Kirjahaku

Introducing Harley-riding LAPD Detective Ben KayeIt's said that a picture is worth a thousand wordsThis one could be worth a half-billion dollarsAgainst the backdrop of the 1937 Paris International Exposition, a brazen art theft sets in motion a potentially cataclysmic chain of events that culminate in picturesque, present-day Sun Valley, Idaho.On leave from the LAPD, Detective Ben Kaye rounds a curve on a remote Idaho mountain highway just as a traffic accident inexplicably erupts into a multiple homicide.A disillusioned Kaye wants only to be a good witness and be on his way, go home and quit his job. But the local cops tell him he's not going anywhere.Then he discovers that his past may link him to the case. He has to admit to himself that he may just want to stick around and help find a murderer.Kaye decides his best course is to take action and become a part of the team investigating the crime. Bonded by mutual distrust, he and soon-to-retire local cop Captain Roger Halberstam attack the mystery, eventually identifying a possible suspect. But this suspect creates an even larger international web of intrigue.When The Department of Homeland Security arrives to take the reins, Kaye and Halberstam realize they may be relegated to the background of their growing investigation. But it's not Ben Kaye's style to simply take orders when he knows something is wrong.Does he listen?No way. That just makes his fire to find out what's going on burn even hotter.This unlikely team of lawmen slowly build enough mutual respect to unravel a knot of co-conspirators, all with different motives and goals, that stretches from Russia to the Middle East, and from Bilbao, Spain to Washington, D.C. Each player's plan reaches its tipping point in Idaho, and Kaye hopes they're ready to face the end game.As suspense grows by the minute, Kaye, Halberstam and their comrades try to stop an act of terror and treason on a horrific scale. Will they succeed?Sometimes life imitates great artAnd sometimes time runs out before the clock hits zero

Ben Kaye is Back in a New Heart-Pounding Case A massacre in Afghanistan. An unsanctioned, get-even assassination plot.The slaughter of an Afghan National Army patrol and their American advisors in the mountains of northern Afghanistan sends shockwaves across the globe to Los Angeles. Those tremors shake the desk of Harley-riding LAPD Detective Ben Kaye.A prominent physician takes a dive from his 17th floor office.An LAPD officer disappears.A mystery woman works both ends against the middle.Can Kaye find the missing officer and the mystery woman that may be part of his disappearance?Can Kay discover the heart of this tangled web?When Kaye discovers a link to an American military intelligence officer, he goes to a friend at the FBI for information. The information he receives further muddies the water...and his FBI contact may have to pay for sharing what he knows.In Kaye's newest heart-pounding case, he finds himself caught in a complex web of revenge, foreign policy intrigue, spies and diplomats, ill-gotten gains and international money laundering.As he scrambles to determine who is friend or foe and exactly what their motives are, can Kaye stay one step ahead of a devious killer aiming for his ultimate target?The big question is whether Kaye will succeed before the killer comes for him.

A mythical religious artifact. The promise of immortality.After four decomposing bodies are found in the glamorous ski town of Aspen, Colorado, Harley-riding Detective Ben Kaye gets a call from a former LAPD colleague to help shine a light on this disturbing discovery.When Kaye rides into Aspen he's expecting a routine homicide investigation. Instead, he finds himself in a new town, with a new partner; Aspen PD Detective Beth Skinner; and the strangest mystery either has ever encountered.The unusual house where the bodies were found doesn't officially exist.A treasure trove of priceless religious art goes ignored and unclaimed.The first responders who entered the house all die suddenly - except one.Potential witnesses identify suspects from decades-old photographs.As Kaye and Skinner dig deeper they unmask a world-wide battle between powerful religious and secular forces for possession of a mythical religious artifact known to some as The Serpents of Eve. The artifact, said to confer immortality on the righteous who touch it, may reveal the truth of Creation, the Crucifixion and Christ's Resurrection.Or, it may prove them all false.The further Kaye navigates into the conflict between science and religion, the more desperate the need to find the killers becomes. As Kaye searches for answers to his questions, he realizes those answers could have dire consequences.Because something escaped from the house and is killing people. Lots of people. And the whispers are growing. Is it the End of Days?

A dead Hollywood producer. A dead Ferrari driver.And a dead Jane Doe.Harley-riding detective Ben Kaye is back to work at the LAPD.And he already has his hands full.When Kaye discovers a potential link between the producer and the Ferrari driver, he realizes he's stumbled into a much larger and more dangerous mystery; one that leads him into the disparate worlds of cutthroat Hollywood, internet porn, crooked cops, fine wine and the shady legalities of high-dollar real estate development.Things get even more complicated when a woman accuses Kaye of stalking and files for a restraining order against him. If she gets it, Kaye's days as a cop are over.But it's Kaye who's being stalked. A phantom claiming to be an old adversary is leaving Kaye cryptic death threats written in Japanese Kanji characters, and calls him Benkei, the nickname given him by his Zen mentor, Roshi.Who is out to get Kaye, and why?Unraveling the mystery will test Kaye's honesty and his treasured friendship with Roshi.This fast-paced, action-filled story, full of twists and turns, will keep you turning the pages until the end.

Past and Present collide. When badly beaten seventeen-year-old Valerie Weber is brought into the LAPD West Bureau by her mother, Detective Ben Kaye catches the case. But Kaye knows immediately that Valerie's not telling him the truth about what happened. Soon, Kaye is deeply immersed in a frustrating case with twenty-year-old roots that seems to be moving in several different directions at once. Along the way he encounters seemingly insurmountable obstacles, which lead Kaye to believe someone is always one step ahead of him. Things become far too personal for Kaye when he uncovers a possible link to his own past. Kaye badly wants to hold the guilty accountable. But the deeper his investigation leads him into the past he finds himself being pushed closer and closer to the edge in an attempt to protect the innocent, even though many seem unwilling to reveal what happened to them. Ultimately, when his personal and professional lives clash Ben Kaye must walk the tightrope between justice and vengeance.