Introducing "Death Is Never Pretty!"

Death Is Never" is the second in the rick O'Neil-Ted Troutman adventure series and pits Rick & Ted against an international human trafficking ring. The book focuses, more on Ted than Rick. It's several months since the ending of "Da Nang Damned!" and Ted is facing a re-election. Ann Ted's wife wants him to retire and Ted is seriously considering retiring when while fishing, Ted finds the body of a close friend.
At first, it looks like an accidental drowning, but an autopsy reveals he was murdered and his body dumped in the river.  Then a fourteen-year-old girl from Columbia is found wandering along a mountain road. How are these to events connected? Well, you'll have to read the book. "Death Is Never Pretty" is due out May-June of this year.