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:

Desperado by the Eagles (1973)

Beyond the Crossroads by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2012)

Desperado

Album by the Eagles,

released April 17, 1973.

Track list: Doolin-Dalton (1999 Remaster); Twenty-One (1999 Remaster); Out of Control (1999 Remaster); Tequila Sunrise (1999 Remaster); Desperado (1999 Remaster); Certain Kind of Fool (1999 Remaster); Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental) [1999 Remaster]; Outlaw Man (1999 Remaster); Saturday Night (1999 Remaster); Bitter Creek (1999 Remaster); Doolin-Dalton / Desperado (Reprise) [1999 Remaster].

Beyond the Crossroads

Album by Peter Karp & Sue Foley,

released April 17, 2012.

Track list: We're Gonna Make It; Analyze'n Blues; Beyond The Crossroads; Fine Love; At The Same Time; Take Your Time; More Than I Bargained For; Blowin'; Resistance; Chance Of Rain; Plank Spank; You've Got A Problem.

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

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 29.
Episode entitled: The Fire Makers.
Released April 17, 1959.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Frank Moss.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, James Coburn, Leonard Nimoy, Georgine Darcy, Milton Frome, Steven Ritch, Maida Severn, Helen Conrad, Bud and Travis, Frank O’Connor.

Born on this day – Olivia Hussey:

Olivia Hussey

Actress

April 17, 1951 – December 27, 2024

Credits:

2008 Camie Awards (2008); Acting in the Sixties (1967); All the Right Noises (1970); An Audience with Mel Brooks (1983); Bad English I: Tales of a Son of a Brit (1995); Batman Beyond (2000); Black Christmas (1974); Black Christmas Legacy (2015); Boy Meets World (1997); Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves (2008); Clarkworld (2009); Cup Fever (1965); Dead Man's Island (1996); Death on the Nile (1978); Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (1978); Distortions (1988); Drama 61-67 (1964); E! True Hollywood Story (1998); El grito (2000); Entertainment Tonight (1986); Fractured Skulls: The Making of Headspace (2006); Greatest Ever Christmas Movies (2013); Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006); H-Bomb (1976); Headspace (2005); Hour Magazine (1984); I Married a Princess (2005); Ice Cream Man (1995); Into the Night (1990); Island Prey (2001); It (1990); Ivanhoe (1982); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994); Lost Horizon (1973); Miss Hollywood 1986 (1986); Mother Teresa (2003); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Now and Then (1967–1968); Our World (1967); Pinky and the Brain (1998); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Quest of the Delta Knights (1993); Romeo and Juliet (1968); Royal Film Performance 1968: "Romeo and Juliet" by Franco Zeffirelli. London (1968); Sammy LaBella: The Real Skip E. Lowe (2025); Save Me (1994); Seven Days of Grace (2006); Shame, Shame, Shame (1999); Social Suicide (2015); Star Wars: Force Commander (2000); Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998); Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011); Superman: The Animated Series (1999); Take a Sapphire (1966); Tax Shelter Terrors (2017); That Was the Week We Watched (2004); The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004); The 12 Days of 'Black Christmas' (2006); The 21st Annual Genesis Awards (2007); The Actor's Journey (2011); The Actor's Journey for Kids (2011); The Bastard (1978); The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965); The Cat and the Canary (1978); The Corsican Brothers (1985); The Donald O'Connor Show (1968); The Gardener (1998); The Girl on the Balcony: The Life and Work of Actress Olivia Hussey (2025); The Great Christmas Movies (1998); The Jeweller's Shop (1988); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Last Days of Pompeii (1984); The Lord Protector (1996); The Man with Bogart's Face (1980); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Pirate (1978); The Psycho Legacy (2010); The Summertime Killer (1972); The Teen-Age Lovers of Verona (1968); The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1973); Three Priests (2008); Today (1984); Tortilla Heaven (2007); Turkey Shoot (1982); Undeclared War (1990); US Against the World (1977); Virus (1980); Welcome to the Basement (2015–2016); Yesterday and Today (1973).

Born on this day – David Kaff:

David Kaff

Musician

Actor

April 17, 1946 – July 11, 2025

Credits:

Black Dog (1998); Cowboy in Sweden (1970); Just for Laughs: Montreal Comedy Festival (2001); Spinal Tap: The Final Tour (1981); The Greatest (2000); This Is Spinal Tap (1984); Trust (2018).

Born on this day – Dawn Little Sky:

Dawn Little Sky

Actress

April 17, 1930 – October 24, 2025

Credits:

Billy Two Hats (1974); Cimarron (1960); Daniel Boone (1966); Duel at Diablo (1966); Gunsmoke (1961); Gypsy (1962); Have Gun - Will Travel (1963); Journey Through Rosebud (1972); Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994); Neither Wolf Nor Dog (2016); Rawhide (1964); Tatanka (2022); Ten Who Dared (1960); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); The Magical World of Disney (1976); The Outcasts (1969); The Texan (1960).

Born on this day – William Holden:

William Holden

Actor

April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981

Credits:

Adventures at the Jade Sea (1969); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Apartment for Peggy (1948); Arizona (1940); Ashanti (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978); Blaze of Noon (1947); Boots Malone (1952); Born Yesterday (1950); Breezy (1973); Casino Royale (1967); Ciné regards (1979); Damien: Omen II (1978); Dear Ruth (1947); Dear Wife (1949); Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953); Donahue (1976); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Escape to Athena (1979); Et par ord om Danmark (1960); Executive Suite (1954); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Fedora (1978); Force of Arms (1951); Forever Female (1953); Golden Boy (1939); Good Morning America (1977–1981); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Today (1955); I Love Lucy (1955); I Wanted Wings (1941); Invisible Stripes (1939); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Million Dollar Legs (1939); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); Mysteries of the Sea (1980); Network (1976); Once Upon a Time.... is Now Grace Kelly (1977); Open Season (1974); Our Town (1940); Paris When It Sizzles (1964); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1955); Picnic (1955); Prison Farm (1938); Producers' Showcase (1955); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); Reconnaissance Pilot (1943); Report on Hong Kong (1961); S.O.B. (1981); Sabrina (1954); Salute to Show Business (1957); Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954); Satan Never Sleeps (1962); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1955); Shooting Stars (1961); Stalag 17 (1953); Streets of Laredo (1949); Submarine Command (1951); Sunset Blvd. (1950); Texas (1941); World's Heavyweight Championship Fight: Floyd Patterson Heavyweight Champion of the World versus Ingemar Johansson Heavyweight Champion of Europe (1959); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 7th Dawn (1964); The American Movie Awards (1980); The Annual National Sports Awards (1974); The Blue Knight (1973); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); The Christmas Tree (1969); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954–1955); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); The Country Girl (1954); The Dark Past (1948); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Dean Martin Show (1968–1973); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1972); The Earthling (1980); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Fleet's In (1942); The Horse Soldiers (1959); The Jack Benny Program (1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Key (1958); The Lion (1962); The Man from Colorado (1948); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1977); The Moon Is Blue (1953); The Moviemakers (1971); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Remarkable Andrew (1942); The Revengers (1972); The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1981); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Turning Point (1952); The Wild Bunch (1969); The World of Suzie Wong (1960); Those Were the Days! (1940); Toward the Unknown (1956); 21 Hours at Munich (1976); Union Station (1950); Variety Girl (1947); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 (1954); What's My Line? (1956); When Time Ran Out... (1980); Wild Rovers (1971); Wild Rovers (1971); Wings Up (1943); You Can Change the World (1950); Young and Willing (1943).

Born on this day – Anne Shirley:

Anne Shirley

Actress

April 17, 1918 – July 4, 1993

Credits:

4 Devils (1928); A Man to Remember (1938); A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935); Alice's Egg Plant (1925); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Anne of Green Gables (1934); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Bachelor Bait (1934); Bombardier (1943); Boy Slaves (1939); Career (1939); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Chatterbox (1936); City Girl (1930); Condemned Women (1938); Emma (1932); Finishing School (1934); Four Jacks and a Jill (1942); Girls' School (1938); Government Girl (1943); Gun Smoke (1931); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hello Napoleon (1931); His Wooden Wedding (1925); Howdy Mate (1931); Lady Bodyguard (1943); Law of the Underworld (1938); Liliom (1930); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Man from Frisco (1944); Meet the Missus (1937); M'Liss (1936); Moonshine Valley (1922); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Mother Knows Best (1928); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); Night Life (1927); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Rich Man's Folly (1931); Riders of the Purple Sage (1925); Saturday's Children (1940); School for Girls (1934); Sins of the Fathers (1928); So and Sew (1936); So Big! (1932); Sorority House (1939); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Stella Dallas (1937); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Fast Set (1924); The Hidden Woman (1922); The History Chicks (2018); The Key (1934); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Man Who Fights Alone (1924); The Mayor of 44th Street (1942); The Powers Girl (1943); The Purchase Price (1932); The Rich Pup (1924); The Rustle of Silk (1923); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The World Is Ours (1938); This Side of Heaven (1934); Three on a Match (1932); Too Many Wives (1937); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Vigil in the Night (1940); West Point Widow (1941); Young America (1932).

Born on this day – Vivian Reed:

Vivian Reed

Actress

April 17, 1894 – July 19, 1989

Credits:

La belle vie (1985); Vivacious Lady (1938); Student Tour (1934); It's a Bear (1919); The Guilty Man (1918); The Bull's Eye (1917); Trials and Tribulations (1917); The Friendship of Beaupere (1917); The Lad and the Lion (1917); Little Lost Sister (1917); Lost and Found (1917); The Princess of Patches (1917); In the House of the Chief (1916); The Old Man Who Tried to Grow Young (1916); The Conflict (1916); The Return (1916); The Test of Chivalry (1916); The Hard Way (1916); The Temptation of Adam (1916); At Piney Ridge (1916); The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1916); A Social Deception (1916); The Dragnet (1916); Tom Martin: A Man (1916); Selig-Tribune, No. 93 (1916); The Sacred Tiger of Agra (1915); The Print of the Nails (1915); The Lost Messenger (1915); The Sculptor's Model (1915); The Eternal Feminine (1915); The Man with the Iron Heart (1915); The Scarlet Lady (1915); The Isle of Content (1915); Motherhood (1915); The Onion Patch (1915); The Journey's End (1915); Tiger Bait (1915); Ingratitude of Liz Taylor (1915); Perils of the Jungle (1915); The Heart of Maryland (1915); The Last Egyptian (1914); His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914); The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914); The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914).

Recommended reading - My Kind of Game, by Marvin Albert (1962):

My Kind of Game

By Marvin Albert.

Published by Fawcett.

First published 1962.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0449133885

ISBN-13: 978-0449133880

Description:

WANTED – Anyone with information about Louis Kovac may find it worth-while to get in touch with Anthony Rome at the Seaview Motel. Kovac met with an accident. His assignment will be completed by Rome.

The ad was Rome’s last hope, a stab-in-the-dark that someone might spill who had it in for Lou Kovac, and why.

Rome didn’t expect an immediate answer. He wasn’t ready to get it in his motel room, in person, from a beautiful girl, pointing a very loaded .32.

A new, trigger-sharp case in the fast, bullet-scarred career of detective Anthony Rome.

My Kind of Game.

J.K. Rowling, on writing:

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion,

so I don't think anyone could have made me do it,

or prevented me from doing it.

- J.K. Rowling.