UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES A JACK CONNOR NOVEL

By Edward Brower

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: A JACK CONNOR NOVEL Unintended Consequences is a fictional crime drama that explores the horrific consequences of the heroin epidemic sweeping our nation. Jack Connor's life appears to be on track. After eighteen years in the Marines he is finally given the opportunity to serve on a forward operating base. Coming from a family tradition of military service, at thirty-eight years old, college educated, now a Lieutenant assigned to patrol a twenty-square mile area in the southern Helmand Province of Afghanistan, Jack quickly learns through the lessons of his Sergeant's that what we are taught in classrooms and hear on the news is not always how life really is. Having no personal experience with the drugs abuse epidemic, it amazed Jack to learn that most of the worlds heroin supply is coming from the fields he walks patrols through every day. After being ordered to stop destroying the fields used to grow poppy plants, which is manufactured into heroin, Jack retires from the Marines, feeling he has not only lost his personal war to help everyone addicted to heroin, but also has lost his way. Returning home feeling defeated, Jack drives the twenty minutes from his nice suburban home to the inner-city slums of Augusta, Georgia. After witnessing the despair in people's lives brought about by illegal narcotics Jack confronts a Richmond County police officer then visits a local rehabilitation center for heroin addiction. Feeling a deep sense of responsibility for failing to stop the heroin epidemic at it's source, Jack decides to join the Drug Enforcement Administration. The lectures over illegal narcotics and gang activity was very informative but Demetrius Stephens, a fellow trainee from the projects, taught Jack what life was like growing up in the streets, seeing people suffer from drug addiction on a daily basis. Jack is assigned to the El Paso, Texas, DEA office after graduation. Danny Miller, his supervisor sends him to Arizona where his training continues serving high risk warrants, conducting sting operations and participating in interrogations. After assisting the Customs and Border Patrol Agents with a large seizure crossing the border, Jack visits the DEA holding facility where all illegal narcotics are sent to be incinerated. Arriving back in El Paso, Texas, Danny Miller sends Jack back home to Augusta, Georgia to investigate a heroin smuggling operation. Jack, along with his three-person team, soon discovers that heroin is being smuggled from a small town in Southern California, through an upper-class lake front community in Georgia, and then on to it's final destination. Jack quickly learns that illegal narcotics has no regard for age, race, gender or financial status. It affects everyone, family members who turn their back on the addict suffering or help to the point of becoming an enabler, the co-workers who covers for the addict, class-mates who look the other way only, and the hardline laws we pass incarcerating the addict suffering from this disease, many times the situation only gets worse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520984782
• ISBN13: 9781520984780
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"