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|  | | Altruism Costs a Life—or More
The 7 deadly sins count against you at death—does altruism change anything?
The 7 deadly sins count against you at death—does altruism change anything?
A man drowns saving a little girl from the same fate on a freezing wintry day. He returns to earth after his death for a big lesson. Will he be able to step into someone else's life and achieve redemption? | |  | | Jesus Returns
When will Jesus return? Can any person know, and for all the studying of scholars, can we really know the mind of God?
If Jesus came back at the same time Satan came to create the Antichrist, ordinary people would be called upon to help him out. The luck of the draw - Richard Blade, stand-up comic and private investigator, and his unlikely sidekick, April Love, a girl he literally picked up off the street - the chosen pair.
The two meet Jesus when Richard takes a job as bodyguard for Jesus. That is only the beginning of a mysterious jaunt which leads the reader on a thought-provoking journey into the surreal. | |  | | Snowball in Hell
Snowball in Hell is a bold, breath-taking, and brutal first hard hitting thriller by Roland Hopkins. It is set in postwar Boston circa 1945. Join the film noire, white knuckle ride of raw, rough private eye, Johnny Dark as he discovers the seamy side of the rich and famous, how they treat life, sex and death. Its tautly pace, gusty action will keep you awake as the Johnny follows his shady leads from seedy Scollay Square to earthy Province Town and up to the winter vacation fun of the country’s first classy ski resort of Stow, Vermont. A fast-paced, jovial read, this book is a gritty shocker that introduces the possibility of the world’s most heinous murderer, Adolf Hitler, succeeding in performing an impossible hoax on the Allies, by escaping to the United states with his wife, and hiding out with US government help. This absorbing, page-turning thriller finds gumshow Dark losing one ally after another until he’s faced with committing cold-blooded murder. Li-brary Journal: “… For the most part, first novelist Hopkins uses standard plotting, but he dresses it in 1940s garb, patterned with cigarettes, booze, gambling, sex parties, rapid action, and spicy intrigue. Strongly Recommended.” Booklist: “…Johnny Dark, a Boston private eye, is hired by a beautiful woman to find her husband. But when Johnny discovers that his client’s father may have been murdered, and that her brother seems to have disappeared, he realizes this is no simple missing persons case. Hopkins plays a few vari-ations on the theme by setting the action just after the end of World War II and giving a cameo appearance to one of history’s most reviled villains. Although the author has a tendency to tell rather than show, he has a good feel for the postwar period, and he effectively captures the noir mood of the era.”
| |  | | Spring Training Murders
Spring Training Murders is a hard hitting, fast paced, murder and mayhem thriller, designed for sport’s enthusiasts and for all mystery buffs. Each base-clearing chapter leads off with a few authentic newspaper headlines from 1946, while young private eye Johnny Dark is placed undercover on a pennant winning baseball club. His assignment: Find the killer! World War II is just concluded and the GI’s have come marching home to a new and expanding USA. Dark must look the part of a major league player on and off the ball field, in dugouts rubbing elbows with the likes of future Hall of Fame, Ted Williams, Joe Di Maggio, and Bobby Doerr--he even rubs elbows with an aging Babe Ruth, who helps in the investigation. Can Dark fool the fans, the players, the sportswriters, and, at the same time, solve an inhumane murder? Mixed with love, hate, thrills and chills--this pulse quickening spring tale will bring the reader back to simpler times. No I-phones, no TV, no Texting: just lots of everything else that can be touched. Start your reading at home plate for a guaranteed home run--and more.
| |  | | The Alphabet to Selling Yourself and Ideas
Hundreds of sales books have been written, some reaching the top of the Best Seller list. Why possibly is there room for one more? Because this one is the same, but different, and easier to digest for not only salespeople, but everyone else - including you. Our lives revolve around our ability to sell our ideas, and it all begins the moment we are born when we learn to whine for milk or a diaper change. Those whines worked. Remember? I could be wrong, but in my opinion the greatest sales book ever published is the Bible. Strip away all the religious connotation and you are left with things like SEW AND REAP, SEEK AND FIND, KNOCK AND THE DOOR SHAll BE OPENED UNTO YOU. And the most important sales tool of all: TREAT YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR NEIGHBOR TO TREAT YOU. Psychologists agree that the biggest problems their patients face is the anxiety of rejection. Who gets rejected more than a salesperson? I have spent over 40 years picking successful people's brains, asking
| |  | | The Eyes of Death
Did more Nazis escape Germany than history reveals? Did Hitler really commit suicide the day after his wedding?
The twenty-nine year-round inhabitants of Fawn Island located off the coast of Cape Cod shrink to twenty-eight as a local handyman is found dead in mid-winter off season. Murdered? Maybe. But the area DA goes out of his way to keep the Cape Cod and island reputation as clean as possible, especially since it is the home of the famous Kennedy family. He hires a local reporter to interview all the remaining residents and prove that the death was an accident. |
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