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Journey Into the Unknown: Aliens, Bigfoot, Orbs and UFOs

In 1953, a young boy awoke in the early morning hours as the sole witness to a strange and terrify- ing incident in his family’s home. Five years later in the summer of 1958, he and a group of friends saw something even stranger in the skies above their small Laredo, Texas neighborhood. Journey Into the Unknown chronicles these and others incidents—UFOs, Bigfoot, mysterious encounters and more—from all around the world as documented in images, news articles, historical documents, and in some cases, by the witnesses themselves. This collection of photos, artwork and written accounts is the result of a seventy-year journey to unlock memories and experiences that went unexplained for a lifetime.

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Special Agent Tutwiler and the Missing Blood Diamonds
After a thirty-five-year career with the FBI, Special Agent Thomas Tutwiler finds himself at a crossroads when he’s assigned to a case involving Washington cover-ups, multi-million-dollar diamond thefts, murder, and Russian crime rings. Just when he starts to make progress, the Bureau’s retirement policy forces the weary veteran agent off the case and back into civilian life. He’s soon recruited in the private sector to use his investigative instincts to help track down a stolen experimental oil drilling rig, but when the FBI’s ongoing diamond investigation is mishandled by less-experienced agents, the Bureau calls him back into service to join an international task force. Special agent Tutwiler’s worlds collide when the missing blood diamonds and missing oil rig both lead to a deadly showdown in France.
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The Asphalt Road

For centuries, life along the Rio Grande had been one of constant strife, oppression and upheaval. In the dusty, suffocating heat of the border between Texas and Mexico, Mayor John Charles Martains ruled the city of Laredo for twenty four years with a fearsome, iron grip that reached all the way to the nation’s capitol. When the Mayor, known by locals as “El Patron,” is exposed by an outsider’s investigation into misuse of city funds, his one-man rule starts to unravel. Seen from the eyes of local residents who narrowly escaped his influence—a local independent businessman, a struggling salesman, a young Army volunteer and their families—the story of Laredo is about to take a turn that will change it forever.

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Joseph Decker, a native of Laredo, Texas, is an author of short stories, poetry and novels. A graduate of Texas A&M University, he has worked in the technology industry, owned a design and engineering firm, and retired from the University of Houston SBDC after 22 years of service assisting small business owners with their business issues and funding needs to grow their companies. He continues to write and share his thoughts on a wide range of topics—from historical to paranormal—here at www.joseph-decker.com.