Bøker av Larry Darter

Jacob Dedman, Bourne for a new generation. Immerse yourself in the extraordinary journey of U.S. Army Ranger 1LT Ethan Ross, the lone survivor of a devastating helicopter crash in Afghanistan. With seemingly insurmountable injuries, Ross's life takes an unexpected turn when he is recruited by the CIA for an off-book operation known as Hydra. Through cutting-edge genetic engineering, Ross undergoes a stunning transformation into a super assassin, surpassing normal physical limitations. Following the relentless training, Ross evolves into the ultimate CIA operative, a deniable direct-action force of one ready to undertake any mission. His covert and paramilitary training complete, Ross emerges as Jacob Dedman, a mysterious and shadowy asset who ventures across the globe, encountering a colorful array of individuals - some friendly, others dangerously sinister. His mission: to eliminate threats to his country. As chaos ensues, with a rogue NSA analyst leaking classified information and exposing Hydra, Jacob Dedman finds himself at the center of a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game. With the CIA on the brink of exposure, Dedman's handler, CIA Special Activities Division Coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Wright, must completely shutter the program to protect the agency's very existence. To eliminate all traces of Hydra, Wright orders merciless wet teams to terminate everyone associated with the program. But Dedman is not so easily dispatched. Forced into a thrilling escape from Istanbul and hunted relentlessly, Dedman soon discovers that someone within the CIA has marked him for death. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds and fighting for his very survival, Dedman embarks on a perilous journey across Europe, tirelessly searching for answers. In this heart-pounding cat-and-mouse chase, Dedman's relentless pursuit of the truth transforms him from the hunted to the hunter. They should have left him alone.Prepare yourself for The Dedman Emergence, a gripping and no holds barred espionage thriller that will leave you breathless. Join Jacob Dedman, the CIA's lethal and enigmatic assassin, as he hurtles toward a reckoning with his former CIA masters. The Dedman Emergence is the first book in a new, no holds barred espionage thriller series featuring CIA-trained assassin Jacob Dedman.

Bloodied clothing and an unexplained injury. A night lost to an alcohol-fueled blackout. The discovery of a grisly murder. A powerful politician's son awakens to find his hand injured, his girlfriend missing, and his memory a blank. When Dylan Quinn, a young naval aviator and the son of the U.S. Senate majority leader, awakens with a hangover to find his hand injured, his clothes bloodied, and his memory of the previous evening all but wiped out by an alcohol-related blackout, he turns to Honolulu private investigator T. J. O'Sullivan for help.Quinn tells T. J. all he can recall are fragmentary memories of a heated argument with his girlfriend. And he's learned she failed to return home the night before. Because of the unidentified blood found on his clothes, an unexplained injury, and his missing girlfriend, Quinn fears the evening they spent together may have ended violently. While T. J. helps her client reconstruct the past 24-hours of his life, the Honolulu police discover the body of Quinn's girlfriend, dead of multiple stab wounds, floating in the Honolulu marina. After the police arrest her client for murder, unconvinced he's guilty, T. J. opts to run her own parallel investigation of the murder. The investigation, though, puts her at odds with the head of the HPD criminal investigation division. What she uncovers is a complicated tale that's been decades in the making, a story full of twists, turns, and explosive revelations. T. J. races against time to find the truth behind the killing before her client goes on trial for murder, producing a scandal that could bring down the most powerful man in the senate. She must contend with secretive enemies lurking in the shadows, waiting for their moment to step forward and strike. The knives are out, and O'Sullivan must dodge them all to get to the truth about who killed her client's girlfriend and why. Did Quinn stab his girlfriend to death during an argument? Or is he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to his father, the most powerful politician in the U.S. Senate?

Hamstrung by the fallout from the pandemic and budget cuts thanks to the defund the police movement, the LAPD's elite Homicide Special Section gets caught short-handed when a North Hollywood murder involving a celebrity actor goes down. The Robbery-Homicide Division commander pulls Detective Howard Drew and his partner Amy Li from Open-Unsolved to spearhead the high-profile investigation. Temporary assignment to Homicide Special puts Howard squarely into the midst of a media firestorm when he takes the lead on the murder investigation after someone shoots to death the wife of a famous Hollywood actor outside a popular Studio City restaurant. It's been a while since Drew and his partner at Open-Unsolved have caught a fresh kill, but Howard is determined to make the most of the unexpected opportunity. But the moment he arrives at the scene, Howard quickly discovers something about the case doesn't add up. The actor gives his statement, but the evidence tells an entirely different story.As the pressure from the tenth floor of LAPD headquarters mounts, demanding a quick resolution of the case, Drew wonders why the brass chose him to lead the investigation. Then, just when he thinks he's building momentum on the case, things go sideways when an old nemesis in the command staff blind sides him. At odds with his superiors, and distracted by a simmering romance that starts to boil over in the middle of the investigation, Howard is as off balance as he's ever been. Running on instinct and his commitment to getting justice for every victim, and with everything to lose, Drew must prove himself not just by clearing the case by arrest, but by surviving it.

China Doll, another comical and exciting adventure, ripped straight from the files of Honolulu's most incorrigible and languid, soft-boiled private eye, Richard Bishop. People come to Richard Bishop's shabby Hotel Street office for professional help when trouble raises its ugly head because trouble is his business. But when the private investigator accepts an assignment from Nikki Kwan, a stunning and curvaceous China doll, to protect her and to deliver a sealed envelope to her ex-boyfriend, Rick soon has plenty of trouble all his own. He finds himself squarely in the crosshairs of rival Chinatown mobsters who want his client and him dead. As the drama unfolds, the criminals also take aim at Rick's gorgeous blonde Australian girlfriend, Sally Jayne Fisher. Even after enlisting the aid of Lieutenant David Chang, his friend and former partner at HPD, Rick still collects the usual assortment of bumps, bruises, cracked ribs, and lacerations as the stumbling, bumbling gumshoe struggles to stay out of the hospital and save the lives of his client and his girl, not to mention his own. Can Bishop and Lieutenant Chang take down the mobsters before it's too late? Or will the Chinatown gangsters prevail, handing Chang three more homicides to investigate? China Doll is the fifth book in Larry Darter's humorous, soft-boiled Rick Bishop, Private Investigator series from Fedora Press, featuring Honolulu's most inept and indolent gumshoe. But you may enjoy reading the books in any order.

A troubled sixteen-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family. The dark world of drugs, pimps, and teenage prostitution. A private investigator determined to make a difference. On the surface, except for a strict, ill-tempered step-father, Bridgette Carpenter seems to have everything a teenage girl could want. She has a family, nice clothes and lives in a home in a quiet middle-class LA neighborhood. But, if everything is so right, why does everything seem so wrong? Malone finds out when he hires on to go after a runaway girl. Unfortunately, by the time Malone picks up her trail, Bridgette has already traveled to a place that seems a million miles away from her suburban home in Echo Park. Now she is caught up in the dark world of drugs, pimps, and sexual exploitation-a kind of hell on earth inhabited by people who care only about making a fast buck and savoring forbidden pleasures. Can Malone find Bridgette in time before she falls victim to appalling, unspeakable acts that will steal what's left of her childhood and perhaps her very life?

When Los Angeles P.I. T. J. O'Sullivan is sent to Honolulu by her boss to track down a client's missing daughter, it seems like a simple missing person case. O'Sullivan is excited by the prospect of mixing a little business with some pleasure on the beaches of Waikiki. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. In fact, it becomes a regular mare's nest of extortion, betrayal, and murder.Only after arriving in Hawaii does T. J. learn from the client his daughter didn't actually go missing. Instead, she has been abducted and is being held for ransom. To make matters worse, while T. J. tries to get a lead on the daughter, she has to fend off the sexual advances of her predatory client. The client gets murdered, and T. J. gets framed. Now she must solve at least one murder to prove her own innocence, resolve a criminal conspiracy involving her dead client's own family, and save herself from the clutches of some serious bad guys.