Things are looking up for Joe Hustle. A Gulf War vet and ex-con scraping by in Los Angeles, he has just met an intriguing new woman and gotten a rare windfall. Before long, though, his luck has turned again and he and his girl are in a car speeding through the Southwest, trying to outrun disaster. Will disaster ride along with them? Joe Hustle is a survivor.A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together...

Mortal Leap tells a story we all know but have never heard: what happens when you have an opportunity to take another person's identity? A wife identifies a man badly disfigured in battle as her missing husband. What happens when he decides to go along with her mistake? Mortal Leap is both adventure story and metaphysical novel.