Lee Chase
. . . is the alter-ego of Terry Persun. This is where I play with pulp fiction, where I get a bit irreverent, and where I explore character. I created these crime novellas as a fun project where I am able to explore the main characters. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoyed writing them.
The Invisible Team
The most formidable force is the one no one sees.
In this gripping novella, ex-marine and government insider Melvin Brubaker has a problem. He needs someone to intercept the transport of weapons-grade nuclear material to Iran. With global repercussions, there is no room for failure. He hires a known dangerously effective undercover operative, Wes Jensen. But Brubaker demands there be backup.
Forced to assemble a team for this high-stakes operation, Wes knows that everyone’s survival cannot be guaranteed. But he has no choice. It’s an important mission.
Wes Jensen knows exactly where to go for backup.
Enter his long-time associate, Crack, who lives most of his life on the streets of New York City, when he’s not on secret operations of his own. And partner number two? Chickie, the ex-Navy seal with advanced technical skills.
Multiple factions are after the same weapons-grade nuclear cargo, which means that Wes and his team must fight against several shadowy enemies, all with their own plan of destruction—some international and some domestic.
Skills aside, this could be Wes’s last mission. And if not his, one of his teammates.
BOOM!
A race to stop a homeland terrorist group from exploding the entire capitol complex.
The Fourth of July celebration, Washington DC, hundreds of thousands of people—Boom!
Wes and his team race to the finish to stop homeland terrorists from blowing up multiple buildings that make up the capitol complex. DC does not provide a welcoming atmosphere, especially as Wes and Crack run into an old rival whom they suspect is part of the plan of destruction meant to take the government to its knees.
The mission is slowed as thousands of people show up for the Fourth of July Celebration. Little do all those tourists know that the highest levels of American government are in imminent danger, and that they are about to become collateral damage.
As Wes and his team explore their options, the shadowy homeland terrorist force, willing to take everything they can to the ground—literally and figuratively—leads them on a wild goose chase inspecting the capitol complex buildings for a danger that may not be there.
In a covert operation, Wes could lose everything he cares about—including his two teammates. But he can’t abandon a mission. He must stop the explosion before that happens.
But the threat isn’t a bomb at all, it’s something far worse.
ISS Down
An anti-government group wants to take down the International Space Station.
Thousands of satellites a year launch into space, and most are barely inspected for what they’re carrying—mostly experiments by large corporations and colleges. When Brubaker learns of an attempt to take down the ISS, he sends his best team in to stop it.
Wes and his team’s mission is to intercept the catastrophic destruction of the ISS before it happens. Crack poses as a government inspector while Wes is his bodyguard and Chickie is his technical assistant.
Together they must determine which satellites being deployed are fitted with equipment that can take the ISS down. Multiple groups are after Wes and his team as they ferret out the companies involved in the impending destruction.
Operating under cover, the team infiltrates the campuses of CalTech and its Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) to rewire the satellite systems prior to launch. But, where to begin? Especially since they’re being followed by an enemy, they didn’t know they would run into.
As tensions escalate, Wes finds that every operation has a cost. And this one is personal.
A riveting novella of conspiracies, suspense, and personal closure—of a sort.
SEMI Loaded
Gunrunners are on the move and must be stopped.
A gunrunning operation from Florida to Mexico isn’t easy to intercept.
At the end of a solo mission for the DEA, Wes is joined by his teammates, Crack and Chickie to intercept a caravan of semi-trucks carrying weapons as they make their way across the country. Planning to infiltrate the operation as the semi’s waylay at a warehouse in Arizona, Crack gets shot, forcing them to take a short break.
The plot twists unexpectedly when Wes chooses to shut down the operation on his own while Crack and Chickie intercept the caravan of semi’s racing down the interstate highway from Florida to Mexico. But Chickie doesn’t listen to orders and stays behind to help Wes while Crack races to finish the mission on his own.
None of them could have known the situation would become so complex and dangerous. While Wes and Chickie are escaping the gun runner’s warlord, Crack has his sights on creating a major highway accident to stop the gunrunners—an accident he will be in the middle of.
The action never stops as the team separate then come back together to finish out their mission. Eventually, jeeps, semi-trucks, and small planes combine to make this a mission you can’t miss.
Honey Hell
An all-women terrorist group threatens to assassinate the first lady.
While Wes is on a solo mission to shut down a bomb-making operation, Crack shows up as backup, which Wes never asked for. The bigger question is where Chickie might be. The team isn’t complete without her.
They soon learn that Cickie is on her own solo mission where she plans to kill the leader of an all-women terrorist group. And she’s making headway, that is until Wes and Crack show up unannounced and blow her cover. Not only that but now she has broken trust with the group, which decreases her chances for survival. As time ticks down, Wes and Crack must save Chickie and stop the assassination, which they find is to be completed by Chickie’s initial target.
Things get even more complex as the team finds that Wes has a personal connection to the leader of the terrorist group and can’t allow himself to kill her. One of the other two will have to do the dirty work. But who?
In the end, it’s all about deadly politics, a faulty belief system, and being loyal to one’s moral code.
Brubaker's Dozen
Sometimes you have to remove all of the obstacles.
When Wes’s financier and handler is threatened and goes into hiding, the team must eliminate a dozen of his enemies.
In this contemporary thriller, a dozen criminals band together to take down Wes’s employer, and only Wes and his team can stop them.
Spread across the US, Melvin Brubaker’s enemies have plans to find and eliminate the man who’s been garnering inside information about their crimes in order to enlist their skills for personal and political means.
As Brubaker hides out, the team travels from coast to coast several times and to destinations between to systematically stop Brubaker’s enemies. Some will go to prison, and some might not make it that far. Either way, the team chooses to make a point more than end lives. Nobody messes with Brubaker.
During their excursions, Wes struggles with his emotions toward Chickie. Their dynamics have changed yet the mission must come first. This forces Wes to make decisions about his relationship with Chickie while completing one of his most complicated missions.
Struggling internally and externally isn’t something Wes is used to doing. Will the two interfere and reduce his effectiveness for both?
