As terrorist attacks continue to proliferate, an international faction conceives a sinister plan to create a new world order—The Better Club—where terrorism would be a distant memory.
When an 11-year old Muslim girl is brutally murdered in London, British Special Agent Helen Ramsey is drawn into the case. Soon, the tenacious agent is hurled into a deadly, intercontinental investigation where child trafficking is a means to a far more insidious end. To render justice to a powerful foe, also responsible for her father’s death, Helen jettisons the very laws she swore to uphold.
With true international crimes and events forming its core, The Better Club is a gripping exposé of the sinister world of human trade, and the lawful organizations that feed off it.
A preemie that suffered bullying in her youth, Simone Hudson, due to her tenacity, earns the right to be a detective in Austin’s Police Department in Texas. The precocious policewoman begins her career on the case of a missing student.
Through a series of seemingly unrelated events, Simone is led to a merciless kidnapper whose illustrious record is as inconspicuous as his style, and in doing so she confronts an unfulfilled debt— Karza —owed a mysterious stranger and his majestic dog, Raja (King).
But who is the true debtor?
The searing tale of a physically and mentally damaged girl who yearns to become the world’s first female cutting horse champion.
The Gershwin Cutter depicts the documented abuse and life of an intrepid, young woman Rebecca, and her devotion to a one-eyed horse, Ira.
The singular journey of Rebecca and Ira advances through the traditional, southern sport of cutting horses, with help from an unexpected source—the American composer George Gershwin whose preludes form the primary training aid for Ira.
Concurrently, a second story unfolds wherein retired detective Sonny Harrell’s father is murdered. With the felony approaching cold case status, his only clue is four anonymous, handwritten, greeting cards his dad received. Sonny’s dogged investigation through the Lone Star State puts him in the crosshairs of a ruthless homicidal network whose influential followers will resort to extreme measures to prevent anyone from exposing their unspeakable atrocities…and Rebecca’s violent past.
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Paul Damien holds a PhD in mathematics from Imperial College, London. He is on the faculty at the University of Texas in Austin. His first thriller is titled Nannerl’s Symphony…. More About Paul
