Major Penelope Baldwin, accomplished pilot and tactician, could have expected a bright future and stable military career until a dubious flight mission over Al A’Zamiyah, Iraq, results in the loss of her left leg. As Penelope struggles in recovery, her mother, Evelyn, struggles to secure their financial future and places her savings in the derivatives market, a bubble that is on the verge of bursting. The collapse will destroy what’s left of her finances, along with the investments and pensions of countless citizens. The stage is set for a dedicated warrior, an American heroine, to turn her sights on those greedy, callous men responsible for ripping away her future. Baldwin, along with Tessa Montgomery (Senior Chief USMC), Cynthia Washington (RN MSW), and six other highly competent women, channel their grief and rage, and their search for justice, to become a finely orchestrated and well-financed band of predators. An invisible society of professional predators is leading a lethal attack on the long-sacred relationship between money and politics.
Joe Lane was born in Tampa, Florida in the early 1960s. He attended but did not graduate from Florida State University, where he says he closely resembled John Belushi's sidekick D-Day in the movie Animal House. In the 1980s, he attended Yale University and Middlebury College Summer Language School, where he was a self-described “study animal” and claimed to love every minute of it. Joe is now a modern renaissance man. A consultant to businesses for many years, he has often spoken at regional and national conventions. As CNBC noted in a piece on him and his Shooting 78 Golf School, where many of his students were Wall Streeters, Joe developed formidable marketing and teaching skills. Joe has continued to take his love of aviation—he's been flying planes since 1968—to the next level. An instrument-rated private pilot, he is still working to earn a commercial pilot ticket. He and his wife's encounter with a developing thunder cell while flying over New Jersey convinced him that one can never know too much about an airplane, or the weather. Joe is also a sailor. A sailboat captain in the late 1970s, he ran charters in the Chesapeake Bay for five years. Joe has lived all across the globe, from Tampa, Florida, to the Baltimore-Washington area, to Connecticut, and most recently in China. He returned to China in 2006, and for most of the past eight years, lived in Zhaoqing City in the Guangdong Province of China, with his wife and partner of seventeen years, Barbara. They developed and are now adding new sotores to the wood-fired pizza restuarant Spango they started in Zhaoqing, in Guangdong Province. In the late summer of 2013, in order to find out how Americans were financially faring after the Great Recession of 2008, and what the country should do to prevent a recurrence, Joe, his wife, and their dog went on a motorcycle tour of 22 small U.S. towns. They called it “The Aftershock Tour.” jtfmproductions.com
Joe Lane is a true renaissance man. As consultant to businesses, he often speaks at regional and national conventions. He took up the business of golf, which led to him running the exclusive Golden Wings Golf Training School for ten years. He’s been flying planes since 1968 and is an instrument-rated pilot. He’s also an accomplished sailor. As a sailboat captain, he ran charters in the Chesapeake Bay for five years. He describes himself as "a decent skier, but a great fly fisherman." He’s also an insatiable reader, reading as many as forty novels a year. Joe has lived all across the globe, from Tampa, Florida, to Columbia, Maryland, to the Washington, DC metro area, to Connecticut, and most recently in China. For nearly eight years, he lived in Zhaoqing City in the Guangdong Province of China, with his wife and partner, Barbara. They’re developing a Chinese chain of pizza restaurants.
Joe Lane is a true renaissance man. As consultant to businesses, he often speaks at regional and national conventions. He took up the business of golf, which led to him running the exclusive Golden Wings Golf Training School for ten years. He’s been flying planes since 1968 and is an instrument-rated pilot. He’s also an accomplished sailor. As a sailboat captain, he ran charters in the Chesapeake Bay for five years. He describes himself as "a decent skier, but a great fly fisherman." He’s also an insatiable reader, reading as many as forty novels a year. Joe has lived all across the globe, from Tampa, Florida, to Columbia, Maryland, to the Washington, DC metro area, to Connecticut, and most recently in China. For nearly eight years, he lived in Zhaoqing City in the Guangdong Province of China, with his wife and partner, Barbara. They’re developing a Chinese chain of pizza restaurants.
