Daniel J. Barrett Books

Enhance your Linux expertise with practical techniques designed for system administrators, developers, and hobbyists alike. The book focuses on creating and executing complex commands to address real-world business challenges, streamlining information processing, and automating tasks. It emphasizes a deep understanding of underlying processes behind commands, empowering you to navigate Linux more effectively. As you progress, you'll build intermediate to advanced command-line skills that will enhance your everyday use and boost your competitiveness in the job market.

It's just another day in paradise for US Coast Guard Lieutenant Joe Traynor, stationed in the Florida Keys...until he gets a call from his boss, Rear Admiral Jake Barnes. Barnes suspects that some Coast Guard members in Miami have been selling seized cocaine back to the Colombians, and Joe and his team are called in to investigate. But as Joe leaves the rear admiral's office, he runs into an ambush, at the same time that his second in command is shot and nearly killed. It seems that members of the US Coast Guard Seventh District are selling more than cocaine to the drug cartels. They're also selling information obtained from bugging the Coast Guard offices. How deep does it go, who is involved, and how are they getting away with it when audits of the warehouse where the drugs are stored show nothing is missing? Joe needs to find out-and fast-before any more top personnel and their families are threatened, including his own fiancée, Julie. However, keeping Julie safe while she negotiates a movie deal for her new book with Walt Disney Studios, outsmarting drug lords and their minions, and tracking down missing fifteen-year-old girls who have been sold into the human trafficking network are all in a day's work for Joe and his team of special investigators...if they can just survive long enough.

Fired at age fifty, dumped by his wife and grown, college-age children-his wife moved her lover, a UPS deliveryman, into the house as soon as Jack left-Jack Manning is humbled beyond words. Six months later, he's down and out, living in a rented room in the Burgh, cooking meals for his eighty-year-old landlady, while walking to work at the corner convenience store. No car. The only job he could get was for $12.00 an hour for the night shift, six days a week.He bought a Powerball ticket, using the birthdays of all the people who hated him, woke up, turned on the news, and found out that he'd split 990 million dollars with two others across the country. Taking a cash payout, he would net $198 million. What would he do now that he was rich with no support payments or any family who cared about him? He was sure he would make a lot of friends real soon. But, like a lot of folks, he'd divvied up his winnings a long time ago in his daydreams when he was bored. This could be very interesting. Maybe he could right some wrongs, change lives, payback through kindness not revenge, help those who want to help themselves. Will it work? Will a lot of money make a difference? Maybe...

What are the odds of hitting the national lottery for $330.0 million dollars? The odds are 270 million to one. What are the odds of hitting it twice? The odds are four in ten billion. What are the odds of a couple hitting the lottery, one for $330.0 million dollars and the other for $480.0 million dollars, three years later in cities 1,500 miles apart? It's never been calculated but the couple, together, hit for $810.0 million dollars, equivalent to the third highest total in history. Jack Manning is well on his way with his plans and his new bride, Mary Evans, knows she needs to follow a similar path as Jack, but with her own ideas in mind. Life changed for Jack after his former wife left him, divorced him, and left him penniless with no future. Now, happy, married to his closest friend, an ex-nun, he wants Mary to realize her potential and help change the world. Let's see what happens next. Hold on for a very unusual ride. How do you give away a fortune in only a few years?

Retired Chief Petty Officer Tom Jones was murdered in his apartment complex in Orlando in what appeared to be a "drug deal gone bad." The police won't even do an autopsy on a dead drug dealer. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Joe Traynor is asked by Tom's daughter to look into his death. His investigation ultimately leads to the largest meth case on the southeastern seaboard. In the meantime, the Russian Mafia, unhappy with being ripped off by Julie Chapman's father, seek revenge. Her father's death, once again comes back to haunt her and her grandmother, Tillie, placing their lives-and Joe's-in danger once again.

A shootout with terrorists at Orlando International Airport, killing one police officer and wounding two others, thrusts US Coast Guard Lieutenant Joe Traynor and his team of highly skilled experts into the middle of another dangerous investigation. Once the terrorist leader is identified, Joe suspects that he not only had something to do with the Boston Marathon bombing, but that he came to Orlando with the intent of executing another 9/11. In an area rich with prime targets, both military and civilian, Joe's team has to both find the suspect and identify where he will strike-and they're running out of time.

Joe Traynor, at 37, becomes the youngest Assistant Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy after a dynamic career tackling crime. His transition from action to administration brings new challenges, especially as he and his wife, Julie, navigate life in New England with their adopted daughter, Bella, who struggles with cultural adjustment. Meanwhile, threats from white supremacists loom over the Academy, forcing Joe to confront a crisis that could alter their lives and the institution forever. The family's journey is filled with unexpected twists and a fight for safety and belonging.

Joe Traynor's transition from the Coast Guard to a nonprofit agency takes a dark turn when he uncovers a national money-laundering scheme targeting impoverished youth. Faced with escalating danger and mounting bodies, he grapples with self-doubt about his readiness to confront such a perilous situation. As he and his friends race against time to thwart the gang behind the scheme, the stakes rise, testing their resolve and courage in a fight for justice.

Set against the backdrop of the Florida Keys, the story follows Julie Chapman, a tenth-generation Conch raised by her grandmother, Tillie. After Tillie's mysterious car accident leaves her in a coma, Julie and her best friend Joe suspect foul play. Their quest for the truth leads them to uncover dark secrets that threaten their safety and lives, intertwining friendship, danger, and the haunting legacy of their upbringing.

Julie Chapman grew up in Key Largo, a tenth-generation Conch, raised in the Florida Keys by her grandmother, Tillie, since Julie's parents were deceased. Then one night Tillie has a car accident and ends up in a coma, leaving Julie and her best friend Joe to wonder if it really was an accident. As Julie and Joe start digging for the truth, they uncover some dark and desperate secrets that can not only cause them a good deal of trouble, but also cost them their lives.