. With help from those in the town who are opposing Bull Grady, Matheson escapes the rope but still finds himself in peril. The townfolk who rescued the gunman now want him to become their sheriff and help dispose of the tyrant. An upcoming election for mayor turns Gradyville into a battleground as the new sheriff must risk his own life to ensure an honest outcome. But Bull Grady isn't Boyd Matheson's only enemy. A smoker since boyhood, cigarettes and even cigarette smoke thrust Matheson into terrible coughing fits. After a series of brutal encounters with Grady's henchmen, Matheson's chest tightens as he stands in Bull Grady's smoke-filled office for a final duel with the tyrant's fastest gun.

When Sheriff Boyd Matheson arrests Russ Cavanaugh for murdering a man during a bank robbery, he puts himself and the town of Gradyville in a treacherous position. Russ’s father, the infamous Judge Cavanaugh, orders his band of thugs to start killing innocent townspeople. A man of huge political ambitions, Judge Cavanaugh soon manages to persuade many people that Matheson is behind the lawlessness that is ravaging the town. Matheson must stop the man who aims both to have a murderer released and to bring his murderous ways to the office of the Governor of Arizona. But Matheson’s time is short. Once a heavy smoker, he has given up tobacco too late. As the sheriff trains his deputy to take his place, he must also mask the affection he has for a young woman who is determined to move closer to him.

Just One Thing is an examination of a meaningful life by discussing the concepts of awareness, reason, change and creation.