Bøker av M Ward Leon

John Marlboro, private eye, handles the hard cases that the cops are either too lazy or don't care about. He's an old-school gumshoe who believes it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Marlboro knows that things don't always work out, the good guys don't always win, and the Mounties don't always get their man. In Marlboro's world, life is full of ups and downs, strikes, and gutters. In the City of Angels Trilogy is a mélange of Love & Hate. Good & Evil. Betrayal & Murder. In Herr Doktor, Aribert Heim, a war criminal known as the Butcher of Mauthausen, is walking the streets of Los Angeles when a Holocaust survivor spots him. She goes to the police, who seem too caught up in the overload of rapes, burglaries, and murders to spend their time looking for a Nazi on the word of an old Jewish woman. Marlboro delves into the L.A. neo-Nazi party, Amerika First. They thought that they were on top of the world. They didn't count on John Marlboro to spoil their party. In Only the Good Dir Young, Marlboro is called upon to help the parents of a young starlet, who was found beaten, raped, shot, and dumped on the Los Angeles River culvert. When it's revealed the studio president of Miracle Pictures, a major Hollywood studio, local politicians, and the infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel's mob are involved, the police seem to be digging their heels in. In solving the case, Marlboro stirs up a hornet's nest of mobsters, politicians, crooked cops, and Hollywood bigwigs. In the Red Queen, Barbra Babcock's brother is kidnapped, and the LAPD won't give her the time of day because she is the leader of the Los Angeles Communist Party. They couldn't give a spit that this commie's brother had been abducted; they were almost glad. Told that they had better things to do than waste their time looking for some "Pinko Commie Bastard." Marlboro doesn't care if you're a Red or Red, White, and Blue as long as you got the green.

Set in the backdrop of 1960s Coney Island, Detective Sergeant Roscoe Brown and his partner Detective Jimmy Walsh of the Homicide Unit solve some of the most strange and curious murder cases New York has ever seen.To the tourist, Coney Island is known as the "Playground of the World": home of the Wonder Wheel, Steeplechase Park, and the famed Cyclone roller coaster. On the surface, Coney Island is all fun and games, but there''s the dark underbelly of evil, depravity, and murder that is the world of Detective Sergeant Roscoe Brown.Detective Sgt. Roscoe Brown is a hybrid of iconic detectives of a bygone era; he is an amalgamation of the old school, hard-nosed, tough, no-nonsense cop. Who always goes by the book...most of the time. His cases involve serial killers, psychos, assassins, and Nazis. Bizarre cases that include everything from a murdering polygamist to a street gang cross-dressing killer. From a Nazi revenge executioner to the real untold story behind the JFK assassination. Finally, the sensational untold stories locked away for years in the dusty files of the NYPD are brought to light.In the sordid world of Detective Sergeant Roscoe Brown, there are only three kinds of people, either you''re a witness, a suspect, or you''re the victim.

Blood of the Beast is the story of an international French eco-terrorist group who has taken its name, 'Le Gang de la Clé de Singe,' from Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. Although they originally formed to combat large corporations who showed little or no regard for the environment, they have recently decided to wage a world war against all poachers and big game hunters, as well as anybody in the world that targets any animals for sport, all in the name of Mother Nature. Leading the charge are two friends, Todd Styles (aka Rodin,) a Vietnam draft dodger who has become a leader in the international eco-terrorist group and Buzz Murdoch, a Hippie stoner living in Jamaica with his sidekick: a 1600-pound Bumble Bee Grouper. Blood of the Beast interweaves Rodin's life of eco-terrorism, murder, and revenge with Buzz's laidback peace-loving existence, ultimately bringing them together to fight a common enemy. Le Gang de la Clé de Singe encounters many enemies, from elephant poachers in Africa to Japanese whalers in the Antarctic. Their targets range from a pro- football cheerleader to a Nazi sympathizer to a wealthy ex-presidential candidate and his family. Members of Le Gang de la Clé de Singe always leave a special calling card: a yellow flag emblazoned with a black skull and crossed wrenches hung around their victim's neck. They are ruthless and show no mercy, be it man or woman there are no exceptions. The gang is considered by every nation to be pirates and outlaws leaving them constantly on the run to continue to fight the self-righteous belief that the world is ours to destroy.