Kirjahaku

The past unlike a suitcase is never lost. It may be buried or hidden, but it is never gone.Susan Dumond having survived an attempt on her life in Chicago returns to Paris where she intends to pick-up-the pieces of her deceased lover's criminal enterprise, but enemies he made seek revenge.Billy Dee Jackson, a retired Chicago Police officer along with his friend Detective Jack Sheppard had worked the Chicago case. Jackson receives a phone call from an Inspector Alain Ricard of the Paris police. Ricard had gotten wind that a large-arms deal between a terrorist group of Mid-Eastern origin and this Susan may occur in his city. He would like Jackson's help.Like a chess game the pieces are set in motion, and it's the queen that is the prize. Billy Dee along with inspector Ricard are among those who seek her capture.

Curve Ball is the story of a father and son who both face demons that have forced them to run for their lives. Pytor had to escape the oncoming Nazi onslaught. His son, Jack, had a promising baseball career ahead of him until framed for a series of crimes he didn't commit. Their stories are told in tandem with the author going back and forth between the present and the past.

The parking garage was called the Palace. It was located between Clark and LaSalle in downtown Chicago. At approximately 6:15 p.m. on a busy week day evening, Joe Daniels, a prominent attorney, settled into his new BMW convertible, placed his foot on the brake, and pressed ignition. A bomb exploded. Daniel's car was destroyed but he survived.In A Bomb in the Palace, Billy Dee Jackson and his ex-partner Detective Shepard received the call to investigate the blast. They learned Daniels was not just an attorney, but had a side business of selling guns to the gangs. The wholesaler of those weapons, Hugo, was also associated with a terrorist group whose viciousness in the name of the cause led to kidnapping and murder. At the same time the fallout from a disintegrating marriage destroyed not only the Palace but a career.