Intentional Take is a mystery-thriller, first of a new series from RJR Press, featuring the character of Jeff Tribe. The series will follow Tribe as he evolves from helping family and friends to taking cases as a true detective. Intentional Take begins a year after Jeff Tribe got himself released from prison on a technicality and tracked down his fiance's true killer, the crime for which he was unjustly convicted. Now Tribe's estranged aunt wants him to use those same detective skills to find her kidnapped daughter Charlene who was taken off a city street in broad daylight eight days ago. The police have leads so Tribe teams up with a former boyhood pal, Esai Morales, who loved Charlene when the two were teenagers but is w a local criminal, and together they search for the missing woman from Massachusetts, to New Jersey, and down the coast to North Carolina. Along the way Morales painfully relives his fateful romance with young Charlene while Tribe deals with a shoebox full of memories from the father who abandoned him and who could w still be alive, two cops who may or may t want to help find Charlene, outlaw bikers, and a dark secret that will rip apart what's left of Tribe's tattered family. Author Robert Roberge Jr. lives in Massachusetts. Intentional Take is his first vel. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Robert B. Parker will enjoy this story. - RJR Press (www.rjrpress.com)