Greed can be a lethal weapon in the hands of persons with power. CONDITIONAL, is a medical thriller which follows Dr. Jonathan Harding, a hospital accreditation surveyor, and his two colleagues, a nurse and a hospital administrator, during their 2005 assignment to survey a group of hospitals in the Dallas area. The three run afoul of Larry Sullivan, a sociopathic hospital CEO, when the outcome of his hospital's survey is conditional accreditation. Obsessed by greed, Sullivan also manages a profitable relationship with the drug cartels of northern Mexico. He fears the less than perfect outcome of his hospital's just-completed survey will threaten his expected year-end bonus-money he urgently needs to pay off a huge debt to the Mexican drug lords. A lifelong bully, Sullivan irrationally blames the survey team for his hospital's poor performance. He rallies his clandestine associates to strong-arm the survey team to change their report to his advantage. His malicious actions cause stalking, assault, kidnapping, and painful injury to the medical team while carrying out their hospital inspections. Peter Larsen, a young, handsome, and gum-chewing FBI agent, collaborates closely with the medical team to rescue the kidnapped surveyor and to unravel Sullivan's link to the Mexican cartels.

UNANNOUNCED is a medical thriller reminding readers that terrorist attacks do not require crumbling towers. They can be small and cumulative, chipping away bit by bit at Western culture until, finally, they threaten the very essence of life as we know it. Dr. Jonathan Harding is a liberal-thinking physician and a hospital surveyor who works with The Joint Commission, nationwide manager of hospital accreditation. He loathes the methods used by federal law enforcement agents to gather intelligence. In early 2005 Arab-Americans posing as Joint Commission surveyors attempt to conduct several unanounced hospital surveys and The Joint Commission assigns Dr. Harding to investigate. Jonathan discovers a link to Islam and fears terrorism. Reluctantly, he recruits FBI Special Agent Peter Larsen to help him unravel the mysterious events. The two explore hospitals and mosques in three cities in an effort to get to the bottom of the scheme which, they learn, was contrived by Islamic jihadists who hope to infiltrate American hsopitals and gain a toehold in their battle to undermine Western culture. Jonathan and Peter discover the surveyor-imposters were coached by imams who have subsequently fled to Pakistan. Working with pragmatic, easy-going Peter completely reverses Jonathan's opinion of federal agents and their methods. A surprise ending reveals a new kind of grassroots attack devised by the jihadists from their base in the caves of Afghanistan.

HUSH, BOY, a novel about Jonathan Harding, a young boy growing up in the Deep South, is an adventure in storytelling. This third book of a trilogy about Dr. Jonathan Harding, thoracic surgeon and hospital accreditation surveyor, is structured as a prequel to the other two. The young Jonathan longs to be older, like all the people in his life, and he searches for ways to make his grandfather love him. A curious boy, his questions about the departure of his father, about sex, about race, about life itself, are never answered by the adults around him. The only answer he gets is, "Hush, boy, we don't talk about that." Some of the novel's chapters depict Jonathan telling his growing-up stories to his close friend, FBI Agent Peter Larsen, and their discussions about whether to include them in a novel Jonathan is writing. Against odds, the young adult Jonathan makes it through medical school and a grueling surgical residency. Grown up at last, he finally discovers the truth about his late grandfather's love and devotion.