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Mar Argentino
One of the problems with using a working title for a draft is that anything else I come up with just feels wrong. Title may change, but the first draft is already written and fairly clean. An edit and some brushing up and I’m hoping to have this out sometime this year. It’s a bit military thriller, a bit hang-out novel, and a bit neo-western.
Working Blurb:
Every summer, hordes of Chinese fishing vessels descend upon Argentina’s territorial waters, plunders its fishing grounds, and leaves the surrounding ocean on the verge of ecological collapse. Hamstrung by Chinese debt-trap diplomacy, Argentina looks for a kinetic deterrent, one with deniability.
Ryan McGowan, a disgraced Marine Raider, day walks through corporate America as a financial analyst, that is until he meets Mike Hudson, the head of a shadowy private military company. When Mike offers him a chance to return to the fight and join a team of former operators, Ryan seizes it. Their mission: become Argentina’s deterrent.
But when their maritime security detail results in a bloody massacre, Ryan and his team find themselves proxies in a shadow war between the United States and China. With Chinese Special Forces intent on killing them, Ryan and his team have only one job—live to fight another day.
A Man Called Farmer
This is my current work in progress, and I expect I’ll be done with the first draft by June. It’s sitting at about 70k words now, and I’m thinking I have another 10k or 20k to go.
I don’t really have a cover mockup or a proper blurb yet, but this will be another western.
The story follows Billy Farmer, a Seminole Indian whose family and people have been relocated to the Indian Nations (present day Oklahoma). As the Civil War begins, the United States Army pulls out of its frontier forts and the territory descends into guerrilla fighting. But more than that, the lack of soldiers prompts a Comanche uprising further out on the plains. When a Comanche raid results in the kidnapping of Billy’s grandson, he sets off to get him back.
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