The Third Rescue
Jay Mackey
(River Sky Publishing, Aug. 5, 2019)
A YA Sci-fi AdventureAn assignment becomes a quest which reveals a secret… CJ’s ancestry project gets off to a bad start—something’s wrong with his DNA test. Then he decides to search for his grandmother’s parentage, despite her claim that she is an orphan. How hard could it be? He’s joined by his cousin Penny and his buddy Oval as his search takes him to Las Vegas, where they run into nothing but dead ends until they meet a peculiar old man who seems to know something about CJ’s family. And who is following them? In a separate storyline, in 1964 Gus, CJ’s grandfather, is on a mission for the mob when he becomes involved in a strange gun battle in the desert. A mysterious young woman comes running to him from out of the dark, yelling, “help me, help me.” Years before, a military doctor is working in the base emergency room when several plane crash victims are brought in. He knows immediately that these are not normal patients, but he has no idea how his life will be changed forever. When these storylines intersect, CJ will find himself in conflict with a 70-year-old secret, and he, his family. and his friends will be in mortal danger. The five star reviews are coming in:“Great Read!” “Do not read this book unless you’ve cleared the next 8 hours.” “Spellbinding plot—couldn’t put it down!” “Highly Recommended” “The writing is crisp, the chapters are short, the plot is engaging and I just flew through it.”