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Gary Baldocchi’s first novel is “Actions of Violence”, the first of a series of novels that pit CIA counter terrorist agent Jack Connor against a major U.S. terrorist threat. Gary has served the U.S. government for 29 years as a Marine officer, as an NCIS and DEA Special Agent. NCIS and DEA assignments gave him counterespionage and counterintelligence experience and in undercover drug operations. He was as a tactical, self defense and weapons instructor. His government experience has transformed his first novel into an action packed thrilling adventure.

CIA agent John Connor battles the ruthless head of the Bogotá Cartel, Joaquin Gusto who kills anyone who jeopardizes his empire. He has established a secret alliance with Jihad-7 an extremist terrorist group who has activated a terrorist sleeper cell in the San Francisco Bay area.

Brutal murders and assassinations are carried out by the cartel's top assassin, a former Russian Spetnaz KGB operative, code-name Viper. The cartel's informant, a high-level U.S. government official, provides devastating information to the cartel while he also conspires with the band of ex Army Ranger mercenaries who spin a web of deceit.

The CIA director developed a top-secret program that sends agent Connor undercover as a DEA agent to derail this devastation. Connor must stop the terrorist sleeper cell. But first his assignment must pit him against the sinister empire of the Bogotá Cartel before he understands the magnitude of his true mission.