Second Wind: Sometimes, the end is actually the beginning

by Buck Dopp

An Afghanistan war veteran finds love that costs him his job and could cost him his life.   For twenty-six-year-old Caleb Sinclair, adjusting to civilian life is tough. After three combat tours, Caleb suffers from PTSD and a recurring dream that leads to panic attacks. He finally gets a job as a bouncer at a sports club in the Arizona desert. But after he rescues the bartender, a green-eyed, auburn-haired beauty, from a menacing drunk, their relationship soon becomes romantic. Discovering romance after war should be the highlight of his year. Instead, it puts him in the mafia's crosshairs and sets him on a collision course with an old man who has a plan that could change Caleb's life forever.   Buck Dopp's new crime novel featuring war veteran Caleb Sinclair is a heart-stopping suspenseful blend of love and crime. Second Wind follows one man's cross-country adventures as an Army vet learns to start over, risks falling in love, and finds forgiveness.  

402 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 22, 2021

About the author

Buck Dopp retired from a twenty-seven-year career in business management in 2008, deciding instead to write full-time. Dopp's stories have appeared in The Oasis Journal and Long Story Short's e-zine. He is the past president of the Lake Havasu City Writers Group, which published his stories in its anthology, Offerings from the Oasis.

Kingpin and Eli is his first novel.
Dopp, born in Des Moines, Iowa, majored in English at Saint John's University in Minnesota before moving to California. It's there that he met his future wife Stephanie, whom he married in 1973 and with whom he raised four children. They live in Lake Havasu City, AZ, and have been married for forty years. Visit the author’s website at www.buckdopp.com.