BACKLASH
Tom Keeler came to Miami for one job: keep his friend alive while Dave faces his demons. The Delta Force operator's PTSD is so severe that even experimental therapy feels like a last resort. But when Russian organized crime starts watching the house where Keeler's staying, a simple security detail becomes something deadlier.
The surveillance isn't random. Keeler's friend Blomstein works intelligence contracts tracking dirty money through Miami real estate - work that makes enemies. Now those enemies are moving, and they're not alone. A private military contractor with its own agenda is hunting the same Russians, and Keeler is caught in the middle of a shadow war he doesn't fully understand.
As assassinations escalate and betrayals multiply, Keeler must protect Dave through his most vulnerable moments while navigating a landscape where no one is who they claim to be. The Russians want blood. The PMC wants control. And somewhere in the chaos, the woman Keeler's falling for might be the most dangerous player of all.
In Miami's heat and violence, loyalty becomes the only currency that matters - and the most expensive thing to spend.
A military thriller about friendship forged in combat, tested by trauma, and hardened by fire.
Jack Lively spent two decades directing commercials, documentaries, and music videos before he started writing novels. Before that, he was a wanderer who didn't want to work in the straight world and took whatever jobs he could find. Fishing boats, engine repair, underwater camera work, ice cream trucks. He grew up without a television, before the internet, and read everything he could find. He wrote the same way. Relentlessly, for years, wherever he happened to be.
His Tom Keeler series follows a combat medic out of a US Air Force special tactics unit. Keeler is discharged, wants nothing but open road, and keeps finding reasons he can't take it. The series is seven books and growing.
Jack Lively lives in London with his family.
Switch Back (a Tom Keeler Novella)
It’s been two years since Tom Keeler left the military, but a combat medic never forgets his pilot. So, when he hears that Mallory’s got terminal brain cancer, Keeler drops everything to see her one last time. But then he runs into a beautiful journalist, who’s trying to escape cartel assassins out to kill her. Keeler’s up for the challenge, but he can’t get Mallory or her family involved, because the cartels never forget. So he’s got to compartmentalize. On one hand there’s a woman who’s life needs saving. On the other, an old buddy who’s life can’t be saved. And this is Texas, on the hottest day of the hottest month of the hottest year that anyone can remember.
