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Book details
  • Genre:FICTION
  • SubGenre:Thrillers / General
  • Language:English
  • Series title:Saving Family First
  • Series Number:1
  • Pages:349
  • eBook ISBN:9781617922312

Twisted Fate

Robert Davis Series

by John Boyd

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Overview
ROBERT DAVIS, a Military Intelligence officer, is tasked under secret orders by the U.S. President to find and rescue the President’s son who is taken hostage with three CIA operatives in Cuba. In a race against time with Cuba’s FIDEL CASTRO threatening to fire three ICBM’s (Russian Era) at the U.S., ROBERT DAVIS discovers a plot by powerful Cuban Americans, including a Cuban American Congressman, to use the President’s son as a pawn pushing U.S. and Cuba into war. ROBERT DAVIS rescues the President’s son and CIA agents with the help of an aging Cuban female who is also a spy for the CIA and sister of a former escaped lieutenant of FIDEL CASTRO. ROBERT DAVIS returns to the U.S. to find out that his mother has had a heart attack. He is so moved to be at her side he decides to leave the military and take over the family business which operates both in Colombia and the U.S,, headed by his mother. During his transition period as soldier to civilian, the U.S. working with the Colombian go
Description
ROBERT DAVIS and his brother born to a Colombian mother and an American father, who died in Vietnam, grow up in the United States. The brothers enter the Army after college and begin their journey through the Special Forces with the eldest brother ROBERT DAVIS ending up in Military Intelligence. By a twist of fate he and an elite force hunt down Osama Bin Laden days before 9/11 only to be ambushed and barely escape alive. Upon returning to the U.S. he is tasked under secret orders by the U.S. President to find and rescue the President’s son who is taken hostage with three CIA operatives in Cuba. In a race against time with Cuba’s FIDEL CASTRO threatening to fire three ICBM’s (Russian Era) at the U.S., ROBERT DAVIS discovers a plot by powerful Cuban Americans, including a Cuban American Congressman, to use the President’s son as a pawn pushing U.S. and Cuba into war. ROBERT DAVIS rescues the President’s son and CIA agents with the help of an aging Cuban female who is also a spy for the CIA and sister of a former escaped lieutenant of FIDEL CASTRO. His team captures the Cuban American conspirators then exchanges them in a negotiation with CASTRO to end hostilities between U.S. and Cuba. ROBERT DAVIS returns to the U.S. to find out that his mother has had a heart attack. He is so moved to be at her side he decides to leave the military and take over the family business which operates both in Colombia and the U.S, headed by his mother. During his transition period as soldier to civilian, the U.S. working with the Colombian government attack a camp of Colombia’s largest paramilitary group, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), and uncover a planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil. ROBERT DAVIS is again asked to perform a special black mission by the President this time taking him to his mother’s homeland of Colombia to stop the terrorist attack against the U.S., by the FARC and its secret leader, Gilberto Rodriguez supported by Bin Laden’s organization. ROBERT DAVIS puts together a team and uses a new computer satellite program “AMSAT” which stands for Automatic Manipulative Satellite Access Technology. The elite team and ROBERT DAVIS heads to Colombia under the cover of his family business to hunt the mysterious Gilberto Rodriguez. During ROBERT DAVIS’ mission, he falls in love with a Colombian girl whose own sister was kidnapped by Gilberto Rodriguez years earlier. Gilberto Rodriguez’s extensive field operatives track and capture both ROBERT DAVIS and his girlfriend and taken to the secret camp, to be interrogated by Gilberto Rodriguez. The appearance of ROBERT DAVIS’s long thought dead Colombian uncle, a former FARC member, raises suspicions from ROBERT DAVIS’s brother, but his uncle is the only one who can identify the FARC leader. An elite team led by ROBERT DAVIS’ younger brother utilizes the “AMSAT” program to track Gilberto Rodriguez and rescue ROBERT DAVIS, his girlfriend, and her sister. Gilberto Rodriguez is then taken to a U.S. safe house to extract information about the FARC’s connection to Bin Laden’s network of terrorists. To Gilberto Rodriguez undeniable complete surprise, ROBERT DAVIS’s first question placed Gilberto Rodriguez at Bin Laden’s camp on that fateful night of September 9, 2001.
About the author
John Boyd is a former international construction executive. He has lived in the Middle East, Asia, the United States and South America. His life, travels and experiences bring a unique perspective on the world. His wife Mariana, a Columbian citizen, also influences his writing through her life experiences and heritage. He also has two grown children Julia and Phillip. Besides English, John reads, writes and speaks Spanish fluently. He looks forward to continue his writing for years to come.