Far from his home in Kemmerer, Wyoming, Kit Andrews is in unfamiliar territory in Montana. Alone, on vacation, he is forced to work as a tracker for a Mexican cartel to help them track and find a rogue cartel member who got caught by police, offered to testify against the cartel, and then escaped from the police. The rogue cartel man has entered Glacier National Park, headed for the Canadian border. Alone in some f the wildest territory in the United States with four Mexican cartel men, Ki...

This story features Gary “Swifty” Olson. Swifty has been Kit Andrews partner in their company for several years. After receiving a phone call from his sister notifying him of his father’s death, Swifty takes time off to see his mother and attend the funeral. When he gets to the family ranch in Cody, Wyoming, he visits the scene of the auto accident his father died in. What he finds doesn’t make sense, so he begins to snoop around and ask questions. The answers are elusive, and he finds clu...

This book is a sequel to my previous novel, “The Test.”A year after the end to the livestock rustling in western Wyoming, a different problem faces the stockmen. Someone is deliberately killing entire herds of livestock indiscriminately and doing it with high powered rifles. The killers are leaving little or no trace of their identity. The crime makes no sense. Rifle ammunition is not cheap, and the bodies of the dead livestock have been left on the winter desert floor for scavenge...

A collection of short stories collected during my years of working and living in Illinois, Wyoming, and Colorado.

A divorced financially successful father who was has been denied access to his three sons for the past ten years desires to learn what kind of young men they have become and how prepared to face the challenges of life ahead of them. he devises a test and uses deception to lure them into it.

On a cold fall morning in Kemmerer, Wyoming, Carson “Kit” Andrews is walking to his office after a breakfast with two of his oldest friends. A thirteen-year-old boy confronts Carson “Kit” Andrews in front of his office. The young boy asks Kit to find his father, who he has never met and who has no idea he has a son. The boy offers to pay Kit for his services by producing a sock from his jeans pocket and dumping a small pile on coins on the desk. Kit removes four quarters and tells the boy ...

Kit is hired by an older woman to find her daughter, whom she gave up for adoption at birth almost forty-five years ago. The daughter had served twenty years in the U.S. Air Force, but when she retired, she disappeared. Her last known location was Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The mother had hired a private investigator to search for her daughter, but he came up empty in Cheyenne and recommended she hire Kit, whose company specializes in finding lost people and things. The se...

Curiosity has caused Carson “Kit” Andrews to drive over twelve hundred miles from his home in Kemmerer, Wyoming, back to Kankakee, Illinois, for his tenth high school reunion—curiosity in the form of finding out what has become of his classmates and friends after ten years in the real world. When he arrives in Kankakee, he encounters his best friend from high school, Mike “Stoney” Stoneman, who has also returned for the reunion, but for a different reason. In high school, Stoney was a quie...

Kit Andrews, owner of Rocky Mountain Searchers, receives a request from a woman in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to locate her missing son. Her son, a twenty-seven-year-old ex-Marine, disappeared two years before after being discharged from the Marine Corps at the conclusion of two tours of duty in Iraq as a scout sniper. The woman requires Kit to travel from Kemmerer, Wyoming, to Santa Fe to meet with her personally. When Kit arrives in New Mexico, he receives a shocking surprise about the identi...

In 1928 a U.S. Airmail airplane crashed during a storm somewhere in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. The pilot, the plane, the mailbag and a special precious cargo were never found.In 2013 a cowboy searching for some lost cattle stumbled on a remnant of the wrecked airplane. Because of the precious cargo the airplane carried, this discovery triggers a no-holds barred search for the crash site by competing treasure hunters including some who do not hesitate to kill anyone who ge...

In the summer of 1941, the area around Kemmerer, Wyoming, is still in the grip of the Great Depression. World War II rages overseas in Europe and Asia but is not yet a reality in the United States. This is the story of eight young men, newly graduated from Kemmerer High School, as they make their journey from boyhood to manhood in a summer filled with new challenges, new opportunities, and new dangers. Some will succeed. Some will fail. This is their story.

A chance discovery of a dusty leather-bound notebook hidden in the wall of an old Illinois farm house being demolished sets off a treasure hunt in South Carolina. Kit Andrews and Swifty Olsen set out for South Carolina in a search for Confederate gold buried in February of 1865 using a notebook and map made by Kit's great-great grandfather who served with the 102nd Illinois Infantry regiment in the Civil War under General Sherman. Their serach accidentally uncovers a smuggling operation an...