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I am a retired scientist, engineer and teacher who now write Christian fiction as a retirement career. I spent 32 years working in the paper industry. My work experience included, process engineering, research and development, management, environmental engineering, management and consulting. After that, I taught high school science and math for 8 years before full retirement. Of course I did not work all the time, but have been an athlete, raised a family, gardened, camped, flown an airplane and been on the airport commission of my town. As a result, I have had a life rich in experiences that I use for the basis of my stories.

My wife and I live in rural New Mexico where we are involved in local life including our church, exercise at the gym, running, gardening and beekeeping.

While riding in a charity bike ride, Richard meets Mary Beth. They fall in love, but the bike ride is interrupted by an explosion, and Mary Beth disappears. She was last seen in the company of a white-haired man, wearing an old army jacket with sergeant’s strips. Richard must find her and rescue her from a group of mentally disturbed veterans who think they are still in Vietnam.

“Author Reynold Conger’s “A Dangerous Bike Ride” is Based on the Richard Tracy Series, a Retired Detective Who is Out on a Complex Kidnapping Case

Richard Tracy, a retired detective, and a protagonist whose adult children motivated him to join them on the Texas MS 150, a bike ride to raise charity for MS research because anyone who runs marathons will have no trouble riding 150 miles in two days.
Mary Beth Austin, a former chef, gardener, and bicycle enthusiast. Riding in the MS 150, where they crossed paths and fall in love. Both want this relationship to evolve into marriage so that they can spend their golden years gardening together, but at the finish of the event, they were engulfed in an explosion. Then Richard wakes up in a hospital, but Mary Beth vanished without a trace except that the EMT who treated Richard said that a man wearing an old Marine Corps uniform took her by the hand and lead her away.”