Monday, February 16, 2026

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.

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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 television history - Justified (2011):


Justified

Season 2. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: The Life Inside.
Released February 16, 2011.
Directed by Jon Avnet.
Written by Graham Yost, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.
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, Linda Gehringer, Jeremy Davies, Margo Martindale, Kaitlyn Dever, Brad William Henke, Sarah Jones, James Jordan, Kai Lennox, Chris Mulkey, William Ragsdale, Christie Lynn Smith, David Sullivan, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Heather Fox, Leif Gantvoort, Vanessa Alameda, Paul Edney, Jes Macallan.

On this day in television history – James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons: The Dark Side of Hollywood (2011):


James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons

Documentary.
Season 1. Episode 5.
Episode entitled: The Dark Side of Hollywood.
Released: February 16, 2011.
Series directors: Brian Coughlin, Gabe Torres, Brian Coughlin and Robert Kirk.

Cast:

James Ellroy, Peter Nikkos, Ryan Beard, Sarah Delpizzo, Emma Green, Jarred Kjack, Nicollé Lewis, Melissa Marino, Rob Nelson, Ian Scott Rudolph, Franklin Ruehl.

On this day in movie history - Fear City (1984):


Fear City

directed by Abel Ferrara,
written by Nicholas St. John,
was released in France on February 16, 1985.
Music by Dick Halligan and Joe Delia.


Cast:

Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi, Rae Dawn Chong, Joe Santos, Michael V. Gazzo, Jan Murray, Janet Julian, Daniel Faraldo, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ola Ray, John Foster, Emilia Crow, Nina Jones, Frank Ronzio, Juan Fernández, Jim Boeke, Carl Strano, Ben Kronen, Madison Mason, Bill Henderson, Victor Rivers, Joe Palese, Joe Shea, Bob Yothers, John Roselius, Tracy Griffith, Lori Eastside, Sharon Anton, Barbara Andrews, Jim Brewer, Álvaro López, Eddie Ruffalo, Joy Michael, Linda Lee, Peter Mele, Robert Miano, Raphael Berko, Antony Ponzini, Frank Sivero, Brent Jennings, Jihmi Kennedy, Robert Giarratano, Peter Gumeny, Justin De Rosa, Adrian McKnight, John Barons, Kendall Carly Browne, Nancy Mott, Christine Greenberg, Tricia Brown, Neil Clifford, John Del Rico, Helen Kelly, Tony LaFortezza, Annabelle Larsen, Don Nakaya Neilsen, David Ward.

On this day in music history:

Midnight Believer by B.B. King (1978)
Radiant Sky by Scott August (2010)
Traces of You by Kristin Asbjørnsen (2018)


Midnight Believer
Album by B.B. King,
released February 16, 1978.
Track list: When It All Comes Down; Midnight Believer; I Just Can't Leave Your Love Alone; Hold on (I Feel Our Love Is Changing); Never Make a Move Too Soon; World Full of Strangers; Let Me Make You Cry a Little Longer; Better Not Look Down; Same Old Story (Same Old Song); Happy Birthday Blues; I've Always Been Lonely; Second Hand Woman; Tonight I'm Gonna Make You a Star; Beginning of the End; Story Everybody Knows; Take It Home.


Radiant Sky
Album by Scott August,
released February 16, 2010.
Track list: Calling the Sun; New Horizons; Arc of Dreams; Rivier of Stars; Santa Fe; Since the Stars Fell; Rising from the Plateau; Journey of Solace; A Pale Radiance; Searching Beyond.


Traces of You
Album by Kristin Asbjørnsen,
released February 16, 2018.
Track list: By Your Side; You Hold Me While Leaving Me; She Holds My Hand; Promise; We Haven’t Found Our Way Back Home; Goodbye; Finally; I Won’t Leave The Room; Spring Reappears; Traces Of You; Vil Du Være Her Bestandig.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1976):


Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 24.
Episode entitled: The Last Enemy.
Released February 16, 1976.
Directed and written by Bob Kellett.
Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.
Music by Barry Gray.
Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Nick Tate, Caroline Mortimer, Maxine Audley, Kevin Stoney, Carolyn Courage, Tony Allyn, Sarah Bullen, Robert Case, Laurie Davis, Andy Dempsey, Raymond Harris, Linda Hooks, John Lee Barber, Claire Lutter, Quentin Pierre, Shane Rimmer, Suzanne Roquette, Michael Stevens, Andy Sutcliffe.