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Dave Folsom 

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I started writing stories and essays after taking a course in creative writing on a whim. That influence prompted me to write about some of the colorful characters I'd met in the many places and occupations I'd explored. Some, though not all, of the characters and events depicted in my prose are based on these experiences. They interested me and I wanted their story told. The rest are products of a wild imagination. This effort resulted in a couple of books, many short stories, and a few essays.

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Big Sky Dead: A Charlie Draper Thriller

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Suspense/Thriller

Charlie Draper takes on what seems like a simple assignment.  Check on a missing DEA agent.  He does not expect to find him dead; dead on the floor of a drug manufacturing house.  Frustrating weeks of digging into the lives of a small town in Montana uncovers drug trafficking, human trafficking and murder for hire leaves the local Sheriff gunned down and Draper with a major headache.  Then he begins to suspect all the mayhem is a ruse for the real objective.  Charlie receives help from his friend DEA agent Alejandro Jones and together they uncover a diabolical plan to destroy the United States.

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Sonoran Justice: A Charlie Draper Thriller

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Thriller

The assassination of an Arizona rancher, embroils Charlie Draper in the U.S. southern border wars. His client beaten near death and when a hired killer guns down his friend, it becomes personal. Draper and his helicopter-flying Apache friend travel into Mexico to find local help and discover surprising support for the cartels from an unexpected source.

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Finding Jennifer 

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Suspense/Thriller

Charlie Draper only took the job of finding the missing girl as favor.  He approached it convinced that the hot desert sun had likely eliminated another unprepared hiker rather than a part of the Border Wars.  It didn’t take long to realize his error.  Then it became complicated.  In less than a day he discovers that drug cartel members shot her and threw her into a volcano vent.  The resulting trail leads into Mexico where his actions bring on the wrath of the cartel.  The bodies start to pile up with a vengeance as he and his helicopter-flying Apache friend attempt to rescue the young women and prevent the revenge determined drug alliance from killing them all.  

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Scaling Tall Timber 

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General Fiction, Coming of Age 

Shortly after graduating from college, and searching for a fresh start, a young forester is assigned to a new job in a remote area of northwestern Montana. The locals, a hard-working, hard-living, idiosyncratic lot take on the task of educating their new co-worker in ways he never imagined. Confronted by a much older and salty logging boss, hard drinking and playful loggers he struggles to come to grips with a major loss while adjusting to his new life. Just as he becomes attached to his new surroundings and the quirky inhabitants, new technology threatens his job and news of a new hydroelectric dam is planned a short way downstream will destroy the entire valley.

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The Zeitgeist Project 

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Science Fiction

Their planet slowly dying, ravaged by two hundred years of environmental carelessness and governmental greed, a select group of elitists plot to send unwitting crews on what will be a suicide mission. A young Command Pilot and her crew survive and find themselves in a strange world in which they are unprepared to cope. Transported two hundred years into the past, they struggle to find ways to survive in a totally foreign environment while attempting repair to their vehicle in an effort to return home. Two more missions follow before help comes from an unexpected source. 

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The Dynameos Conspiracy

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Action, Thriller 

Former government operative Lee Trainer, living quietly in Montana, finds a dead man on his doorstep with mysterious computer chip in his pocket. The killers, desperate to retrieve the chip make several attempts on his life and open a trail of deception and murder. Following leads from Montana to the Cayman Islands, Trainer and a couple of old friends hunt down an elusive killer with a deadly agenda. While electrical blackouts plague the country, Trainer’s best friend is ambushed by hired assassins entangling him in a widespread conspiracy to destroy the national power grid. 

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Running with Moose 

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Short story Collection 

This book is all about people and how different we are, especially about life and how we deal with its mysteries. The stories include a little about death and an occasional encounter with animals and a lot about some of the colorful and interesting characters I've met told with a touch of humor, some adventure, and a little pathos. These fictional accounts are sometimes based on real people with the places and names change to protect especially the moose. 

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Coyote Rules: A Charlie Draper Thriller

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Suspense/Thriller

When Charlie Draper’s daughter asks him to find and help one of her employees, he does not take long to find the young woman. The Border Patrol arrested, and charged her with smuggling over five kilos of dope. The charges are not only serious, but come with mandatory prison time, if found guilty. When Draper hears her story, he is sympathetic but knows it will be difficult, if not impossible to assist her, since her guilt is irrefutable. Her family in Mexico is at risk if she gives the information to the authorities. Draper and DeCollado rush into Northern Mexico to save the young woman’s family, and find themselves embroiled in murder, drug smuggling, and worse.

Sample Coyote Rules

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Dead Mules: A Charlie Draper Thriller

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Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Draper and DeCollado travel to Mexico to rescue a friends niece only to find themselves embroiled in drug wars, Russian financed missiles, and middle-eastern terrorists with designs on the southwestern part of the U.S. Another action-packed Charlie Draper thriller. 

Sample Dead Mules

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Warping Time

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Science Fiction

On a quiet, warm summer evening just after the midnight chimes at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, a young researcher scans the night sky, listening to and documenting. He hears a constant stream of routine space background noise while the huge telescope slowly pans the observable universe. His efforts are mind numbing, tedious, and wearisome to a point that he is fighting to stay awake. On the edge of a catnap his trained mind hears an anomaly of beeps; a resonance foreign to the environment he is monitoring, but he knows the familiar code. The message is simple and he easily decodes it in his head. The source is what chills him deep into the marrow of his bones.

Sample Warping Time

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