The Breaker - series. Books 1 - 3:

 

The Breaker

ISBN: 9781656281517

Description:

How do you know the one you love won’t hurt you?

Or even try to kill you?
In many cases … you don’t.

How do we choose our path and purpose in life?

What makes us who we are?
When Seth Egan starts working as a private detective, he knows he’ll make enemies.
It goes with the territory.
As Seth works on a murder case and hunts down the killers, he becomes the target.
Some people have no conscience, shame, empathy, or remorse.
To get their own way, to get what they want, to take everything, they will do anything.
Even murder.
In the end, they will drag you down to hell with them.
Sometimes, our enemies are those closest to us.

Amazon link:

https://t.co/eKFZ03giKR?amp=1

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Bad Blood

ISBN: 9798682203192

Description:

No one is paying Seth Egan for his latest case.

He keeps this one unofficial.

Pro bono publico.

Off the books.

For him, this one is personal.

A matter of bad blood.

A woman with a grudge of her own leads Seth to a place where people vanish without trace.

Money is the motive.

Greed is the motivator.

Scores that can only be settled in blood.

A dark underworld of illegal gambling, prostitution, drugs, violence and murder.

Amazon link:

 

https://t.co/e0XiS8crAr?amp=1

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Mall Maze

ISBN: 9798729917235

Description:

Friday the 13th.

Unlucky for many.

What should have been a routine adultery case ends with Seth Egan fighting for his life.

Cut off from the world.

With no way to call for help.

Trapped in a place where the walls are coming down around him.

Seth is running out of places to hide.

As chaos reigns and the city burns … the hunters close in.

Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09244XVYW/

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Themes:

Abuse by proxy, Adultery, C-PTSD, crime, detective, domestic abuse, enabler, flying monkey, gaslighting, hardboiled, heist, infidelity, murder, narcissism, narcissist, narcissistic abuse, neo-noir, personality disorder, psychopath, sociopath, suspense, thriller, vigilante, violence.

Books available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle.

A percentage from sales of my books is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

What’s On?

 

What’s On?

A Guide to Movies and TV Shows

Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9798342696098

Paperback

ISBN-13: 9798341177307

Kindle

ASIN: B0DJTZ8T58

Back cover description:

What’s On? … is the timeless question we have all asked ourselves almost every day of our lives, as we reach for the remote control and settle in front of the TV screen.

Jack Kost, a life-long movie buff and coffee addict, offers his choice of favorite movie and television masterpieces.

Providing possible answers to the question of What’s On? with over 1,900 titles, from golden oldies and timeless classics, to more recent releases, all meticulously logged and summarized.

An invaluable and collectable go-to source for discovering new favorites and revisiting old ones.

Perfect for film enthusiasts and casual viewers alike, this guide will spark conversations, bring back memories, and help you navigate the ever-evolving world of screen entertainment.

A wealth of recommendations and insights from a passionate movie buff to enrich your viewing experience, complete with personal reminiscences and nostalgic reflections, told with a world-wise critical eye, sardonic dry wit, a healthy dose of cynicism, biting observations, and a well-founded rant here and there.

Just don’t challenge or get him started on his personal favorites, like The Shining, Point Blank, Jaws, The Exorcist, The Duellists, Romeo Is Bleeding, or The Ninth Configuration. His opinions on these and other iconic titles are as intense and unyielding as the movies themselves.

All compiled by an author who not only watched the movies, but also read the books on which they were based, did his research, drank a lot of coffee in the process, and advocates for the importance and value of reading.

A glimpse into the over-caffeinated mind of a writer with a passion for great stories.

What’s On? is a celebration of the intersection between page and screen, and a reminder that great on-screen adaptations often start with a great book and a strong cup of coffee.

Kick back, grab your coffee, and enjoy the show!

As author Jack Kost says:

“Happy viewing … and do yourself a favor … read the books.”

Slipped Masks:

Slipped Masks

ISBN: 9781719330640

Description:

I can’t call you because if he hears me talking on the phone he’ll hit me again. He scares me. I know sooner or later he’s going to kill me. I’ll text you again when I can. I love you, Casey. I’ll spend the rest of our lives proving to you how much I love you. Please come. Please save me …

With only text messages to guide him, Casey Byrne is on the hunt, racing across five states to save his ex-girlfriend, Madison.

Casey loves Madison deeply and wants desperately to save her life and rekindle their relationship.

But the closer he gets to her, the more surreal his journey becomes as the dead bodies pile up in his wake.

Clinical Lycanthropy: the delusion that a human can physically transform into a wolf.

If you were insane, would you know it?

How would you see the world if you were convinced you could transform into a wolf?

The hunter … and the hunted.

Slipped Masks is a dark neo-noir thriller about how the need for love and companionship becomes twisted into obsession, possession, jealousy, violence and murder.

A horrifying portrait of Clinical Lycanthropy.

Amazon link:

https://t.co/2Gwb135V3m

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Themes:

Sociopathy, narcissistic abuse, personality disorder, Clinical Lycanthropy, crime, murder.

Book available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle.

A percentage from sales of this book is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

Work in progress:

My next books are Triangulation and Stinger.

Books 4 and 5 in The Breaker series.

Set in the year 2001, the story continues from Mall Maze.

Themes:

Crime, detective, hardboiled, heist, murder, narcissism, narcissistic abuse, neo-noir, psychopath, sociopath, thriller, vigilante.

 

A percentage from book sales is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

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The Breaker is an on-going series.

I’m outlining other stand-alone thriller novels.

Several coffee table books on my photography and my wife’s artwork.

A humorous book, based on the antics of our crazy pet Ragdoll cat, entitled: It’s That F****** Cat Again!

Here’s a GIF I made of our cat, settling down for another of his daily naps:

On this day in music history:

Passionworks by Heart (1983)

Solace by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer (2021)

Passionworks

Album by Heart,

released August 20, 1983.

Track list: How Can I Refuse; Blue Guitar; Johnny Moon; Sleep Alone; Together Now; Allies; (Beat By) Jealousy; Heavy Heart; Love Mistake; Language of Love; Ambush.

Solace

Album by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer,

released August 20, 2021.

Track list: Solace; Fireflies; Paradise Fell From Your Eyes; They Turned Into Starry Skies; Calling Through Mountains; Catharsis; Requiem; Elegy; On a Pillow of White Flowers.

Born on this day – Theresa Saldana:

Theresa Saldana

Actress

Activist

Writer

August 20, 1954 – June 6, 2016

Credits:

240-Robert (1979); All My Children (1970–2011); American Playhouse (1983); An Evening at the Improv (1992); Angel Town (1990); Batman Beyond (2001); Buck James (1988); Cagney & Lacey (1985); Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1994); Carlo's Wake (1999); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1987); Confessions of Crime (1991); Defiance (1980); Diagnosis Murder (1997); Double Revenge (1988); Falcon Crest (1988); Gang Warz (2004); Home Movies (1979); Hunter (1987); I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978); Illusion Infinity (1999); Jonny Quest Versus the Cyber Insects (1995); Law & Order (1995); MacGyver (1990); Martial Law (1998); Matlock (1986); New Kids on the Block (1990); Nothing Sacred (1997); Nunzio (1978); Nurse (1981); Of Men and Angels (1989); Raging Bull (1980); Ready to Run (2000); Rocco's Star (1983); Santa Barbara (1987); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1983); Shameful Secrets (1993); She Woke Up Pregnant (1996); Simon & Simon (1986); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); T.J. Hooker (1983); Tales from the Darkside (1986); The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2017); The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1994); The Bernie Mac Show (2003); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The Commish (1991–1996); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Evil That Men Do (1984); The Gangster Chronicles (1981); The Highwayman (1987); The Night Before (1988); The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996–1997); The Twilight Zone / Segment: Dead Woman's Shoes (1985); Thrill Seekers (1999); Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story (1984); Werewolf (1987).

Born on this day – Greg Bear:

Greg Bear

Writer

Illustrator

August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022

Blood Music

By Greg Bear.

Published in 1985.

ISBN-10: 1497637023

ISBN-13: 978-1497637023

Book cover description:

“A Childhood’s End for the 1980s, replacing aliens and mysterious mental evolution with the effects of genetic engineering run wild … Like Arthur Clarke, Bear goes to the limits.” – Locus.

Vergil Ulam is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher working to develop biochips – the next quantum leap in computer technology, using the complexities of cellular structure (notably DNA) as a means of information processing. But Vergil goes several steps further, and soon has produced intelligent clumps of cellular material, able to outperform rats in laboratory tests. In doing so, he has exceeded, without authorization, guidelines laid down for genetic research, and when he is found out he loses his job and is told to destroy his experimental material.

Determined to salvage something, he injects himself with part of the culture – intending to retrieve it later – and walks out of the laboratory carrying within him a seed that will develop far beyond the limits of his brilliant but blinkered imagination.

Based on his Hugo and Nebula Award winning story, Blood Music is an extraordinary novel which establishes Greg Bear among the new masters of science fiction. From its firm grounding in current research, the novel unfolds vistas of imaginative possibility, logical yet surprising, which demand comparison with the best of Arthur C. Clarke, and with Olaf Stapledon.

“Only seldom does a brilliant short story give rise to an even better novel, but in blood Music, Greg Bear has made it happen. A dazzling flight of disciplined imagination.” – Poul Anderson.

Credits:

Books:

A Flag Full of Stars (1991); A Forest Apart (2003); Across the Universe (1999); Allegiance (2007); Allegiance in Exile (2013); Anvil of Stars (1992); Assignment: Eternity (1998); Bear's Fantasies (1988); Beyond Heaven's River (1980); Beyond the Farthest Suns (2016); Black Fire (1983); Blood Music (1985); Bloodthirst (1987); Cast No Shadow (2011); Chain of Attack (1987); Children of the Jedi (1995); Choices of One (2011); City at the End of Time (2008); Classic Jurassic Park (1993); Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 2 (2011); Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 4 (2012); Cloak of Deception (2000); Corona (1984); Country Of The Mind (1998); Crisis on Coruscant (2010); Crosscurrent (2010); Crossroad (1994); Crucible (2013); Cryptum (2011); Dangerous Games (2012); Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (2006); Darksaber (1995); Darth Maul Shadow Hunter (2001); Darth Maul's Revenge (2000); Darth Plagueis (2012); Darwin's Children (2002); Darwin's Radio (1999); Dead Lines (2001); Death Count (1992); Death Star (2007); Death Troopers (2009); Dinosaur Summer (1998); Double, Double (1989); Dragons of Light (1980); Dwellers in the Crucible (1985); Early Harvest (1988); Eon (1984); Eternity (1988); Ex Machina (2004); Excelsior: Forged in Fire (2007); Faces of Fire (1992); Far Thoughts and Pale Gods (2016); Firestorm (1994); First Frontier (1995); Fool's Bargain (2004); Foundation and Chaos (1998); Foundation's Fear (1997); Foundation's Triumph (2000); From the Depths (1993); Future Visions (2015); Ghost-Walker (1991); Grave Predictions (2016); Hackers (1996); Hardfought (1988); Heads (1990); Hegira (1953); Home Is the Hunter (1990); Hull Zero Three (2010); I, Jedi (1998); Ice Trap (1992); In the Name of Honor (2002); Infinity Concerto (1984); Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi (2013); Ishmael (1985); Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter (2002); Jedi Trial (2004); Jurassic Park Vol. 5 (2013); Just Over the Horizon (2016); Kenobi (2013); Killing Time (1985); Killing Titan (2015); Knight Errant (2011); Labyrinth of Evil (2005); Legacy (1994); Like Water for Quarks (2011); Lost Souls (1982); Lost Tribe of the Sith (2012); Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (2008); Mariposa (2009); Maul: Lockdown (2012); Millennium Falcon (2008); Mind Meld (1997); Mirrorshades (1986); Mississippi Review 47 / 48 (1988); Moving Mars (1993); Mudd in Your Eye (1997); Multiverse (2014); Murasaki (1992); Nebula Awards 49 (2015); New Legends (1995); New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003); Omni Visions Two (1994); Outbound Flight (2006); Paragons (1996); Pawns and Symbols (1985); Petra (1982); Planet of Twilight (1997); Prime Directive (1991); Primordium (2011); Psychlone (1979); Quantico (2007); Queen of Angels (1990); Ready, Set, Podrace! (2007); Recovery (1995); Red Harvest (2010); Renegade (1991); Riptide (2011); Rogue Planet (2000); Sanctuary (1992); Scoundrels (2013); Scourge (2012); Shadow Games (2011); Shadow Lord (1985); Shadows of the Empire (2011); Shatterpoint (2003); Shell Game (1993); Silentium (2013); Sisters (1992); Slant (1997); Sleepside (1988); Songs of Earth and Power (1984); Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978); Strength of Stones (1981); Survivor's Quest (2004); Take Back the Sky (2016); Tales from the New Republic (1999); Tangents (1989); Tatooine Ghost (2003); Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013); The Abode of Life (1982); The Adventures of Lando Calrissian (1983); The Approaching Storm (2002); The Ascent of Wonder (1994); The Better Man (1994); The Captain's Daughter (1995); The Cestus Deception (2004); The Children of Kings (2010); The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002); The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994); The Crystal Star (1994); The Devils in the Desert (2011); The Disinherited (2007); The Fearful Summons (1995); The Final Nexus (1988); The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983); The Forge of God (1987); The Great Starship Race (1993); The Han Solo Adventures (1979); The IDIC Epidemic (1988); The Joy Machine (1996); The Lost Years (1989); The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006); The New Rebellion (1996); The Patrian Transgression (1994); The Prometheus Design (1982); The Rift (1991); The Rings of Tautee (1996); The Ruins of Dantooine (2003); The Serpent Mage (1984); The Starship Trap (1993); The Tears of the Singers (1984); The Three-Minute Universe (1988); The Truce at Bakura (1994); The Unfinished Land (2019); The Venging (1983); The Vulcan Academy Murders (1984); The Wind from a Burning Woman (1983); The Wounded Sky (1983); Third Annual Collection (1989); Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction (1975); Traitor Winds (1994); Triangle (1983 / 1991); Twilight's End (1996); Uhura's Song (1985); Visions of the Future (2015); Vitals (2002); Vulcan's Glory (1989); Vulcan's Heart (1999); War Dogs (2014); We Don't Do Weddings (1995); Web of the Romulans (1983); Winner Lose All (2012); Women in Deep Time (2003); Year's Best SF 11 (2006); Yoda: Dark Rendezvous (2004).

Movies and television:

Comic-Con Begins (2021); Future Fantastic (1996); Grunge, Punk, Politics and the Fight Against Ballot Measure 9 (2017); Halo Legends / The Making of 'Halo Legends' (2010); Heroes Manufactured: Creators Unleashed (2020); New Nightmares (1993); Prisoners of Gravity (1993); Prophets of Science Fiction (2006); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); Sightings / Segment: The Sci-Fi Prophet (1994–1996); Tales from the Bridge (2021–2022); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Daily Show (2007); The Twilight Zone / Segment: Dead Run (1986); Time Machine: Fantastic Voyage - The Evolution of Science Fiction (2002).