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 - The Prophecy: Uprising (2005):

The Prophecy: Uprising

directed and written by Joel Soisson,

based on a story by John Sullivan,

was released in the United States on June 7, 2005.
Music by Joseph LoDuca.

Cast:

John Light, Sean Pertwee, Dan Chiriac, Boris Petroff, Alin Cristea, Kari Wuhrer, Florinel Popescu, Dan Astileanu, Doug Bradley, Georgina Rylance, Catalina Alexandru, Jason London, Ichim Luceafarul, Flori Truscan, Claudia Templeton, Alexandru Virgil Platon, Adrian Ciobanu, Adriana Butoi, Mihai Verbintschi, David Aparu, Smaranda Popescu, Stephen Billington, Snowy Highfield, Nick Phillips, Nelu Caragea, Lucian Iordache, Dicu Aurel, Adrian Pavlovschi, Vasilescu Valentin.

On this day in movie history - American Cinema (1995–1996):

American Cinema

13-episode documentary series that ran from June 7, 1995 – August 22, 1996.

Episode titles: The Hollywood Style; The Studio System; The Star; The Western; Romantic Comedy; The Combat Film; Film Noir; Film in the Television Age; The Film School Generation; The Edge of Hollywood; Film Language; Writing and Thinking about Film; Classic Hollywood Style Today.

On this day in movie history - Delusion (1991):

Delusion

directed by Carl Colpaert,

written by Carl Colpaert and Kurt Voss,

was released in the United States on June 7, 1991.
Music by Barry Adamson.

Cast:

Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Jerry Orbach, Robert Costanzo, Tracey Walter, Barbara Alyn Woods, Amanda Horan Kennedy, Angelina Fiordellisi, Raymond Singer, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Kevin West, Darryl Cox, Bob McCracken, Pat Reilly, Frankie Maiolo, Tamara Landry, Rudolph Willrich, Brendan McKane, John W. Hart, Rachel Gebler, Chitra F. Mojtabai, Robert Moore, Carol Lang, Laura Lang, Craig Sexton, Richard Jordan, Seth Willenson, Kristin Stuart, Albert Albala, James Magowan, Charles Ayers, Jeffrey Madison, Maria Gulezian, Roxanne Thompson, Tony Markes, Marc James, Lurezia Covacevich, Suzan Nesbit Hiett, Tracy Collins, María de Souza.

On this day in music history:

Vapor Drawings by Mark Isham (1983)

Street Angel by Stevie Nicks (1994)

Once by Nightwish (2004)

Forever by Bon Jovi (2024)

Oceans by Jennifer Thomas (2024)

Vapor Drawings

Album by Mark Isham,

released on June 7, 1983.

Track list: Many Chinas; Sympathy and Acknowledgement; On the Threshold of Liberty; When Things Dream; Raffles in Rio; Something Nice for My Dog; Men Before the Mirror; Mr. Moto’s Penguin (Who’d Be an Eskimo’s Wife?); In the Blue Distance.

Street Angel

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released June 7, 1994.

Track list: Blue Denim; Greta; Street Angel; Docklands; Listen to the Rain; Destiny; Unconditional Love; Love Is Like a River; Rose Garden; Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind; Just Like a Woman; Kick It; Jane.

Once

Album by Nightwish,

released June 7, 2004.

Track list from all editions: Dark Chest of Wonders; Wish I Had an Angel; Nemo; Planet Hell; Creek Mary's Blood; The Siren; Dead Gardens; Romanticide; Ghost Love Score; Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan (Finnish for "Death Makes an Artist"); Higher Than Hope (in memory of Marc Brueland); White Night Fantasy; Live to Tell the Tale; Where Were You Last Night (Ankie Bagger cover); Wish I Had an Angel (demo).

Forever

Album by Bon Jovi,

released June 7, 2024.

Track list: Legendary; We Made It Look Easy; Living Proof; Waves; Seeds; Kiss The Bride; The People’s House; Walls of Jericho; I Wrote You A Song; Living In Paradise; My First Guitar; Hollow Man.

Oceans

Album by Jennifer Thomas,

released June 7, 2024.

Track list: Oceans; The Lighthouse; Underwater Carnival Ride; The Siren and the Sailor (Ft. Alexa Ray); Just a Teardrop in the Ocean; Sea of Diamonds; Something Just Like This (Coldplay / The Chainsmokers cover); Mermaids (Ft. Alexa Ray) (from Pirates of the Caribbean, Hans Zimmer); The Metamorphosis Suite: Metamorphosis I: Transformation; Metamorphosis II: Flight; Transcendence (Ft. Ryan Stewart, Ardy); You Carried Me Home; Pirates Cove; The Siren and the Sailor (Instrumental Version); You Carried Me Home (A Cappella Version).

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 37.
Episode entitled: Fire in the Sky.
Released June 7, 1960.
Directed by Dann Cahn.
Written by Robert Quaid.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Rita Lynn, Richard Deacon, Frank Wilcox, Austin Green, Theodore Newton, Jerry O’Sullivan, Tom Monroe, Philip Chapin.

On this day in movie history - Armored Car Robbery (1950):

Armored Car Robbery

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Gerald Drayson Adams and Earl Felton,

based on a story by Robert Leeds and Robert Angus,

was released in the United States on June 7, 1950.

Music by Roy Webb and Paul Sawtell.

Cast:

Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie, Don McGuire, Don Haggerty, James Flavin, Gene Evans.

Born on this day – Robert Trebor:

Robert Trebor

Actor

Director

June 7, 1953 – March 11, 2025

Credits:

52 Pick-Up (1986); Baywatch (1989); Boomtown (2003); Dark Justice (1992); Dying on the Edge (2001); Empty Nest (1989); Face of Fire (1959); Frank's Place (1988); Gorp (1980); Hail, Caesar! (2016); Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999); Hip-Hop Headstrong (2010); Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004); JoAnne (2011); Joe Bash (1986); Magnum Force (1973); Making Mr. Right (1987); Meet Market (2004); Miami Vice (1985 / 1988); Murphy Brown (1989); My Demon Lover (1987); Night Court (1990); Out of the Darkness (1985); Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1991); Raise Your Voice (2004); Simon & Simon (1986); Tales from the Crypt (1992); Talk Radio (1988); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1999); The Devil's Rejects (2005); The First Time (1981); The Nutt House (1992); The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985); The Sex O'Clock News (1985); The Shadow (1994); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993); Turk 182 (1985); Universal Soldier (1992); Wedding Daze (2004); Xena: Warrior Princess (1996–1999).

Born on this day – Nikki Giovanni:

Nikki Giovanni

Writer

June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024

Credits:

Written work:

100 Best African American Poems (2010); A Dialogue with James Baldwin (1973); A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter (2017); A Library (2022); A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974); Acolytes (2007); Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems) Woman in the Moon (1985); Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler (1991); Artemis 2017 (Academic Journal of southwest Virginia) (2017); Bicycles: Love Poems (2009); Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018); Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968); Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement (1970); Black Judgement (1968); Blues: For All the Changes (1999); Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013); Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans (2012); Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993); Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2008); I Am Loved (2018); Knoxville, Tennessee (1994); Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship (2008); Love Poems (1997); Make Me Rain (2020); My House (1972); Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971); Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994); Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley by Richard Kigel (2017); Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices (1970); Racism 101 / essays (1994); Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays) (1988); Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems (1995); The Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman (1991); Poetry Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2005); Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002); Re: Creation (1970); Rosa (2005); Spin a Soft Black Song (1971); The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003); The Genie in The Jar (1996); The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004); The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable (2008); The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003); The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996); The Sun Is So Quiet (1996); The Women and The Men (1975); Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983); Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980); Woman (1978).

Music:

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Every Tone A Testimony (2001); Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1976); Like a Ripple on a Pond (1973); Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir (1993); The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni (2022); The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002); The Reason I Like Chocolate (1976); The Way I Feel (1975); Truth Is On Its Way (1971).

Movies and television:

27th NAACP Image Awards (1996); 29th NAACP Image Awards (1998); American Masters (2017); An Evening with Nikki Giovanni (2005); Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (2009); BET Awards 2014: Genius Talks (2014); Black Journal (1969); Brooks People (2017); By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem (2020); Camera Three (1972); Channel 4 News (2024); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972); Def Poetry (2002–2005); Democracy Now! (2012–2013); Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 (1998); Get Real! Wise Women Speak (2011); Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023); HBCUs: 2nd Acts (2022); How Do Your Children Grow? (1972); Independent Lens (2021); Legends Ball (2006); Love Life (2021); Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016); Mr. Soul! (2018); MU/T/T/ER (2022); Muhammad Ali (2021); Number One with a Bullet (2008); Overheard (2018); Say It Loud (2008); Soul! (1971–1972); Sp!t (2006); Spirit to Spirit: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1986); What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2021); Tavis Smiley (2007–2014); Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White (1998); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The Amazing Nina Simone (2015); The Final Genocide (2021); The History Makers (2005); The Mike Douglas Show (1974–1975); The Poets' Café (1995); The Rock Newman Show (2013); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); Toni Morrison et les fantômes de l'Amérique (2020); Touré Show (2017); Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel 2 (2011); What Ever Happened to Hip Hop? (2009).