Thirty Seconds From Midnight

To the public Michael Grant was a long-serving Dallas homicide detective, now a well-established PI. To a certain government agency he is also a subrosa contract operative.In the days leading up to the execution of the convicted murderer Stuart Marquis on August 26th and Michael’s planned engagement to Dallas County District Attorney Helen Atkins on September 9th, life happens: An Amber Alert for their friend’s daughter, 9-year-old Hailey Delondra, has Tom Darrow & Jim Jamison teaming-up to find her and her abductor, while Michael tracks down the troubled girl who befriended Hailey... only to be ordered to carry out a ’covert op’ on the other side of the globe.Question: Does Michael Grant have multiple personalities?No! Michael Grant has multiple identities! Six cover IDs locked away in six cedar boxes only to be used for specific covert missions.So far, readers have only been introduced to the identity in Box #3, the lovable, if justifiably vengeful, Michael Girard. For the first time in fifteen years Box #5 is to be unleashed. Grant is ordered to exchange his identity for that in Box #5. Michael Amun Gahiji is a man Grant never wanted to be again. Gahiji’s middle and last name are Egyptian in origin and loosely translated mean: mysterious hunter.Gahiji’s two mission-critical skills: FAA jet-rated pilot and 2) stone-cold killer.Ever wonder what happens to that tiny ineffable bit of the Genie you didn’t manage to stuff back in the bottle? The same happens with a secret identity you keep locked away in a box; it hangs aroun