General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction.A man of substance where foreign policy is concerned, he has served in theatres from the Artic to the jungle but is perhaps best known for his role in charge of the British troops to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, for assembling the British ground component o...

Baghdad Butcher is the first book of my nine book "Janitors" series. The team—formed at the end of this book—which does off the books (black bag) jobs directly for the President doesn't actually pick up the name "Janitors" until the second book. Most of the main (good guys) characters in all nine books have military backgrounds, with a few still active duty military personnel included.The time frame of the series runs from approximately nine months prior to the 9/11 Islamic terrori...

Jim Scott and friends (now called Janitors—as in they clean up other people's messes) are back for another kick at the can in Back to Iraq, the second book of the nine-book "Janitor" series. All the folks who helped Jim and Holly in Baghdad Butcher are back, with a few new additions. The basic team set-up at the end of Butcher is augmented by a new character. We also have a briefly mentioned character in this book who will become prominent in later books when he joins the team.This...

In Jim Scott Book #44, A MURDER…PLUS, a very wealthy woman is found dead in her home. Frank Sansone, a Detective Lieutenant of the Utah Department of Public Safety winds up handling the case, after the Park City Utah Chief of Police asks for the states help. In talking to an employee of the dead lady, who found the body, it is soon determined that there are at least three prime suspects, none of whom turned out to be the killer.One of those suspects once had a rather long relations...

THE CHICKEN HUNT is Jim Scott Book #43. In it Army Sergeant Major Kenneth (Ken) Novak, is due to retire later in the day, has found a house to buy in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, and goes into a bank there to open a new checking account.That day, and the next, cram quite a bit into the life of Ken. He gets the account open, and a date with the lady who opens it, gets his discharge, and is called back to active duty in the Army. Also, on the date he manages to stop a man from shootin...

DINGUS MONROE is Jim Scot Book #41. In this book, Dingus is now employed by X Group, and is tasked with tracking down a rouge senator, who has been selling government secrets to the Chinese for years, and has also profited from pushing bills in Congress favoring various companies, at a great reward for him. He also pilfered his own various campaign funds of a great amount of money.He has a well-designed escape plan, which he puts to use when he discovers someone has found out his m...

GENE'S LONG TREK is Jim Scott book #42. In it, recently retired Army Special Forces Sergeant Major Gene Foreman bought a house needing substantial rehabilitation. His idea was to flip the house after he did all the rehab work needed on the house, mostly by himself. When he had in his mind that the house about 80% finished, he is worn out, and decides to stop for a while. He had been thinking about looking up an old friend from the Army, one who had, in Gene's words, taught him how to be so...

JSB #40 – X GROUP, is an action packed thriller starting off with recently forced to retire CIA agent Larry White seeing two men trying to abduct a small, 5'5" woman, named Joan Dodge. While she fights back with some degree of success, Larry goes to lend her a hand. Between them, they disarm the two men, and scare off the driver of the van the men had come out of. Larry soon finds out Joan has just been fired by Homeland Security, and in short order they discover they are both unemployed f...

ANGIE DOES HAWAII is Jim Scott Book #39. This novel is a humorous Romance novel (with a WWII mystery tossed in). Angie Breite, the wife of Navy Captain Vic Breite, informs him she has purchased, with his approval and signature on the contract, a four and half acres piece of property, for $50,000.00. Due to the land prices in Hawaii, the price was way below what it should have been. The rub was there was a building, called a mansion or a castle, by Angie, which was in total disrepair. They ...

Dog Pound is the third book in the "Janitors Series," following Baghdad Butcher and Back to Iraq. However, with the exception of a cameo appearance, Jim Scott and the Janitors take a vacation in this book. A new batch of characters, three of whom join the team in later books, are introduced in this one. Three more characters herein offer varying degrees of assistance to the Janitors in later adventures of the team.When one goes to bed with the devil, one should expect the results o...

THE NAKED PLUMBER is Jim Scott Book #37. This is another cozy mystery. In it, Detective Ward Newman of the Troy Police department is assigned a case where a headless body is found. After finding the head, and determining it had been cut off with a sharp instrument, after death, the search is on for the killer. After doing some investigating, it is soon determined there are a number of possible suspects, including the local prosecuting attorney, but reasonable alibis start to pile up. One p...

Protecting Nikola is Jim Scott Book #33, and in this novel Jim and friends are faced with defeating a major terrorist plot to terrorize the United States with a series of terrorist acts. As they try to unravel the layers of the plot, it turns into a much more deadly situation.After the local police department, with assistance from Jim and a few friends, take out a terrorist group who had planned an ambush, they coordinate with Hector Garcia in L.A., and th...