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cover-up*Uncovers the amazing results of the CIA's Berlin tunnel operation and the remarkable progress of high-altitude spyingA Look Over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon's attempt to embroil the CIA, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College, his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler, and his return to newspaper work in the United States. Helms served on the German desk at OSS (Office of Strategic Services) headquarters in London; subsequently, he was assigned to Allen Dulles's Berlin office in post-war Germany.On his return to Washington, Helms assumed responsibility for the OSS carry-over operations in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. He remained in this post until the CIA was formed in 1947. During his tenure at the CIA, Helms served as a division chief; as chief of operations for Frank Wisner; as deputy director for plans (operations); as deputy director; and, ultimately, as director, from 1966 to 1973. He was appointed ambassador to Iran later that year, and he retired from government service in January 1977.A Look Over My Shoulder focuses on subjects such as intelligence collection, covert action, the uses and misuses of intelligence, and the problems secret intelligence encounters in an open society.It was often thought that Richard Helms, who served longer in the Central Intelligence Agency than anyone else, would never tell his story, but here it is- revealing, news-making, and with candid assessments of the controversies and triumphs of a remarkable career.

"EAMON GOLD IS THE REAL DEAL, a City-by-the-Bay ex-cop turned private dick with a taste for Glenlivet, Spenseresque wisecracks and tossing darts around his office... he's your basic meat-and-potatoes eye and his creator, Richard Helms, is simply one helluva storyteller, a master chef who knows when to stir the pot and when to let the ingredients just speak for themselves."-Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling Detective WebsiteRichard Helms' Derringer Award-winning and Shamus Award-nominated San Francisco private eye Eamon Gold returns in BRITTLE KARMA, a classic tale cast in the molds forged by Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Robert B. Parker. Eamon Gold turns away a potential client named Abner Carlisle, a recently paroled armored car robber, who is looking for a man named Eddie Rice. Rice was the wheelman for the robbery a quarter century earlier, and ran off with the take of almost twenty million dollars--and Carlisle's daughter. Gold believes Carlisle intends to murder Rice, and refuses the case. After Carlisle is murdered in his hotel room, Gold becomes intrigued when he discovers the insurance company will pay ten percent of whatever fraction of the robbery take he can recover. Gold is temporarily bucks-up, but has no paying client on the horizon, so he dives in on spec, trying to make a little quick bank on the coldest of cold cases. Along the way, he encounters crooked cops, an aging porn star, an ex-Army Ranger turned gangland muscle, the boozy estranged wife of a City Supervisor, dangerous mobsters, and a surprise player he never saw coming.

"Eamon Gold is the real deal, a City-by-the-Bay ex-cop turned private dick with a taste for Glenlivet, Spenseresque wisecracks and tossing darts around his office... he's your basic meat-and-potatoes eye and his creator, Richard Helms, is simply one helluva storyteller, a master chef who knows when to stir the pot and when to let the ingredients just speak for themselves."-Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling Detective Website Richard Helms' Derringer Award-winning (The Gospel According to Gordon Black) and Shamus Award-nominated (Cordite Wine; Brittle Karma) San Francisco private eye Eamon Gold returns in Doctor Hate, a tale cast in molds forged by Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Robert B. Parker. Brandon Hunt is an arch-conservative, racist, sexist, xenophobic college professor, and he isn't shy about it. Having won almost termination-proof tenure in a lawsuit against the university, he has become a lightning rod for controversy with his vitriolic diatribes in public speeches and the press, earning him the nickname 'Doctor Hate.' Now, Hunt has been attacked on campus and brutally beaten. He hires San Francisco private eye Eamon Gold and his new partner, detective-in-training Sonny Malehala, for personal protection as the police investigate the assault. Then, Hunt reveals to Gold that he's being blackmailed, and we're off to the races. Retired forensic psychologist and college professor Richard Helms has been nominated eight times for the SMFS Derringer Award, with two wins; seven times for the PWA Shamus Award; twice for the ITW Thriller Award, with one win; and once for the MRI Macavity Award. A former president of the Southeastern Regional Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and MWA National Board Member, Doctor Hate is his twenty-first novel.

For the first time, collected in a single volume, Black Arch Books is proud to present the short crime fiction of Derringer, Macavity, Shamus, and Thriller Award-winning author Richard Helms Paper Walls/Glass Houses (2008 Derringer Award Winner)The Gospel According to Gordon Black (2008 Derringer Award Winner)Silicon Kings (2011 Derringer Award Finalist)The Gods for Vengeance Cry (2011 Derringer Award Finalist; 2011 Macavity Award Finalist; 2011 Thriller Award Winner)Busting Red Heads (2015 Derringer Award Finalist; 2015 Shamus Award Finalist; 2015 Thriller Award Finalist)Shooting Stars (2016 Derringer Award Finalist)See Humble and Die (2021 Derringer Award Finalist; Best American Mystery Stories 2020)The Cripplegate Apprehension (2020 Derringer Award Finalist)Sweeps Week (2022 Macavity Award Winner; 2022 Shamus Award Winner)Nine tales of suspense, mystery, and intrigue carefully crafted to provide you with hours of reading pleasure

On a frigid January day on London's Whitehall in 1843, a Scottish woodturner named Daniel M'Naghten guns down Edward Drummond, believing him to be British Prime Minister Robert Peel. M'Naghten, who sympathizes with the Chartist cause in Great Britain, claims he intended to murder the Prime Minister-a Tory-because he blames Peel for persecution by the Tories in his home city of Glasgow. Queen Victoria, incensed at the most recent attempt on a high government official's life, demands that M'Naghten be hanged. M'Naghten, however, demonstrates every accepted sign of insanity, which would save him a visit to Tyburn Tree. Queen's Counsel Alexander Cockburn is hired to defend M'Naghten, and he recruits legendary thief-taker Vicar Brekonridge to travel to Glasgow to investigate M'Naghten's claims, with the goal of supporting an insanity plea. He sends young law clerk Simon Daughtrey to Glasgow with Brekonridge, and together they uncover contradictory evidence suggesting that M'Naghten's motivations in the murder of Edward Drummond might be considerably more sinister than mental illness. With M'Naghten's trial days away, Brekonridge and Daughtrey race to find the truth behind the assassination of Edward Drummond.

Pat Gallegher has been running from his life for years. A failed seminary student, retired psychologist, and disgraced college professor, he finds himself in his late forties playing jazz cornet in a New Orleans French Quarter bar.One meeting with Clancey Vincouer changes his life. She tells him the sordid story of her affair with a con man named Sammy Cain, who has disappeared. Clancey fears that Lester Vincouer, her husband, has had Cain killed. Gallegher searches for Cain, and uncovers a twisted arrangement between Lester and the New Orleans mob. When Lester Vincouer is murdered, Gallegher realizes he has been cleverly framed.The search for Sammy Cain becomes a quest for the real killer of Lester Vincouer, and everyone seems to have a motive-including the leggy, seductive redhead with whom Gallegher has fallen head-over-heels in lust. With a tenacious police detective dogging his trail, Gallegher has only days to discover who really killed Vincouer, or the next tune he plays might be his swan song-on Death Row Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher series has been nominated for the PWA Shamus Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the SMFS Derringer Award, and the MRI Macavity Award.

PAT GALLEGHER'S BACK Back in trouble, that is After the back alley execution of his friend Hotshot Spano at the hands of a gang of teenaged Haitian thugs, slacker New Orleans jazz cornetist and occasional knight errant Pat Gallegher is recruited by Lucho Braga, the capo of the New Orleans mob, to help find the killers. Gallegher has his own problems, in the form of a ten year old girl he has found scrounging for food in the garbage behind the dive bar where he lives and works. The girl has a deadly secret. Her stepfather, Jimmy Binh, is a powerful boss of the Vietnamese gangs just across the Crescent City Bridge in Algiers, and she ran away after watching Binh kill a woman.Gallegher uncovers a startling connection between Binh and the murder of Hotshot Spano-a link that could spell all-out war in the French Quarter underworld.Expect cool jazz and hot action, as Gallegher has to protect Binh's stepdaughter, find Spano's killers, navigate a brewing romance with the director of a local runaway shelter, and somehow not become a victim of Jimmy Binh's power-driven rampage Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher stories have won or been finalists for the PWA Shamus Award, ITW Thriller Award, SMFS Derringer Award, and MRI Macavity Award.

Pat Gallegher's back in action Someone is stalking and killing strippers in the French Quarter, and the latest victim is Lucy Nivens, the new girlfriend of Shorty the bartender, Pat Gallegher's employer. Against his better judgment, Gallegher agrees to draw on his experience as a forensic psychologist and help NOPD detective Farley Nuckolls find the killer, when a retired FBI profiler is reluctant to be associated with the case. At first, Gallegher is only supposed to act as the mouthpiece for the profiler, but as the case becomes more complex he finds himself drawn deeper into the twisted mind of his quarry. When the killer sets his sights on Gallegher and his girlfriend Merlie Comineau, the case becomes extremely personal, very quickly. Retired forensic psychologist Richard Helms once again keenly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the French Quarter, in a fast-paced, pulse-pounding race against time, as Gallegher has to find the Stripper Ripper and put him out of business, before Merlie becomes his next victim Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher stories have won or been finalists for the PWA Shamus Award, ITW Thriller Award, SMFS Derringer Award, and MRI Macavity Award.

Pat Gallegher's back...in the 1930s, in this new hardboiled classic from Richard Helms, author of the critically acclaimed Juicy Watusi.When construction workers unearth a body buried in a concrete floor next to Holliday's, jazz cornet player and knight errant Pat Gallegher's boss Shorty worries that delays may keep him from finishing the work by his buyer's move-in date. He hires Gallegher to investigate what appears to be a seventy-year-old murder. What Gallegher doesn't know, however, is that a killing that took place during the Great Depression is deviously entwined with his own more recent past. By delving into the mystery, he will uncover modern corruption of massive proportions and place himself in harm's way when the Anolli crime family decides to have him killed. With the assistance of Scat Boudreaux, Gallegher has only hours to uncover a major scandal in New Orleans government, solve the seventy-year-old murder of Scott Everidge, avoid the ire of a suspicious police detective, and try to stay alive in the process Join Pat Gallegher for another French Quarter tale of cool jazz and hot knuckles-and-know-how action Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher stories have won or been finalists for the PWA Shamus Award, ITW Thriller Award, SMFS Derringer Award, and the MRI Macavity Award.

Noted trial lawyer Taylor Chu has been found brutally murdered at the base of the Bay Bridge, missing his hands, feet, and head. The newspapers, television, and radio news are filled with the story. How, then, can he also be sipping Glenlivet in private eye Eamon Gold's office?As Gold tries to solve this puzzle, he encounters ambitious Homeland Security agents, Marin County pornographers, Chinatown tong overlords, corrupt police officers, and a plot to import Hong Kong triad soldiers to start a gang war in San Francisco's Chinatown Derringer and Thriller award-winning author Richard Helms delivers fast-paced, hard-hitting, knuckles-and-know-how action in the City by the Bay, in this exciting debut of his Eamon Gold series, GRASS SANDAL. "If the first chapter doesn't hook you on Grass Sandal, give up reading mysteries " --Jeremiah Healy, Shamus Award-winning author of SPIRAL, and THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER "More twists and turns than Lombard Street. Richard Helms serves up some of the smartest dialogue in the genre "--William Kent Krueger, Edgar Award-winning author of ORDINARY GRACE

Cordite Wine is tough, funny, exciting, and very good -Robert B. Parker, Mystery Writers of America Grand MasterFINALIST FOR THE 2006 PWA SHAMUS AWARD Asa Corona, heir to a Napa Valley winery fortune, hires private eye Eamon Gold to stop an extortionist. Corona has been photographed in gay bathhouses in San Francisco, and now blackmailers are demanding money to avoid releasing the pictures to Corona's family. He paid them off once, but now they want more money.Gold agrees to help find the blackmailers, but his search quickly becomes grisly, as his prime suspect is found murdered, and his client disappears. In the search for the killers and his missing client, Gold runs up against closeted television stars, a gay linebacker, frightened politicians, and a mobster who doesn't want his life examined too closely-and is willing to kill to prevent it Richard Helms writes the classic private eye novel with panache, class, and a self-assured breeziness. Helms and his hero, Eamon Gold, are welcome additions to the genre -S.J. Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author of Absent Friends

"Older Than Goodbye is like a Tar Heel three-pointer Smooth, sharp, and right on target " -Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire series, basis for the TV show Longmire.Judd Wheeler, police chief in tiny Prosperity, North Carolina, has never encountered a more dangerous criminal, or a more resourceful one, than he does in Older Than Goodbye, the new novel from Derringer and Thriller Award winning author Richard Helms Wheeler's job consisted mostly of handing out traffic tickets and quelling the occasional domestic disturbance. He never expected to get shot and lose half a year of his life in recovery. And, he never expected Sean "Shug" Burch to come back to town. Both happening within a few months makes for a bad year. Within days of returning to work, Wheeler has to cope with the disappearance of a banker and his Russian mail-order bride, the murder of the most hated man in town, and the return of a boyhood friend he helped send to prison thirty years earlier. "Shug" Burch has risen from convict to world-renowned country-blues singer, and has returned to Bliss County to open a music club and restaurant. Burch's long history of violence worries Chief Wheeler, who already has a plate full of trouble as he suspects that seemingly unrelated crimes in his community are linked by a single malevolent force he fears he cannot control or stop. The stakes mount as a Russian gangster plots to kill Chief Wheeler, who must turn to an unexpected ally for help "Older Than Goodbye starts off with a bang... and things get even better after that This book has excellent characters and atmosphere, along with plenty of action. Check it out "-Bill Crider, author of That Old Scoundrel Death, the latest title in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series.

"The Mojito Coast is a well-plotted, very fifties mystery with a decidedly noir context. Fine reading "-ALA BooklistFinalist for the 2014 PWA Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Novel A thrilling new private eye series by Thriller and Derringer Award-winning author Richard Helms The year is 1958. The place is Havana, Cuba. The revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are marching through the jungle to the capital, decimating Fulgencio Batista's army in every battle. Miami private investigator Cormac Loame arrives in this political pressure cooker on a mission. Mob money-launderer and former heavyweight boxer Cecil "Madman" Hacker's daughter Lila has run off to Havana with one of Hacker's bodyguards, Danny McCarl. Hacker want Loame to bring her back, with or without McCarl. Reluctantly, Loame returns to Cuba. He and Havana have a troubled history. Six years earlier, he barely escaped Cuba with his life, and he left behind the woman he loved. Loame's search for Lila Hacker and Danny McCarl will lead him to encounter movie stars, desperate gangsters, Batista cronies, secret police, a former pal turned ruthless mercenary, an unlikely ally, and a Nobel laureate. It will also bring a reunion with his lost love and a desperate flight to escape the unfolding revolution. Tropical intrigue mixes with hardboiled action and torrid romance, featuring an exciting new private eye hero, in The Mojito Coast

"In The Unresolved Seventh, Richard Helms-as a retired forensic psychologist-delivers authenticity, a refreshingly offbeat protagonist, a neatly crafted puzzle and even a quirky little love story: a lot to like "-Kirkus ReviewsBen Long never intended to practice forensic psychology again after his sudden retirement four years earlier. His friend Sidney Kingsley, the new DA, has other plans.Junior Torrence has been charged with murder. His attorney has hired a psychologist to prove Torrence mentally incompetent for a capital trial. Kingsley wants Long to do a separate evaluation.Kingsley assigns law clerk Paula Paige to assist Long in his evaluation. She finds Long quirky, distant, and even a little frightening, until Kingsley explains that-besides being brilliant-Long has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a type of high-functioning autism.As their evaluation brings Torrence's competency into question, they begin to question whether he was even capable of committing the crime Have the police arrested the wrong man?The clock is ticking. A hearing that will determine Junior Torrence's fate draws near, and Ben Long and Paula Page race against time to untangle the puzzle of The Unresolved Seventh.

A new thriller from Derringer and Thriller Award Winner Richard Helms Imagine returning home from a business trip to find that your agoraphobic wife has disappeared, along with every trace of evidence that you had been married, or that she had even existed. David Proctor, believing his wife Barbara has been abducted, frantically seeks help from the police, but they reject his claims, suspecting that he is trying to run some kind of scam. Desperate for help, Proctor turns to Savannah private eye Hollis Dayton. Suspecting that Barbara Proctor might have been conning David all along, Hollis Dayton launches an investigation, and uncovers a stunning web of false identities, deceit, fraud, and murder. Worse, the deeper they delve into the disappearance of David Proctor's wife, the more convinced they becomes that Barbara might have vanished because of her involvement in a horrifying terrorist plot which has the potential to make the attacks of 9/11 pale in comparison With just hours left before a disaster of unimaginable proportions, Hollis and David dash across country in a last-ditch effort to avert The Daedalus Deception