The Senator

by T.D. Barnes

The Hanson family, Hoot, a laid-back oilman, his feisty wife, Hanna, their twin girls have been through hell and back since their small independent oil company struck oil, a lot of oil. The notoriety brought by the wildcat strike and targeted their hard-earned wealth, forcing them to arm a fearsome private army known as the White Hats in defense that today was an international security service company. The combination of the Hanson's prevailing against all the odds and the global demand for the Hanson White Hats brought power that Hoot enhances by agreeing to take the place of terminally ill US Senator. Senator Hanson leads his White Hats into Mexico to rescue a group of high school girls kidnapped by the jihadists in New Mexico where they team with the Mexican army to stop terrorists from traveling through Mexico to get to the United States and to halt the flow of drugs to US cities. Hanson Security Services exposes politicians enriching themselves from the sales of narcotics. The senator does something that President Trump tried but failed to do. He goes to Washington to drain the swamp.

388 pages, Paperback

Published October 19, 2017

About the author

Thornton D. “TD” Barnes, author and entrepreneur, grew up on a ranch at Dalhart, Texas. He graduated from Mountain View High School in Oklahoma and embarked on a ten-year military career. He served as an Army intelligence specialist in Korea and then continued his education while in the US Army, attending two and a half years of missile and radar electronics by day and college courses at night. Barnes deployed with the first combat Hawk missile battalion during the Soviet Iron Curtain threat before attending the Artillery Officer Candidate School, where an injury ended his military career.
Barnes’ career includes serving as a field engineer at the NASA High Range in Nevada for the X-15, XB-70, lifting bodies and lunar landing vehicles; working on the NERVA project at Jackass Flats, Nevada; and serving in Special Projects at Area 51. Barnes later formed a family oil and gas exploration company, drilling and producing oil and gas and mining uranium and gold.
Barnes currently serves as the CEO of Startel, Inc., a landowner, and is actively mining landscape rock and gold in Nevada. He serves as the president of Roadrunners Internationale, an association of Area 51 veterans, and is the executive director of the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame.
Two National Geographic Channel documentaries feature Barnes: Area 51 Declassified and CIA—Secrets of Area 51. Numerous documentaries on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel and others also feature him. The Annie Jacobsen book Area 51 Declassified documents his career.