Lea returns to America after escaping from Russian penal colony, the beginning of Memorial Day: “Propped up by nearly identical VA-issued aluminum canes, two bent old men in dark blue uniforms leaned over to salute a headless gray granite statue…
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Fiction involving personal risk of characters and/or mystery
Iraqi Hit Team
The Prologue of “Goshawk:” “Like a grotesque nightmare, a silent slide show of horrors cycled through Layla’s exhausted brain. She relived pushing her younger brother, Sami, on an old tire hanging from a frayed rope behind Liberate the Delta Secondary…
North Country Justice
Here’s an initial part of Doug McPheters’s “Stepping on Fingers,” where Lea Holderness is sent to a Russian penal colony by a US religious court for disagreeing with new laws restricting traditional Americans freedoms: “But I didn’t do anything wrong! …
Terror on 39th Street
Doug McPheters’s next novel,”Criminal Opera,” is in process. It’s about David Garvey’s project to apply Nuremberg punishments to people and companies who created and managed the phony “Covid” pandemic that unnecessarily killed and injured so many unsuspecting people. Here’s a…
Crisis in the Subway
A peek at action in “Stepping on Fingers:” “David gave Gillespie a sharp hip-check. Gillespie lost his grip on his litigation bag and tumbled onto the train tracks, landing in a puddle of used condoms, cigarette butts and yesterday’s third…
Beginning of David’s Case against NeuBank
Another taste of “Goshawk:” “Goshawk” is about David Garvey’s very successful loan-sharking operation in what was left of the Soviet Union after the Berlin Wall came down that the Iraqis tried to steal. David’s scheme was financed by NeuBank. David…
Dawn Falls – Love in the beginning of “Goshawk”
“Goshawk” begins in Savonlinna, Finland: “Nothing’s more erotic than sitting cheek to thigh with you in the sauna, unless it’s having your head on my shoulder and listening to your heart beat in this luxurious bed, under our own fluffy…
Goshawk – Hearing Before New Judge after First Judge is Killed
A bit of “Goshawk:” David Garvey’s suit in Federal court against his fund’s lender has a make-or-break hearing before a new and inexperienced judge after the first judge was killed in the courtroom. “Our witness will testify that customers of…
“Stepping on Fingers” – Welcome to the Russian Penal Colony
A snippet of “Stepping on Fingers:” – Lea’s eerie preview of a bomb being sewn into her neck: “Something was tearing into the base of my skull, a silent, ripping power drill. Sticky fingerprints of the last nightmare clouded my…
A Peek at “Criminal Opera (coming soon)”
A small part of the action in “Criminal Opera (coming soon)”: “Before long, the pair of lawyers emerged into the building’s polished marble lobby and out into the breezy sunlight of Third Avenue. David Garvey pointed right, toward the nearby…
