Fiction
The Boom!!…Killers and Dragon’s Men Series
The Lonnie Tate Thrillers
By Loren Marsters and Gus Koernig
Meet Lonnie Tate. He considers himself a screw-up. So does Judge MacLamore when he’s about to throw the book at him. But there’s more to this kid than meets the eye.
It’s 1966. America is embroiled in the Vietnam War abroad and political unrest at home. When the Marine Corps “discovers” Lonnie Tate’s aptitude for the Vietnamese language, Lonnie has some choices to make. He’s going to end up in Vietnam one way or the other. How’s he going to play it?
In this look into Lonnie Tate’s backstory, we learn the origins of his enduring friendship with Marcus Pentangelo and Brian Shapiro and why they have each other’s backs whenever they’re in trouble, neck deep.
Lonnie Tate has talents he hasn’t used since he was in the black ops world of the CIA more than 40 years ago.
In 1966, a smart-ass kid named Lonnie Tate finds himself in the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, he and two of his Marine buddies are recruited to become agents for the CIA.
The story jumps to the Middle East, then really takes off when Lonnie surfaces in California in 2010. Soon a not-so-chance reunion with one of his old buddies from Vietnam pulls him back into a life where he was at his best when he was at his worst. But he’s older now, and there is more at stake. His buddy’s team has undertaken a lose-lose op: if it succeeds, it hands the world over to jihadists. If it fails…failure is not an option. There’s a missing piece to the puzzle, and only Lonnie can find it.
An international mystery full of twists and turns you’ll never see coming.