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"The plot...eventually provides a thrilling revelation." Kirkus ReviewsAmanda Wilcox is a beautiful young GMO activist who disappears paddleboarding on Kauai. Her plight becomes fodder for the tabloid media, especially in Manhattan where her father is a prominent lawyer. A famous actress named Turner Espray pledges to spare nothing to help find Amanda. But it falls to the retired NYPD detective and P.I. Karl Standt to go to the Hawaiian island and fix a botched, seamy investigation. The detective finds a web of murky connections in the tropical paradise, hints of corruption that expose the island's drug- and agro-financed underside. "Perry reprises his Karl Standt character here, but this novel can easily stand on its own. The island of Kauai is a character in itself ("the flat river moved with a hypnotic slowness, like heavy floodwaters"), and Perry effectively describes its culture, including the super-rich who view Kauai as a trust-fund playground, the surfing locals who personify the laid-back island vibe, and the plague of drugs that are harvested and sold there. Perry depicts the different sides of island life through the perspective of New Yorker Standt, who's out of his element but relies on his instincts...The plot...eventually provides a thrilling revelation." - Kirkus ReviewsJoining Standt on Kauai is Katie, a girlfriend and reporter, the hacker Church, Chris K, a surfing, pot-loving local investigator, as well as Vereen, a gonzo helicopter pilot who used to fly in Iraq. A burned-out ex-cop named Bruno Reilly is also looking for Amanda, or is he? He has a suspicious relationship with a pampered crew of execs partying on a yacht. They don't mind that Amanda has disappeared. Her anti-GMO crusade is bad for business. Is she a shark fatality, or still alive, somewhere, on or off the ocean? The drug scene hangs over everything like bad weather. Church and iz have their own problems with an Ecstasy habit. The hacker, Katie, and Standt are immersed in an atmosphere of equatorial noir as they try to find out what happened to an All American girl.

...Terrific thriller...Atmospheric...Compelling and Memorable Characters...IndieReader, March, 2019A sprawling desert noir setting and hard-boiled cast features tequila connoisseur and Kawasaki-riding Chad Kidd, who investigates the killing of a friend's daughter and ex-wife."The drugs were too strong, the supervision too loose, the parents too selfish and out of it, and the kids too young. The social media too toxic..."Four years ago, firefighters found Chloe Nelson burned in a wheelbarrow in front of her tony home above Palm Springs, with two more charred and shot bodies inside the ruins. But the case went cold. Chloe was the 17 y.o. daughter of a retired Palm Springs P.D. police lieutenant named Phil Nelson.The initial suspects were Chloe's estranged boyfriend Jay Strait and his friend Laird Bledsoe, two members of a dangerous clique of narcotics and party loving Coachella Valley teenagers. But the case has languished, partly because Bledsoe, the star high school quarterback, went on to become an Iraq war hero.Chloe's best friend, the funky big-canvas artist Lizzy Grant, has rekindled interest in the murders with a hard-hitting Facebook campaign that indicts Jay Strait in the acid court of social media.Chad Kidd, who bombs around the desert on a Kawasaki KLR650 and sips Milagro Silver to blow off steam, decides to take on the case to help his old police pal Phil.The cast includes Lana Daniels, a Hollywood starlet turned real estate agent who has the hots for Kidd and suspiciously buys up dry desert plots all over Palm Springs. She's Jay Strait's mom, too.Did Strait kill Chloe in a fit of jealous rage, because she passed him over for the handsome ne'er do well Travis Kincaid, who Lizzy calls "Cary Grant on acid"? Was Chloe pregnant at the time of her death, making it a quadruple murder? Kidd finds the case not so cut-and-dried when a Chechen thug named Yamdar leaves Lizzy threatening messages.

Devastated Lands is a thrilling story set in an unforgiving landscape...an entertaining post-apocalyptic adventure pitting man versus nature. IndieReaderLahars from an erupting Mount Rainier in Washington devastate nearby river valleys and threaten the millions of people who live in Seattle and Tacoma. Caught up in the natural catastrophe is Shane Cooper, a mountain guide from Telluride, Colorado, and Mikaela Brand, a young mixed martial arts (MMA) competitor.Civilization has broken down after lahars roar down the mountain's flanks and destroy towns, utilities, airports, bridges, roads, and highways. The towns have become ruined ghost-towns inhabited mainly by desperadoes. Food, clean water, and gasoline are scarce or non-existent, and more lahars are on the way as Rainier has begun an every-1,000-year eruption.Cooper and Brand end up with a little girl named Amy, and her dog Turk, both orphaned by the disaster. They have to live off the land as they claw their way to the coast, and survive an armed gang that paints its faces white and keeps captives as future food sources.

"Funny...fascinating...brutally honest and cinematic." A "uniquely themed work" about young love. Self Publishing Review Recovering from a near fatal car accident, 44 y.o. Jarod reflects over the trysts and romances he had as a young man, and the women who've melted back into his memories. His brush with mortality has made him reflective: wistful, grateful, and with slightly more self doubt. He's sitting in a restaurant on the water in Boston with his old friend Trey Castor. Feeling good for once, and reminiscing, Jarod spills his guts and launches into his stories, which proceed in chronological order: High School, College, Island Women, Older Women, Women At Work. Each chapter may stand on its own, and the novel is much like a collection of short stories.

"...A solitary, existential journey, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy...evocative...masterful..." Self Publishing Review, 2018 Brad Garner thought he had lost everything, after the Yellowstone calderas exploded and the awful volcanic aftermath. After fleeing south and wallowing in self-pity, by random chance, he hears of a faint signal over a functioning network. It comes from far north, somewhere in Idaho on the Montana border, near the eruption's epicenter. Soul sick, and with little remaining purpose to his life, Garner decides to follow the signal, an unmistakable if faint cry for help. He gears up and heads with an abandoned dog named Tanya into the ash-strewn wasteland that the U.S. West has become. Alone. "I liked the mood of this book. Unlike most prepper/end of the world books, the author takes his time to establish a distinct mood and atmosphere, as well as give his main character some depth. There's a dream-like quality to his drive towards the north through devastated desert country that is highly memorable. I like that the main character is just a normal person caught up in this tragedy and he makes completely relatable decisions... "The way the author fits background details in, by having the main character talk to the dog to keep from going crazy from loneliness is particularly well done. And the scene at the Very Large Array will stick in my mind for a long time." Amazon Reviewer from 2018 Zeke Sanchez, a part Ute, Hispanic Indian who distinguished himself in Iraq and tends toward peyote inspired spiritual journeys, plays a big role in To The North, especially in regard to his desert-survival skills. Garner also encounters Sam, orphaned by the eruption, Giovanna, a Red Cross nurse who lost her husband Marcel in a terrorist attack in Egypt, and two federal agency officials who are close-mouthed about their actual mission to the epicenter. They might be intimately involved in an artificial intelligence experiment to study the deadly super volcano.