Charles Edwards Barrett Jr. authors fourth novel

His assignment is to stay off the grid when he innocently stumbles into a blown witness protection detail in Little Rock, Arkansas. He simply could not walk away from the impending mayhem.

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After the dust settles, a mortally wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal makes him promise to personally deliver the witness to a U.S. Marshals Service safe site.

Not just a promise, an oath. A pledge between ex-Army Delta Force comrades. A trust that could not be brokenÑOnce in, never out.

Kaplan soon suspects the witness he vowed to protect has secrets of his own; secrets that go beyond his testimony for the U.S. government. When he discovers the witness is being tracked, Kaplan teams with a WitSec Deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to recover the witness, but soon realizes some merciless people are dead set on preventing the witness from reaching the safe site.

But the witness has a hidden agenda of his ownÑOne that could cost Kaplan his life.

Chuck Barrett is a Pi Kappa Phi alumnus from the Alpha Iota Chapter at Auburn. Blown is Barrett’s fourth novel and will be published May 19, 2015.