Cooke, Jr., Herbert J.
Herbert J. Cooke, Jr.
Herbert J. Cooke, Jr., was born at Goose Air Base, Newfoundland, Canada, and raised in Yorktown, Virginia. He retired from the Air Force as a Security Forces Specialist in 2010. He has experience in security, law enforcement, canine operations, intercontinental ballistic missile protection, and contingency planning. He has traveled all over the United States and has spent time in England, Germany, Kuwait, Egypt, Korea, Panama, Spain, Honduras, and Bolivia. He currently resides in Northern Virginia.
Armando Murillo, the driver of a run-down taxi in the small Honduran city of La Ceiba, used to make a few illegal deliveries to help make ends meet—before the police busted him. But when his wife is diagnosed with a rapidly advancing form of cancer, he takes it back up—and risks the vengeance of a powerful crime syndicate to pay for the operation she needs.
Rainfall and Bullets interweaves Armando's struggle with the lives of two other men—Santiago, a conflicted henchman charged with hunting him down, and James, a young American sergeant who finds through a chance encounter that he has a twisted connection with both of them.
As the action plays out on the streets of La Ceiba, Armando and James must evade a corrupt narcotics detective, the hot pursuit of Santiago, and the growing rage of a filthy-rich crime boss and his ruthless hitmen. Each of these three men will make critical decisions–and discover whether the consequences were worth it.