The second novel WINDFALL is centered about a young man who was wounded in the Iraqi war and returns to his home town and works as a PI. He is working the other end of the War on Drugs in the central valley of California. He meets a girl during one of his investigations and they find something in common--this leads to love. They eventually work on the same team and there is an odd turn of events at the end that links the Dual Novels together.
F. Eugene Barber grew up in the Midwest and worked on farms and ranches until at age seventeen and just out of high school, he enlisted in the Air Force. He served before and during the Korean War. He worked on the atom bomb carrying B-36 as an Engine Mechanic, Crew Chief, and Flight Line Chief attached to the 5th Field Maintenance Squadron, 15th Air Force, SAC, at Travis AFB, CA. Using the GI Bill after discharge, the former Staff Sergeant earned an AS in Engineering, a BA, and an MBA. He has worked in the defense, aerospace, and intelligence communities most of his adult life and for the last dozen years or so years he has consulted on FAA, agency, and DoD projects. He recently finished a three year assignment at the Birk Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB on the Airborne Laser Project; another year with a large defense firm near Minneapolis working on computerized remote naval gun projects. He just finished a year-long task at a remote site ninety miles out in the Nevada desert where he was assigned to the special projects office for UAVs overseas ops. Mr. Barber has worked all over the world; North, South, and Central America, Europe, the UK, Scandinavia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Siberia, South Africa, French Polynesia, mainland China, South Korea, Japan, and Australia. He and his wife, Yvonne, also lived for a time in Yorkshire, England where he was a status of forces contractor/consultant on a Joint Ops base. They reside in Nevada.