BUCKALOO RIDGE

About the Book

The residents of Buckaloo Ridge become interested spectators when a successful chemist and inventor's life falls apart after the tragic death of his wife and he takes the law in his own hands. As BJ descends into a world he never knew existed his life becomes a wild ride full of surprising twists and turns that will have the reader wondering what's coming next. A CIA agent is working a special OP the vice president has set up to learn how drugs are making their was from Mexico to the troops in Viet Nam. BJ and Hawk, a former marine that had saved BJ's life in Korea, become mercenaries for the CIA and everyone's plans may be compromised when the fingerprints of a man who has been dead for over two years turn up at a crime scene. An intriguing tale of espionage, deceit and lies with a surprise ending the reader will not see coming.

About the Author

FA (Freddie) Shepherd is a retired research chemist, retiring from Tennessee Eastman's Research Laboratories in 1992. After retiring he began spending his winters playing golf and fishing at Bob's Landing in Florida and his summers in a house that he built himself on TVA's Cherokee Lake in East Tennessee. He is an army veteran with service in Germany in 1958, and was in the Tennessee National Guard for more than 10 years. He is a Christian and has been a member of Colonial Heights Christian Church for more than 45 years. He now lives in Gray, Tennessee and enjoys playing golf and writing. Freddie has a way of seamlessly blending history with fiction and some of his own experiences to weave a variety of partly truth and partly fiction stories and tales.