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Lester McFarlin earned his detective status after helping solve and break up an interstate crime organization that sold automatic weapons, manufactured illegal drugs, and imported beautiful call girls between New Orleans, LA and Hot Springs, AR. Even before this huge bust, Lester was referred to as the “Redneck Sherlock Holmes” of the South. As a child, he had been afflicted with a scar on his brain that blocked his ability to read and write. Yet, despite his disability, he was in demand all over the state of Arkansas and beyond to solve crimes. A risky operation would require him to relearn almost everything he knew. He took the risk and the result was a transformation of his brain, which allowed him to memorize everything he read. His lifelong goal was to go to law school, so he enrolled in Hastings Law School in San Francisco and has only one semester left until graduation. He married his girlfriend Debi Green a couple weeks back and now is going on a honeymoon cruise, where he quickly discovers he’ll have to defend the ship and use his unique skills to help fend off a terrorist plot against the Panama Canal. The best Lester has to offer and the finest military specialists available may fall short competing against an enemy quite willing to blow themselves and their families to Kingdom Come to install their demented regimes.
Lester McFarlin, the main character in the book, Beer, Bait, and Ammo, returns to help subdue a huge terrorist cell determined to destroy the Panama Canal and all the ships in the docks.