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Leonardo MurphyA Coming-of-Age ThrillerYou just launched a satellite into space without a rocket.You took a $1,000 gift from your father and turned it into $1,600,000 in two years after you read a book on stock trading.You invented a computer algorithm that writes novels.You've just entered Harvard University on a full scholarship after completing high school in two years.Not bad for a 12-year-old kid.Leonardo Murphy, age 12, changed his name from William to Leonardo to honor his hero, Leonardo da Vinci. Young Leonardo, with the second highest IQ ever recorded, just launched a satellite into orbit using a helium balloon and a small jet engine he bought on eBay. Among his many projects, he read books on stock trading. At age 10, he took a $1,000 gift from his father and turned it into $1,600,000 in two years.Realizing that he could easily become an insufferable obnoxious brat, he heeded the words of his beloved great-grandfather, Ezekiel Murphy, who was also a genius. "Don't be an a...hole," grandpa Ezekiel told him. Leonardo always recalled those words-and tried to obey them. At the urging of his father, a high-level FBI Agent, Leonardo is hired as a consultant to the FBI. Using his software design skills, Leonardo wrote an algorithm that tracked down the world's most dangerous gang, MS-13, enabling the FBI and local law enforcement to end the gang's activities.Leonardo is fascinated by Artificial Intelligence. While a freshman at Harvard University, at age 12, he designed a computer program called Jane Austen, that could write 10 novels a month.At age 20, Leonardo received a PhD in physics from Harvard. Shortly after that, he entered the Navy to follow in his parents' footsteps as a naval officer.After he left the Navy, Leonardo, now 25 years old, met a beautiful young woman named Janice Reynolds, and fell madly in love. They married a year later. By that time, Leonardo had become a fabulously wealthy multi-billionaire from his stock trading and patent royalties. Janice loves to teach at a nearby private college. When the college hits financial problems and is about to close, Leonardo buys the school.Janice loved to say, "My husband used to be a cute little nerd. Now he's a tall, handsome, rich nerd." Janice and Leonardo, who she calls "Lee," collaborate on various secret projects with the CIA and FBI. But their activities with law enforcement and intelligence put a target on their backs. They narrowly escape four assassination attempts, including one on their honeymoon cruise. It was then that Leonardo discovers that his sweet, pretty wife knows how to use a gun. Leonardo and Janice, despite the dangers, love to help law enforcement. They admit to themselves that they enjoy being spies, or spooks. They even bought a Golden Retriever and named her "Spook," Whenever he's hired as a consultant, Leonardo insists that Janice be included. "We're a package deal, a twofer," he would say to any official who objected to Janice working on top secret matters. After one of their adventures, Leonardo looks forward to getting back to a normal life. But then he realizes that they don't lead a normal life, so why bother.Leonardo Murphy is a breathtakingly fast coming-of-age thriller about one of the most fascinating characters you will ever meet in literature. Instantly you are shoulder to shoulder with the world's most amazing genius.Grab your copy of this thriller now.

The Gray ShipA Novel of Time TravelRevised Edition, November 2018"Captain, we have a problem."I hit the reply button on the intercom next to my bed."What is it, Lieutenant?""It feels like we're going aground, ma'am."No, they weren't going aground, but yes, they had a problem-a big one.Get ready for the time travel adventure of your life.The USS California, a nuclear guided missile cruiser, slips through a time portal or wormhole on its way to Charleston, South Carolina for a commemoration of the Battle of Fort Sumpter. They experienced a rumbling throughout the ship, leading the officer of the deck to report to Captain Patterson that they may have gone aground. The ship's captain, Ashley Patterson, is a 36-year-old African American woman. She dispatches a SEAL platoon to go ashore and report back.The SEALs reported the impossible. The California was no longer in 2013, but in 1861, two days before the start of the Civil War. Southerners who saw the California, called her The Gray Ship.The ship's chaplain suggests that Ashley consult with a sailor aboard, Jack Thurber, a man her age who had written a best-selling book on the science of time travel. He joined the Navy as an enlisted man, although he had advanced degrees from Ivy League universities, so he could do research for a book on the lives of Navy enlisted people.Ashley meets with the sailor, and their meeting goes on for hours as Jack explains the phenomenon of time travel to Ashley. Before long, Ashley, a widow, falls madly in love with Jack, who is a widower.Captain Patterson is faced with the most agonizing decision of her young life. Abraham Lincoln wants to win the war, and he sees this ship as a key to victory.But Captain Patterson and her crew want to return home to the 21st Century. For them, the Civil War was history. Now, they find that it has only just begun.Does she risk mutiny, or commit treason?If she changes history, what will the future look like?You're in for a nail-biting adventure, one of danger, courage, mystery, and romance. The characters, the startling plot twists, and the scenes pull you into an amazing story. According to Kirkus Reviews, The Gray Ship is "not only wildly entertaining but also profoundly moving."Grab your copy of The Gray Ship now, and get ready for the thrill of your reading life.http: //amzn.to/16GPumH

The Thanksgiving Gang A Novel of Time Travel - The Sequel to The Gray Ship It happened again. I didn't see it coming. I never do. My name is Jack Thurber, and I'm a time traveler, not a title I thought I'd aspire to, but having done it three times before, I guess it's who I am. I slipped through wormholes before, once travelling back to the 1920s, once to Pearl Harbor in 1941 while it was being attacked, and once to the Civil War. This is getting old. But this time it's different. I've tripped into the future, two years to be exact. Moments ago it was 9 AM on July 1, 2015. Now, according to a news ticker on a building, it's July 1, 2017. I had been walking through an abandoned lot on the East Side of Manhattan doing research for a magazine article for the Washington Times on underutilized real estate, when I stepped on a storm grate. I felt dizzy, a little nauseated as I always do. The scenery didn't change much. The lot was still abandoned but it had sprouted two more years-worth of weeds. It was pouring rain. In 2015, a few moments before, it had been a bright day without a cloud in the sky. It's a strange feeling to step on a grate and go from sunshine to rain in an instant. The gloomy weather wasn't helping my mood. I've got the drill down by now. The grate was a wormhole, also known as a time portal. Step on it and you're in for a weird trip. Your world changes fast, very fast. Here's what I've learned: When you step through a wormhole, the way to go back is to find the wormhole and just step on it again. So right now I can simply step on the grate and go backwards two years. But I'm an investigative journalist. How can I pass up a story, even one that I may never tell? Could you resist the urge to know what happened in the past two years? Thank God I resisted the urge to go back. I took out my phone to call my wife Ashley, but I stopped. There's no one in the world I like to talk to more than Ashley, but I didn't want to upset her. A Navy captain, she had just taken command of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, and they're putting to sea today (today?) for a two-week training cruise. Then I thought: how can I make a phone call two-years into the past? Time travel plays strange tricks with your head. I'll call Bennie, of course Dr. Benjamin Weinberg is a detective and psychiatrist with the New York City Police Department and my best friend. He collaborated with me on a book I wrote about, what else, time travel. My phone service had been stopped, so I walked into a store and paid cash for a cell phone with pre-purchased minutes. "Bennie, it's Jack, Jack Thurber," I said when he picked up the phone. *** Jack's meeting with Bennie was the worst experience of his life. Bennie told him that he was killed on Thanksgiving Day, 2015, along with his wife Ashley and a few thousand other people. Jack was Ashley's guest on the Lincoln, when a terrorist-planted nuclear bomb exploded, killing everyone aboard. Within five minutes, four other American carriers were nuked by terrorist bombs. Dare he try to go back and change history? Dare he not? Jack's got to go back to the past, the past when he and Ashley were still alive. But he knows he needs evidence to convince the government of the past that a tragedy is on its way. To do that he forms a group of people to help him. They call themselves The Thanksgiving Gang. "Rip roaring, gut wrenching suspense wrapped in a story of friendship and courage." Grab this time travel thriller today.

A Time of Fear A Novel of Time Travel - Sequel to The Thanksgiving Gang You've done the impossible. You've traveled through time to the future. Instantly, you are paralyzed by fear because Manhattan is now a post-apocalyptic wasteland- the aftermath of a nuclear bomb. Janice Monahan is a beautiful heating and air conditioning engineer with a mouth like a cab driver in traffic. She read a newspaper article that said five American cities were attacked with nuclear bombs. She needs to sound the alarm before it's too late. She must return to the wormhole or time portal. As she approaches the wormhole for her return time trip, she meets a shadowy figure who she recognizes as a known terrorist. Or is he? The guy seemed pleasant, almost gentlemanly, but can she trust him? He insists that he make the time trip with her, and she reluctantly agrees. When they emerge on the other side of the time portal, Janice decides to rent a car to drive from New York City to Washington D.C. to meet with the government. She keeps a gun trained on her traveling companion. All the while she questions her sanity, because she can't believe that she's a time traveler-but she is. As they set out on the New Jersey Turnpike, Janice began the most amazing adventure of her life. "The guy doesn't look or sound at all threatening," Janice thought. "But what the hell do I know. I'm the woman who married a man committed to mass murder." She soon discovers that things are not always what they appear to be, including her terrorist "road trip buddy," who, she noticed, is quite handsome. Their meeting in Washington was a revelation that Janice would never forget. The challenge, for Janice and her colleagues, is to try to keep one step ahead of the terrorists. A key is to interrogate Janice's ex-husband, a man suspected of being at the center of the terror plot. He was the weapons officer on one of the ships that was bombed. She hates the man, but with the help of psychiatrist/detective Doctor Bennie Weinstein, she manages to engage him in conversation, and lifts the lid off the coming conspiracy. In the middle of the bomb hunt, Janice falls madly in love with a most unlikely character-her time travel and road trip buddy, who turned out not to be the man she thought he was. Janice finds herself working hand and hand with a group of ingenious American spies, who, in turn, are amazed at Janice's ingenuity-not to mention her courage and accuracy with a gun. The Director of the CIA tries to convince Janice to give up her engineering practice and come to work for the CIA. The clock is ticking and millions will soon lose their lives - unless they find the bombs. "A riveting, pulse-pounding nail-biter in the spirit of The Gray Ship and The Thanksgiving Gang. A Time of Fear will hold you and not let go, even after you finish the book." Grab this time travel thriller now for the ride of your life.

The Skies of Time A Novel of Time Travel "Are you ready, honey?" "Honey? Hey, Ashley, you're an admiral. Aren't you supposed to call me 'lieutenant' or something?" "You're my husband, dammit, and I'll call you whatever I want-honey." "Aye aye, sweetheart." As they launched off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Ashley and Jack thought they were on a simple public relations flight dreamed up by the Pentagon to celebrate Ashley's promotion to rear admiral, making her the youngest flag officer in the history of the United States Navy. The flight would also publicize their story-book marriage. But Ashley and Jack aren't the average couple of married naval officers. They're time travelers (yes, they've done it before), and they were about to encounter a time portal or wormhole-in the sky. After they experienced a strange and violent turbulence in a cloudless sky, they realized something was wrong. As they flew toward their destination, LaGuardia Airport in New York City, they noticed that familiar landmarks were no longer there. Ashley piloted the F/A-18 F Super Hornet around New York City to take a look. No Verrazano Bridge, no Throgs Neck Bridge, none of the familiar sites of New York City in 2016, the year from which they took off. After they landed at La Guardia Airport, scaring the hell out of anyone who saw (or heard) the modern jet fighter, they realized that they were in the year 1940, 76 years in the past. Now what? They befriended an admiral who was the superintendent of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, who also provided them with accommodations. Admiral Tanner had a hard time believing that they had time travelled, but they were used to skepticism. Time travelers are a small group. Ashley and Jack realized that they had one objective-they had to find a way to read the Black Box, or cockpit data recorder from the Hornet. Without the data from the Black Box, they would never be able to find the location of the wormhole. But digital technology hadn't been invented yet. The contents of the Black Box would remain a secret unless they found a way to unlock its secrets. Without that they would be stranded 76 years in the past. They would live out their years, starting in 1940, never to see 2016 again. They consoled themselves with the fact that they had each other. Admiral Tanner arranged for them to meet none other than the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt himself. They saw Roosevelt as the key to helping them find a way back to 2016. But Roosevelt, although he took a liking to them, had other ideas. He saw them as key allies in the upcoming war, and he wanted them to share the mysteries of the F/A-18 F Super Hornet. They hated to admit the bad news, but Roosevelt was not on their side. The Skies of Time is a riveting romp through history, with enough plot twists to make you think you've gone through a wormhole. It's a thriller, a mystery, and a story of love and dedication. According to one review, "Moran has a wonderful way to weave fact and fiction. And when the facts include major historical figures, it becomes that much more of a compelling read." The Skies of Time won't let you go until the amazing ending. Grab this time travel thriller for the ride of your life.

The Shadows of Terror Forget what you know about terror. Forget what you know about violence. Instantly, you will be taken to a frightening new world. Terrorism now has a new face, a face that's obscured in the shadows. The radical forces of destruction have learned to make themselves invisible to the West, and preventing a terrorist attack has become almost impossible. The boy or girl next door may be a suicide bomber. A new war has begun, World War III. Rick Bellamy, an FBI agent who specializes in counterterrorism, is engaged in his own war, a war with no end. Bellamy's wife, Ellen, a prominent architect, discovers that she's in the middle of the greatest terror plot to date. To defeat the enemy, Bellamy first has to uncover the clues, to shine a light on the shadows. He has to find patterns - before it's too late. Rick works with a colleague from the CIA, a man who everyone calls Buster, and Bennie Weinberg, a detective and psychiatrist from the NYPD-"Bennie the Bullshit Detector." Rick thinks they are close to breaking the code, close to getting inside. Then, his wife Ellen is kidnapped. Rick calls Buster, who rushes to the apartment. They learn that Ellen is being held captive in a house in nearby Tenafly, New Jersey. They also discover that the wife and daughter of a wealthy real estate developer, Angus MacPherson, had also been kidnapped, and were at the same New Jersey house. They started to connect the dots. Ellen was the architect for a huge multi-site shopping mall project that MacPherson had planned. Rick recalled that Ellen was upset about the drawings, which she didn't think made sense financially for her client. Rick and Buster began to think that terrorists had big plans for the MacPherson shopping centers, and they wanted to squeeze as much information as they could from the project's architect, Ellen. They devised a plan to free Ellen and the MacPherson women, an extremely dangerous plan. Rick arranged for an elite FBI Swat team to head up the effort. Rick, took his position as advisor to the Swat Team, along with Buster, in a rented house next door to the kidnapping location. Rick thought he knew his wife, Ellen. He knew that she was beautiful because it was obvious. He knew that she was intelligent, a nationally famous architect. He knew that she was kind to everyone she met. What he didn't know was that Ellen was also a woman of raw courage. In an explosive ending that will shock you, the Swat Team attacks the house, aided by none other than Ellen Bellamy herself. Grab this unforgettable thriller now.

The Keepers of Time A Novel of Time Travel What if you're an African-American woman, the youngest admiral in the United States Navy? What if your husband, Jack, a famous writer and Naval Reserve Officer, joins you on a deployment of your carrier strike group? What if, while steaming off Long Island, you travel through time? Instantly you're in a different world, and you don't know if you've traveled to the past-or the future. "Something's wrong. What's going on? This isn't right. Where the hell are we?" Ashley said to Jack as they stood on an open walkway of the USS Ronald Reagan. The ship was cruising off New York's Long Island when the beautiful scenery suddenly disappeared. Admiral Ashley Patterson and her husband Jack have done it again. They've time traveled-this time 200 years into the future-aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, Ashley's flagship. Ashley, a tall, beautiful African-American woman, is the youngest admiral in the United States Navy. She married a wealthy writer and journalist, Jack Thurber. Married for four years, they love each other's company, and each other. Ashley got permission from the Navy for Jack to accompany her on a deployment. The senior brass is fond of Jack, who is also a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, for the many positive articles he's written about the Navy. But their time travel has changed everything. When they experienced the shock of crossing the time portal or wormhole, the captain of the ship had a heart attack, so Admiral Ashley took command. They discover a new world, a strange new world-a post-nuclear war world-It's an alternate history, radically different from what they'd expect, a dystopian future that is both a beacon of hope, and a cry of despair. First, they notice that Long Island is a vast wasteland inhabited by bison, wolves, and other creatures-everything but human beings. Then the ship steams around the rivers of New York City, a post-apocalyptic forest growing amidst what used to be sky scrapers. They head down the East Coast, looking for signs of humanity, and come upon what used to be Atlantic City, once a mecca of fun and gambling, but now a depressing expanse of empty casinos, ravenous wolves, and crumbling hotels. There they find a newspaper preserved in plastic. The headline on the front page of The New York Times read: "Nuclear Talks between Iran and the United States Falter-Large Amounts of Iranian Nuclear Weapons delivered to North Korea. President puts Military on High Alert." The date on the newspaper was April 12, 2018, a few months after the Reagan began its deployment. But what year is it now? Ashley and her trusted officers, including Jack, encounter a group of people who call themselves The Keepers of Time, an organization dedicated to preserving history and culture. The people dress and sound as if they lived in 2018. That's the idea, the head of The Keepers explains. They are dedicated to preserving history before the nuclear apocalypse-200 years ago. But as much as the Keepers of Time have advanced, culturally and intellectually, the surrounding people in what was once known as the United States of America, have reverted back to a primitive and savage past, one that includes human sacrifice. Ashley and Jack know they have to have to get back to the present to warn the government of the unspeakable horrors that await. They have seen the future, and it isn't good. But finding the way back to the present is a challenge, an almost insurmountable one. They were almost aground at high tide when the Reagan hit the wormhole. Without sufficient depth to maneuver the ship, Ashley, Jack, and the entire crew may have to start their lives over-200 years in the future. "A wild time travel yarn that starts fast and doesn't slow down until the end." Buy this book now, and get ready for the most amazing time travel adventure of your life.

The President is Missing A Political Thriller You think you can draw conclusions from the facts, right? You think you can watch the news and understand what's going on, right? What if you're wrong? In The President is Missing, you are instantly drawn into a massive and terrifying conspiracy that threatens the United States itself. "What the hell just happened?" I asked Barbara Hightower, my assistant. We were watching a TV first, a live broadcast by the President of the United States from a nuclear submarine deep under the waters of the South Atlantic. The President, Matt Blake, also happens to be my husband. Matt, dressed in naval officer's fatigues, faced the camera holding a microphone. He looked great, but then he always does. Matt's so natural in front of the camera, it's as if the technology was invented for him. But the screen suddenly went blank. "Beats me, ma'am," Barbara said. "If we can't maintain communications with a nuclear submarine, what the hell can we communicate with?" President Matt Blake was addressing the nation from the USS Louisiana, a nuclear submarine deep under the waters of the South Atlantic. His message is suddenly cut off. Nearby ships reported hearing an explosion. Aircraft reported floating debris five minutes later in the vicinity of the sub's last known position. The nation went into mourning for the loss of the popular president. But First Lady, Dee Blake has doubts. Her husband, a lawyer, always told her to distrust the evidence. She did more than distrust the evidence-she uncovered a massive conspiracy to hijack the submarine and kidnap the president. She thinks the explosion and the debris were a ruse to make people think the sub was destroyed and her husband with it. Could the sub have been hijacked and the president kidnapped? But who would commit such an act? What is its purpose? Was it Russia, China, Iran, or a shadowy group of freelance terrorists? One thing was certain: the plot had to include mutineers. The new president, Roland Benton, agrees with Dee Blake's suspicions and sees himself as only an interim president. He appoints Dee as his Chief of Staff, with explicit instructions to find the missing submarine-and President Blake. Dee finds the workings of a secretive group right in the United States, a group everyone had thought was destroyed. Her life, and the life of the nation, suddenly take a horrifying turn. "A nail-biting thriller that holds you until the explosive ending." Buy this page-turner and get ready for a wild ride.

So, you think robots are wonderful labor-saving devices, right? So, you think Artificial Intelligence is our exciting future, right? What if these wonderful technologies become weapons of terror? Instantly, your world changes, from one you thought you knew, to one you fear. Mike Bateman is a visionary and highly respected businessman, the creator and CEO of the fabulously successful chain of stores, Robot Depot, a company dedicated to selling robots and Artificial Intelligence machines for a variety of uses. One of Robot Depot's engineers invented the world's first sentient robot, one that is aware of its own existence. That robot's name is Angus, named after a famous inventor. Angus invents an algorithm that revolutionizes medical science, a program that accurately diagnoses an illness and recommends a treatment, within 15 seconds. Whether it's a floor cleaner, a window washer, an intelligent drone, or a medical diagnosis algorithm, Robot Depot has a device for you. The company is a darling of Wall Street and is the most popular destination for consumers and businesses looking for labor saving devices. But the company has caught the eye of terrorists. They discover a great way to deliver bombs - using the products of Robot Depot to kill people. Within a matter of days, a skyscraper is destroyed, houses are burned to the ground, a cruise ship is disabled, Yankee Stadium is attacked, and a children's sailing regatta is bombed. Overnight, Robot Depot changed from a popular company to an object of fear and hatred because of the tampered products it sells. Mike Bateman and his wife Jenny discover the true horror of terrorism one frightening summer morning. Your world will never be the same. Get this page-turning thriller now.

The Maltese IncidentA Novel of Time TravelYou're on a beautiful cruise ship.The April sky is full of stars.Suddenly, the ship rumbles, and instantly the stars disappear."What the hell was that?" Captain Fenton yelled."Beats me, captain. I've never seen anything like it," the first officer said.They would soon discover that the ship, The Maltese, had just traveled through time-millions of years to the past.The captain, Harry Fenton, a highly decorated naval war hero, realizes the greatest battle of his life lay ahead of him.Captain Harry, a widow, falls in love with a beautiful passenger, Meg Johnson, an executive with the company that owns the ship.After a whirlwind romance, they marry-in the ship's ballroom.Captain Harry convinces the passengers and crew that they must move ashore to a tropical island because the ship is running out of fuel and supplies. Captain Harry organizes a group to go ashore and inspect the island. An ancient forest inhabited by dinosaurs awaits them.Meg wants to go with them. Harry, fearing for her safety, tries to convince her to stay on the ship. Meg demonstrates that she is proficient with a gun by taking apart a rifle and reassembling it-in 15 seconds. Harry marvels that he's never seen such an expert gun handler- or accurate shooter. So, AR-15 in hand, Meg joins the inspection party. Charging dinosaurs are no match for Meg Fenton's firepower.Will the 1,000 souls ever make it back to the time they came from, or will they remain stranded in the distant past?A scientist aboard theorizes that, to return to their present time, they need to go back to the time portal, or wormhole, that brought them to the past. But the ship doesn't have enough fuel for the journey.Realizing that their lives have hit the reset button, the crew and passengers construct a community in the forest-Malta Town. Under Harry and Meg's leadership, they create a court system, a legislature, and all the elements of a small budding democracy. Meg figures out a way to harness hydroelectric power from a nearby waterfall. Everybody thinks of Harry and Meg as the heart and soul of Malta Town. They begin their new lives-among the dinosaurs.The Maltese Incident is a page turning tale of time travel, love, courage, and horror. Get the book now.

On a hot summer day, Homeland Security Secretary, Rick Bellamy, and his wife Ellen, a famous TV talk show host, walked along the ocean front trying to escape the heat. Suddenly the temperature dropped from the high 90s to below freezing in a matter of minutes. It began to snow-on July 16. The temperatures across the country and the world plummeted, creating winter in summer. Bellamy and the rest of the government struggled to cope with the suddenly new climate, but to cope, they first had to find out what happened. Scientists from academia blamed the weather on a sudden acceleration of climate change, but they were unable to explain a 60-degree temperature drop in a matter of minutes. Two astronauts in an American space station realized that the sudden weather calamity coincided with a test of the 20 satellites that the space station controlled. Attention focused on a huge American corporation that owned the space station and the satellites. Could there be a connection between the satellite tests and the radical drop in temperature? As the deaths piled up and the world economy tilted toward disaster because of gigantic summer blizzards, Rick Bellamy and his team struggled to find answers before it was too late. Was it a sudden shift in climate change or did it have something to do with the satellites? The biggest question remained-was the catastrophe an accident, or was somebody controlling the weather?

Sideswiped A Matt Blake Legal and Political Thriller You're a famous courtroom lawyer at the top of your game. You've just signed up a huge wrongful death case. Your beautiful client's husband was killed in a sideswipe car collision, and the evidence of defendant's negligence is overwhelming. But something bothers you. Is the evidence too overwhelming? Your senior investigator starts to turn up some strange facts, facts that indicate that this may not be a negligence case at all. Is it a murder case? Matt Blake is a Chicago trial lawyer and highly decorated Marine combat veteran. After losing his beloved fianc e in a tragic car accident, he finds that he has more battles to fight: alcohol and drugs. He gradually realizes that his life is spiraling downward, and that he needs help with the battle. He seeks the help of Dr. Benjamin Weinberg, a psychiatrist who's also a family friend and consultant to his law firm. With Dr. Weinberg's help, Matt tames the monsters that sought to devour him. After rehab, he turns his attention to one of the most serious personal injury cases his firm has handled. It involved a sideswipe car accident in which his client's husband, a famous political journalist, was killed. The case looked almost routine from a liability point of view. Numerous eyewitnesses gave sworn statements that they saw the defendant motorist talking on his cellphone just before his car slammed into the plaintiff's husband. The eyewitness evidence pointed toward negligence. At first it looked like an open-and-shut personal injury case. But evidence began to mount quickly that the "accident" may have been intentional-that it may have been murder. But Matt and his team struggle with a big question: Why would James Spellman have been murdered? Matt finally meets the firm's client, Diana Spellman, James Spellman's widow. She's a strikingly beautiful university professor and well-known writer. Matt, having licked his alcohol and drug problem, as well as the loss of his fianc e, finds himself swept off his feet by the lovely Diana Spellman. He shares his past drug and alcohol problems with her, and she shares her similar problems with him. Besides having lost lovers in similar type car accidents, Diana and Matt discover that their lives have a lot in common. But Diana has another problem-she's a murder target. As James Spellman's informal editor, she knew every story that her husband was working on before his death, stories that contained secrets-secrets that threaten the highest levels of government, secrets that someone or some group does not want out in the open, secrets for which they're willing to murder in order to keep quiet. Matt's attraction to Diana is mirrored by her attraction to him. It occurred to Diana that they were both playing a polite game of cat and mouse. So, one Monday morning Diana showed up at Matt's office unannounced. She sat in front of his desk and looked him in the eyes. "I love you Matt. I drop dead friggin' love you." But their love is soon complicated by assassination attempts on both Diana and Matt. They enter the FBI's Witness Protection Program, which was not as protective as they expected. During a wild gunfight with terrorists who are trying to assassinate them, Diana risks her life to save Matt. What began as a routine personal injury case suddenly evolved into a vast terrorist conspiracy-and Diana was at the center of it all. Sideswiped is a crime drama, a legal thriller, a tale of terrorism, and finally, a compelling love story of two people who dedicate their lives to each other. It's a story of enduring love, kept alive in the face of crippling fear. The book will grab you by the gut, as well as by the heart. Buy Sideswiped now for one of the greatest thrillers you'll ever read.

A Reunion in Time - A Novel of Time Travel Unless you invent a time machine, time travel never happens when you expect it, right? It just happens. What if you're a 37-year-old man visiting his old high school for an alumni committee meeting? What if you instantly become a 17-year-old kid? You're suddenly in a different world, and because of that, you don't even know what questions to ask-or who to ask them of. A calendar on the wall says it's September 6, 2001. Oh my God, you think. It's only five days to 9/11. You've got to warn everybody. But who will believe you? You're a 17-year-old kid who claims he just time traveled from 20 years in the future. Rick Bellamy is a 37-year-old FBI agent, in charge of the New York office of the Counterterrorism Task Force. His life just changed, and it wasn't something he planned on. While visiting his old high school to help with an alumni committee, he was suddenly attacked by a short man in a black robe. Instinctively, to protect himself, Rick pummeled the little man, leaving him semi-conscious on the floor. Three other brothers came running to the scene of the commotion, one of them, Brother Francis yelling, "Young man, come to my office immediately." The sign on his door said Dean of Men, but Rick remembered him as a guidance counselor. He wanted an explanation of Rick's behavior toward Brother Morris. "My goal was simple, Brother-to defend myself against that sadistic little prick." As they spoke, Rick looked around the familiar office. He saw a team photo of the championship football team from 1999. He stood in the back row. Then he realized that Brother Francis looked quite young, in his 30's, but that was impossible because Brother Francis should be in his mid-50s by now. Brother Francis asked Rick if he knew what year it was, thinking that Rick may be suffering from a mental disorder. Rick said it was the year 2021, although the calendar on the wall showed the year to be 2001. Brother Francis then told Rick to look at a full-length mirror in the corner of his office. That's when Rick realized that the world had changed, and his life with it. He was looking at a kid who appeared to be 17 years old. Brother Francis takes Rick to a psychiatrist who specializes in hysterical psychosis, suspecting that Rick suffers from this. The psychiatrist gives Rick a clean bill of mental health and recommends that Rick see an acquaintance of his, a leading expert on time travel, a professor at Princeton. While Rick meets with the professor, his wife, Ellen, tries to find him, along with some of Rick's FBI colleagues. While they looked around the grounds of the high school, Ellen steps on a grate and disappears. She emerges, still at the high school, but it was a different place from where she was a few minutes ago. Ellen walks into the school, and a friendly brother informs her that Rick is, indeed, there and escorts her to the room where Rick was meeting with the time travel professor. On the way to the room she looks at a full-length mirror, and instead of seeing a beautiful 36-year-old woman, she sees a scrawny 16-year-old-herself, 20 years in the past. They try to convince anyone who will listen that they are accomplished adults in their mid-30s, Rick an FBI agent, and Ellen a famous architect. When they accurately predict the horrors of September 11, 2001 just a few days later, people start to believe them. Rick, Ellen, and a boy named Jack (another time traveler) who is an accomplished author and journalist, set off to explore their strange new (old?) surroundings. They visit Ellen's favorite uncle who introduces them to yet another time traveler, a man with a secret knowledge of a nuclear terrorist plot in the near future. They know they have to get back to 2021 to warn the authorities of the horrors that await, horrors worse than 9/11. "A wild time travel yarn to keep you up at night." Buy this page turner and get set for the ride of your life.

Chicago police detective Bobbie Nelson is hired by the New York Police Department during a massive scandal. The mayor of New York City, in an unprecedented move, begins to hire detectives from across the country. He dispatches NYPD Commissioner Ralph Norquist to fly to Chicago to recruit the famous Detective Nelson, whom the Chicago Tribune said is "a real life Sherlock Holmes." Bobbie is partnered with NYPD Detective Bob Lawton. At first, they don't know what to make of each other. At first. Gradually they adjust, and then they find that they're more than okay with each other-quite okay. They become the talk of the NYPD. Commissioner Norquist finds that he can rely on them to crack the most difficult cases in the department, cases that would stump even the most experienced detective. He realizes that the "BBs" (the nickname he gives them) are a team he can count on. He also notices that Bob and Bobbie hold hands a lot. They are, as he puts it, becoming "an item."Bob originally feared that his new partner just may be an obnoxious, overbearing woman, given her notoriety. On their first day together as partners, they are assigned to a mass shooting, one that includes 85 dead bodies. That was when Bob discovers that his new partner has amazing skills as a detective. He also notices that she's polite and respectful, not the difficult person he expected. He also realized that she's the most beautiful woman he's ever laid eyes on. Besides their growing affection for each other, Bob and Bobbie also know that they love what they do-they solve puzzles. Commissioner Norquist routinely assigns the BBs the most difficult cases in the NYPD. After the mass murder case, they take on the kidnapping of the New York City mayor and his wife. After they solve that case, they are assigned to a matter involving the assassination of police officers. Bobbie theorizes, correctly, that the killings are a new form of terrorism. The police murders are not limited to the NYPD but are a countrywide problem. Bob and Bobbie are deputized as provisional FBI agents by the Direct of the FBI and are given command of the cases across the nation. Commissioner Ralph knows that there is no case too difficult for them. He regularly assigns them serial-killer murders, including a man who kills his victims with a screwdriver to the head. After they solve that in a month, they take on a case of multiple serial killers who are murdering schoolteachers across the country. After the BBs handle that case, Commissioner Ralph, who now sees them as friends, refers to them as 'NYPD Royalty." Next, they are assigned to a crack horrible ring that kills young people and harvests their internal organs for a profit. After that case, The New York Times published an article about them entitled, "The BBs - New York's Dynamic Detective Duo."Then they take on the Mob. The Mafia has undergone a huge resurgence. As provisional FBI agents, Bob and Bobbie are sent to Bobbie's old haunts in Chicago to spy on the new Mafia, and there they encounter the most dangerous case they ever handled. But nothing can compare to a massive conspiracy that sees the nation's colleges and universities being attacked by a shadowy group called "The End of America." Using their amazing skills as interrogators, Bob and Bobbie uncover the leadership of the group. As Bobbie put it, "First they have to come through the BBs."Bobbie Nelson and Bob Lawton are two of the most exciting and likeable characters you will find in all of literature.

NYPD Detectives First Grade Bobbie Nelson and Bob Layton are partners, husband and wife, and, as Bobbie loves to say, best friends. They both agree that the day they were partnered was the luckiest day of their lives. Police Commissioner Ralph Norquist is their boss and also their good friend. He nicknames them, "the BBs." Norquist discovers that he can assign the most difficult cases to them and they will get the job done.It's almost routine the way they solve child kidnapping cases, serial killer murders, attacks on subway trains, a huge case of drone attacks on football stadiums, and Internet fraud attacks on senior citizens. But what never becomes routine is their love for each other. When they get to their office in the morning, they begin the day with a hug and a kiss.Their partnership almost ended when Bobbie was shot in the head at a crime scene. She spent six long weeks in a semi-comatose state. Bob said it was the worst six weeks of his life, not knowing if Bobbie would fully recover. Fortunately, the bullet wound did no permanent brain damage, and Bobbie came back to her old self, including her photographic memory.Besides being famous detectives, they're also talented writers. Bob had written a best-selling crime novel before they met, and they both collaborated on a nonfiction book on the art of being a detective. That book became a runaway best seller and the royalties poured in. Their book profits, combined with a generous inheritance from Bob's uncle, as well as their combined salaries, made them more than comfortable financially. They renovated their apartment near police headquarters. Bob had bought the building before they met. After a neighboring tenant moved out. They knocked down a wall and created a 3,000 square foot apartment, a three-block walk from One Police Plaza.Realizing that they need to get away from their hectic work occasionally, they bought a beautiful mansion in East Hampton, and they love to spend weekends there with friends and family-until they discover they are being stalked by a serial killer.