Laughing frog is not only about selling apparel. We would like you to discover our other works, books, artwork and articles by Gerald Boltz, the brainchild of laughing frog, and a lifelong creator of visual art, stories and humor.
Mystery thrillers with a spy flavor
Trenton Russell was one of the CIA's most astute analysts with almost magical abilities to solve stratigic problems. Not a field agent, he nonetheless often got assigned to opts for onsite analysis. Then one night, a mission goes south, and a woman he loved is killed. He quits the company in disgust, guilt-ridden, and denied the one skill he's passionate about, solving problems on the world stage. He turns to investigative journalism, for a career, exposing lies, not being a part of them. His one rudder in the civilian world are his friends. People he’s bonded with. When his best friend's daughter is kidnapped in Las Vegas, a city already being terrorized by a serial killer, he pulls out all stops to find her before she is killed.He soon finds that all is not what it seems, that he has stepped into a web of lies and deceit that rivals anything the CIA ever threw him into. He plays card counting high-stakes blackjack to supplement his income and discovers a unique gift. Sometimes the flashing cards give him "insights" into the mysteries he's working on, but more often than not, the stakes are not money but human lives.
Stories are the heart of the human experience, be they visual, written, theater or musical. They are what touch our heart and mind and form our inner realities. How we learn and perceive, for knowledge has to be learned twice. Once by the mind and again by the heart. Stories are more than entertainment, much more, for they make us who we are. Guidelines for how to deal with life problems and relationships. Long before movies and television, or even books, minstrels, jesters and story tellers would travel from vullage to village enertaining folk for handouts, his livihood, their break from grueling days of hard toil in the fields or trade work. The spoken word gtadually morphed into theater and books, but stories were the heart of the entertainment. Tales of love lost and found. Victory or defeat on the battlefields, Injustices righted and villains punished. Stories that grab the heart and never let go, that stay with us for years, creating memories and meaning unique to your perception.
Order online or from your nearest Barnes & Noble bookstore. All books are standalone novels but will make more sense if read in order. The books, although fiction are based on the authors real life experience playing card counting blackjack in Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe in the mid eighties, and his time in the Navy attached to Naval intelligence.
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