Brian Hess

Brian Hess

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I have been involved with computers, as a website builder, securityspecialist, and computer doctor for a number of years. I have earned anAssociates Degree in Computer Networking, a Bachelor's Degree inInternet Information Systems, and I am completing my MBA in at thistime. One site that I have built and maintain is SonnysMobCafe.com. Iam an avid social networker, who not only does all the site's technicalwork, but I also represent its parent company, R.I.C.O. Entertainment,Inc., for all its public relations needs.

Commitment

Commitment

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<p>It’s hard to be committed to anyone when you don’t know whom to trust.</p><p>Alexis Toles, a former FBI agent turned undercover CIA agent, is quickly finding that out in Nancy Ann Healy’s newest political thriller, <i>Commitment</i>.</p><p>Alex embeds in a secret organization of intelligence operatives known as The Collaborative. Its partners include operatives from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, US Department of Defense, and an entanglement of foreign intelligence agencies.</p><p>It’s about half a year after the death of President John Merrow, a friend and someone she respected. But she remains committed to overthrowing The Collaborative as she works with a onetime adversary who believes the organization’s involved in the president’s death.</p><p>Meanwhile Alex; her wife, Cassidy O’Brien; and Cassidy’s son try hard to live as a family but must first overcome personal struggles, including a nasty custody battle with Cassidy’s ex-husband, Congressman Christopher O’Brien. The family has their own share of secrets that, if unleashed, could affect their hopes for the future.</p><p>There’s no place to turn without discovering people who are not who they claim to be. That can’t stop Alex. She must remain committed to the cause, both at home and as she works against The Collaborative.</p>

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<span class="style5"><span class="style7">S</span></span><span class="style6">onny Girard was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan but raised in the Red Hook and Navy Yard sections of South Brooklyn: Mob Country. He has spent the greater part of his adult life on the inside of organized crime, not as a hanger-on or sycophant, but as a full time participant. </span> <p class="style1"> </p> <p class="style6" align="left">   <span class="style7">T</span>he target of a three-and-a-half year undercover operation by New York's Organized Crime Control Bureau, Sonny was characterized by the New York Post as &quot;...a middle echelon member&quot; of one of New York's five mob families. His arrest resulted in a three year sentence in State Prison, where he maxed out in facilities like Sing Sing, Dannemora, Downstate, and Arthurkill.</p> <p class="style6" align="left"> </p> <p class="style6">  <span class="style7">C</span>onvicted later of racketeering, under the R.I.C.O. Organized Crime Statute, by Rudy Giuliani's office, and sentenced to seven years in Federal Prison, Sonny Girard again served the maximum time allowed under the law. It was during that term that he wrote the first of his three novels, &quot;Blood of Our Fathers,&quot; which was published by Pocket/Simon &amp; Schuster.</p>