Bøker av Ken Baysinger

By the time he was 77 years old, David Adelman knew that his body was failing.When he read about a seminar that would explore the medical possibilities for getting a fresh chance at being young, David's curiosity was more than just academic.Despite his skepticism, he buys a $25,000 membership in the Human Transmigration Project; and ten years later, barely clinging to life, he learns that he holds the winning ticket in mankind's greatest lottery. And this isn't a simple game of chance. It is cutting-edge medical technology, and David becomes the subject of history's first human transmigration.But his new life holds a shocking surprise that forces him to question some of his life-long beliefs about human nature. Even as he makes the unexpectedly difficult transition into his new life, he finds himself at the center of a mystery that escalates into a desperate fight for the life of a girl he knows only through a strangely vivid recurring dream.And when questionable accidents start taking lives in the small college town of Arcata, evidence stacks up against one young man whose motives are as sinister as his actions are devious, leading to a deadly showdown.

A century of political, military, and social history come together in a devastating confluence of evil in this panoramic tale woven out of seemingly unconnected people and events. The fictional plot is intricately interwoven with little-known historical facts that make the incredible story frighteningly believable.A treasure hunter in Key West in the 1950s, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in the 1960s, anti-war activists in the 1970s, eco-warriors in the 1980s, post-cold war subversives, international terrorists, a present-day whitewater river guide, and a burned-out detective from LAPD, form the cast of characters. Frustrated that their "revolution" never materialized, a cadre of geriatric radicals hatches a plot to blow up hydropower dams in the Pacific Northwest and replicate the great ice-age floods that carved the Columbia River Gorge. They get support through an uneasy alliance between old-line communists, the new incarnation of Russia's KGB, the government of Iran, and a would-be terrorist in Key West who has possession of a cold war era hydrogen bomb.Undetected by Homeland Security, the unfolding plot is uncovered by "Swede" Larsson, Town Marshal in Riggins, Idaho (population 406), while investigating the seemingly accidental drowning of a young man in the Salmon River. As the scope of the conspiracy becomes apparent, Swede is joined in a desperate race to prevent a cataclysmic flood by his river guide friend Cassidy Pierce and former Vietnam combat pilot Terry Caldwell.

Thirty-four gold miners lay dead on a gravel bar where Deadline Creek flows into the Snake River in the depths of Hells Canyon. From the surrounding bluffs, a small gang of cattle rustlers had poured gunfire down on the defenseless miners, who had committed two cardinal sins: they were Chinese, and they had found gold.A hundred twenty-five years later, a woman’s body is found in the Willamette River, wrapped in a piece of carpet and weighted down with a cast-iron anchor. Private investigator Corrigan, having just completed his investigation of the notorious Mendelson-Devonshire murders, once again finds himself trying to solve the murder of a victim whose body was pulled from the river many years after her death. In the course of his year-long investigation into the death of Tara Foster, Corrigan learns that there is no limit to the mayhem that is triggered by the lust for Deadly Gold.Ken Baysinger’s first novel, El Camino, is receiving rave reviews from readers and critics alike. Deadly Gold follows the ongoing adventures of investigator Corrigan and his associates in the tiny riverfront community of Canemah, Oregon. The author’s unique ability to weave fiction with fact gives his novels an aura of realism that keeps readers engaged and entertained. 

The Mendelson-Devonshire case was legendary. It was also political dynamite. In 1980, the disappearance of Jessie Devonshire and Randy Mendelson had been Portland’s biggest news story of the year. It remained the region’s most notorious unsolved case.It couldn’t even be properly called an unsolved crime because it had never been proven that a crime had been committed. All that was known was that fifteen-year-old Jessie Devonshire had vanished without a trace and that Randy Mendelson, a twentyyear-old landscaper, had disappeared at the same time.There were many theories regarding what happened, but facts were in short supply. The one fact that everyone knew was that Jessie Devonshire was the stepdaughter of Wilson Landis Devonshire, a well-connected political figure in Portland.In the apparent absence of any evidence, the case was set aside as a probable runaway by young lovers. And there it lay for thirty-two years, until a Chevrolet El Camino is pulled from the Willamette River. What is found inside turns the old case red hot. How many people will die before the truth is revealed?