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    John F Russo

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  • ANGELA FOURNIER

    A D V E N T U R E * T H R I L L E R * S E R I E S

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    Tabula Rasa

    Angela Fournier Book 1

    ***We are introduced to the beginning of our heroine's life journey as an abused, frightened young woman and her transformation into Angela Fournier.

    ***Through her travels she is forced into prostitution whereby she meets a mentor who turns her young energy into a dedicated businesswoman who honors friendship above all else. Because of this mentorship, she is able to escape the clutches of a mad man, confronts her demons, ultimately finds love and is briefly acquainted with the “family business”.

    ***Her past defines her, her future empowers her.

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    Darkness After Midnight

    Angela Fournier Book 2

    ****A US soldier, Lieutenant Billy Clark, is set up to take the fall after his completed mission to eliminate either one of two leaders in the conflict inflicting South Sudan.

     

    ****His trained mind suspects a double-cross and he runs for his life to the only safe haven he is familiar with, the Canadian Consulate, Nairobi, Kenya some 1250 kilometers through the most cut-throat of lands.

     

    ***Along the way, he meets up with a young woman, Maysa and her young daughter, also on the run to escape the tragedies of civil war and village shame.

     

    ***Together they elude a pursuing special ops team, the DOD’s newest identifier, PAG, and yet still manage to save a UN Camp from notorious rebels.

     

    ***The aftermath of an US missile strike directs Angela Fournier and her team to fly to Africa to try and save this innocent man and heroic woman.

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    Compromised Interests

    Angela Fournier Book 3

    ***​On their return flight from Africa to French Guiana, Angela Fournier and her team, fresh from the horrific plight of one of Angela’s newest recruits, Lt. Billy Clark, head for the peaceful and luxurious accommodations of Fournier Foundation’s yacht, Claire’s Sanctuary. Their itinerary is to travel up the coast, round the tip of Venezuela and head for Roatan, Honduras to inspect one of Fournier Foundations most recent water installations located on the mainland.

     

    ***Angela and Jeff become suspicious after viewing the plant and on the day of celebration, they are brazenly kidnapped from the stage by an associate of one of Honduras’ most influential cartels—the Valle-Valle Brothers.

     

    ***Separated, Angela manages to fight off her assailants, but with dire consequence and she is left to die. Her husband, Jeff Malardo, is taken to an undisclosed bunker where he meets an U.S. Admiral of unique circumstance. A rebel army, led by La Diosa, finds Angela and takes her back to their jungle camp. With the help of La Diosa, together, they search the jungles in an attempt to thwart this injustice and counter blatant murder.

     

    ***A foiled plot of abduction thrusts Angela’s team into a world of espionage and corruption from the very governments we have placed in power to protect us. A discovered laptop introduces PATHOS, a multi-trillion dollar corporation who is sanctioned to maintain ‘collective’ control of the world’s citizens.

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    Le Journal

    Angela Fournier Book 4

    ***By January 23, 1943, Paris had already been occupied by the invading Nazi-German army since the summer of June 14, 1940. Some of its citizens refused to be controlled and regulated, and these courageous men and women formed an ‘Alliance’ of Résistance fighters. Honor, trustworthiness and dedication to free France from this tyranny produced heroes from ordinary people.

     

    ***One such person, an eighteen year old, Marta Savant ─ a cabaret singer, was willing to sacrifice her life to infiltrate the top echelon of Hitler’s SS Commanders to expose and destroy the research and scientists who constructed the deadly V1 Rockets.

     

    ***As fate would have it, she was rescued by the vary person who almost killed her.

     

    ***Their stories divide until over a year later when a failed mission reunites them and a bond of love forms ─ ‘til death do us part’.

     

    ***Forty-six years later, a found journal, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, could have enormous consequence for Angela Fournier ─ if she believes it.

    An obscure line of truth and an over-looked treasure propels Angela Fournier into her next psycho-thriller adventure – ‘Whiteburn’.

  • The Perplexity of Engram

    A * F U T U R I S T I C* F A B L E

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    The Perplexity of Engram

    Futuristic Fable

    ***The Engram, (engineered responsive analytical monitor) was the absolute instrument for the re-introduction of man. The new society of Belcare was derived from secured vials of ancient DNA samples from the 22nd century. The Engram was programmed to co-mingle these samples to form the perfect human. However, the computer matrix got corrupted and malfunctioned, causing a failure to recognize the Earth’s stabilizing atmosphere.

     

    ***During periodic adjustments, the population underwent genetic transformation. Fortunately for mankind, by the third generation of procreation, some of the citizens were without the Engram’s strain.

     

    ***Madame Noir, who was a perfect clone of her ancestor, and along with her devoted Nalhsian friend, Master Leumas, together weaved the intentions of their loved ones to pursue their discoveries, and to find for themselves, the missing link to survival.

     

    ***Laced with humor, love, intrigue and self-discoveries, our hero, Relaeh ‘The Healer’ from Nalhs, foregoes his adopted Nalhsians to discover his human destiny.

     

    ***The year: 15,082 AD.

  • ANGELA FOURNIER's BIO

    *****Hello, my name is Angela Fournier and my good friend, John F Russo, suggested I write a bio about myself for my many followers. I should say from the beginning, my life is and has been, complicated, but I shall endeavor to fill in some blanks for you.

     

    *****I was born on March 6, to Elizabeth and Emmet Jackson in Kittery, Maine at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. My parents named me Gloria. After my father left the service, we moved across the river to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where my father and his best friend, started a successful hardware business. We were very happy.

     

    *****I was nine years old when my best friend, my father, died. I can remember being devastated and now I realize what my mom had also gone through. Several years later, one of my dad’s franchise dealers asked my mother to marry him. It was ground shaking for me and I couldn’t figure out why. We moved north, east of the White Mountains, to a small town.

     

    *****This man turned out to be a horrible monster! He was abusive to me and my mother. He was part of the good-old-boys club so no one saw beyond his lies. I ran away from home when I was fourteen, I think it was October. I remember a heavy rain had washed out several bridges and I was trapped in the sleeper of an eighteen wheeler when it plunged over one of these gushing mud slides. Luckily, the driver managed to jump the ravine, but we crashed into a tree on the other side and I was thrown from the vehicle. It gets pretty foggy from there. When I recovered, I was snuggled up in a warm bed in a recluse’s cabin in the middle of nowhere. If I would have only known what kind of impact this man would have on my life, maybe my path would have been different. I was determined and hard-headed.

     

    *****This man, Gilles Fournier, was my savior. He was from France and he had gone through a tragedy himself. He lost his wife and unborn child in a traffic accident while they were on vacation here in the states. He never went back to France and chose to stay near his buried beloved. He nursed me back to health. He taught me how to survive using my instincts. He helped me perfect my French, and most of all, he taught me to love myself for who I am.

     

    *****I don’t want to bore you with my travels and my ‘not-so-wise’ decisions, but I should relay how I became Angela Fournier. Before I left Gilles, he told me that I could use his last name, if I so chose, to keep my true identity safely secured from authorities. When I reached my destination of Los Angeles, I was approached by a man who I thought was a priest or at least a reverend by the way he was dressed. When he asked my name, I looked up and saw the welcome sign at the bus station and it read, ‘Welcome to the City of Angels’ so I told him my name was Angela. My father always called me his little angel, so I guess it was in the back of my mind. That was when Angela Fournier was born.

     

    *****It wasn’t until many years later that my mentor, Jamison Starkney, alias George Stanza, handed me paperwork that I believed was an adoption document, written by Gilles and authenticated by a magistrate in France. Since I was now of legal age, all I had to do was sign the paperwork to make my name legal. I had unknowingly carried a letter given to me by Gilles stating his intent, if I wished. I never opened the letter. It was witnessed by my good friend, Judge Steinbeck, who then also handed me my US passport along with my French passport. I held citizenship in two countries. I was breathless. It is funny to think now, but I had been Angela Fournier longer than I was Gloria Jackson.

     

    *****If you have read my first novel, Tabula Rasa, penned by my friend, John F Russo, you will live my experiences as they happened to me, the good and the bad. I apologize not, for any of my sexual indiscretions as they are part of who I am. I like to think I am compassionate, loving, smart, a lover of art and fashion and now a devoted wife and mother. But don’t let that undermine my stubbornness or my willingness to help others and defend what I belief in. Carl, Jamison’s side-kick, has taught me well and I continually learn new maneuvers from my instructor, Antoine, to back up those decisions.

    *****The Fournier Foundation was created by Gilles, and then the chair was handed over to his understudy, Jamison Starkney. The Foundation has grown and we had to change with the environment of today’s world stage.

     

    *****A word to our enemies – beware, we will find you!

  • John F Russo's Bio

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    John F Russo – Canadian born - retired steel fabricator, professional photographer, hot rod builder, licensed general contractor, club owner, avocado grower, sailor and still travelling with the love of his life, Lori, in their Toyota FJ Cruiser. He became a U.S. citizen in 2000 and has worked in several countries. He draws on his own experiences, adds the flavor of current affairs and shuffles them all about like a deck of cards to fill his pages. The by-the-seat-of-his-pants writing style allows the reader to experience the thrill of riding along as the adventure-thriller unfolds. As a storyteller, fiction runs easily through his veins - to say the least.

     

    His Novels: All revised in 2020 to reflect his ISBN ownership.

     

    In 2014, he penned his first novel, Engram, a futuristic fable set in the year 15,082. Later revised in 2020 to “The Perplexity of Engram” - A series is in the making.

     

    A year later he scribed Tabula Rasa, resurrecting it from a half-written screenplay that he started in 1983. It wasn’t until the last sentence of the novel did he realize the strength of his protagonist, Angela Fournier, who he strived to empower, as all of his female characters. A series was born!

     

    The next year, 2016, Darkness After Midnight emerged with his character list evolving and Angela getting stronger. In 2017, his characters from all three novels joined the elite forces of the Fournier Foundation in Compromised Interests and their direction was set. His fourth novel in this series, Le Journal explores Angela’s ancestry beginning in 1942, in war-torn Paris. Whiteburn, book five in the series, continues with the twists and turns of corporate seduction, government corruption, ancient secrets, and a delusional imprisonment. Due out in 2023.