The Rampage of Ryan O'Hara - Paperback

by James R. Pera (Author)

Ryan O'Hara is a Army Green Beret who is suffering from war wounds and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has been placed on convalescent leave and is traveling across America killing former members of a Marxist domestic terrorist organization responsible for the murder of a San Francisco Police Sergeant, four decades earlier. The police sergeant was O'Hara's grandfather and his death destroyed O'Hara's family.Now Ryan O'Hara is evening the score and bringing the same terror down on the terrorists that they brought down on society. He uses different methods to kill his prey including arson, gunshot and bombing.Along the way he encounters a group of disillusioned former intelligence and military operatives who are after some of the same people albeit for different reasons. He allies himself with them and together they carry out their deadly mission in such a manner that suspicion focuses on the office of the Chief of Staff to the President of the United States.This is a violent tale of vengeance and delayed justice made necessary by a failed system that allows treasonous murderers to escape punishment.

Author Biography

James R. Pera entered the U.S. Army upon graduation from Balboa High School, in San Francisco. He served from 1963-1966 first as a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division, at Ft. Campbell, Ky, and then the 1st Air Cavalry, in Vietnam. Upon discharge from the Army he worked as a shipyard rigger and truck driver followed by a semester of college. In 1968 he joined the San Francisco Police Department where he served thirty years on the street, retiring in 1998 as a patrol sergeant. His service and experiences on the police force served as inspiration for his first book, "The Rampage of Ryan O'Hara."