Archives for March 2020

The third new cover we designed this week was for “Winner Lose All” my spy-versus-spy action-adventure cold war thriller.

As WW II grinds to a halt in the rubble of Nazi Germany, all eyes turn to the next ‘cold’ one. The Americans, the Russians, and the British know the future belongs to whoever can grab Hitler’s ‘Wonder Weapon’ technology, because his new rockets, jet fighters, and submarines will shape the balance of world power for decades to come.

Old enemies become tomorrow’s allies, old friends can’t be trusted, and lies and double-dealing are the norm in this spy vs spy thriller.

But some times, love is not enough. Caught in the cross-fire is the torrid but impossible love affair between Ed Scanlon, a brilliant American OSS agent and Hanni Steiner, the gritty, street-smart leader of the communist resistance cell in Leipzig, who find themselves in a tug of war over the plans for Germany’srevolutionary Me-262 jet fighter that is now sweeping the skies of American B-17s. To succeed, they must outwit each other while staying one step ahead of OttoDietrich, the sadistic Gestapo Chief of Leipzig, who has his own plans for the jet fighter plans. So does Scanlon’s perfidious British handlers and Hanni’sKGB masters in Moscow.

Driven by the uncompromising dictates of Josef Stalin, Lavrenti Beria, Allen Dulles, Heinrich Himmler, and Winston Churchill, Ed and Hanni must succeed or die, and the winner will indeed lose all.

Being in a graphic binge with my fantastic cover designer Todd Hebertson in far away Salt Lake City, I just put a colorfuil new lid on Thursday at Noon, my exciting Middle East suspense thriller. Take a look. A dead Mossad agent, Nazi rocket scientists in Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood, a corrupt American ambassador, two missing Egyptian tank regiments, and Richard Thomson, a burnt-out CIA agent who is dumped in Egypt because the Agency can’t think of a worse place to send him.

Already gnawed on by Langley and set-up by the Cairo police, Thomson thinks his day can’t get much worse, until someone leaves a dead body on the rear steps of his hotel with its head lopped off like a ripe melon. A message? No doubt about it. The body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief and wannabe spy who is peddling photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base in the Egyptian desert. Someone is trying to start another Arab-Israeli war, and it’s all going to start at Noon on Thursday unless Thompson can stop them. This Cold War spy thriller will sweep you back to when John Kennedy is in the White House, Nikita Khrushchev rules the Kremlin, and Abdel, Gamal Nasser sits precariously in Cairo, threatened by the radical Islamist fringe of the Muslim Brotherhood.

But while the world focuses on Russian missiles in Cuba, no one notices the ones being rolled out in the Egyptian desert pointed at Israel, no one, except Thomson. Alone and on the run, treachery and double-dealing are the rule. No one believes his story — not the CIA, the US Ambassador, and most assuredly not Captain Hassan Saleh, Chief of the Homicide Bureau of the Cairo Police, who wants to hang Thomson for murder. Like Night of the Generals, this is a murder mystery wrapped inside an international political thriller. Tick Toc, Tick Toc…

Here’s the new cover designed by Todd Hebertson for The Undertaker, my very popular Pete and Sandy suspense thriller. 4.4 Stars on 334 Kindle Reviews

Someone is planting bodies under other people’s names. From the cornfields of Ohio to the gritty south-side slums of Chicago, the bloody kitchen of a Back-Bay townhouse in Boston, the tree-lined sidewalks of Washington Square in Lower Manhattan, and the power corridors of the Nation’s Capital itself, the hunt is on. Chased by an army of Chicago cops, Mafia gunmen, thick-skulled County Sheriffs, and pin-striped lawyers in government-gray sedans, if Pete Talbott, a Boston computer wonk, and Sandy Kazmarek, his quirky kick-ass girlfriend can’t stop the Undertaker, they’ll be next on the killer’s list. Here’s the Link to the Kindle Book Page