Fiction

Title: While the Shishi Cried
Author: J. E. "Buck" Ballow
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Reviewer: Mike Angley

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0741450917

Army CID Agents Eddie "Easy" Behr and Charlie Bees assist the Okinawa police in the investigation of a murder of a young girl on the back streets of Naminoue. The agents quickly find themselves involved deeply in the world of the Pink Trade, the old White Slavery practice, where young girls are lured to the island on the promise of high paying legitimate jobs. Instead they find themselves tricked and forced into the bars and the world of prostitution where they are held in economic slavery with no means of escape.

Title: Hibiscus Blood
Author: J.E. "Buck" Ballow
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Reviewer: Lee Boyland

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0741438860

It's not so much a mystery as it is an adventure. The CID Operations Officer drops a bomb shell of a case on Agents E.Z. Behr and Charlie Bees. After numerous robberies in the back streets of Koza, Okinawa, the latest victim has been murdered. There are no witnesses, no physical evidence, no crime scene; they don't even know the victim's name. Walk the streets with them as they resolve the puzzle their way. You develop a case of human hoof and mouth disease; you walk and talk until it all comes together.

The author retired from the US Army after twenty-eight years of service, the last fifteen with the US Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID). While in the military he spent twelve years in Japan, Korea and Okinawa. After retirement from the military he served eighteen years as a civilian supervisor of the Illinois State Police coordinatiing intelligence matters with local, state, national, and international agencies.

Title: Goodbye Yobo
Author: J.E. "Buck" Ballow
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Reviewer: David Tschanz

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0741445778

Captain Jared Carposi and Special Agent Edward "Easy" Behr as the new Provost Marshall and CID Chief have inherited a mess at Camp Crocket, South Korea. To make matters worse the adjacent village, nicknamed "Tombstone", has a complete disdain for law and order and is rife with prostitution, assaults, and black marketing. Worse still the village seems to be haunted by an evil spirit. As the team strives to gain control of the village a young bar girl is murdered. Were the events an omen of her impending doom? Is she now stalking the village seeking vengeance? Or is it something else? Agent Behr is a very experienced agent and a rather wily character who uses every legal, and some say questionable, trick at his disposal to resolve the problem.