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Gary Baldocchi

Winner of 2019 IAN for Best Action Adventure Novel, Gary Baldocchi’s first novel is “Actions of Violence”, the first of a series of novels that pit CIA counter terrorist agent Jack Connor against a major US terrorist threat.

A native Californian, Gary has served the US government for 29 years as a US Marine Corps officer, as an NCIS Special Agent, and as a DEA Special Agent. NCIS assignments gave him counterintelligence and counterespionage experience. DEA assignments included serving as an undercover and case agent, as a tactical, self defense and weapons instructor, and as an agent in charge. He is a 3rd black belt in Hapkido. His government experience has transformed his first novel into an action packed thrilling adventure.

Actions of Violence

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Winner of 2019 IAN for Best Action Adventure Novel: CIA agent John Connor battles the ruthless head of the Bogotá Cartel, Joaquin Gusto who kills anyone who jeopardizes his empire. He has established a secret alliance with Jihad-7 and extremist terrorist group who has activated a terrorist sleeper cell in the San Francisco Bay area.

Brutal murders and assassinations are carried out by the cartel's top assassin, a former Russian Spetnaz KGB operative, code-name Viper. The cartel's informant, a high-level US government official, provides devastating information to the cartel while he also conspires with the band ex Army ranger mercenaries and plots against the cartel to satisfy his own greed spinning a web of deceit and death.

The CIA director developed a top-secret program that sends agent Connor undercover as a DEA agent to derail this devastation. Connor must stop the terrorist sleeper cell. But first his assignment must pit him against the sinister empire of the Bogotá Cartel before he understands the magnitude of his true mission.
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