Larry Church

Randolph Jackson, Undercover (S) Expert Larry Church

This 70,000 word novel, Randolph Jackson, Undercover(s) Expert, is a male fantasy. I have never read a male fantasy so I can't site some well know work. The protagonist in the story is forty-one, handsome and divorced years earlier. He has just retired from the Air Force where he was a Colonel in Intelligence. He speaks five foreign languages fluently, has a PhD in political science and was promoted years ahead of his contemporaries. So why quit such a successful career destined to bring him a star or two? Boredom! Jackson had been promoted out of action jobs he loved and relegated to a desk that he hated. Two years before retiring Jackson bought a beautiful home in Oregon from a just divorced friend. A few weeks before leaving the Pentagon for his new life, he shipped his household belongings to Oregon and as the story begins he is on the tail end of a cross country flight from Dulles International Airport to Portland, Oregon. In Portland he buys a new car and on a whim buys a $5.00 lottery ticket. A few weeks later he runs across the ticket in his wallet and checks the newspaper. Of course he has won $9 million after taxes. After a torrid but brief affair with his gorgeous neighbor, Jackson departs upon his longed for trip to Europe and where ever life takes him. In Germany he looks up a former colleague who just happens to be beautiful and smart. After financially assisting her with a project to assist the local military dependent's children Jackson moves on to Italy. Here he is able to financially aid a young woman whose child has a physical abnormality that is repairable. Jackson then travels to the Netherlands where he once served in the military and runs across a Dutch man who was a fellow officer. The old friend's young sister is introduced to Jackson and over the next few days he learns of her career expectations and is able to give her the money to begin her career in fashion design. Jackson goes next to Oslo, Norway where he saves an old man's life follow