John Allen Machado

Jack thought it would just be another regular day at his downtown San Francisco jazz club, The Hall. Little did he know that this day would be far from ordinary when an armed robbery erupted inside the club. To complicate things even further, Matty Marshall-an old friend turned policeman-happens to arrive on the scene out of nowhere.Things take an even stranger turn when Jack realizes that something from decades ago has suddenly come into play; a suicide note written by his late cousin, Sean, linking the events together in mysterious ways.Mix in a beautiful jazz musician, stir it all up with police corruption, murder, and San Francisco politics, and you have a story that readers of Vince Flynn and James Patterson will love.

Jack thought it would just be another regular day at his downtown San Francisco jazz club, The Hall. Little did he know that this day would be far from ordinary when an armed robbery erupted inside the club. To complicate things even further, Matty Marshall-an old friend turned policeman-happens to arrive on the scene out of nowhere.Things take an even stranger turn when Jack realizes that something from decades ago has suddenly come into play; a suicide note written by his late cousin, Sean, linking the events together in mysterious ways.Mix in a beautiful jazz musician, stir it all up with police corruption, murder, and San Francisco politics, and you have a story that readers of Vince Flynn and James Patterson will love.

What would you do if death came knocking at your door? And how would you carry on if your life was instantly turned upside down? Johnny Silva, a recovering alcoholic and addict, sets off on a weekend getaway from Pismo Beach to the foothills of Northern California. Upon his arrival in the small town of Pioneer, he's thrust into an encounter with a worn down homeless man, an encounter that forces him to look back at his rocky past as he listens to a tale of woe about a life suddenly launched in a tragic direction.