Jim Scott Books

Protecting Nikola is Jim Scott Book #33, and in this novel Jim and friends are faced with defeating a major terrorist plot to terrorize the United States with a series of terrorist acts. As they try to unravel the layers of the plot, it turns into a much more deadly situation.After the local police department, with assistance from Jim and a few friends, take out a terrorist group who had planned an ambush, they coordinate with Hector Garcia in L.A., and the FBI back East when it is determined that their local situation was not an isolated incident.With joint investigation into the plot of the terrorist leaders, in time it is found out that there is a much deeper target than just the various terrorist targets. While defeating the planned terrorist operations, they also discover and protect the main target of the terrorists, and the man funding the terrorists. That man has a plan, Jim Scott also has a plan to defeat the evil man's plan…then the race is on to see who has the better plan. After serving in the Navy, Mike Jackson went into construction for a couple of years, then into banking for a few more. His next endeavor was in sales, where he spent most of the remainder of his life…until he started writing. On finding out that the most enjoyable thing of his life was writing, he's kept at it for several years and is still plodding along. Mike is married with two adult children and two grandkids. Mike and his wife have one dog at the present time, but he is a pip…and runs the house.

Short Stack With Bacon is a cozy mystery, featuring Betty Cain who comes home after getting a medical discharge from the Army from wounds suffered in Afghanistan while she is attached to a supply battalion. Arriving home, she immediately goes to work in the café owned by her grandparents, and Ward Newman comes in. They went to school together, with Betty being one class in front of Ward. Both were aware of the other back then, but nothing ever came of their mutual interest…since neither knew the other one had interest. While they are getting to know each other better, Betty also assists Ward, who is a Detective Sergeant with the Troy, Missouri Police Department, as he works on a murder investigation. After serving in the Navy, Mike Jackson went into construction for a couple of years, then into banking for a few more. His next endeavor was in sales, where he spent most of the remainder of his life…until he started writing. On finding out that the most enjoyable thing of his life was writing, he's kept at it for several years and is still plodding along. Mike is married with two adult children and two grandkids. Mike and his wife have one dog at the present time, but he is a pip…and runs the house.

JSB #40 – X GROUP, is an action packed thriller starting off with recently forced to retire CIA agent Larry White seeing two men trying to abduct a small, 5'5" woman, named Joan Dodge. While she fights back with some degree of success, Larry goes to lend her a hand. Between them, they disarm the two men, and scare off the driver of the van the men had come out of. Larry soon finds out Joan has just been fired by Homeland Security, and in short order they discover they are both unemployed for uncovering damming information on the same member of the government.Larry was also involved with X Group as well as being a CIA operative. While he was forced out at the CIA, he still is a highly thought of asset to X Group, and is assigned to investigate the situation with his dismissal and the firing of Joan, who he helped avoid being taken by the two men actively engaged in her capture. Shortly after they avoided her capture, she is offered the chance to join X Group, and eagerly accepts. It is agreed that Joan will work with Larry, and the two of them start off digging into the situation.They capture one man involved, Joan's former boss at Homeland Security, and bleed him dry of information. To get his assistance, Larry had to shoot him in one knee, which in time caused him to be hospitalized…where he was murdered by his own people, to keep him from disclosing the identity of one of the top men in the organization. Along the way, Larry is nearly killed, saved with only seconds by a warning from Joan. She is to save his life again later on.While those two are doing their thing, Jim Scott and Hector Garcia are dealing with the Los Angeles segment of the organization the X Group is attempting to eliminate. Their efforts include coming up with a plan to free a man innocent of a murder charge against him, one that sees him in jail without bond. No problem for those two, they just break him out of jail, and Jim takes him to his ranch in Montana.With Jim and Hector starting to take down the evil outfit in Los Angeles, and the head of X Group doing the same in Washington, Larry and Joan are tracking down a high ranking member of Homeland Security who is on the run. He decided to do so because others who knew who the top man was had started dying, and he was afraid he might be next.That man's disappearance along with the problems in Los Angeles and Washington convince the head man his days might be numbered if he stayed around, so he too goes on the run. Larry and Joan are assigned the task of finding him. While the other man they chased had a well-conceived and executed escape plan, this man relied on a man he had given a million dollars to plan for his own escape.As it turns out, the man who made the deal to help the head man escape, is well known to those in X Group, including Larry who considers the man his mentor in the CIA. The thought that man is involved in the escape plan sickens Larry, until he figures out what the deal must be. After serving in the Navy, Mike Jackson went into construction for a couple of years, then into banking for a few more. His next endeavor was in sales, where he spent most of the remainder of his life…until he started writing. On finding out that the most enjoyable thing of his life was writing, he's kept at it for several years and is still plodding along. Mike is married with two adult children and two grandkids. Mike and his wife have one dog at the present time, but he is a pip…and runs the house.