SUDDEN KILL (formerly HURRICANE FATS):
Auburn Longstreet’s Caribbean-based Ponzi scheme took in $300 million before he was caught. Thousands of small investors lost their life savings as the slippery six-foot-four con man eschewed restitution. Instead, he spent the bulk of the money on lawyers and politicians who kept him out of jail. But the greedy Longstreet wasn’t satisfied. He decided to keep $35 million that “rightly” belonged to a New Orleans mob boss – by arranging to have the mobster convicted on financial evidence he secretly supplied the Feds. The jailed Don dies in prison thinking it was one of his own crew who turned on him.
Enter an ultra-secret unit of the Central Intelligence Agency with an interesting, and lucrative, program. Having broken into the Federal and state computers that track all the people in witness protection, the C.I.A. unit bumps off mob turncoats in return for cash and intelligence provided by vengeful mob bosses. One of its “clients” is Fats Boudreau, the dead Don’s brutal son. But when Fats discovers that Longstreet is the real traitor and that Cole Sudden, a C.I.A. assassin, killed the wrong man, he goes berserk. He wants Longstreet and Sudden dead – and his $35 million! Add a cadaverous and laconic Las Vegas hit man and a monster Category 5 storm into the volatile mix and this thriller builds to a shattering climax.
MADMAN’S THIRST:
The brutal murder of a schoolgirl. A dying hit man with a conscience. A priest harboring a terrible secret. An investigator seeking personal redemption. All these elements collide in MADMAN’S THIRST, where billions are at stake in an international conspiracy involving a foreign power. With locales as varied as Paris, New York, Florida and the Bahamas, and frightening scenes set at a NASCAR track and in a Manhattan high-rise, it is a Jake Scarne thrill ride at its best. Even powerful mob bosses and journalists are expendable pawns as a criminal mastermind, hiding in plain sight among New York’s power elite, pursues his deranged dream, aided by one of the world’s deadliest assassins.
SISTER:
A nun’s murder in Massachusetts brings two homicide detectives to Alton Rhode’s office. The New York private eye is quickly cleared as a suspect, but he is stunned when he finds out who the victim was. Before she became a nun, the dead woman was his first love – a young girl who disappeared mysteriously, leaving him bereft. Plagued by long-suppressed memories, Rhode dedicates himself to finding the killer. The police are stumped. There are no suspects, clues or obvious motive. But then a pattern emerges, which sets Rhode on a cross-country hunt for a probable serial killer. What he eventually discovers shocks him to the core.