Böcker av Tom Hansen

St. Max Parish celebrates the sacraments and liturgical life. It also provides shelter for the homeless, jobs for the unemployed, and distributes Bibles to the needy. Strangely, St. Max's manufactures golf balls to raise money for the less fortunate. Top-of-the-line, PGA-approved golf balls which fly longer and more accurately than the finest Titleists or Callaways. Jim and Dora Mann had raised their son, Eric, in the backseat of a broken-down Plymouth Duster in Florida's Loxahatchee Slough until Father Jacob rescued them. Eric played for hours with a rusty golf club and bruised golf ball he found in the trash. By chance, the boy met Hugh Kraft, a wealthy professional golf coach who gave Eric a lesson and quickly discovered the youngster had unique God-given talent. He could handle a golf club and strike a ball with power and precision. Taking Eric under his wing, Hugh set his sights on helping him qualify for the PGA tour. Meanwhile, Willy Banks, an ex-sheriff's deputy, comes out of retirement to investigate a criminal organization that aims to manipulate the results of professional games to profit from sports gambling. Eric Mann is a respectful and unassuming young golfer with exceptional talent, a perfect target for the syndicate's next nefarious venture. Willy could save the teenager's career, but the clock is ticking, and it appears he will lose the race against time. Bold Exploitation is an epic sports adventure that takes you from South Florida to California, the Bahamas to Australia, and from Scotland to Vatican City. It is an absorbing story that blends the world of professional golf with heart-pounding action, unforgettable characters, thought-provoking themes, and an ending you didn't see coming.

Wagering on pro football is a hobby for fans who enjoy the thrill of sports gaming. For serious gamblers, it can be a profitable venture. For those who can control the game's outcome, it is nothing less than a gold mine.Carl, son of legendary NFL quarterback Billy West, was following in his dad's footsteps when life as he knew it came crashing down. After his dream was shattered, Carl barely survived the rigor of college academics, graduating near the bottom of his class in Mass Media. Unable to find a job as a sportswriter, Carl settled for the only position he could find: a part-time obituary consultant for the Eau Claire Gazette.Carl quickly realized the death notices he published had bizarre similarities, and soon he suspected foul play. Propelled by curiosity, Carl discovered a conspiracy he unwittingly created. With his family and friends in grave danger, Carl must find a way out. But that foreboding path leads directly through the National Football League, and the honor and reputation of every player, past and present, is at stake-including his father's.Bend of Honor is a riveting sports mystery thriller filled with suspense, drama, twists and turns at every corner, and a stunning ending. You will never watch pro football the same way again!

When the cause of two midair disasters over the skies of South Florida are investigated, the FBI and NTSB are at odds whether the crashes were merely a coincidence or a criminal act. Is it possible that the United States is in grave danger and no one seems to know, except perhaps the president and his cabinet?Seminole Bend is an innovative thriller novel that contains ample twists and turns, and takes you on a page-turning wild ride guaranteed to keep you guessing right up to the very last page!Rogue CIA agents, Oliver Harfield and Ray Jackson, recruit Ray's brother Roy and Florida Governor Hank Daughtry into a scheme to take down America and become very rich. With secret funding from Jasurbia's Prince Adil, a pair of Middle Eastern Yale and MIT grads are hired to develop radar-jamming and remote guidance systems that can control civilian aircraft from the ground.Meanwhile, Seminole Bend's beloved high school basketball coach, Brett Berry, dies trying to save his pregnant wife from a pickup truck fire following the biggest win in school history. But the burned and unrecognizable body in the pickup truck may or may not be the coach's wife, Sheryl. When deputy sheriff Willy Banks finds evidence of foul play that links wealthy rancher Roy Jackson to the accident, he is mysteriously fired by Sheriff Al Bonty.A web of intrigue unfolds as Willy sets out on his own to investigate Roy Jackson and ultimately uncovers a hi-tech operations center near Miami run by Governor Daughtry's DNR appointee, Sam Dulie. The covert DNR office is being used as a command center to jam radars in major US airports and remotely control airborne jets towards perilous destinies. The cast of fictional characters is interwoven with historical events and actual places to lure the reader into an entertaining labyrinth of Deep South culture, political stratagem, and international conspiracy.

Gila Bend is a political thriller with astonishing subplots that will leave you wondering (and worrying) if the manifestations could really happen! A history teacher from the tiny bedroom community of Gila Bend, Arizona, unexpectedly teams up with a dishonorably-discharged ex-Colonel from the US Air Force, to save America from a covert hostile takeover led by foreign dignitaries. Wealthy British parliamentarian, Lord John Shaffer, discovers a potent hallucinogen (tungis) during a falconry hunting expedition in Yemen that when mixed with coffee destroys the memories of those who drink the java.Shaffer recruits Russian Directorate Chief of the KGB, Yegor Bovnik, Russian General Leonid Sokolov, and Sultan Tariq Nassar to overthrow the United States government by exporting the mind extinguishing coffee to the US in the hopes of poisoning the eighty-three percent of adult Americans who drink at least one cup daily. Sultan Nassar's palace in the desert oasis of the Rub' al Khali wasteland of Saudi Arabia is the location where the coffee is manufactured.Because no one would suspect American schools to be involved in an international criminal conspiracy, the coffee is stored in hidden areas of selected campuses throughout the United States. Lord Shaffer recruits teachers who need extra income to aid in the storage and distribution of the packaged java without telling them exactly how the coffee is going to be used.To move the product into Gila Bend Charter School, a fake immigration raid is staged to temporarily clear out the building of students and staff. But the mission fails when two students escape by stealing a school bus as a phony ICE agent fires his weapon at them. The chaos that follows is witnessed by a passerby who is shocked that an officer would shoot at young kids. He grabs a hunting rifle and kills the man, then quickly loads up fifteen teachers and leads the fake ICE agents on a high-speed chase out of town. Near the small village of Ajo, Arizona, the two students ditch the school bus and join their teachers in the bed of the truck.As the novel unfolds, a mysterious multitude of twists and turns will lead you from the Cold War to the present and will reveal a shocking revelation about a great American statesman. The surprise ending discloses a critical link between political corruption in our nation's capital, the incomprehensible activities taking place in Sultan Tariq's oasis in the Rub' al Khali (where stonings and beheadings are a weekly occurrence), and the shocking events in the sleepy town of Gila Bend.While Washington government is frozen in its tracks, new world order is about to evolve!