[Jake Hunt 01] • Without Warning

This high-powered tale follows Australian protagonist, Jake Hunt, a good looking, witty, straight shooting guy who works as an aviation adviser to a global oil company. Jake has finished with war until terrorists kidnap his boss' wife, and a routine work assignment fragments. In the backdrop, a love story develops between Jake Hunt and his co-worker, Nicole Roswell. But her ideas of right and wrong are tested to the limit when she realises that her charming and thoughtful man is an incorrigible risk taker. When Jake reverts to his military training, the trauma of his wartime experience returns. Then all hell breaks loose when the terrorists attack the sultanate seeking power and revenge, and those involved must act to protect themselves and the ones they love. Escapism and FictionIt is no surprise that action and adventure stories are on the rise. Thrill seekers who are looking for an emotional release during self-isolation are getting their adrenaline rush from non-stop action books. In Jed Hart's new release, Without Warning, the author draws us together with common values throughout the narrative. Culture, religion, and creed are expressed through differing viewpoints; characters who wrestle with moral challenges of our times. Without Warning, the first book in The Jake Hunt Series, exerts a magnetic force that pulls you into the characters' minds and their diverse worlds. Using his own experiences in active war and terrorist situations, Jed Hart has unleashed a fictional story that oozes guns ‘n’ gusto action, and centres on terrorism, betrayal and brutal conflict. Reflecting on his experiences, Hart stated, "It was quite easy to write a story that revolves around a Vietnam Vet and the issues that he would have to face after seeing so much violence and chaos in war zones."Jed Hart flew choppers with the US Army in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War, operated helicopters to mountains in New Guinea, spent a stint as Shell's Peru-based Security Manager and worked in Brunei and London. Hart said: "For me, writing the book has been cathartic. A lot of the journey that Jake Hunt takes, my comrades in arms and I have travelled. Some of my friends are men who became hardened by combat and have never been entirely comfortable in a peacetime world. "People react in different ways in such circumstances, some calmly and philosophically and others with violence and chaos. I have tried to capture those things in this book."In his explosive story―where nobody is safe―Jed Hart demonstrates how love, loyalty and a sense of duty can drive a person to commit unimaginable acts of the cruellest kind. Posing the question: How far would you go to protect the ones you love?Without Warning was published by Feather Knight Books, an Australian publishing company based in Gippsland Victoria.