Seconds from Impact de Christopher J. Williams

Seconds from Impact

Christopher J. Williams

Former US Special Forces operative, Jake Walker, is in Bolivia finishing some consulting work when he gets a phone call and must fly home immediately. Lucky for him, the youngest daughter of the former US President is flying back to Houston on her father's private Gulf Stream jet and she offers him a lift.

A gang of Colombians with half a ton of cocaine await a rendezvous with a buyer in one of the most dangerous places on the planet, the Darien Province, which spans the border between Colombia and Panama.

Steaming through the Panama Canal is the USS Peleliu, on her way home after six months at sea.

Bringing everyone together is a high level al-Qaeda operative intent on revenge.

Featuring battle scenes in Afghanistan and Iraq and present day action in Central America, this fast paced thriller takes us on a journey we will never forget.

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Chris is a late starter to the world of writing. I've always loved reading, have my late Mother to thank for that, and I will remain ever thankful to her for the lifetime of enjoyment this provided - thrillers, military fiction and history, even science fiction, anything with a good story. I always thought I had the skills to write, but suspect I was too busy reading to get around to it. There was always an excuse why it hadn't happened. Chris was born in Liverpool, home to the Beatles and the famous Liverpool Football Club, and moved to Australia in 1976 as a teenager with his family. What a difference to the UK, he says now. Australia was so different, so much more opportunity, and the weather was heaps better. He completed school and joined the Army Reserve, later serving in the Australian Regular Army. There was so much about military life I liked. But, this was the 1980s, remember. Our involvement in Vietnam was long over and I found myself in a peace-time Army, preparing and practising. We did a lot of waiting, he laughs. Hurry up and wait was the standard joke at the time. I was never going to do 20 years in such circumstances, so I took a discharge and went back to University, eventually graduating as an Economist at the ANU. From there, Chris spent the next 30 years in Finance roles, for a number of public sector employers. He studied for a Masters degree in Business Administration, raised a family (he has two sons and a grandson) and has lived in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart. I always believed I could write a good novel, but just kept putting it off. In 2012, I put my head down with a terrific plot, one that had been building over the years we were fighting terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Seconds from Impact was born. Chris now lives in Queensland and has just released his second novel in the Jake Walker series, Rendition. He is writing a third novel in the series, Meltdown.