The residents of Buckaloo Ridge become interested spectators when a successful chemist and inventor's life falls apart after the tragic death of his wife and he takes the law in his own hands. As BJ descends into a world he never knew existed his life becomes a wild ride full of surprising twists and turns that will have the reader wondering what's coming next. A CIA agent is working a special OP the vice president has set up to learn how drugs are making their was from Mexico to the troops in Viet Nam. BJ and Hawk, a former marine that had saved BJ's life in Korea, become mercenaries for the CIA and everyone's plans may be compromised when the fingerprints of a man who has been dead for over two years turn up at a crime scene. An intriguing tale of espionage, deceit and lies with a surprise ending the reader will not see coming.

Southern Race relations are a disordered and mismanaged mess snared in prejudices, suppression, and failures in communication. Tangled Branches does not fit into the popular context of the causes or effects. While slavery existed within the author's family for thirty-four years, the black and white families remained together for 150 years. Tangled Branches is a week-long discussion between the author and the African-American grandson of his mother's maid. It is the story of a middle age white man facing his own fears of allegations of racial prejudice and finding the responsibility to tell the African-American family's history. It is the true story of the black family history through the white family. Both families are traced five generations through the evolution of both technology and society, from pioneers to the 1970s. It recounts the crimes committed by both upon each other and on those around them. It reveals a generational dependence each family had upon the other. While popular dialogue claims black and white races separated at the conclusion of the American Civil War, Tangled Branches tells how one family remained together; from Tilly a freed slave using the white family's farm as an underground railroad station, through both black and white working together to supply Al Capone with whiskey, to Ina walking out after decades of abuse. It tells of the final separation of the two families when the Author's mother's maid is fired, and of their reconciliation.