Dr. Angelique (Angel) Goodall later changed to Elizabeth (Beth) Goodall
Afraid of birds
She’s stuck in minutia
Health nut
Always prepared. Carries everything in her back pack. Purely, nuts, dried fruit. Electrical tape. Safety pins, medical stuff
Mother didn’t achieve her goals because raising the girls (Kess and Angel)
Character arc-learn she can have medical practice and love Sam
Character goal- Get out of military and start own practice
Sam ?
He’s on point – knows exactly where she’s going.
He sees big picture
Been in love with Angel since he was her trainer in boot camp – always knows where she is.
Junk food junky
Wears dad’s dog tags
Character arc- make Angel love him
Character goal- wants to be loved
They shoot another doctor while she’d kneeling in the dirt, hands tied behind her back. Eyes squeezed shut. “You will do my surgery, if not, you are no use to me. Decided.”
Sam says. “She’ll do it.”
They’ll kill her after surgery. Just buying time until she can escape.
Doctors Without Borders.
Thadiwe planned this. He knew the doctors were coming for 6 months, operating room ready.
Kills everyone on the plane.
They torture her because she refuses to do it. Sam watches.
Bad guy has bad factions under him. His guy in command killed everyone. Wasn’t supposed to.
Thadiwe has price tag on his head. All the nasty factions in his country are after his head and want to kill him.
Scene where the bad factions are fighting with Thadiwe’s men. They have to hide up a tree.
Make love in a tree
Make love in small tent
Jungle boat comes one a week
Waterfalls
boat rapids
miss the boat
run and hide
Sam bargains for a boat from one of the tribes.
While he’s bargaining, she steals it.
dark moment – they grab her again. But she goes willingly because they have Sam.
They start beating the crap out of Sam. She realizes she really does love him.
They lock Sam in a hut
She anesthetizes him.
Makes an excuses to leave the OR.
Rescue Sam.
They are going to torture, and then kill Sam. She says “Let him go, and I’ll do the surgery.”
Show me pictures of him getting on a boat and safe, and I’ll do the surgery.
Puts the guy under, and does the surgery.
I love writing about siblings. The dynamics of how two (or more) people, coming from the same family environment, can turn out so completely different in how they approach the world fascinates me. In TROPICAL HEAT, you’ll get to meet Kess Goodall, the sister of my heroine in NIGHT FALL
A Typical Writing Day…
8:00 Run downstairs with dogs. No thanks, too early to play, feel free to go outside to pee.
8:02 Drink my hot Mocha Frappuccino while I read the news. Timer dings.
8:30 Talk to my Facebook Pips. Timer dings.
10:00 Talk to my Facebook Pips. Timer dings.
10:10 Shower, dress and put on makeup.
10:45 Talk to my Facebook Pips. Timer dings.
11:30 Protein drink for brunch while playing on Facebook
11:31- 7:00 Attack my keyboard like a demented woman. Running chasing sex falling down shooting running sex.
7:00 A good day. Dinner cooked my darling husband and an evening of movies or TV snuggled with husband, Chase and Storm.
11:00- 3:00 a.m. Woohoo. More running chasing sex falling down shooting running sex. Chase asleep with his head on my foot. Storm asleep in her day bed in my office.
3:01 Take the dogs and go upstairs to fall nose first into bed.
US Army Physician Research
http://www.nejmjobs.org/career-resources/military-physician-careers.aspx
*Exploring Military Physician Career
List of resources listed at the bottom of this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Medical_Department_(United_States)
Medical special branches (different branches)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Medical_Command
http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/
**Good site – general info
http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/medical/corps_benefits.jsp#hpsp
Financial Assistance and time required to give back to the army.
http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/health_care_map.html
Army Health Care Facilities Map of Locations
Walter Reed is on this map
http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/medical/index.jsp
Medical Corps
http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/serving_in_the_army_rese.jsp
army reserve doctors participating in humanitarian missions
http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=312
Careers and Jobs - medical corps officer
http://www.imc-la.com/pdf/AnnRpt2002.pdf
International Medical Corps – various programs in Africa and around the world
http://www.mods.army.mil/medicaleducation/
medical education – various scholarships
http://www.mods.army.mil/medicaleducation/PDF/ArmyGMEFactSheet_6222006.pdf
Army Graduate Medical Program
http://www.usarec.army.mil/1stbde/1zbn/NYCHPSP/index.htm
US Army Medical Dept.
http://www.usmedicine.com/column.cfm?columnID=248&issueID=96
US Medicine Column - Great things the Army Medical Dept are doing
The Idea for T-FLAC
This is about how I came up with T-FLAC
Q: T-FLAC is a favorite series among your readers. I know it’s one of my favorites. How did the idea for T-FLAC come about?
Cherry: I came up with the idea for T-FLAC on a verrrrry long flight home from a wonderful trip in Italy. I’d written 17 books- none of which sold, although I had a lot of bites, and had no intention of writing on the plane. But things conspired against me.
First, I ran out of books several days before the flight. Only a fellow book-a-holic knows the panicky, freaked out feeling of being bookless – for an hour, let alone a dozen! I ended up buying a thick book at the airport by an author I loved, for $80.00! Of course I’d already read it, but I tried to make it last once buckled into my seat.
In those days everyone still smoked on planes. I smoked, too, so I didn’t give it much thought. . .But OMG I was on a plane full of Europeans – and they LOVED to smoke, and talk, and gather in large, boisterous groups right near my seat! I finished the book in an hour, and was faced with eleven, long, boring, noisy, smoky hours to go without a lethal weapon or even a parachute… lol!
In desperation, I started writing longhand in my notebook. Since I was feeling quite homicidal at that time, and since my subjects were within arm’s reach, I decided to kill them all on paper (less possibility of going to jail that way). And since I didn’t want to write about a serial killer, I had to come up with a way to kill a lot of people legally… lol!
So I started with who the Bad Guys would be (eyes left – all those freaking men standing in a large group, the entire freaking flight, chain smoking, drinking, talking and getting on my last nerve). Check.
I loved Italy. LOVED IT! So of course my story had to take place there. At that time, publishers weren’t buying books set outside the USA. (Can you see a pattern here?) But I didn’t care. This book was being written as a means of preventing m
y incarceration into a mental institution. (Killing the smokers + nothing to read = Murder/Insanity!)
And T-FLAC was born. (And I gave up smoking cold turkey… lol!)I typed the book when I got home (my handwriting is almost completely illegible) and sent it in. The editor bought in within two weeks. WooHoo. That wrenched flight was so worth it <g>.
Terrorist Force Logistic Assault Command
Vitute et Armis Fide Mea Semper Frater
By courage and by arms. On my word of honor. Always brothers.
As the Cold War fell to bits of rubble, top level government officials and those in the private sector saw a new breed of organization gain momentum. The major threats no longer hinged on the posturing of super powers. An even more dangerous enemy emerged – small, well-funded guerilla groups began to drive fear into the lives of people all over the world. They were rich, connected, quiet, determined and often preferred killing to make their point.
Governments paralyzed by the rule of law and international treaties and conventions required months to react. Because of this, a new industry was born – private anti-terrorist organizations. Premier among them is T-FLAC.
Geoffrey Wright, Lucas Sullivan, and Katrina DeGlaure founded T-FLAC utilizing their connections – political, military and scientific. Headquartered at a sprawling complex in Montana, they recruited and trained the first operatives in the 1980s. T-FLAC specialized in difficult, sticky situations, often hired quietly by officials whose hands were otherwise tied.
Every candidate faced a grueling test of ability, courage, ethics and loyalty. For the safety and integrity of the organization field operatives work in small teams. The identities of operatives is closely held information, shared only on a need-to-know basis. Operatives often go years, even their entire careers - without knowing the identities of the other T-FLAC agents in the organization.
T-FLAC agents know their code by rote. Vitute et armis, Fide mea. Semper Frater. Courage and by arms. On my word of honor. Always brothers.
Agents can be male or female. Young or old. They are your neighbors. Your friends. Your guardians. Protecting the innocent is a calling. Destroying terror wherever it breeds is a mandate.
They are the men and women of T-FLAC.
T-FLAC Mission Statement
Vision: To be the world’s leading provider of strategic, logistical and technological solutions while retaining anonymity as individuals.
Mission: Terrorist Force Logistical Assault Command (T-FLAC) effectively and efficiently integrates resources, technology and experience to provide top-level solutions to the most difficult situations. We exceed expectations where others fail. Guided by courage, ingenuity, innovation and a desire for a safer world, T-FLAC professionals utilize state-of-the-art training, innovative technology and logistical solutions to deliver results world-wide. T-FLAC recognizes that in this post-Cold War era, terrorism is the primary threat to democratic principles across the world. Our combat missions are directed at the base of global terror operations. T-FLAC’s mission is to eliminate all such threats by all, and any means at our disposal.
T-FLAC Core Values
Ethics: For the ancient Greeks, the word meant “character.” For Aristotle, the study of ethics was the study of excellence or the virtues of character. It has come to mean the study and practice of the “good life,” the kind of life people ought to live.
In our time, the concept of ethics has broadened to include not only the characteristics of the good person, but also the “best practices” in various professions, among them medicine, the law, the military. We are committed to serving, and expect the highest standards of ethical and professional behavior and adherence to a universally accepted core of values from all our employees
Teamwork: There is no “I” in team, just as there is no “I” in T-FLAC. We function as a uniformly coordinated collection of experience and expertise, where all members of the company work to bring about innovation and solutions that serve our mission to the highest degree possible.
Courage: Fear is only that which we have not overcome. In T-FLAC courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the determination that our mission is of more importance than the fear and the resulting strength and focus, which arises from that determination.
Respect: Each member of the team is essential. We give, and expect in return, respect for others, their beliefs, and their unique perspectives and ideas. We realize that like technologically advanced piece of equipment, each element must work with precision, independently, but in unison, to produce precise results.
Innovation: We encourage, appreciate, and seek out the best of the best superior performance in all areas of operations. We recognize that there are always opportunities for improvement and we strive to elevate expectations and exceed in situations that others deem impossible.
Counterterrorism Policy:
1. NO negotiation, make no concessions to terrorists.
2. Bring terrorists to justice for their crimes no matter who or where they are.
3. Isolate and apply pressure on states that sponsor terrorism, forcing them to change their behavior either overtly or covertly.
4. Bolster the counterterrorism capabilities of those countries friendly to the mandates of the U.S.
5. Improve counterterrorism cooperation with foreign governments and participate in the development, coordination, and implementation of American counterterrorism policy in accordance with the policies of the United States Government.
International Terrorism:
Hostages:
T-FLAC will make no concessions to individuals or groups holding official or private U.S. citizens hostage. Our operatives will use every resource necessary to gain the safe return of American citizens being held hostage. At the same time, it is our policy to deny hostage takers the benefits of ransom, prisoner releases, policy changes, or other acts of concession.
Areas of Expertise:
• Find and retrieve critical personnel and/or property
• Full-range of armaments
• Hard target and soft target risk assessment
• Critical infrastructure assurance
• Physical elimination of terrorist cells
• Homeland and executive security
• Combat/demilitarization
• Nonproliferation/counter-proliferation
• Intelligence
• Private protection of Foreign Dignitaries
• Counterintelligence
• Persons of Special Interest - Snatch and Grab
T-FLAC Covert Operatives
AJ COOPER: Operative - Out of Sight, Hot Ice
ALEX STONE: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Danger, Edge of Darkness
ALEXANDER “LYNX” STONE: Operative - The Mercenary, Hide & Seek
APOLLO HAWKINS: Operative (In Cairo) - Out Of Sight
ARITARIQ: Operative (In Cairo) Out Of Sight
ASH: Operative - On Thin Ice
ASHER DAKLIN: Operative - Hot Ice
AUSTIN: Operative - Hot Ice
BANTHER: (Deceased) Operative - White Heat
BURTON: Operative - Hot Ice
CALEB EDGE: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Danger, Edge of Darkness
CAROL: Nurse - White Heat
CATHERINE SEYMOUR (Savage): Operative & Tango - Hide & Seek, Out Of Sight, and Hot Ice
CHAPMAN: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Darkness
CONNOR JORDAN: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Darkness
CONRAD CHRISTOF: Operative (In Australia) - Out Of Sight
CURTIS: (Deceased): Operative - The Mercenary
CURTNER: Operative & Trainer - Out of Sight
DAAN VILJOEN: Operative - Hot Ice
DARIUS (aka DARE): Operative - Hide & Seek, White Heat
DEK
KER: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Fear
DEREK WRIGHT: Operative - On Thin Ice, Out of Sight
DOYLE: Operative (Security Division) - White Heat
DUNCAN EDGE: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Danger, Edge of Fear
FARRIS KEIR: Operative - Edge of Fear
FRANK FISK: Operative - Hot Ice
GABRIEL: Operative - Out Of Sight
GABRIEL EDGE: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Darkness,Edge of Fear
GARDNER: Operative - Hot Ice
GARY LANDIS: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Darkness
GREG SANDOVAL: Operative - White Heat
GUERRERO: Operative - White Heat
HOLLWELL: Operative - Hot Ice
DR. HOWARD: Doctor - White Heat
HUGO CALETTI: (Deceased) Operative - In Too Deep
HUNTINGTON ST. JOHN: Operative - Hot Ice, Kiss & Tell, On Thin Ice, In Too Deep, White Heat
IRIS: Nurse - White Heat
JAKE DOLAN: Operative - Kiss & Tell, Hide & Seek, On Thin Ice, Out of Sight, In Too Deep, Edge of Fear
JOE SKULLESTAD: (Deceased) Operative - Kiss & Tell
JUANITA SALAZAR: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Darkness
KANE WRIGHT: Operative - Out of Sight, In Too Deep, Kiss & Tell, White Heat
KLEIVER: Operative - White Heat
KRISTA DAVIS: (Deceased) Operative - The Mercenary
KURTZ: (Deceased) Operative - White Heat
KYLE WRIGHT: Operative - Hide & Seek, In Too Deep, On Thin Ice, Out of Sight
LARK ORELA: Operative (PSI Unit) - Edge of Danger, Edge of Darkness, Edge of Fear
LEVINE: Operative - White Heat
MANNY ESCOBAR: Operative - Out Of Sight, Hot Ice
MARCUS SAVIN: Operative (Boss/CEO) - The Mercenary, White Heat
MAURO ZAMPIERI: (Deceased) Operative - White Heat
MAX ARIES: Operative - Hot Ice, White Heat
MCBRIDE: Operative - Out Of Sight
MICHAEL WRIGHT: Operative - In Too Deep, On Thin Ice, Kiss & Tell, Hide & Seek, Out of Sight