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 - Highwaymen (2004):

Highwaymen

directed by Robert Harmon,

written by Craig Mitchell and Hans Bauer,

was released in the United States on February 13, 2004.
Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Colm Feore, Gordon Currie, Andrea Roth, Noam Jenkins, Toby Proctor, James Kee, Guylaine St-Onge, Joe Pingue, Martin Roach, Ron Bell, Paul Rutledge, Kelly Jones, Bryan Renfro, Ralph Chapman, Jason McCormack, Paul Mota, Michael Stevens.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: When The Bough Breaks.

Released February 13, 1988.

Directed by Kim Manners.

Written by Hannah Louise Shearer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jerry Hardin, Brenda Strong, Jandi Swanson, Paul Lambert, Ivy Bethune, Dierk Torsek, Michele Marsh, Dan Mason, Philip Waller, Concetta D'Agnese, Jessica Bova, Vanessa Bova, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Richard Sarstedt, Guy Vardaman, McKenzie Westmore, Amy Wheaton, Jeremy Wheaton.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Tapestry.

Released February 13, 1993.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Ned Vaughn, J.C. Brandy, Clint Carmichael, Rende Rae Norman, John de Lancie, Clive Church, Marcus Nash, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, Nick Dimitri, Inez Edwards, Holiday Freeman, Goldie Gareza, Melanie Hathorn, Christi Haydon, Rad Milo, Tom Morga, Keith Rayve, Joyce Robinson.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: The Cloud.

Released February 13, 1995.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Tom Szollosi, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga, Kenneth Biller.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Angela Dohrmann, Judy Geeson, Larry Hankin, Luigi Amodeo, Johnetta Anderson, Derek Anthony, Jasmin Bischoff, Kenneth David Ebling, Tarik Ergin, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Susan Henley, Julie Jiang, Dennis Madalone, Bob Mascagno, Coleman McClary, Jaehne Moebius, Jordan Monheim, Karole Nellis, Louis Ortiz, Chad Patterson, Jerry L. Quinn, Richard Sarstedt, Marshal Silverman, Simon Stotler.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 1. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Shuttlepod One.

Released February 13, 2002.

Directed by David Livingston.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, Stephen Beck, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Jane Bordeaux, Cynthia Uhrich.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Absolute Candor.

Released February 13, 2020.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michael Chabon, Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Peyton List, Amirah Vann, Rebecca Wisocky, Ian Nunney, Evan Parke, Erik Armando Alvarez, Jaime Barcelon, Kay Bess, Donny Boaz, David Chattam, Willow Geer, Djamel Hamdad, Ken Lyle, Linda Nile, Ciro Suarez, Heather Wynters, Michele Echols, Daniel Edlund, Penelope Grimaldi, Ife Moore, Michael Eshaun York.

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Dancing with Syndication in the Pale Moonlight.

Released February 13, 2022.

Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss.

Visual Effects and animation by Jeremy Samples.

Cast: Mark A. Altman, Rick Berman, André Bormanis, David Carson, Nicole de Boer, Penny Johnson Jerald, Cirroc Lofton, Gates McFadden, Ronald D. Moore, Larry Nemecek, Denise Okuda, Michael Okuda, Andrew Robinson, Nana Visitor.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1977):

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: The Bringers of Wonder: Part 1.

Released February 13, 1977.

Directed by Tom Clegg.

Written by Terence Feely.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon, Toby Robins, Stuart Damon, Jeremy Young, Drewe Henley, Patrick Westwood, Cher Cameron, Al Lampert, Billy J. Mitchell, Earl Robinson, Robert Sheedy, Nicholas Young, Albin Pahernik, Glenda Allen, Peter Brayham, Sarah Bullen, Jenny Cresswell, Joe Dunne, David Jackson, Robert Reeves, Roy Scammell.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 20.
Episode entitled: Mugger Murder.
Released February 13, 1959.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Richard Deming and Robert C. Dennis.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Grace Raynor, Bern Hoffman, Jaclynne Greene, James Chandler, Gene Roth, Byron Morrow.

On this day in movie history - Call Northside 777 (1948):

Call Northside 777

directed by Henry Hathaway,

written by Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman and Quentin Reynolds,

was released in the United States on February 13, 1948.

Based on the true 1932 Joseph Majczek case,

and articles written by James P. McGuire and Jack McPhaul,

published in the Chicago Daily Times in 1944.

Narrated by Truman Bradley.

Music by Alfred Newman.

Cast:

James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde, Kasia Orzazewski, Joanne De Bergh, Howard Smith, Moroni Olsen, John McIntire, Paul Harvey, Robert Adler, Richard Bishop, Larry J. Blake, John Bleifer, Truman Bradley, Dollie Caillet, Michael Chapin, George Cisar, Jane Crowley, Jimmy Dime, Abe Dinovitch, Rex Downing, Eddie Dunn, Lew Eckles, Ben Erway, Joseph Forte, Helen Foster, Stanley Gordon, Walter Greaza, Jonathan Hale, Buck Harrington, Percy Helton, Samuel S. Hinds, Perry Ivins, Robert Karnes, Leonarde Keeler, Cy Kendall, J.M. Kerrigan, Carl Kroenke, Paul Kruger, Henry Kulky, Charles Lane, Philip Lord, Jack Mannick, E.G. Marshall, Norman McKay, George Melford, Charles Miller, Edward Peil Jr., George Pembroke, Wanda Perry, Arthur Peterson, Joe Ploski, William Post Jr., Addison Richards, Thelma Ritter, Richard Rober, Dick Ryan, Peter Seal, Lester Sharpe, George Spaulding, Ray Spiker, Lionel Stander, Ann Staunton, Freddie Steele, George Turner, George Tyne, Bill Vendetta, Otto Waldis, Duke Watson, Robert B. Williams.

On this day in movie history - The Beast of the City (1932):

The Beast of the City

directed by Charles Brabin,

written by John Lee Mahin and Ben Hecht,

based on a story by W.R. Burnett,

was released in the United States on February 13, 1932.
Music by Johannes Brahms.

Cast:

Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, Tully Marshall, John Miljan, Emmett Corrigan, Warner Richmond, Sandy Roth, J. Carrol Naish, Eddie Baker, Elmer Ballard, Sammy Blum, Edward Brophy, Ed Cassidy, Allan Cavan, Eddy Chandler, George Chandler, Martin Cichy, Edward Coppo, Betty Mae Crane, Beverly Crane, Edgar Dearing, Mike Donlin, Dorothy Granger, Jack Grey, Sherry Hall, Chuck Hamilton, Julie Haydon, Lew Hicks, Frank Holliday, Robert Homans, Arthur Hoyt, Murray Kinnell, Ethan Laidlaw, Frank LaRue, Tom London, George Magrill, Tom Mahoney, Charles McAvoy, Tom McGuire, Edmund Mortimer, Field Norton, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Henry Otho, Nat Pendleton, Jack Pennick, Lee Phelps, Constantine Romanoff, Mickey Rooney, Dick Rush, Hector V. Sarno, Harry Semels, Charles Sullivan, Dick Sutherland, Morgan Wallace, Leo White, Clarence Wilson, Harry Wilson, Dorothea Wolbert.