• David Rudd Wise
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• About the Author
  D. Rudd Wise, was born in Dallas, Texas, a fifth generation Texan. He was raised in the oil fields and cattle country from Crane to Odessa to Forsan. He spent most of his adult life in the military, retiring from the Air Force in 1994. Since then, he obtained his private pilot's license, dove on Spanish galleons off the coast of Florida, finished his first novel Operation: Eyewitness and its sequel, Amarillo Mariposa. He is currently working on a third story in the sequel, The Shallow’s Deep Secrets.

• David and his wife, Rachel, are professional treasure hunters, residing in Indiana. They co-authored a children’s book, The Three Little Orphan Kittens, illustrated by Deana Gottschalk.

• PURCHASING INFO: Books can be purchased directly from D. Rudd Wise at a lower price than the bookstores or Internet outlets. Please go to his website at www.novelsbydrwise.com

• Books
  

• Operation: Eyewitness
  FICTION | THRILLER
  Jess E. Hanes, a middle-aged treasure hunter, finds himself at the wrong place at the wrong time at the Casablanca airport in Morocco. He is the lone witness of an assassination of a high government official which plunges him into an international tangle of drug running, arms smuggling, romantic involvement, and investigations by the CIA. A terrorist, a military officer from the Middle East named Colonel Alvarez, is making a fortune from illicit drug operations in exchange for stolen American firearms. He is furious that Jess Hanes escaped alive after witnessing the murder, and now Alvarez is determined to kill him. His first attempt leaves Jess in the hospital, where he is cared for by Nurse Elliott who turns out to be an Interpol agent known as J.J.

• Moroccan counterintelligence agents are assigned to protect Jess and find Alvarez. The king personally asks Jess to help track down the man who assassinated the king’s brother. Jess and the others eventually find Alvarez at an abandoned mine in the desert where he has hidden an enormous stash of drugs. Alvarez is ruthless in his desire to kill Jess. In the forbidding environment of the Sahara Desert, Jess finds himself fighting for his life and also for the lives of his newfound friends.

• $15.95 | ISBN: 1-4134-9598-2
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• Amarillo Mariposa
  FICTION | THRILLER
  In a thrilling sequel to his first novel, Operation: Eyewitness, author D. Rudd Wise brings Jess E. Hanes and his adventures to life once again in Amarillo Mariposa. After their run-in with terrorists in Morocco, Jess and his wife, Marie Ann, had been placed under witness protection in Texas, but the threats against them were finally beginning to subside some years later. But then the unthinkable happens—September 11, 2001.

• Jess, deeply affected by the tragedy, turns to his roots to gain some semblance of comfort in these trying times. While researching his grandfather’s history in the Big Bend Country of Texas, he came across more adventure than he ever imagined he would. From witnessing an assassination attempt to aiding the Texas Rangers, CIA, and others against drug smugglers and terrorists, as well as others if ill repute, Jess E. Hanes has his hands full.

• This pilot adventurer and treasure hunter leads the reader through a troubled and dangerous country and survives by the might of his sharp with and strong character with the help of God Almighty.

• $15.95 | ISBN: 1-59453-137-4
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• The Three Little Orphan Kittens
  NON-FICTION | PETS
  This book is written by David and his wife Rachel Wise. They were not cat lovers prior to being adopted by three 6-day old female Tuxedo kittens, Curly, BeeBee, and Little One. In their forty years of marriage, they had three small dogs: Tinker Bell, adopted from the Humane Society, Muffin, a gray toy Poodle that Rachel won at a pet shop; then Buffy, an apricot Poodle from the Humane Society.
  
• The Wises’ can’t count the number of stray cats and dogs left near their home in the country which eventually found either the front of the back door. Some were given to friends, family, or had to be turned over to the Humane Society because of diseases.
  
• When the triplet kittens came to stay, love for them quickly grew. This book is dedicated to them.
• $12.95
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