Jackstraw

Thomas Jackstraw heir to a long family tradition of proud military men was drummed out of West Point twenty years ago when he wouldn't denounce fellow cadets for cheating. In the two decades since he has traveled the world as a highly paid mercenary. His latest job takes him to a small backwater republic in South America where he spends his nights drinking and his days trying to build an army from a ragtag group of rebels. So when Jackstraw an excellent marksman is offered a small fortune to fake the assassination of a U.S. vice-presidential candidate things get really complicated-especially when he and the attractive amoral politician Rachel Valentine meet and hit it off very very well. Jackstraw suspects a double-cross however and plots an alternate escape route. But he’s a step behind the trickery. When the staged shooting goes horribly awry he barely survives and makes his way back to the U.S. where he becomes a fugitive hunted by every law enforcement agency in the nation.<BR> <br> From the jungles of South America and the peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the backrooms and bedrooms of a presidential campaign <I>Jackstraw</I> is both a thrilling adventure story and a tangled tale of redemption greed power—and even love.<BR>