"Patrolling Portland's Liquid Streets"As a frozen fog lifts, River Patrol Deputy, Jason Colefield, motors ashore on idyllic Sauvie Island to recover a body. Colefield has a history with the Pacific Northwest Island and any return triggers unpleasant boyhood memories. This visit he comes face-to-face with his childhood nemesis, now a timeworn man, who leads him to the bullet riddled body of a young boy he claims he stumbled upon while hunting. Colefield suspects the man is lying but ...

A military thriller about a Vietnamese Investigator assigned to hunt down a war hero supposedly missing in action but whose fingerprints have turned up at a murderscene in New Orleans. Love, betrayal, honor, and a weird twist of justice play out as Jack Vu travels from coast to coast searching for former soldiers hiding a cache of stolen gold.

River Patrol Deputy Jason Colefield is back at it. Charged with investigating a mysterious accident on the water, he uncovers a population of miscreants, homeless and survivalists living on the river's islands. One of them holds the secret to what happened that night. And it will take every weapon in his arsenal to bring down the killer now hunting him.

What secrets lie hidden in the WWII Harley-Davidson motorcycles? Why was a bookish young man assassinated in a crowded train depot? And when do avenging angels cross the line to become killers? Follow Air Force investigator Jack Vu as his hunt for a murderer uncovers a long hidden government cover-up of American and Nazi looting of priceless art on a scale unprecedented in European history. This historically accurate tale forces moral choices by these unforgettable characters that will sta...

River Patrol Deputy, Jason Colefield, returns to solve a different type of crime scene–a battered female body floating in a water feature in full view of a high-rise condo, yet no witnesses. Was it a gruesome murder or despondent suicide? Uncovering the fact that she was a PI, Colefield wonders if her death is somehow connected to a bitter union war and a missing ship's captain. As leads turn into ghosts, he turns to his attractive new partner to gain her feminine perspective. He hopes col...

The snagged female corpse wasn't the only life washed ashore that year. Hurricane Katrina had inflicted merciless destruction across the South and Air Force Special Investigator, Jack Vu, finds himself among thousands displaced by the storm. Forced to live in a barracks, Jack anticipates the solitude of a Louisville hotel room while investigating the apparent suicide. After another grisly discovery, Vu encounters unlikely partners in two Big Easy cops, one of whom is jailed for murder. In ...

The Indian boy's sagging corpse, seated high in the rainforest canopy, inexplicably sported a NY Yankee baseball cap. The grisly discovery made by a mischievous capuchin shakes loose a deadly eyelash viper and a stack of blood spattered money, triggering a chain reaction which includes: a driven eco-activist, a protective expat soldier, drug cartels, veterinarians, local authorities and two burnt out American tourists who came to the lush Costa Rican rainforest for a much needed rest. The ...

When Air force Special Investigator, Jack Vu, is approached at his promotion party by an attractive Vietnamese woman, he is surprised to learn she is an old family friend now a member of the renown USAF Tops in Blues vocal group, and she needs his help.The last time Vu saw Me Long she was just a little girl. She tells him that earlier in the week, a photographer approached her in the French Quarter and kissed her. She slapped the man, but he became confused and thinks she is joking....

Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on MaxWinner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First NovelWinner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of TIME’s 100 Best...

"In this memoir, the son of an anonymous American GI and a wealthy Vietnamese woman relives ten years of hell in South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon."*Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April thirty, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated and decimated country, Kien was more at risk than most because of his odd blond h...

"A brilliantly written memoir in which a young Vietnamese-American uses a bicycle journey in his homeland as a vehicle to tell his eventful life story." — Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Whiting Writers' AwardA Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the YearCatfish and...

When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him.H...