[Jake Fonko 01] • The Jake Fonko Series · Books 1 - 3

Includes:

Book 1: Jake Fonko M.I.A

Book 2: Fonko on the Carpet

Book 3: Fonko's Errand Go Boom

**Jake Fonko M.I.A.**

As the Vietnam War winds down, Jake Fonko's mission has only just begun...

Meet Jake Fonko, America's coolest covert agent. An ex-surfer and decorated Ranger working in Army Intelligence, Jake finds himself dispatched to Saigon during the final days of the Vietnam War, temporarily on loan to the CIA. Jake figures that he'll ride a desk, relax in Saigon and collect a paycheck -- business as usual.

But the CIA has other plans for Jake...

The agency mysteriously ships him off to Cambodia for a top-secret mission with instructions to make contact with an asset out of the loop. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that the CIA hasn't made contact with the asset in two years, and the trail has gone cold -- an almost impossible mission for Jake, a soldier with little experience in international espionage.

His ensuing adventure across war-torn Cambodia amidst the chaos and corruption are tales you won't believe, except...what if it's all true?

**Fonko on the Carpet**

After surviving his perilous trip to the Cambodian killing fields, Jake Fonko heads back to Los Angeles for some much needed R&R. With the Vietnam War over, Reduction in Force has RIF'd Jake out of his once-promising Army career and sent him home unemployed -- and he intends to enjoy every moment of his free time. With his hard-earned (but ill-gotten) gains, Jake sets up house in a Malibu beach pad, buys a red Corvette and hangs out as a freelance military adviser/gentleman mercenary/international private eye/gun for hire. Life is good, the women are beautiful and Jake tries his best to forget his wild stint with the CIA. If only things were that easy.

Los Angeles isn't all that it's cracked up to be...

The LA lifestyle may be glamorous, but Jake soon finds that it doesn't come cheap. His bank account running on fumes, he finally lands his first big freelance gig, and it's a monster: he's hired to be the aide to the Shah of Iran. Fortune comes with a price, however, as many whisper of the Shah that "no one dares tell him the truth."

Jake 's assignment is to tell the Shah the truth -- at any cost.

What could possibly go wrong (besides a million dollars going astray, of course)?

**Fonko's Errand Go Boom**

Safely returned from Iranian Revolutionaries, Jake's next adventure starts with a tip from an old surfing buddy. John Z. DeLorean, he of the revolutionary stainless steel, gull-winged sports car, seeks a special man for a special job.

Jake's that man. The job?

"The situation is still developing, can't give you the details yet," is all DeLorean will say. The pay's good, and Jake needs the work, so he's off to Belfast, Northern Ireland, the site of DeLorean's factory. It's a time and place fraught with the bloody Troubles -- Catholic Republican gangs battling Ulster Protestant militias -- and Jake finds himself enlisted by both sides. An afternoon of Gaelic football with factory chums confronts Jake with his KGB nemesis, Emil Grotesqcu, who's not been sent to thwart Jake this time but on other, mysterious business.

Caught by the Royal Ulster Constabulary while detonating a stolen van packed with 100 kg of Semtex, Jake is clapped in dreaded Maze prison and interrogated by...