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Jim Musgrave

Jim Musgrave

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James Musgrave(a.k.a. Efraim Zimbalist Graves) is an author and college educatorin San Diego, California. His recent non-fiction title, The DigitalScribe: a Writer's Guide to Electronic Media (AP Professional, ISBN0-12-512255-1) has been internationally published. He has a M.A.degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. He wasawarded the Ebook of the Year Award,2001-2002 from Bookbooters for his thriller, RussianWolves. In addition, Mr. Musgrave has finished as a Finalist in theNew Century Writer Awards for his novel excerpt, Iron Maiden, andRunner-Up in the $10,000 Annual Heekin Foundation Awards for NewFiction Writers (1994). He has published short fiction in manyliterary journals, including: San Diego Writer's Monthly, ShroudAnthology Beneath the Surface, Stone Magazine, FirstDraft, SniplitsAudio Short Stories 2 Go, Back Channels, Pacific Review, CaliforniaQuarterly and Cowles Mountain Journal. He has also been publishedat CIC Publishers with four novels: Sins of Darkness, RussianWolves, Iron Maiden and Lucifer's Wedding and acollection of short fiction, The President'sParasite and Other Stories. Mr. Musgrave'sstory, "Speculum" was an HonorableMention in the Fog City Writer's Awards, and"Turning the Law Wheel" was anHonorable Mention in the Cedar Hill Press Short FictionContest.  His literary fiction appears in Best New Writing 2011, published by Hopewell Press, Titusville, N. J.

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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