YOU TOO? ©
It happened again last night. I have sworn on numerous occasions that I would never allow myself to get this angry nor be manipulated in this way ever again. But some things you can’t control. Instead, you must deal with individual situations when they present themselves. The evening was quiet and things were going fine. […]
How It All Started
I love writing mystery suspense stories. I never know where ideas will come from. New ones are always in my head! Sometimes I need to step back into reality and relate to the world in which I really live! At a very young age I loved books and by reading, in my mind, I could […]
New Year, New Story
As you may already know, a new Joe Shumock novel will be coming out soon. The Last Parade is the fifth and latest in Joe’s …
New Website
Well, it seems like I have a lot of “new” to share with you. In my first “Joe’s Blog” I shared a little about my upcoming book, “The …
Writing Road Adventures
Mackinac Bridge, Michigan
Rage Doyle – Episode #1©
These episodes are slices of Raegene Dorryen (Rage) Doyle’s life as a character in Joe Shumock’s thriller novels. Please remember that these segments are fictional as are the novels in Joe’s Letter Series. You may have already met Rage in the novels. If not, this will be your introduction to the man who wears the fedora, […]
Rage Doyle – Episode #2©
Having spent most of his professional life in covert operations of one type or another, Raegene Dorryen Doyle had never left himself open to speculation. The first twenty-seven years of his working life had been as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency. For the last nineteen years he had kept himself busy as a […]
Rage Doyle – Episode #3©
Rage Doyle’s first foreign posting after joining the CIA was to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the years passed, wherever operatives met, when Doyle’s name came up in quiet conversations, there was often talk of a young woman in Prague. No one seemed to know her name, but most could remember that she […]
Rage Doyle – Episode #4©
Rage Doyle was not one for surprises; he didn’t give them, and he did not expect them. When the woman he had cared for made Rage her sole beneficiary, he wasn’t quite sure how to react. Suddenly, Rage was an affluent individual. He wasn’t sure he wanted to be affluent. There was nothing significant he […]
Rage – Episode #5©
At an age when most individuals would be slowing down or even retiring, Rage Doyle is not. But then, Doyle has never been the retiring type. Doyle’s professional life includes twenty-seven years as an agent with the Central Intelligence Agency and another twenty-plus years as an independent contractor doing various covert assignments for his former […]