Bøker av Myron E Ferdig

Alan Garrett receives a request from his old Air Force boss to find the general's derelict seventeen-year-old son. "He stole top secret files right off my desk, Garrett! Those files could jeopardize our operatives around the globe.He threatened to put them on the dark web, and sell them to the highest bidder. I need my son and those files back. -- But,It needs to be done 'under the radar.'" Alan takes the assignment, gives the case to his new recruit, Fox, figuring it would be good experience for her, involving little danger. --- A few days later she calls him . . . "I found him, Bossman. He's in Key West, Florida. I sent you an e-mail and some pictures. I'm going to dinner; call me in an hour. We'll discuss how to proceed bringing him back. Alan calls after the hour . . . no answer. He continues calling throughout the night. Liz never picks up. Now he's worried. The next morning he takes an early flight from LAX to Key West.

Young Adult Novel set in the early 1850's before statehood in the New Mexico territory. The story centers around two major characters: young, Molly Broderick and Buzz Calder, the town Blacksmith. Back in 1845, the Brodericks, a sheepherding family from Utah had just purchased land near the small, fictitious village of Warm Springs, New Mexico. hoping to raise sheep. They hadn't even settled into their new digs when marauders swooped down and destroyed both man and beast. The only survivor was ten-year-old Molly. She was taken in by the local doctor and his wife. Now fifteen, Molly is a vibrant, precocious member of the community -- a bit headstrong, but ever trying to increase in knowledge and understanding. She has several mentors, but especially the town blacksmith, whom she affectionately calls "Uncle Buzz." In a prior life, Buzz Calder had been an attorney in Kansas City, Missouri. After four years of sitting in an office going over case law, or standing before a judge, arguing over foul deeds of miscreants or issues of slave ownership, he realized he was yearning for a more active lifestyle; the west was calling him. His father offered him a partnership in the gunsmithing business, but after less than a year, he bid adieu to his folks and hitched a ride on a west bound wagon-train. That was more than a dozen years ago. He wound up in Warm Springs, and with the "gun-smithing" he'd experienced in his dad's shop, he thought he'd try his hand at the forge. Our story wends it way through and between the lives of these two -- and others along the way. It's a "feel good", story from start to finish. There are good guys and bad guys; good times and bad; heartache and laughter. romance and mayhem. Come along for a wholesome adventure story of the old west.

On the Farm with Harry -- BOOK 2 -- The Happy Farmer is the sequel to On the Farm with Harry -- BOOK 1 --The Move. It's a chapter book -- Written for a parent/grandparent to read to a child with questions for interactive discussion at the end of each short chapter. A family of three (soon to be four), Mom, Dad and Harry (a boy just turning 5) moved from Chicago to a small family farm in Wisconsin. Harry now has a puppy to care for; Dad just bought a crate of baby chicks which gives Harry learning opportunities -- caring for the chicks as they grow -- the daily supply of food and water, locking the henhouse each night, gathering eggs as they become full-grown. Other chores need doing -- Dad and Harry plant a garden and now it needs tending.-- Harry is a big help, there as well. . But there are fun times, too. Harry's birthday party with new neighbor friends -- playing games, listening to Dad reading a book,, eating popcorn, Mom and Dad are always encouraging Harry, and he is learning to be positive, thoughtful, courteous, determined, and responsible. The story is not a fantasy -- There are no Wizards, no Fairies, no Magic Portals, or Genies granting Wishes -- Instead, this story is a realistic fictional account of a modern-day family with Christian values who have decided to escape the roar of the big city -- to rear their children in rural America. : .

Alan Garrett comes home to California after a twenty-year career as an Air Force Special Investigator. He sets up shop in Manhattan Beach as a newly-licensed Private Eye. He receives an invitation, and decides to attend his high school twenty-year reunion -- even though he remembers almost none of his fellow graduates. "Might be a blast" he thinks -- renew old friendships, have a few laughs, exchange some war stories, might even be good for business, " I'll pass out some business cards . . . drum up some business." . Little does Alan know that this night will materialize into his first major case. He has stumbled upon an evil which has grown in scope to affect scores, even hundreds of unwitting victims, and left a trail of blood, starting with a pool at his very feet on this reunion evening.

3rd in a series of crime stories featuring private eye, Alan Garrett. After a twenty-year career as an Air Force investigator, operates an agency in Manhattan Beach, CA. often joins the short-staffed or overwhelmed police, solving or identifying culprits and bringing them to justice, using appropriate force, as necessary. Inspector Morris - boss of the Hermosa police precinct - needs help. He turns to PI Alan Garrett for assistance. It seems handguns by the dozens are being passed out to the homeless and tent-dwellers in the Southland. Some guns are turned in, only to disappear from police lock-up. Turns out, Alan uncovers more -- much more! Murder, Intrigue, Corruption -- from the Santa Barbara coast to Mexican border! Nonstop action, with a splash of humor and romance, provides an entertaining and exciting story.