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:

Singin’ the Blues by B.B. King (1957)

One of These Nights by the Eagles (1975)

The Wild Heart by Stevie Nicks (1983)

Reflections by B.B. King (2003)

Singin’ the Blues

Album by B.B. King,

released June 10, 1957.

Track list: Three O’Clock Blues; You Know I Love You; Woke Up This Morning (My Baby’s Gone); You Upset Me Baby; Please Love Me; Blind Love; Woke Up This Morning; You Know I Love You; Sweet Little Angel; Ten Long Years; Did You Ever Love a Woman; Crying Won’t Help You; Whole Lotta Meat (Bonus Track); I’m Cracking Up Over You (Bonus Track); I Stay in the Mood (Bonus Track); When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (Bonus Track); Jump with You Baby (Bonus Track); Lonely & Blue (Bonus Track); Dark Is the Night PT 1 (Aka the Blues Has Got Me) (Bonus Track); Ruby Lee.

One of These Nights

Album by the Eagles,

released June 10, 1975.

Track list: One of These Nights; Too Many Hands; Hollywood Waltz; Journey of the Sorcerer; Lyin’ Eyes; Take It to the Limit; Visions; After the Thrill Is Gone; I Wish You Peace.

The Wild Heart

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released June 10, 1983.

Track list: Wild Heart; If Anyone Falls; Gate and Garden; Enchanted; Nightbird; Stand Back; I Will Run to You - By Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty; Nothing Ever Changes; Sable on Blond; Beauty and the Beast.

Reflections

Album by B.B. King,

released June 10, 2003.

Track list: Exactly Like You; On My Word Of Honor; I Want A Little Girl; I’ll String Along With You; I Need You So; A Mother’s Love; (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; Neighborhood Affair; Tomorrow Night; There I’ve Said It Again; Always On My Mind; Cross My Heart; What A Wonderful World.

Born on this day – Manny Coto:

Manny Coto

Writer

Director

Producer

June 10, 1961 – July 9, 2023

Credits:

24 (2006–2010); 24 Season 6: Inside the Writers Room (2007); 24: Day Six - Debrief (2007); 24: Legacy (2016–2017); 24: Live Another Day (2014); 24: Redemption (2008); 24: Solitary (2014); 24-7: The Untold Story (2009); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1988); American Horror Stories (2021–2023); American Horror Story (2018–2022); Cover-Up (1991); Dead at 21 (1994); Dexter (2010–2013); Dr. Giggles (1992); Dr. Giggles: Special Edition (2023); Hostile Intent (1997); In Creative Company (2020); Inglorious Treksperts (2023); Jack in the Box (1989); Jack Is Back (2014); Mirror Universe: Part 2 (2008); Monsters (1989); Moving Pictures (1990); Next (2020); Odyssey 5 (2002–2003); Playroom (1990); Sidekick Vs Superhero (2013); Star Kid (1997); Star Trek Phase II (2007); Star Trek: Enterprise (2003–2005); Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault (2016); Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen (2016); Strange World (1999–2002); Tales from the Crypt (1991); Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993); The ½ Hour News Hour (2007); The 29th Annual Imagen Awards (2014); The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022); The Exorcist (2017); The Other Me (2000); The Outer Limits (1995); The Playboy Morning Show (2014); The Writers' Room (2013); Zenon: The Zequel (2001).

Born on this day – Maurice Sendak:

Maurice Sendak

Writer

Illustrator

Producer

June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012

Credits:

Books:

A Hole is to Dig (1952); A Kiss for Little Bear (1968); A Very Special House (1953); Along Came a Dog (1958); Atomics for the Millions (1947); Bears! (2005); Best in Children's Books: Volume 31 (1960); Best in Children's Books: Volume 41 (1961); Brundibár (2003); Bumble Ardy (2011); Bumble-Ardy (2011); Caldecott and Co: Notes on Books and Pictures (1988); Charlotte and the White Horse (1955); Circus Girl (1957); Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (1998); Dear Mili (1988); Dwarf Long-Nose (1960); Fantasy Sketches (1970); Father Bear Comes Home (1959); Fly by Night (1976); Frank and Joey Eat Lunch (1996); Frank and Joey Go to Work (1996); Good Shabbos Everybody (1951); Happy Hanukah Everybody (1955); Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes (1965); Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (1967); How Little Lori Visited Times Square (1963); Hurry Home, Candy (1953); I Saw Esau (1992); I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (1956); I'll Be You and You Be Me (1954); In Grandpa's House (1985); In the Night Kitchen (1970); Kenny's Window (1956); King Grisly-Beard, by the Brothers Grimm, 1973); Let's Be Enemies (1961/ 1965); Little Bear (1957); Little Bear's Friend (1960); Little Bear's Visit (1961); Little Cow & the Turtle (1955); Lullabyes and Night Songs (1965); Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (2009); Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of The Artist and His Work (2013); Maurice Sendak's Christmas Mystery (1995); McCall's: August 1964, VOL. XCI, No. 11 (1964); Mommy? (2006); Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (1962); Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (1954); Music album: Mahler – Symphony No. 3, James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra / What The Night Tells Me (1976); My Brother's Book (2013); My Brother's Book (2013); No Fighting, No Biting! (1958); Nutcracker (1984); Open House for Butterflies (1960); Outside Over There (1981); Penthesilea (1998); Pierre, or The Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition (1995); Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale (2004); Pleasant Fieldmouse (1975); Presto and Zesto in Limboland (2018); Sarah's Room (2003); Seven Little Monsters (1977); Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects (1955); Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen (1959); Shadrach (1953); She Loves Me ... She Loves Me Not ... (1963); Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems (1988); Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955 / 1980); Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog? (1976); Somebody Else's Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children (1971); Swine Lake (1999); Ten Little Rabbits (2025); Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book with Mino the Magician (1970); The Animal Family (1965); The Art of Maurice Sendak (1980); The Art of Maurice Sendak: From 1980 to the Present (2003); The Bat-Poet (1967); The Bee-Man of Orn (1964); The Big Book for Peace (1990); The Big Green Book (1962); The Big Green Book (1978); The Birthday Party (1957); The Cunning Little Vixen (1985); The Giant Story (1953); The Golden Key (1967 / 1992); The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1963); The Happy Rain (2004); The House of Sixty Fathers (1956); The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm: Volumes 1 & 2 (1973); The Light Princess (1969); The Love for Three Oranges (1984); The Miami Giant (1995); The Moon Jumpers (1959); The Mother Goose Collection (1985); The Nutshell Library: Alligators All Around / Chicken Soup with Rice / One Was Johnny / Pierre (1962); The Saturday Evening Post: May 4, 1968, 241st year, Issue no. 9 / The Chimney Sweep (1968); The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960); The Singing Hill (1962); The Tin Fiddle (1954); The Wheel on the School (1954); The Wonderful Farm (1951); Very Far Away (1957); We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures (1993); What Can You Do with a Shoe? (1955 / 1997); What Do You Do, Dear? (1958 / 1961); Where the Wild Things Are (1963); You Can't Get There From Here (1957); Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1974); American Masters (1987); Angels in America (2003); Chicken Soup with Rice (1975); Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012); Galaxie (1966); George and Martha (1999–2000); Great Performances (1994); Hansel and Gretel (1998 / 1999); HBO First Look (2009); Her (2013); Higglety Pigglety Pop! (1986); Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (2010); In the Night Kitchen (1987); Jackanory (1971); Labyrinth (1986); Last Dance (2002); L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (1987); L'heure espagnole (1987); Little Bear (1995–2001); Little Bear: Family Tales (1997); Little Bear: Feel Better, Little Bear (2003); Little Bear: Friends (1999); Little Bear: Goodnight Little Bear (1998); Little Bear: Little Artist Bear (2002); Little Bear: Little Goblin Bear (1999); Little Bear: Little Sherlock Bear (2001); Little Bear: Meet Little Bear (1997); Little Bear: Parties & Picnics (1998); Little Bear: Rainy Day Tales (2005); Little Bear: Snacktime Tales (2002); Live from Lincoln Center (1983); Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982); Northern Exposure (1991); Nutcracker (1986); Read to Me, Heidi (2024); Really Rosie (1975); Return to Oz (1985); Scholastic Jumbo Box of Storybook Classics - Volume 1 (2002); Scholastic Storybook Treasures: Where the Wild Things Are... And 5 More Stories by Maurice Sendak (2008); Scholastic Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics / Segment: Where the Wild Things Are (2007); Seasons of the Heart (1994); Sendak (1986); Seven Little Monsters (2000–2003); Simple Gifts / Segment: Prologue (1978); Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009); The Book Programme (1976); The Colbert Report (2012); The Dresden Dolls: In Paradise (2005); The Little Bear Movie (2000); The Love for Three Oranges (1982); The Pixar Story (2007); The Secret World of the Very Young (1984); The World of Maurice Sendak (1986); Today (1975); Where the Wild Things Are (1975 / 1984 / 2009); Zlateh the Goat (1966).