You Can't Bury the Past

Welcome to another journey in C. L. Jones’ world of alphabet agency intrigue, whose overriding theme is the military motto “no one left behind”. This story follows the life of a young rural boy named John, whose seemingly normal parents and adopted uncle are anything but normal. Early on, John decides that he wants to become a “tracker”, or someone who can track the trail of anyone or anything that just happened to pass by in the wilderness that surrounds his family farm. His single-minded focus during his childhood and teenage years is to hone his tracking skills and eventually enter the military.

In the military, he is molded into an elite soldier who is well known throughout the service as the best “tracker” that ever wore a uniform. Along the way he marries a home town girl who he never really noticed in high school because of his single-minded focus on tracking. He is sent on missions all over the world so is rarely home which makes it difficult for his wife.

Things go mysteriously wrong on his most important tracking mission - to find his uncle who was apparently kidnapped by bank robbers. But things are not what they seem and after becoming seriously injured while on the bank robber’s trail, he is forced to rethink his goals and the direction of his life during his recovery. So he reestablishes the lost romance with his wife, and settles down in the farming community where he grew up.

When his mother and father pass away, he discovers old ledgers in a hidden safe in their old barn. The secrets uncovered in the ledgers link his parents and uncle to the same organization and several old agents associated with Pops and Wisdom, who are the main characters in C. L. Jones’ previous stories. Armed with this knowledge and a secret map discovered in the ledgers, John calls in some associates from his time in the Army and past missions, who are his blooded brothers. With his blooded brothers, he embarks on an adventure to “fix” some unfilled obligations of the agents described in the ledgers, discovering along the way that “You Can’t Bury the Past”.