Books by Rick E George

It's 1972, but the Neanderthal editors of reporter Bev Wikowski's newspaper don't have a clue. They've assigned her to the Women's Pages and put her desk near the door so she can greet newsroom visitors. It's a wonder they haven't asked her to make coffee.Then Bev meets a buddy of the infamous hijacker DB Cooper. Cooper has sent him to gather a posse to find and dig up the loot he buried in the Cascade Mountains. Would Bev like to join the group?Suddenly, Bev's looking at the possibility of a front-page story on every newspaper in the nation-and maybe a Pulitzer Prize. A young widow whose husband died in Vietnam, she leaves her four-year-old daughter with her parents, hides her work identity, and joins the group. But it doesn't take long before an even bigger challenge demands every ounce of her strength: Survival.

The morning after helitack pilot Ed Kline's friendship with a female wildland firefighter turns hot, he receives a text from a phone number he's never seen:Bad thg 1 wkI leve I dieCops evry1 diesHelp L 47033012Could the L mean his adult son Lewis? You're a hero, Lewis wrote to him before disappearing a year ago, but the country you fought for doesn't exist. Then a "bad thg" happens. A group calling itself the PUMAs-Patriots United Militia of America-assassinates two Washington State senators the same day it perpetrates a deadly armored truck robbery. Unnerved, Ed jeopardizes his new relationship, his career, and his sanity while trying to rescue a son who might be one of the killers, trying to escape them, or both.