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 movie history - Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018 documentary & book):

Be Natural:
The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

a documentary directed by Pamela B. Green,

written by Pamela B. Green and Joan Simon,

based on the book by Alison McMahan,

was released in the United States on December 7, 2018.
Music by Peter G. Adams.
Narrated by Jodie Foster.

Recommended reading:

Alice Guy Blache:

Lost Visionary of the Cinema

by Alison McMahan.

Filmed as Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018), documentary directed by Pamela B. Green.

Published by Continuum Intl Pub Group.

Published 2002.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0826451586

ISBN-13: 978-0826451583

Description:

The time has arrived, so it would seem, when woman must take her place beside man in the majority of arts and professions in the business world. In women of the caliber of Madame Alice Blaché it has also been demonstrated that there is a possibility of their doing so without being shorn of that most desirable of womanly qualities, femininity. – The Moving Picture News, 1912.

It has long been a source of wonder to me that many women have not seized upon the wonderful opportunities offered to them by the motion-picture art to make their way to fame and fortune as producers of photodramas. Of all the arts there is probably none in which they can make such a splendid use of talents so much more natural to a woman than to a man and so necessary to its perfection. – Alice Guy Blaché, 1914.

Over a hundred years after she started making films (which was considerably earlier than D.W. Griffith, Mabel Normand, and Lillian Gish began their careers), the life and work of Alice Guy Blaché is still shrouded in myth and controversy.

Only a fraction (111) of the approximately one thousand films that she directed still exist, and almost half of these have been found very recently. The films are spread out in archives all over the world. Not all of them are available for viewing, even to scholars, and many of them are in desperate need of conservation and preservation.

It is widely agreed that she was the first woman filmmaker but there is considerable debate as to whether she made the first ever fiction film. She played a key role in early sound film production, and yet this part of her career is almost always ignored. She is, to this day, the only woman ever to have owned and run her own film studio. And yet she made her final film in 1920, at the age of 47, and died in New Jersey in 1968, unacknowledged, unheralded, almost totally forgotten.

Ten years of painstaking research has enabled Alison McMahan to piece together the career of this extraordinary woman. What results is the first full-length treatment of Alice Guy Blaché’s work, the debunking of several long-standing myths about her and, ultimately, the emergence of a feminist figurehead of the filmmaking industry.

"McMahan s book is an obsessively detailed history of a true motion-picture pioneer." – American Cinematographer, July 2002.

"The author provides intriguing information about Guy s life, the early days of film production, and Guy s independent film company (Solax)." – Choice, November 2002.

"A fascinating book that will interest scholars and general readers alike." – Richard Abel, Drake University.

"Monumental...a daunting achievement." – Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2002.

On this day in movie history - Cast Away (2000):

Cast Away

directed by Robert Zemeckis,

written by William Broyles Jr.,

was released in the United States on December 7, 2000.
Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Wilson the Volleyball, Helen Hunt, Paul Sanchez, Lari White, Nick Searcy, Jenifer Lewis, Geoffrey Blake, Chris Noth, Garret Davis, Vince Martin, Nan Martin, Joe Conley, Timothy Stack, Elden Henson, Steve Monroe, Valerie Wildman, Jay Acovone, Dennis Letts, Michael Forest, Viveka Davis, Jennifer Choe.

On this day in music history - Oceanborn, by Nightwish (1998):

Oceanborn

Album by Nightwish,

released December 7, 1998.

Track list:

Stargazers; Gethsemane; Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean; Sacrament of Wilderness; Passion and the Opera; Swanheart; Moondance (instrumental); The Riddler; The Pharaoh Sails to Orion; Walking in the Air" (Howard Blake cover); Sleeping Sun; Nightquest; A Return to the Sea; Sleeping Sun (live at Summer Breeze Open Air); Swanheart (live at Pakkahuone); The Pharaoh Sails to Orion (live at Pakkahuone).

On this day in movie history - The Rookie (1990):

The Rookie

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Scott Spiegel and Boaz Yakin,

was released in the United States on December 7, 1990.
Music by Lennie Niehaus.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Pepe Serna, Marco Rodríguez, Pete Randall, Donna Mitchell, Xander Berkeley, Tony Plana, David Sherrill, Hal Williams, Lloyd Nelson, Pat DuVal, Mara Corday, Jerry Schumacher, Matt McKenzie, Joel Polis, Rodger LaRue, Robert Dubac, Anthony Charnota, Jordan Lund, Paul Ben-Victor, Jeanne Mori, Anthony Alexander, Paul Butler, Seth Allen, Coleby Lombardo, Roberta Vasquez, Joe Farago, Robert Harvey, Nick Ballo, Jay Boryea, Marylou Kenworthy, George Orrison, James W. Gavin, Thomas H. Friedkin, Craig Hosking, Joe Casino, Kyle Eastwood, Nick Fenske, Caron Strong.

Born on this day – Kimberly Ann Hébert Gregory:

Kimberly Ann Hébert Gregory

Actress

December 7, 1972 – October 3, 2025

Credits:

All Rise (2019); Arizona (2018); Baby Daddy (2016); Barry (2023); Better Call Saul (2017); Blood Weed (2023); Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2017); Carol & The End of the World (2023); Cartoon Network: Every Time Our Shows Reference Each Other (2021); Celebrity Page (2017); Continuing Fred (2013); Craig Before the Creek (2023); Craig of the Creek (2018–2025); Creek Shorts (2019); Darksiders Genesis (2019); Devious Maids (2014); Do It Yourself (2014); Dollface (2019); Every Other Weekend (2018); Five Feet Apart (2019); Future Man (2020); Genius (2021); Gossip Girl (2007); Grey's Anatomy (2014); Hollywood Today Live (2016); I Didn't Do It (2014); I Think I Love My Wife (2007); Independent Lens (2013); Jessica's Big Little World (2023); John Henry (2020); Kevin (Probably) Saves the World (2017–2018); Law & Order (2010); Medical Police (2020); Miss Virginia (2019); Modern Love (2017); Mother's Milk (2021); New Amsterdam (2008); No Activity (2021); Private Practice (2013); Red Hook Summer (2012); Shameless (2014); Splitting Up Together (2019); Stanistan (2015); Stumptown (2019); The Act (2019); The Big Bang Theory (2014); The Black Donnellys (2007); The Chi (2019); The Guest Book (2017); The Soul Man (2015); Two and a Half Men (2013); Unit Zero (2017); Vice Principals (2016–2017); White Alligator (2012); Winnie Taylor's 4th & Inches (2024).

Born on this day – Tracy Wright:

Tracy Wright

Actress

December 7, 1959 – June 22, 2010

Credits:

All Hat (2007); Apartment Hunting (2000); Blind Spot (1997); Blindness (2008); Blue (1992); Book of Knives (1995); Bubbles Galore (1996); Childstar (2004); Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story (1996); Dice (2001); Dog Park (1998); Eclipse (1994); Elimination Dance (1998); Good Stuff (2001); Green Door (2008); Highway 61 (1991); It's Me Gerald (2005); Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1996); Last Night (1998); Liberty Street (1995); Manson, My Name Is Evil (2009); Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005); Midwest of Eden (2005); Monkey Warfare (2006); My Addiction (1994); My Summer Vacation (1996); Northern Town (2006); Permission (1997); Picture Claire (2001); Slings and Arrows (2005); Superstar (1999); The 2000 Canadian Comedy Awards (2000); The fires of Joanna (1998); The Five Senses (1999); The Kids in the Hall (1991); This Movie Is Broken (2010); Trigger (2010); Twitch City (1998–2000); Wake Up, Jerk Off (1993); Wasaga (1995); When Night Is Falling (1995); You Are Here (2010); Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach (1997).

Born on this day – Kenneth Colley:

Kenneth Colley

Actor

Director

Writer

December 7, 1937 – June 30, 2025

Credits:

A Family at War (1972); A for Andromeda (1961); A Nearly Silent Film (2006); A Summer Story (1988); All the World's a Stage (1984); Alligator (2007); Always and Everyone (1999); Armchair Theatre (1966); Arthur of the Britons (1973); BBC Play of the Month (1966–1976); Between the Lines (1993); Black and Blue (1973); Brassed Off (1996); Capital Lives (1994); Casanova (1987); Casualty (1991–2011); Casualty 1909 (2009); Churchill's People (1975); City '68 (1968); Comedy Connections (2008); Coronation Street (1964); Crown Court (1972–1976); Dan Hawk Psychic Detective (2024); Dangerfield (1998); Dear Mother... ...Love Albert (1972); Dickens of London (1976); Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures (2008); Doctors (2002); EastEnders (2003); El último viaje de Robert Rylands (1996); Emergency-Ward 10 (1964–1966); Fall of Eagles (1974); Firefox (1982); For Schools and Colleges: Drama (1967); Foyle's War (2006); Freedom Day (2010); Function Room (1985); Ghost Squad (1963); Giro City (1982); Greetings (2007); Hazell (1978); Heartbeat (1998); Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973); Hobson's Choice (1967); Holby Blue (2008); Holby City (2005–2016); Hold Back the Night (1999); Holding On (1999); Horizon (1977); House of Donn (2006); How I Won the War (1967); I am Tree (2023); I Hired a Contract Killer (1990); I Remember Nelson (1982); Infernal Creations (2025); Inspector Morse (1991); It's Dark Outside (1964); ITV Play of the Week (1963–1964); Jabberwocky (1977); Jack the Ripper (1973); Judge Dee (1969); Juggernaut (1974); Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out (2012); Les Miserables (1978); Like Father Like Son (2005); Lisztomania (1975); Look and Read (1968); Macbeth (1966); MacHeath (1987); Mahler (1974); Maupassant (1963); Midsomer Murders (2001); Minder (1991); Misfits (2013); Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut (2009); Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979); Moving Story (1994–1995); Mum (2017); Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985); Napoleon's Last Battle: Timewatch (1990); New Scotland Yard (1972); New Tricks (2006); No Hiding Place (1965); Oh! What a Lovely War (1969); Omnibus (1970); Peak Practice (1997); Peaky Blinders (2016); Pennies from Heaven (1978); Performance (1970); Peter and Paul (1981); Play for Today (1977–1978); Poirot (1990); Prisoner of Honor (1991); R3 (1965); Redcap (1964); Relic Hunter (2002); Return to Treasure Island (1986); Return to Waterloo (1984); Ripping Yarns (1977); Scar Tissue (2013); Screen Two (1990); Seventy Deadly Pills (1964); Shadow Run (1998); Slade in Flame (1975); Softly Softly (1966); Solomon & Sheba (1995); Special Branch (1974); Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983); Star Wars: Force of Evil (2015); Target (1977); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); The Avengers (1963); The Avenging Spirit (2011); The Baron (1966); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1979); The Bill (1995–1999); The Blood Beast Terror (1968); The Bohemian Life (1992); The Boy Friend (1971); The Danedyke Mystery (1979); The Devils (1971); The Expert (1968–1969); The Good Soldier Schweik (1965); The Government Inspector (1966); The Great Escape (2017); The Informer (1967); The Jokers (1967); The Kenny Everett Television Show (1986); The Last Island (1990); The Last Train (1999); The Love School (1975); The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (2000); The Music Lovers (1971); The Nine Tailors (1974); The Plane Makers (1963); The Play on One (1989); The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990); The Protectors (1973); The Queen (2009); The Rainbow (1989); The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971); The Royal (2003); The Scarlet and the Black (1983); The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992); The Secret Life of Brian (2007); The Sweeney (1975); The Triple Echo (1972); The Visitors (1972); The Wednesday Play (1965–1969); The Whistle Blower (1986); The White Rabbit (1967); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967–1970); Thorndyke (1964); Three Days in Szczecin (1976); Timewatch (1990); Unnatural Causes (1993); Vera (2013); Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985); War and Remembrance (1988); When Reason Sleeps (1987); Wycliffe (1996); Z Cars (1964–1974).

Born on this day – Jack Couffer:

Jack Couffer

Cinematographer

Director

Writer

December 7, 1924 – July 30, 2021

Born on this day – Frances Gifford:

Frances Gifford

Actress

December 7, 1920 – January 22, 1994

Credits:

American Empire (1942); Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942); Border Vigilantes (1941); Bringing Up Baby (1938); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Fireside Theatre (1953); Forty Little Mothers (1940); General Electric Theater (1953); Gruen Guild Theater (1952); Having Wonderful Time (1938); Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943); Hold That Woman! (1940); Jungle Girl (1941); Little Mister Jim (1946); Living on Love (1937); Louisiana Purchase (1941); Luxury Liner (1948); Maid's Night Out (1938); Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944); Mercy Plane (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); New Faces of 1937 (1937); Night Spot (1938); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Riding High (1950); She Went to the Races (1945); Sky Commando (1953); Sky Giant (1938); Stage Door (1937); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Tarzan Triumphs (1943); The Arnelo Affair (1947); The Big Shot (1937); The Glass Key (1942); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Reluctant Dragon (1941); The Remarkable Andrew (1942); There Goes the Groom (1937); Thrill of a Romance (1945); Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942); Twenty Years After (1944); West Point Widow (1941).