Deadly Circles a CJ Hand Novel
Fall in the lower Republican River Valley
He crossed the Bridge of the Gods with two other agents. Bound for a site on the south bank of the Columbia River they were not sure what they would find. CJ Hand found death.
The same second CJ pulled the trigger, an emergency vehicle raced to a site on Elm Creek in south-central Nebraska. The EMT swore at the newly graveled road, the tiny rocks acting like ball bearings under the boxy vehicle. Even with time lost, the driver held hope she could save the young boy found floating in the stream.
On that fateful day in Oregon, the shot that filled the truck cab with a bloody mist did not change CJ Hand, it proved to be the seconds after the fatal moment that set his new direction. Beset with his recent loss and pent-up anger, he takes leave from the Department of Justice. His work over the past decade became passé with the public and rendered meaningless by the bureaucracy. Trying to find self-worth, he agrees to help friends, David and Julie Thomsen, by probing into the accidental drowning of their son.
The image of a quiet, uneventful investigation is soon shattered. CJ faces a maze of deadly circles surrounding the death. Hydrogeologist Ann Simpson joins him to begin untangling hidden tentacles gripping the Elm Creek Valley. Realizing the complexity of the discovery, CJ asks for help. Tom Thies rejoins CJ, and together they uncover an evil plan of political power and personal greed. Compounding his investigation are quirky and dangerous enforcers who attempt to quell Hand’s connecting the circles of death and deception.
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The same second CJ pulled the trigger, an emergency vehicle raced to a site on Elm Creek in south-central Nebraska. The EMT swore at the newly graveled road, the tiny rocks acting like ball bearings under the boxy vehicle. Even with time lost, the driver held hope she could save the young boy found floating in the stream.
On that fateful day in Oregon, the shot that filled the truck cab with a bloody mist did not change CJ Hand, it proved to be the seconds after the fatal moment that set his new direction. Beset with his recent loss and pent-up anger, he takes leave from the Department of Justice. His work over the past decade became passé with the public and rendered meaningless by the bureaucracy. Trying to find self-worth, he agrees to help friends, David and Julie Thomsen, by probing into the accidental drowning of their son.
The image of a quiet, uneventful investigation is soon shattered. CJ faces a maze of deadly circles surrounding the death. Hydrogeologist Ann Simpson joins him to begin untangling hidden tentacles gripping the Elm Creek Valley. Realizing the complexity of the discovery, CJ asks for help. Tom Thies rejoins CJ, and together they uncover an evil plan of political power and personal greed. Compounding his investigation are quirky and dangerous enforcers who attempt to quell Hand’s connecting the circles of death and deception.
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Irrigation Circles over he High Plains Aquifer (Ogallala aquifer)
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