TAN LINES, DEATH AND MONEY

It looked like it was going to be one of those weekends when everything was just going to be great.  The sun was shining, business was going okay, I guess, with just a couple of little bugs to work out.  But no real major problems at this point, and then wouldn't you know it?  Things started happening like women with no tan lines and lots of money laying around for the taking.  The only problem was both the good-looking women and all the money had a lot of death connected to them.  Now as for the tan lines, I had nothing to do with all of those beautiful bodies who liked to get tan and lay around in the sun with nothing on.  I'm no prude and I certainly do not object when women, especially beautiful ones, like to parade around in front of me without anything on.  Actually I enjoy it and encourage them to do it as often as they would like, the more the better and that goes both for them and their wonderful gorgeous bodies.

Next comes the money part, oh there was a lot of it out there and it was there for the taking.  Well, first of all it was money that had been gained through the illegal sale of marijuana and other illegal substances, then it had been stolen from the people who had gotten it by selling the stuff in the first place.  Now the people who stole it from the first people were bigger low lifes than the first group of people.

So I figures that if anyone should have it, why shouldn't it be me.  Come on, get real, you would figure the same way only in my case I have the know-how, the means and a lack of conscience when it comes to dealing with bad guys that it takes to pull it off.  That brings up the third item on the list.  Death.  I also am very capable and did leave a lot of death in my wake over the next three days.

My name is Colt Hardin.  I own and run several security businesses in the northern California area.  The year is 1972 and it is a time of free love, drugs, hippies, and a whole generation of people who did not believe the world would last another 10 years.  So they figured to enjoy themselves as much as they could for now because the older generation was going to blow everything up anyway.

This is the first of a series of books about Colt Hardin.  The trouble that he gets into and out of in his own unique way.  He definitely runs into a lot of ladies with no tan lines, death and money.  Whenever you think you have him figured out he will definitely deliver up a surprise ending.

Ernest E. Baker was born in Berkeley, California, in 1939. He was raised on a horse ranch out of Fresno and went to a one-room schoolhouse with one child in each grade from the first through the seventh grades. His father invented the section mold for recapping tires and travelled all over the world setting up tire mold plants under the Marshall plan, giving Ernest a broad view on education and world affairs at a young age. Ernest attended twelve different schools before finally quitting to join military service. Upon returning to California, he finished his education including college and worked at numerous jobs doing everything from commercial fishing in Alaska to repossessions and collections in the backwoods country of northern California. Some of the businesses he owned and operated were a security company, a process serving service, a repossession company, a burglar alarm monitoring station, a bodyguard service, and a private investigation company. The occurrences and adventures that he encountered in the above mentioned enterprises are what the stories in his first books are centered around. In later books the stories are based on situations and adventures he encountered after moving to Nevada. His involvement and relationships with casino owners, movie stars and high profile people who are involved with the gaming industry and the fast moving high life that comes with being a part of the stories that don’t always get told. In Nevada he managed properties, was a state lobbyist, horse trainer, wagon driver, bodyguard, casino manager, teacher of professional protective services, chief of security for both casino and private individuals of high-profile, dog trainer for narcotics and attack dogs as well as search and seizure dogs. While being a specialist in most any type of weapon. He loves collecting colt single action revolvers.