The Scumbags and Knuckleheads of Hooligans Tavern	Island Getaway	Killer Moon
published 6/17/2025	published 3/20/2016	published 1/23/2013

Not long after retiring from law enforcement with twenty-nine years of service – including time as a state parole officer and lead investigator of a Florida white-collar and organized crime unit – family and friends often asked me what it was like dealing with murderers, arsonists, sex offenders, burglars, drug dealers, and violent offenders under parole supervision.  Also, if I had ever investigated a fraud scheme similar to the Bernie Madoff scandal.  My answer was yes, though certainly not on the scale of what he perpetrated.  Whenever I shared those experiences, I was frequently told, “You should write a book”. 

That suggestion became reality with “Killer Moon,” a novel loosely based on a Palm Beach homicide in the mid-70s and a planned bust-out scheme in South Florida.  Much to my surprise, readers asked for a follow-up featuring the same characters. 

This led to “Island Getaway,” where the FBI agent and his newlywed wife are hunted by a ruthless drug queen bent on revenge after the agent dismantled her operation in “Killer Moon”.

The trilogy concludes with “The Scumbags and Knuckleheads of Hooligans Tavern”. Here, in what begins as a quiet dinner invitation to a federal judge soon explodes into chaos when the agent’s wife witnesses an assassination attempt on the judge’s life. Now based in Detroit the agent joins forces with DEA and a rookie fresh out of the academy, to track a violent gang of drug-dealing white supremacists through the unforgiving woods of Northern Michigan – where loyalty, vengeance, and survival collide.