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?
With true events as its setting, THE GERSHWIN CUTTER is a heart-warming, bone-chilling tale of a young woman who struggles to become a normal adult after enduring a horrific childhood. In her journey of self-discovery, she befriends a one-eyed horse. Together, they scale the seemingly insurmountable hurdles thrown their way with help from an unexpected source — the American composer, George Gershwin.
Concurrently, THE GERSHWIN CUTTER, is the story of Sonny Harrell, a tough ex-cop — turned yogi and teacher — on a quest to solve his father’s murder. His true crime investigation leads him to the revolting actions of an ostensibly defunct evangelical faction, and a string of unsolved murders.
Mixing the macabre with the poetic, the merciless with the human, THE GERSHWIN CUTTER is a gripping drama-thriller whose timeless themes will forever haunt the reader.
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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
