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JUST RELEASED . . . .  The PRICE OF INNOCENCE is a thought-provoking action suspense thriller.  It has been
said that the sword of justice has no scabbard.  Unfortunately, legal systems can merely offer an opportunity for
justice.  No system designed by man can guarantee it.  The legal system designed to protect us can be distorted
and corrupted by malevolent people who misuse it not only to perpetrate the worst injustices, but also to create
the illusion that they, the bad guys, hold the moral high ground.

The PRICE OF INNOCENCE is the story of a prominent respectable man framed for a monstrous crime by a
group that calls itself Traction.  Traction claims to be governed by a fearsome “green lady” who came from
another universe and possesses bizarre powers.  Traction’s purpose is to spread fear and destroy this man and
others like him..  Its game is to annihilate the economic, legal and social system that they represent so that it
can exhume wealth and power from the ashes of anarchy.  Their tools are treachery, murder, sex, and deceit.  
There are a precious few willing to admit the seriousness of their threat or to challenge it.  Murdock McCabe, a
station chief for Veritus Investigations International, wades into the maelstrom.  He learns to his dismay that
even innocence exacts its penalty.  He and Linda DiStefano, the framed man's C.O.O.,set out to prove to Traction
that is has grossly underestimated both their ingenuity and dauntless courage.

The Price of Innocence is available in hardcover and trade paperback.  To own a copy, please click the icon on the left.

FURY IN THE SHADOW is a murder mystery suspense thriller.  Murdock McCabe, a former FBI agent, is station
chief for Veritus Investigations in Portland, Oregon.  When a member of his staff is murdered, he and his
associate, the brilliant Susan Ling, are drawn into a web of money, deceit, sex, intrigue, and murder that leads
them across Oregon, Washington, Grand Cayman Island, and the Mosquito Coast of Honduras.  He meets the
lovely Hannah.  Their immediate ardor for each other becomes deadly serious as they are drawn into a vortex of
Traction, an opaque organization led by a mysterious woman who claims to be from another dimension. The
deeper Murdock and Susan probe, the more they are tempted to think that the woman's claim is true.  Who are
her agents?  Are they people close to them? Why did they choose the particular victims that they killed?  Lulled by
Traction's ingenious mask of respectability, he, Susan, and Hannah are sucked by the mystery that surrounds it
into the shadow of its fatal attraction.
Fury in the Shadow is available in hardcover and trade paperback.  To own a copy, please click the icon on the left.

THE CHAOS CHIP is Gil Howard's first suspense thriller.  The search for truth is common to all detectives, but
Murdock McCabe searches with an uncommon urgency.  He struggles with a compulsion, not only to discover
the killer, but to come to terms with a culture in which the difference between crime and virtuous conduct is often
blurred.   Murdock investigates the murder of an uncommon Bavarian monk.  He must sift through a fog of
improbable circumstances involving a wealthy Chilean businessman, a baron involved in dark political intrigue,
an enigmatic abbot, a high official of the Bavarian State Police, a helpful retired philosophy professor from
Oregon, a shadowy woman of intrigue who hangs out in a lesbian bar in Munich, a cheeky Russian emerge
opportunist in Cyprus, and Sascha who has no redeeming character.  Both the monk and the professor were
engaged in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence.  As the mysteries deepen, Murdock is tempted to wonder
whether they had succeeded.
The Chaos Chip is available in hard cover.  To own a copy, please click the icon on the
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