After serving in the military, Idistinguished myself in the private sector, working with detective andcontract security firms throughout the United States. My company, MidMerc L.L.C. offers uniqueperspectives on many fields: Real Estate; Holistic Healthcare, and of course –publishing. I have long helda passion for literature and the arts, writing media scripts and freelancingfor corporate firms as well as performing in advertising campaigns, televisionand print.
<p>Sayetta is an archangel who has been sent into the physical world to seek out eight archangels who have been reborn into the world. She knows that she cannot do it in the form of an angel so she takes on a human form to move through among us in the physical world. Gabe a mortal has the soul of a warrior angel. He is reborn in physical form to prepare for her coming. He is born with abilities that he is unaware he has.</p><p>All of his life Gabe had been having dreams of a ruined church. He never knew the name of the church, but the dream was always the same. In the dream, he was standing facing the ruins of the church. But he didn’t look like a human. Instead, he was an angel with pure white wings and a golden countenance. Another much larger angel appeared to him. The angel pointed towards what was left of the door and said “Enter, your journey has just begun and your guide awaits you.</p><p>Sayetta finds out from Archangel Michael that Lucifer has sent an old demon to find and stop Auriel from removing the demons he has imprisoned in the earth.</p><p>They receive a little help from the Archangels Azuriel and Gabriel as they journey to locate Auriel. It’s a race to find Auriel before the demon does. In the end, it’s a battle between two powerful beings, one good and one evil.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="ecxstatus-content"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">“</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';">I'm midway through the book and quite digging it.<span class="ecxstatus-content"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">!”</span></span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span class="ecxstatus-content"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></span><span class="ecxstatus-content"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">John Payne, “Los Angeles Weekly”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="ecxstatus-content"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">“It was a bother to have to put the book down and get back to work. And Washington's totally believable characters are action-in-motion, nothing static about them or their black ops run by our invisible government arm that topples regimes, takes out enemies around the world and in general keeps things safe for multinational corporations.”</span></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Steve Giordano - Editor, “<span class="ecx786560516-25042010"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">High on Adventure”</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';color:#000000;">“MAGNETIC!!!!!! <span> </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';color:#000000;">Three Lives, by first time novelist Joe Washington, is a magnetic read - I couldn't put it down.”</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></span>John R. Vacca - <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;">"Tech Write Independent Reviewer"</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textrun"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';color:#000000;">“One can hardly wait for the sequel to this book.”</span></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Stacie Hearne – “Authorsreading.com”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:#2a2a2a;">“Readers should avoid Three Lives if they're distressed by intense<br /> action or by fevered plotting. <span> </span>Otherwise, however, they should charge<br /> ahead. <span> </span>This is a novel deeply engaged in some of the international<br /> intrigue that we all want to think "can't happen here." … the<br /> story, deep with unexpected twists, ends up so believable that we're<br /> called on to admit it -- we've been warned.”</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Ed Nelson – Independent professional reviewer</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:#2a2a2a;">“Joe Washington has written a tough gritty novel that forces his readers to crawl through the bloody underbelly of an urban sewer. A quote from his hero, Nicholas Gambit, explains: “growing up in a Kansas City ghetto, societal expectations for me were minimal. I was expected to kill and eventually be killed, a mere product of my environment.” <span> </span>That, like his creator, Gambit has survived to age 64 and lived to tell his compelling story gives readers a powerful rationale for joining him on his crawl through the sewer. How many even make it out, much less can tell the tale in a cogent, entertaining, and thoughtful manner?</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Kay Carstens – Freelance professional reviewer<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">, formerly with Penton Publishing</span></p>