Larry Simmons

In 1979, Americans were stunned when the Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua with assistance from paramilitary advisors from Cuba and covert military aid from the Soviet Union. Communism crept one step closer to our backdoor when Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a nemesis of Fidel Castro for providing support to the US during the Bay of Pigs invasion, fled to Miami along with the exhumed coffins of his parents. President Carter denied him sanctuary so he sought refuge in Paraguay where he was assassinated in 1980 by a Sandinista hit team in a mission they called "Operation Reptile." The most intriguing tale of the Sandinista revolution is what happened to the gold bullion in the Nicaraguan treasury. "So where is the gold?" Mike asked. "Your guess is as good as mine," Cole replied. He looked at Somoza's plane as it banked out over Lake Managua and shook his finger at it. "Looks like Somoza outsmarted Perez and all the other tin-pot wanna be Castros."

Enjoy this trip into the world of the terrorist and the counterterrorist. My broken SEALs are handicapped men the military has mustered out of the service. They run afoul of S-Systems Corporation, a privately funded front-company that possesses awesome surveillance capability they do not hesitate to use without a court order. Believe it The ends, after all, justify the means when millions of lives are at stake. Or do they? Commander Evans is electronically frisked at a most private moment, violated by Big Brother while on a mission to prevent the seals to some very deadly viruses from being broken by terrorists. And the terrorist? They have cause and grievance for their rage. Like the American Indian they have been dispossessed by a flood of immigrants, themselves fleeing brutality, oppression, and injustice. The cycle of rage and violence continues from generation to generation, passed on from father to son like family violence and poverty. We must protect ours volatile facilities. We are in the FRAG ZONE

Join Melanin Origins as we tell the fun-filled account of the Tuskegee Airmen and the man who pioneered the skies to make their existence possible - Chief Charles Anderson. Chief Anderson was a forerunner; a flight instructor in the beginning days of the Tuskegee Institute. Author Larry Simmons Jr. penned this story of accomplishments in flight and in moral character with hopes to awaken the determined, persevering, and ambitious nature in every child who reads this book.

Saint Anthony's Fire is an action adventure novel that revolves around chemical and biological weapons and what could be happening to former Soviet black weapons. In this novel Soviet Major Alexander Gurnov relives the horrors of his wars in horrible nightmares that drive him to escape his reality, and vodka is insufficient for the task. He is the ring leader of a Muscovite Mafia that seizes a Russian freighter loaded with black weapons. The denouement takes place in the mouth of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as U.S. Navy Seals risk it all to defuse a weapon of mass destruction.

Free Enterprise is an action adventure novel that revolves about the War on Drugs. From Bolivia to New Orleans, the novel takes a trip into the world of the smuggler and those who would stop their criminal enterprise. Jack Duran, a young Seal Lieutenant assigned to train a secret Colombian special operations unit, runs head first into reality and finds out that perception is reality..., and that reality can be damned. Like many men involved in the war on drugs, the Seals are sent off to the struggle not really knowing the nature of the problem. They stumble into it like a troop of soldiers on night maneuvers in a field full of cow pies. The nature of the problem is human nature in all its facets: Greed, corruption, the desire for power, the drive to survive amidst grinding poverty, and the desire to escape reality if only for the moment. The means of smuggling are real. Anything goes. Anything conceivable from submarines to honey coated plastic pellets swallowed, transported and excreted by international travelers. The naivet and the deceit are real. Only the story is fiction.