This lone-star techno-thriller, written by Houston television news anchor Tom Abrahams, is a Texas-sized conspiracy. Beer, redheads, and politics... Jackson Quick should have known better. First, he trusted a Texas politician. Then, he fell for a leggy woman. Worst of all, he drank a beer that tasted funny. Now, Jackson is running for his life, trying to piece together how he fell into a battle over something so small that it takes a microscope to see. While sniper teams take aim at a Texas gubernatorial candidate, a political aide is kidnapped and interrogated about the encrypted iPods he's carried around the globe. Will Allegiance's unwitting hero succeed in saving his life and the republic? Or, will those trying to silence him prove too powerful in a world where Allegiance is nonexistent. Allegiance is book number one in the Jackson Quick adventure series. Book two, Allegiance Burned is available now on Kindle and in print. Book three of the series, Hidden Allegiance, is also available on Kindle

Allegiance Burned is the second novel in an exciting series of action adventures. It combines political thriller with espionage and science fiction in the explosive, fast-paced world of a reluctant hero...Guns. An heiress. Nuclear Fission. Jackson Quick just couldn't stay away. A scientist is murdered a mile beneath the earth, his secret laboratory exposed. A formula capable of shifting power among the world's largest nations is missing and its rightful owner wants it back. After staying hidden for months, Quick is pulled back into the darkness he despises. Forced to face his demons and align himself with the very people who betrayed him, he agrees to hunt for the formula. Racing against time and an evil black-market czar, Quick crosses the globe in search of a mathematical equation so valuable that nations and terrorists will pay whatever the cost to control it. From the scientist's lab in South Dakota, to London, Chernobyl, Ukraine, and Heidelberg, Germany, Quick uses his guile and good luck to outwit the competition at every turn. Or so he thinks. In the end, is his freedom worth the price he'll pay to earn it? Or is he better off letting the formula fall where it may.

Jackson Quick wants resolution. He's tired of running from his past and his enemies. To end the chase, he embarks on one final mission–find the lone remaining copy of a powerful, earth-changing formula, and hand it over to the man he despises most. The journey begins when Jackson and his girlfriend, discovered hiding in Northern California, escape and take their lives back into their own hands. With the help of a television reporter, they locate the formula while attempting to play two dangerous men against one another. Somehow they must find their way to the formula–and deliver it without losing control. But as Jackson learns along the way, he's never been in control. His life, from the day he was born, was a conspiracy against him.