{"product_id":"chasing-roxanne-anthony-parran-9781426943164","title":"Chasing Roxanne","description":"In 1968, as is ritual when a returning pilot completes his 100th mission of Vietnam, and during the height of the Vietnam War, an F-105 Thunderchief pilot makes a low pass starting a climb over the runway at the combined US Army, US Air Force, and Thai Military base Camp Friendship located in Korat, Thailand.\u003cp\u003e For reasons unknown during his start of the barrel roll he crashes, thus bringing together two unlikely heroes. A US Air Force Captain Richard Washington, call sign Hannibal, and a US Army Specialist, Jerome Travis, or as his friends called him JT. Their friendship would endure well beyond the end of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Forty-years later, JT is a successfully married computer businessman in Oliver, British Columbia Canada and General Richard \"Hannibal\" Washington is hanging up his uniform for the final time, but the events started 40-years ago when Hannibal was just a Captain tests their friendship, love of aviation and their personal lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1968, Captain Washington stumbled on a drug smuggling ring using US fighter aircraft returning to the US as mules for their product. He assumes by capturing Airman Melvin Anderson and Sam Foster in the act, the ring is shut down. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 2008, a Vietnam Era OV-10 Bronco Observation aircraft losing communications over Seattle, Washington and is forced to land at the McChord Air Force Base. While detaining the pilot, a fine power spills from the electronics bay. The resulting investigation shows that the once forgotten gang is back in action, importing cocaine, street named Roxanne from Korat, Thailand that has a higher than 80% purity rating and is underselling the competition on the streets of Canada and the US. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e FBI Agent Cynthia \"Cindy\" Ng, a Chinese Native American is tasked to investigate this gang. By chance she discovers the origins are from Korat, Thailand and a joint task force is convened. She meets with her counter organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia. There FBI Agent Cynthia Ng represents the US and Canada and meets an agent from the Thai Security Police, Pattanapongtak \"Abby\" Apsara. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e She and Abby become close friends and by chance meet Richard Washington and Jerome Travis. A love affair develops between Hannibal and Cindy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Cindy has a special interest in all of this as her only brother dies of an overdose of Roxanne. Two weeks later and within 48-hours, they will face an ordeal none of them had imagined or signed on for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e JT's wife is shot in a Indianapolis hotel where they have traveled after Hannibal has crashed a T38 Talon on the Westside of Indianapolis, killing a grandmother with one only surviving family member; a gangster wannabe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hannibal is arrested when it is discovered the T38 was also carrying Roxanne. Everything comes to a head in Ft. Worth, Texas where JT and Hannibal have traveled as they suspect Hannibal's new employers are behind the shooting in Indianapolis and the importation of Roxanne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Parran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1426943164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781426943164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trafford Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Parran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458217849087,"sku":"9781426943164","price":23.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9d0967a-9e56-4d53-b5cd-27ef33a00549.jpg?v=1777403055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chasing-roxanne-anthony-parran-9781426943164","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}