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
THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS ABOUT THE GRAY WOMAN…
And they are determined to use her unique skillset against terrorists and make her an offer she can’t refuse.
When Homeland Security is alerted to threats against a retired army sniper made real with a bounty on his head, they offer the impossible task of keeping him safe to Julia Pelletier. Accepting her role as an agent of the government, she travels to Jackson, Wyoming, and learns the enormous scope of what’s been assigned to her-cover a vast area with his extended family and friends possibly included with him under the gun. To shadow a man once known for his stealthy ability to infiltrate and terminate opposing leaders will tax her ability to remain invisible. Kill teams arriving from the Middle East hope to collect on the death of Early Hollister.
But to earn the huge payday, supporters of ISIS must battle their way past the gray woman.
Rather than worry about her partner, I drew my gun and focused on my target. Not comfortable with a fifty-foot moving headshot, I prayed Father Timothy followed through while I strode quickly, the suppressed Ruger held against my leg. She pulled, then jerked at the door when it didn’t open. Twenty feet, fifteen, I closed the distance. My gun raised only to hear a staccato blast I ignored to my right. The woman turned in surprise at the noise to face my muzzle. One shot to the center of her forehead, and she collapsed at my feet. While she spasmed on the concrete, I administered another four to her temple before I turned to find the reason for the explosion and neutralize any partner…
Guzzling alcohol as a way out of this world and into the next, Cable accepts employment at a dude ranch near his hole in the woods to earn enough money to finish the job. What he didn’t expect was the owners—mother and daughter Caroline and Annie—giving him a reason to live and a brute of a horse to break. Yet to continue living means taking responsibility for his violent reaction after losing the closest two people in the world.
When survivors of a group wanting Cable dead locate him on a Colorado ranch, they take his employers and their customers hostage and demand ransom from the owners while the ruthless band searches for the cowboy. Badly injured by an advance scout, he escapes on Buster, an appaloosa he’s been tasked to break, before helped to his hideout by a rider from a neighboring ranch. Regrouping, the wrangler helps police dislodge the gang from the dude ranch. With the help of three woman, he hopes for a return to his former home and profession with one by his side to face life and a daunting future together. Instead, he returns alone to face his mentor and explain his disappearance. With the help of a crew of riders and the mysterious Z, Cable is forced to confront the gang once again, except now they’re on his home turf.
Readers Blurbs
A story of a young man who finally faced his past so he could return from where he was running from – home. Jeffrey A Pitts has become one of my favorite authors over the past couple years. His words illustrate the pages in such a way that I feel like I’m watching the story unfold firsthand and he has a special gift to write characters with both truth and complexity. Like all his books, I found myself to be emotionally invested in Cable after just a few pages. I rarely find an author who has the ability to create characters with such depth that I care for them like friends. Do yourself a favor and go on Cable’s journey!
Michael Johnson, Washington State DOC Officer.
Jeffrey A Pitts has done it again with another great story. Characters that draw you in and hold your attention. “Cable” has you going in one direction at first then shifts you in a new one by developing the main character in a completely different way, very multi-dimensional. It was an enjoyable read. Once I started reading, I had to keep going. Thanks, Jeffrey, for another weekend lost in an amazing story!
Carey V. Lasley, D.D.S., Olympia, 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.