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John Worthy #1
What is Lost
John Worthy knows a thing or two about loss.
For starters, he’s a fiction. A made-up man. A phony with a past spun out of thin air. He’s lost his parents, his brother, the place he called home. John isn’t even his real name. Before he was John, he was Danny. Before he was Danny, he was just a freaked-out kid with a singular a boy forced to make an impossible choice.
Now, an Army surgeon, he’s a loner—until he meets Roni Keller. The daughter of a Marine, Roni is stubborn, determined, a fearless physician. Closer than friends, not quite lovers, they are deployed to assist in the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan…
Where he makes a single, fatal mistake during an unsanctioned mission which costs Roni her life. Where John loses everything, even Roni’s remains which are never found.
Adrift, broken, John has checked into Brighter Days, a rehabilitation ranch for wounded warriors, and remade himself—again. He’s ready to leave when, out of the blue, Hank Patterson, a man he’s never met, shows up with an return to Afghanistan with Taz Davila on a retrieval mission to recover Captain Keller’s remains from the forbidding mountainous terrain of the Wakhan Corridor, far to the northeast of Kabul.
How and why Roni’s body ended up hundreds of miles from where she died…no one knows. And just what is in the mountains that’s got the Russians—and even the Chinese—so interested?
In a race against time and enemies both known and hidden, John Worthy must confront present dangers and past demons to find redemption—and recover what he has lost.
For starters, he’s a fiction. A made-up man. A phony with a past spun out of thin air. He’s lost his parents, his brother, the place he called home. John isn’t even his real name. Before he was John, he was Danny. Before he was Danny, he was just a freaked-out kid with a singular a boy forced to make an impossible choice.
Now, an Army surgeon, he’s a loner—until he meets Roni Keller. The daughter of a Marine, Roni is stubborn, determined, a fearless physician. Closer than friends, not quite lovers, they are deployed to assist in the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan…
Where he makes a single, fatal mistake during an unsanctioned mission which costs Roni her life. Where John loses everything, even Roni’s remains which are never found.
Adrift, broken, John has checked into Brighter Days, a rehabilitation ranch for wounded warriors, and remade himself—again. He’s ready to leave when, out of the blue, Hank Patterson, a man he’s never met, shows up with an return to Afghanistan with Taz Davila on a retrieval mission to recover Captain Keller’s remains from the forbidding mountainous terrain of the Wakhan Corridor, far to the northeast of Kabul.
How and why Roni’s body ended up hundreds of miles from where she died…no one knows. And just what is in the mountains that’s got the Russians—and even the Chinese—so interested?
In a race against time and enemies both known and hidden, John Worthy must confront present dangers and past demons to find redemption—and recover what he has lost.
270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 8, 2024
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About the author
Ilsa J. Bick
72 books1,597 followersAmong other things, I was an English major in college and so I know that I'm supposed to write things like, "Ilsa J. Bick is ." Except I hate writing about myself in the third person like I'm not in the room. Helloooo, I'm right here . . . So let's just say that I'm a child psychiatrist (yeah, you read that right)as well as a film scholar, surgeon wannabe (meaning I did an internship in surgery and LOVED it and maybe shoulda stuck), former Air Force major—and an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books, and novels. Believe me, no one is more shocked about this than I . . . unless you talk to my mother.
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December 25, 2024
I cannot believe I read it
I didn't like the way that it jumped back of the fourth between President and past and even then it's still dropped around too much. It was a dark book, I am really surprised I read it all the way through It started out with something I wanted to find out what happened and that was all there was to it It didn't finish the story
I didn't like the way that it jumped back of the fourth between President and past and even then it's still dropped around too much. It was a dark book, I am really surprised I read it all the way through It started out with something I wanted to find out what happened and that was all there was to it It didn't finish the story
December 28, 2024
Romance
Thank you for sharing these wonderful romance novel series books. Please keep writing more of these wonderful books. Thank you
Thank you for sharing these wonderful romance novel series books. Please keep writing more of these wonderful books. Thank you
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