Bold Accountability: A Peter Berk Novel

by Steven Varnell

Bold Accountability is an action thriller fictional story torn from today’s headlines of terror plots against the USA. A group has entered through our porous southern border and committed murder. They have arrived in Tampa, Florida, home of so many targets and MacDill AFB. Hot on their trail is a secretly selected group designated to carry out safeguard missions throughout our country. The action follows the threat and their pursuers from the borderland desert to the shimmering waters of Tampa Bay. A cat and mouse chase with surprising twist at every corner. Without knowing the target, can its newest member Peter Berk and team read enough clues to stop them in time?
Find out in this first fiction story from author, police training specialist, and consultant Steven Varnell.

245 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2022

About the author

I am a retired State Trooper and worked for the FHP for over 29 years. For the last 27 years, I have worked in the Patrols Contraband Interdiction Program as both an interdiction officer and a K-9 officer. I am a certified instructor for the agency in various areas.

I was a part of FHP's interdiction pilot program which began in 1983. Almost my entire career has been involved in criminal interdiction. I have worked with and assisted the Texas DPS in the Valley, the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Customs Inspectors in various regions of the border in Texas and New Mexico.

I have taught as an adjunct instructor for three years for the MCTFT program through St. Petersburg College. I have taught officers in nearly every state of the union courses in highway interdiction and body language and officer safety.