Allen Stevens - The Problem Solver

Allen Stevens: The Problem Solver, is the story of an ordinary guy who is trained to the point that he has extraordinary skills.

When Stevens is going through basic training at Lackland AFB, he is interviewed by the base

chaplain of all people and given the opportunity to volunteer to serve with a special unit.

After going through special forces training at Fort Bragg, Stevens is sent to the CIA farm to have his skills further honed.

He and a female operative help a Russian defector escape from Hungary. Stevens assassinates an American spy who works at the Naval Research Laboratory, a drug lord in Columbia, a dishonest politician who was appropriating money to his own shell company, and a Russian GRU agent who knew too much.

His last mission is to Cambodia to kill an American who is a gun importer and supplier for the Russians and North Vietnamese. He’s wounded during the mission and his survival becomes uncertain.

Allen Stevens recovered from his wounds on the Funafuti Atoll, he and Bea are flown off the island to Hurlburt Field, Florida, where he is attached to the 1 Air Commando Wing.

The Gomez drug cartel sent two killers to Columbus, Georgia, to find Allen. After dispatching them, four more are sent to assassinate him in Mary Esther, Florida. Allen and Bea managed to kill them and escaped. 

Allen and Bea were flown to Alaska, and then to a remote cabin in the Brooks Range on Burnt Mountain. The Russian assassin followed them as far as Fort Wainwright.

A Russian national told the Scorpion that a De Havilland took three passengers north. The Scorpion got a Russian bush pilot to follow the De Havilland the next time it went to take supplies to Stevens. Once the Scorpion found the cabin, he had the bush pilot drop him off a few miles from the building, walked within rifle range, and waited for Stevens to come outside. Someone was going to live, and someone was going to die. 

Allen is summoned to a meeting at a cabin in the mountains of Virginia.

After a briefing, he and three former Navy SEALs are given the opportunity to exterminate some of Washington, D.C.s most corrupt politicians.

After weighing the dangers of the operation, the four men accept the mission.

They execute the Speaker of the House at a public meeting in San Francisco. Then the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee is killed in his D.C. apartment.

The group’s director sends a letter to the House Ethics Committee demanding that the Veteran’s Care Act be passed by a certain date. Their demand is disregarded, and a Senator is executed on his yacht in the Potomac River.

The FBI is frustrated because the killers have committed three murders without leaving a clue. Then a fourth Congress member is killed. It becomes obvious that the killings are going to continue until the Veteran’s Care Act is passed or the killers are caught.

The Solution is a classic action-suspense novel. While the story is fiction, it mirrors some of the problems America faces today within the corrupt Washington political establishment. It may have readers hoping the killers don’t get caught.

Allen accepted an operation to Veracruz Province in Mexico to terminate an American citizen who was an arms dealer.

The operation becomes convoluted, and his former Navy SEALs friends are brought in to extradite him and his partner.

When he returns to his work at Fort Bragg, he enjoys a few months with his family and then gets called to discussed a new mission. The operation was to assassinate a North Vietnamese General at a wreath laying ceremony at the base of Chu Pong Mountain in the La Drang Valley in Vietnam.

The General got sick and didn’t show. Then the problem was how to get back to Pleiku Air Base with more than 100 NVA after Allen and his team. Later, Allen was asked to go to Los Angeles to terminate the officer who ordered the massacre at Taejon, South Korea.

Captain Smith and his team at sent to North Vietnam to rescue two B-52 crews that are being temporarily held captive before being transferred to the Hanoi Hilton.

Captain “Ted” Smith and four 1 Special Operations Wing (SOW) operators are tapped to go to Nicaragua to help the CIA Special Activities Division (SAD) rescue two doctors. The operation becomes complicated, and they have to fight their way out of the country.

Egyptian terrorists, dressed as Israelis, attacked the refugee camp at Khan Yunis and killed several Palestinians. The terrorists’ camp was discovered by U2 photos. Allen and a SAD team are sent to Egypt to terminate the terrorists.

JR fights three boys and convinces them to leave him alone. A school teacher tries to molest Mia and ends up in the hospital. Allen has an altercation with red necks in Tennessee while fly fishing with JR.

A rebel group takes over Kolwezi, Zaire. After the French and Belgian special forces put down the uprising, Allen and two SAD operators are sent to Zaire to terminate the leaders of the rebels who have gone into hiding.

Allen and a SAD team are sent to Israel to find and terminate the leader of a group that is trying to derail Egypt and Israel peace negotiations. Allen is captured by the Iranian terrorists and his continued survival is in question.

Allen Stevens received an invitation for him and his family to visit the California White House. He was informed that he had been selected to be the new director of operations for The Committee.

Allen was given a new civil service cover position with the ISA, a newly formed intelligence group. 

His first task, as director of operations for The Committee, was to put together three teams to coordinate the terminations of the ringleaders of the plot to kill the president. The men, in three different time zones, were terminated at roughly the same time.

The next operation was to terminate the Muslim terror group trainer of the Turk who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The mission was a success, but the two operators were surrounded by Syrian terrorists and were forced to seek refuge in a Syrian’s home, where they were

protected by Islamic hospitality law. A ransom for release was established with the terrorists for the two operators. The president wouldn’t allow the money to be paid, setting up a confrontation at the Syrian/Jordanian border crossing.

Bill Shuey is the author of several books and the ObverseView column. When he isn’t writing, he’s trying to catch a fish.