J.C. Fields

ALLi Author Member

Location: United States of America (the)

Genres: Commercial Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Crime, Mystery

Skills: Writing Workshop, Speaking Engagement/Lecture

John Cawlfield, writing as J.C. Fields, is a multi-award-winning Amazon Best Selling author. He is active in numerous writing groups and serves on the board of Sleuth Ink Mystery Writers.

His Sean Kruger Series has won numerous awards, including multiple golds and silver medals in the Readers' Favorite International Book Contest. Another of his novels, The Imposter's Trail, received Best Mystery/Thriller at the 2017 Ozark Indie Book Fest.

In March 2020, his novel, A Lone Wolf, became a #1 Amazon Best Selling Audiobook. His second novel in the series, The Last Insurgent, became a #1 Amazon New Release in January 2021.

The top-100-rated podcast Fear From the Heartland, hosted by Paul J. McSorley, features many of J.C.'s short stories penned exclusively for the program's listeners.

He lives with his wife, Connie in Southwest Missouri.

J.C. Fields' books

The Fugitive's Trail

In the lobby of a prestigious Wall Street investment firm, one man is dead and another seriously wounded. The individual accused of the crime, a fugitive.
FBI profiler Special Agent Sean Kruger is called in to find the suspect. He soon discovers the only leads to who the man might be is a name and a picture taken by a security camera. Public records of the person do not exist.
The fugitive is a ghost.
When Kruger unearths information the investment firm is using the incident as a cover-up to a larger crime, he determines the fugitive was defending himself. He also learns another individual is searching for the man, an individual who has no interest in allowing the truth to ever be known.
Kruger must use all of his skills and experience to find the fugitive’s trail. A trail leading to a deadly cat-and-mouse game where death is around every corner and the truth is up for grabs.

The Assassin's Trail

FBI SPECIAL AGENT SEAN KRUGER IS BACK!
A serial killer is on the loose in the Washington, DC area. Two men are dead and the FBI has called in Profiler Special Agent Sean Kruger.
Now in the twilight of his career, Kruger and longtime girlfriend, Stephanie, have decided to marry. Tired of the bureaucracy and politics of the job, he wants no part of the investigation.
But when the assassin strikes close to home, it becomes personal and he turns to JR Diminski, the computer genius from The Fugitive’s Trail, for help. To protect his new marriage he will put his life in danger as he pursues the assassin. An assassin whose ultimate goal is an attack in the center of the United States. An attack that could result in massive civilian casualties.

The Impostor's Trail

FBI Profiler Sean Kruger is on the trail of a vicious serial killer!
Over the Indian Ocean, a Malaysia Airlines jumbo jet drops from radar. Three hundred twenty-seven souls disappear with it; a woman in Rockford, Illinois is brutally murdered. Unrelated news events? Retired FBI agent Sean Kruger doesn’t think so. He suspects it’s the work of serial killer Randolph Bishop.

Now a college professor, Kruger has tried to live with the mistake he made while investigating Bishop six years earlier. It looks as though the only man to elude him, in his twenty-five-year tenure with the FBI, has returned to seek vengeance on those who forced the man to flee the country. With his family in danger, Kruger comes out of retirement to find Bishop’s trail. A trail that leads Sean to question his own humanity.

The Cold Trail

When retired FBI Agent Sean Kruger becomes involved in the rescue of a kidnapped female graduate student, he finds the events of the abduction too familiar. During the years 1998 through 2002 six female college students vanished without a trace from four different college campuses, never to be seen again. A suspect was never identified. As the lead FBI investigator on the case, the failure to close it continues to haunt him.
Now, with the help of JR Diminski, he has a new clue in the cold case. Tired of teaching and wanting closure for the missing women’s families, he rejoins the FBI.
Investigating the cold case will lead Kruger down a dark trail, a trail of dark money and darker passions.

The Money Trail

After the horrific murder of an attorney and a Washington Post reporter on a park bench in Washington, DC., Kruger and company must determine the reason for the murders and who committed the crime. When it is discovered the reporter and attorney were trying to uncover a dark secret hidden within the highest ranks of the United States government, Kruger enlists the help of his trusted friend JR Diminski.
As Kruger and JR strip away the lies and treachery, they discover a plot by a ruthless foreign adversary to undermine the confidence of the American electorate in their chosen officials. With JR following the money trail, it will be up to Kruger to protect the ones he loves from a deadly assassin who is determined to keep him from learning the truth.
Will they stop the threat in time or will dark money destroy the American way of life?

A Lone Wolf

From the author of the highly acclaimed Sean Kruger Series, comes a new adventure featuring ex-Marine sniper and retired CIA operator, Michael Wolfe.
Somebody wants Wolfe, and his ex-Mossad girlfriend, Nadia Picard, dead. When an attempt to assassinate them in Barcelona, Spain goes awry, they manage to find their way back to Wolfe’s rustic property in remote southern Missouri unscathed. Not one to hide from a threat, Wolfe aggressively starts using his training and skills to find out who tried to eliminate them in Barcelona, but more importantly—why.
Filled with well-crafted characters and the trademark twists and turns of a J.C. Fields novel, A Lone Wolf will keep you turning the pages late into the night. A #1 Best Selling Audiobook.

The Dark Trail (The Sean Kruger Series Book 6)

After the horrific murder of an attorney and a Washington Post reporter on a park bench in Washington, DC., Kruger and company must determine the reason for the murders and who committed the crime. When it is discovered the reporter and attorney were trying to uncover a dark secret hidden within the highest ranks of the United States government, Kruger enlists the help of his trusted friend JR Diminski.

As Kruger and JR strip away the lies and treachery, they discover a plot by a ruthless foreign adversary to undermine the confidence of the American electorate in their chosen officials. With JR following the money trail, it will be up to Kruger to protect the ones he loves from a deadly assassin who is determined to keep him from learning the truth.

Will they stop the threat in time or will dark money destroy the American way of life?

The Last Insurgent

Book 2 in The Michael Wolfe Saga and the follow up novel to the #1 Best Selling Audiobook, A Lone Wolf.

When the NSA intercepts an international phone call hinting at a plot to assassinate POTUS, ex-Marine Sniper and clandestine CIS operator, Michael Wolfe is tasked with stopping it. The result is a lethal international cat-and-mouse game ranging from the mountains of northern Iran to the streets of Washington, DC.

The Virtual Trail

Book Seven of The Sean Kruger Series

MIT graduate student, Danny Barton is a quiet man. A man more comfortable pursuing academic achievement than monetary success. In a quest to finance his academic pursuits, he takes a position within a political campaign to analyze voting data. It will be a fatal decision.

When a hit-and-run accident robs Danny of his future, retired FBI profiler Sean Kruger is asked to investigate. As Kruger digs into the young man’s past, he finds a brilliant mathematician who has developed a system for predicting election results. He also discovers that on the night of Danny Barton’s accident, the young man carried a laptop computer. A computer which is now missing.

As Kruger digs deeper into Barton’s death, he finds a deadly trail of international deception, political greed and an imminent danger to American democracy. And the return of an old foe.

A Matter of Payback

A young bride’s life is snuffed out on December 2nd of 2001 in Haifa, Israel, when a Palestinian suicide bomber destroys a bus.

One hundred and ninety-three souls are lost on March 11, 2004, when a coordinated bomb attack occurs on the Cercanías commuter train system in Madrid, Spain, a Scottish SAS Sargent Major’s fiancée is among the dead. What do these two events have in common?

An Iranian terrorist who goes by the name, Mohammad Al-Qaedi.

Fast forward twenty years, black ops operators Michael Wolfe and Ian McGill join forces for a clandestine mission inside Iran. They come back burned-out and both yearning for retirement from careers that have taken everything but their lives. During this mission, they uncover the identity of the person responsible for the deaths of their loved ones twenty years earlier.

Now Britain’s House of Parliament and Big Ben are targeted by Al-Qaedi, the President of the United States sends Wolfe to London in an effort to assist MI6. He prevents the massive bombing and, in the process, eliminates the terrorist’s source of weapons and funding.

The Iranian extremist vows vengeance.

“Filled with well-crafted characters and a roller-coaster ride of international intrigue, A Matter of Payback is an unrelenting story of revenge and reprisal.” Heather Burch, International Best-Selling Author

The Ominous Trail

Book 8 of The Sean Kruger Series

Former FBI agent Sean Kruger has reconciled with his forced retirement and moved on to join his friends Sandy Knoll and Jimmie Gibbs in their private defense contractor firm. He is now in high demand as a fraud investigator.

When two insurance executives make a surprise visit to Kruger’s home office, he is asked to look into the disappearance of a 150-million-dollar diamond display from a museum in Chicago. Clues are non-existent, but with the help of JR Diminski, Kruger soon learns there is more to the theft than just the value of the diamonds.

As the evidence unfolds, he will cross paths with one of the most ominous psychopaths he has ever encountered. A man totally uninhibited by the norms of society and hell-bent on becoming the richest man in the world. Regardless of who gets in his way.

Filled with well-crafted characters and ruthless adversaries, The Ominous Trail may be the best Sean Kruger story to date. Don’t start this book late at night…if you want to sleep.

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