Jeffrey A Pitts
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Once a primary teacher in Oregon, tiny Julia Hampton rises to the top of an elite cadre of assassins. Her quiet life upends with the murder of her parents and sister, and Julia seeks to put a stop to those responsible. Her success is noticed by an organization dedicated to the same task on a grand scale: eliminate anyone importing and selling narcotics. Julia accepts assignments as a contract killer for The Company and makes a name for herself as J.
Settling in rural Idaho to live alone as a substitute teacher in town offers a low-profile base for assignments. Dawson Pelletier owns a nearby farm and looks after Julia’s place when J is away. All goes well until she’s wounded and barely makes it home. She finds her neighbour is much more than a gentleman farmer when only one of his many hidden resources is to become her expert caregiver.
Her thirst for vengeance sated and faced with her mortality, Julia notifies The Company that the assignment she barely survives is her last, and she’ll return to teaching fulltime, but her resignation is rejected unless she fulfils a final contract. Against previous rules of engagement, her target is outside US borders, so she must leave her familiar firearm behind and find alternate means to terminate a giant ex-athlete responsible for importing tons of drugs stateside each week. J must take on a brute three times her size if she is to have a chance to return to the quiet life and budding romance wants.
After told her former employers promised no more wet work, assassin Julia Pelletier returns to her profession as a substitute primary schoolteacher waiting for full time employment. Joyful over reaching young minds again, she leaves The Company, never forgetting a price was once offered for her head.
Dawson trusts The Company less than his wife. When she accompanies him on a backcountry hunt and is wounded by an unknown shooter, he fears the worst. After she heals, and they are offered a long-awaited wilderness trip by their friend, Dawson’s worst fears are realized. Aware of Julia’s former job, nothing prepares him for her ferocious offensive.
Julia switches to the code name J and becomes cold and calculating. Dawson is aware she prefers to work alone, but asks former soldiers he served with to help. J becomes edgier as they close in on their prey, distrustful of everyone including Dawson, even using him as a prop when opportunities arise. The executive surrounded by bodyguards doesn’t slow J’s onslaught, and she leaves no one alive.
Needing time to decompress, Dawson and J stay with their friends while waiting to make their next hit, allowing alter-ego Julia to reemerge. Even though Dawson saves her life, Julia leaves him behind to be a far more efficient killer.
Returning to Idaho without his wife is difficult, and seeing her trapped in a burning building on the news causes him to fear the worst. Then his situation is exacerbated by a ten-person kill team sent after him. Pursued through deep snow and arctic temperatures, Dawson can only fight for his own life while terrified for his wife’s.
A MAN ATTEMPTING AN ESCAPE FROM A VIOLENT PAST
A decade of illegal underground fights drives Finneus Gentry to quit the outlawed circuit after a last battle in a deserted Texas warehouse and seeks to lose himself in the mountains of Montana. Scarred inside as well as out, he hopes to work honest hands rather than outlaw fists. Employed to operate “Buzz” Buzzard’s logging equipment, Finn slowly builds new skills and lasting ties with the owner old enough to be his grandfather.
Finn’s best intentions are tested when men bent on human trafficking try to beat a woman into submission. The bullies reawaken combat arts to spoil plans to abduct Rian Tunny. Learning Rian has nothing and nowhere to go, Buzz and his wife Elizabeth take the young woman in and help her find work. Rian and Finneus become closer after he’s confronted by a competitor he once faced on the Texas fight circuit.
Praise for Finneus
“Jeffery A Pitts has done it again. Finneus is an adventure set in Northern Montana that leads you through the life of man trying to find inner peace after years of living on the underground fighting circuit. Through his majesty of prose, Jeffery A Pitts puts you in the center of the wilderness and the adventure as Finneus learns that friendship is something he has never truly known until moving to the small Montana town…
“-David Stingley, Teacher & Associate Professor
“Jeffrey A Pitts writes about the northwest wilderness as if he has explored every inch of it, which I believe he has. His protagonists are fashioned from the real people who live and work in the mountains he loves; hardy souls who reflect the small settlements, gorgeous vistas and rugged mountains where they choose to live. They are characters that you won’t soon forget.”
Lynda Nanney, Retired Librarian
“Jeffrey A Pitts is a prolific writer, blessed with the ability to deliver a story so convincingly you actually feel you are there. Written with such depth and clarity, more than once I had to remind myself; ‘this is only fictional,'”
Kevin Dye, Fuji Xerox Valet & Master Trainer, Adelaide, Australia
“Another riveting page turner from Jeffrey A Pitts. Again, Jeffrey has shown his unique ability to bring his readers a feeling of being present in the storyline…Each time I finish a novel by Mr. Pitts, I always look forward to the next to be released.”
Gary Ryan, Gunsmith, Winlock, WA
About Jeff
Jeffrey A Pitts is the author of Hitwoman. Growing up on farms in Oregon and Washington, Jeff spent most of his time in whatever backcountry he could reach on horseback or afoot. Now his characters walk in the same tracks. Seldom does he utilize a wilderness setting he hasn’t hiked, camped, or hunted.
Jeff lives off the grid in the Pacific Northwest with wife Jodi, two German wirehairs, and a flock of chickens.