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Free Fall
Sheriff McKenna Book 1
Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal Winner
For ten years they had planned. The terrorists thought that they had planned for everything. They didn’t plan on one small-town sheriff, Mathew McKenna.
McKenna will need all his strength and courage to save his niece and the lives of those around him. If he fails, then millions of people will die.
Washington is in crisis. What can they do? Should they implement the Twenty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, making the Vice President the Acting President?
Liberty, the first orbital city, is having its 10-year anniversary party! The President of the United States and his family will be attending. Everyone will be there.
Washington watches in horror as the terrorist attack unfolds. All options for them are gone. All eyes turn to Sheriff McKenna. He is their last hope.
Can Sheriff Mathew McKenna lead a small group of survivors, including his niece, the First Lady of the United States (who did a tour of combat duty…as a Navy SEAL), and save the city? Or will they all die, along with millions of other innocent lives?
Join Sheriff Mat McKenna and a fantastic cast of characters as they fight for each other, fight to save a city, and fight to stay alive.
Cold Awakening
Sheriff McKenna Book 2
Sheriff McKenna is looking at a puzzle. A puzzle he needs to solve quickly, and time is running out.
A nineteen-year-old college student is violently murdered outside the Quickie Mart. Her father is a drug lord operating out of Miami.
Neurotech has released the most advanced android in history and is dominating the global markets.
What’s the connection between Neurotech, a murdered college student, and a drug cartel?
And now, someone is threatening to murder the love of his life.
Mat McKenna takes off his sheriff’s badge. If it’s war they want, then it’s war they’ll have.
Cold Awakening is a modern crime thriller at the dawn of sentient artificial life.
Buy this book now and join sheriff McKenna as he tries to solve this riddle and races to restore justice.
Artifact
A Willow Lockhart Adventure
FBI Special Agent Willow Lockhart is investigating a series of murders when she collides into a secret government project. A project connected to human mutilations.
A government conspiracy is covering up the discovery of a flying saucer under New York City.
Nothing has prepared Willow for this case. Almost nothing. Willow is in crisis. She was chasing a serial child killer and she could have stopped him. But she hesitated. The FBI caught him, but not before he murdered again.
The crime scenes have something in common besides violent death and mutilation. They have strange animal footprints. Footprints from no known animal.
CIA operatives found violently murdered and then disappear. What? Strange things are happening. Violent things. Things involving the government.
“What’s going on?” Willow asked.
Then she learns.
Now she wonders if anyone will survive.
The truth still means something to Willow. It’s not a play toy of an elite few. Willow pursues the truth with a rare tenacity. She will risk the job she dearly loves. Before it’s over, Willow will risk her very life.
Get this book now and join Willow in a fantastic adventure as she fights to stay alive and save the Earth.
Sheriff McKenna’s World
Sheriff McKenna lives in today’s world, only a little bit into the future. Mathew McKenna is a combat veteran, following his father’s footsteps into law enforcement. He was elected Sheriff of Shady Oaks Florida, a small town near central Florida.
In McKenna’s World, automobiles are AI, capable of driving themselves home from the repair shop. Fast food is serviced by androids. And air travel is much faster. Airliners travel at the edge of space faster than the speed of sound. Otherwise, things are pretty much like they are today.
The stories are written as thrillers. They are also science fiction. Each book stands on its own as a complete story. Taken together, the books trace a story arc bigger than McKenna.
About John Parrish
I graduated from the University of Central Florida. I’m the youngest of three children. I remember when I used to sneak into my big brother’s room and grab his ‘Tarzan’ and ‘John Carter of Mars’ paperbacks when he wasn’t looking. And I still remember the experience of discovering that I wasn’t as sneaky as I thought.
I remember the joy of reading ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ and ‘The Hobbit.’ I enjoy all sorts of books from all kinds of genres. Usually, I’m reading two books at a time, sometimes more. I’m almost always reading one history book and one fiction. All the fiction books I read are thrillers or adventures.
I hope that everyone who reads ‘Free Fall,’ my first adventure, enjoys the ride.
And as far as Tarzan goes, I own the entire digital collection. And yes, I plan to read them all, eventually.
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