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:

 

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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 - Point Blank the Documentary (2024):

Point Blank the Documentary

directed and written by Alan Berry,

was released in the United States on April 3, 2024.
Music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Sharon Acker, Lloyd Bochner, John Boorman, Angie Dickinson, Lee Marvin, Carroll O'Connor, James Sikking, John Vernon, Keenan Wynn.

On this day in television history - Justified (2012):

Justified

Season 3. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Coalition.

Released April 3, 2012.

Directed by Bill Johnson.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Ingrid Escajeda, Ryan Farley, Jon Worley.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Raymond J. Barry, Jeremy Davies, Jere Burns, David Andrews, Kaitlyn Dever, Gill Gayle, Linda Gehringer, David Meunier, Demetrius Grosse, Cleavon R. McClendon III, Peter Murnik, Mykelti Williamson, Neal McDonough, McCready Baker, Madeline Blue, Mark Chadwick, Jonathan Kowalsky, Jesse Luken.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Lessons.

Released April 3, 1993.

Directed by Robert Wiemer.

Written by Ronald Wilkerson, Jean Louise Matthias, 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, Wendy Hughes, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Tracee Cocco, Robert Cox, Debbie David, Gunnel Eriksson, Star Halm, Grace Harrell, Melanie Hathorn, Kerry Hoyt, Gary Hunter, Lorine Mendell, Rad Milo, Joyce Robinson, Irving Ross, Dee Giffin Scott, Sissy Sessions, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 1. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Oasis.

Released April 3, 2002.

Directed by Jim Charleston.

Written by Stephen Beck, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, 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 Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Tom Bergeron, Annie Wersching, Claudette Sutherland, Rudolph Willrich, Rene Auberjonois, Jef Ayres, Jane Bordeaux, Solomon Burke Jr., Mark Correy, Dawn Drake, Evan English, Stacy Fouche, Hilde Garcia, Glen Hambly, Dearing Paige Hockman, John Joire, John Jurgens, Donald Sage Mackay, Marty Murray, Donnell Turner, Cynthia Uhrich, Max Valentine, Mark Watson.

On this day in movie history - Madame Bovary (1991):

Madame Bovary

directed and written by Claude Chabrol,

based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert,

was released in France on April 3, 1991.

Narrated by François Périer.
Music by Jean-Michel Bernard, Matthieu Chabrol and Maurice Coignard.

Cast:

Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne, Lucas Belvaux, Christiane Minazzoli, Jean-Louis Maury, Florent Gibassier, Jean-Claude Bouillaud, Sabeline Campo, Yves Verhoeven, Marie Mergey, François Maistre, Thomas Chabrol, Phillippe Abitol, Henry Ambert, Jean-Marie Arnoux, Henri Attal, Gilette Barbier, Dominique Clément, Olga Colin, Claire Dalsace, Catherine Deville, Etienne Draber, Julien Dubois, Pierre-François Dumeniaud, William Clément, Michel Dupuy, Marie Guyot, Jean Joulin, Jean-Jacques Lagarde, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Rene Marjac, Pierre Martot, Bernard Mazzinghi, Mona Muche, Christine Paolini, Claude Pascadel, Christian Paumelle, Valerie Soudant, Tina Sportolaro, André Thorent, Aleksandr Vatkovic, Philippe Verquin, Dominique Zardi, Jacques Dynam, François Périer, Pierre Vielhescaze, Thierry Marcos.

On this day in music history:

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel (1968)

La Cenerentola (1996)

Night Songs by Renée Fleming and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (2001)

Bookends

Album by Simon & Garfunkel,

released April 3, 1968.

Track list: Bookends Theme; Save the Life of My Child; America; Overs; Voices of Old People; Old Friends; Bookends Theme (Reprise); Fakin’ It; Punky’s Dilemma; Mrs. Robinson (From “The Graduate” Soundtrack); A Hazy Shade of Winter; At the Zoo; You Don’t Know Where Your Interest Lies; Old Friends (Demo).

La Cenerentola

An episode of the Great Performances TV series.

Directed by Brian Large.

Written by Jacopo Ferretti and Charles Perrault.

Released in the United States on April 3, 1996.

Music by Gioachino Rossini.

Cast: Cecilia Bartoli, Enzo Dara, Raúl Giménez, Alessandro Corbelli, Michele Pertusi, Laura Knoop, Jill Grove, Bruno Campanella, Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Spiro Winsett.

Night Songs

Album by Renée Fleming and Jean-Yves Thibaudet,

released April 3, 2001.

Track list: Debussy: Mandoline; Debussy: Apparition; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - La Flûte de Pan; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - La Chevelure; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - Le Tombeau des Naiades; Marx: Nocturne; Marx: Nachtgebet; Marx: Selige Nacht; Marx: Pierrot Dandy; R. Strauss: Ruhe, meine Seele, Op. 27, No. 1; R. Strauss: Schlechtes Wetter, Op. 69, No. 5; R. Strauss: Leises Lied, Op. 39, No. 1; R. Strauss: Leise Lieder, Op. 41a, No. 5; R. Strauss: Caecilie, Op. 27, No. 2; Rachmaninoff: Zdes’ khorosho, Op. 21, No. 7; Rachmaninoff: V molchani nochi taynoy, Op. 4, No. 3; Rachmaninoff: The Waterlily, Op. 8, No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Dreams, Op. 38, No. 5; Rachmaninoff: These Summer Nights, Op. 14, No. 5; Rachmaninoff: Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne, Op. 4, No. 4.

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

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 27.

Episode entitled: The Vanishing Lady.

Released April 3, 1959.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield.

Written by Jack Jacobs.

Music by Lyn Murray.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jack Mullaney, Mary LaRoche, Mary Scott, William Hudson, John Eldredge, Henry McCann.

On this day in movie history - Deadline at Dawn (1946):

Deadline at Dawn

directed by Harold Clurman and William Cameron Menzies,

written by Clifford Odets,

based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich,

was released in the United States on April 3, 1946.
Music by Hanns Eisler.

Cast:

Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia, Osa Massen, Lola Lane, Jerome Cowan, Marvin Miller, Roman Bohnen, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer, Constance Worth, Joseph Crehan, Byron Foulger, Eugene Pallette, Jason Robards Sr.

Born on this day – Marisa Paredes:

Marisa Paredes

Actress

April 3, 1946 – December 17, 2024

Credits:

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(2024); All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (2001); All About My Mother (1999); Amores locos (2009); Before Being Famous (1998); Àrtic (2017); Attention to works (2013–2014); Au Revoir BB (2018); Avetimología (2024); B 360º (2006); B Cult (2009); Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984); Welcome to Cannes (2007); Searching for Penelope (2009); Black camera. Victoria Theatre Eugenia (2007); Lullaby (1961); Cara de acechard (1987); Carmen Maura, by itself (2007); Carola by Day, Carola by Night (1969); Catalunya.cat (2008); Opening Ceremony - 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival (2006); Closing Ceremony (2005); Cervantes (1981); Cine de barrio (1998); Cinema Spanish: The Keys to Success (2011); Cinema 3 (1991–2011); Cinema mil (2005); Cold Winter Sun (2004); Comme au cinéma (2005); Con acento (1968); Concert de Nadal (1997); Continental (1989); To be continued... (1997–2009); Heart of... 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Lorca on the Roads of Spain (1994); La cosa nostra (2000); The Gran ilusión (2000); The Mandrake (2006); The Mandrake (2007); The mask black (1982); La nave de los locos (1995); The Open Night (2001); The night of The Winners (2002); La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua Generazione (2024); The Palm Tree (1989); The Anonymous Queen (1992); The TV of Your Life (2007); Carlos's aunt in a miniskirt (1967); The Last Supper... of 88 (1988); The Last Answer (1992); Long July Night (1974); The 12 faces de Juan (1967); The Lost Letters (2021); The Girls of Today (1991–1992); The Five Faces of David LaChapelle (2006); The Twelve Faces of Eve (1971); The savages in Puente San Gil (1966); Late Motiv by Andreu Buenafuente (2018); Beats Xou amb Marc Giró (2024); Latin Lover (2015); Le cercle de minuit (1994); Him Divan (1994); Le fabuleux destin de... 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The Grand Final (2004); Nulle part ailleurs (1999); Off Season (1992); Opera Prima (1980); Oscars 2000 (2000); Life Passes (1992–1994); Blood Cake / Segment: Victor Frankenstein (1971); Penélope Cruz, les reflets de la passion (2022); Small study (1968–1972); Petra (2018); Photo (2012); Pierrot le fou / Cannes Film Festival (1999–2017); Préférence (1998); Donostia Award to Ben Gazzara (2005); Prize Donostia to Liv Ullmann (2007); Fénix Awards 2014 (2014); Fénix Awards 2016 (2016); Fotogramas de Plata Awards 1996 (1997); Goya Awards 30th edition (2016); Goya Awards 31st edition (2017); Goya Awards 32nd edition (2018); Goya Awards 33 edition (2019); Goya Awards 34th edition (2020); Goya Awards 35th edition (2021); Gaudí Awards from the Catalan Film Academy (2009); Protagonists of Remembrance (2007); Que le meilleur gagne! (1993); Queens (2005); We Want to Know (1992); Dear Fotogramas (2018); Raphael in Raphael (1975); Redes (1997); Report of a filming (1967); Requiem for a Gringo (1968); Retrat de dona (1982); Journal of cinema (1975–1977); Savages (2001); Señores de Gardenia (1998); Gentlemen and Senyors (2005); Silences (2014); His Turn (1983); His Golden Years (1980); Talk of Angels (1998); Talk to Her (2002); So Happy (1991); Tarde para todos (1972); Tata mía (1986); Firebrandtro breve (1966–1971); Mystery Theatre (1970); Theatre of Siempre (1967–1971); Studio Theater (1977–1978); Spanish Lyric Theatre (1970); Terra Baixa (1982); The 2012 European Film Awards (2012); The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007); The Apostate (2015); The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962); The Daughter (2021); The Devil's Backbone (2001); The Flower of My Secret (1995); The God of Wood (2010); The Limits of Control (2009); The Man Who Loves (2008); The Skin I Live In (2011); The Universe Montesinos (2022); Three Lives and Only One Death (1996); Time and Hour (1966–1967); Tender Summer of Lusts and Rooftops (1993); Red With Love (1968); Tombés du ciel (1993); Toni Rovira and you (2009); Towers and Kings (2014); Trailer for Lovers of the Forbidden (1985); Your Girlfriend Is Crazy (1988); A Free Man (2024); A World Without Light (1967); A beautiful sunset (2003); Vaya semanita (2004); Spanish version (1999–2023); Vertigo (2000); Dressed De azul (2024); Journey around Spanish cinema (1997); Watching Us (1993); VII Goya Awards (1993); VIII Goya Awards (1994); Vivement dimanche prochain (2011); X Goya Awards (1996); XI Goya Awards (1997); XI Gaudí Awards of l'Acadèmia of the Cinema Català (2019); XII Goya Awards (1998); XIII Goya Awards (1999); XIV Goya Awards (2000); XV Goya Awards (2001); XVI Goya Awards (2002); XVI Gaudí Awards from the Catalan Film Academy (2024); XVII Goya Awards (2003); XVIII José María Forqué Film Award (2013); XVIII Goya Awards (2004); XX Goya Awards (2006); XXI Annual Academy Awards (2007); XXIV Awards Academics (2010).