“I’m afraid you’re going to get
it hard, Mr. Bolt.” Costanzo had that fatherly tone of this will hurt me more
than you. “Did you ever stop to think that there’s only one way of being dead,
but many ways of dying?”
Grayson felt something cold touch
his spine, all the way down. “I don’t follow.”
“Take your man Stockard. He killed
two of your beloved family members, wife and eldest son. Isn’t that right?”
A strangling tightness gripped
Grayson’s throat. “That— that’s right.”
“Wouldn’t you say a part of you
died too?”
“What’s your point?” Grayson’s
voice erupted in suppressed panic.
“You don’t have to die to feel
dead. I’m going to kill your other son. That’ll be your punishment.”
The blood drained from Grayson’s
face. Just like that. Most people held the basic principle that no man should
be punished for the deed of another. Costanzo was not one of them. Grayson
would be cut right to the bone, and his son would be the sharpest knife
Costanzo could use. Costanzo had spelled out the thought in invisible
brushstrokes. It was there and Grayson had tried not to see it.
BLURB:
Grayson
Bolt isn't about to compromise his integrity to help a notorious crime boss
escape the cross-hairs of the IRS. But there's a steep price to pay for defying
The Man--Grayson's beloved wife and older son.
There's
only one way for Grayson to prevent his younger son, Jim, an innocent golf
prodigy, from also being taken out: play a dangerous game of cat and mouse. And
what will Jim be forced to do when the woman he loves gets ensnarled in a web
of betrayal and deceit?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Bill grew up in California and
went to Hollywood High School, then served in the Air Force as a combat
cameraman.
After hiring on at Disney Studios
as a film loader, he soon advanced and moved on to other film studios.
He earned a master’s degree in
psychology. A big help when working with Trumpish Hollywood producers. You're
fired!
During his more than twenty-five
years in the movie business as a cameraman, film editor, and general manager,
Bill worked on everything from the hilarious, The Love Bug, to the creepy, The
Exorcist, to the far out, Star Trek and Battle Star Galactica.
Eight years ago, Bill switched
from reading scripts to writing thriller/mysteries and driving racecars. After
completing three award-winning novels, he signed with Black Opal Books. His
first novel, The Devil Orders Takeout, is about a devoted father and husband
who makes a deal with a real-life devil to protect his golf-prodigy son after
his wife and older son are killed in a mysterious accident — and pays hell for
it.
Bill’s second mystery, The Killer
Who Hated Soup, is Book One in the 1950s The Killer Who series, and it launches
this Summer. The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart phones? Who you kiddin’?
Energetic and eager to make his
mark on what Time magazine called the next great boom town, Bucky Ontario
leaves his daddy and little sister in Louisiana and rides a bus to Defiance,
Oklahoma, a town not particularly adverse to murders, just the embarrassment of
them when committed by high officials.
Book Two, The Killer who Wasn’t
There, will be on bookshelves this fall.
Bill writes every day and golfs
infrequently (that damn right knee!). His five children and eight grandchildren
keep him busy going to birthday parties, and he never misses a one!
The Brier Patch is Bill’s wildly
entertaining blog about his shameless early days in Hollywood. It’s on his
website, billbrier.com, along with a contest linked to The Devil Orders
Takeout, which will award the grand prizewinner $1,000.
Bill is a member of Mystery
Writers of America.
Bill’s USA Today revealing
interview:
Bill’s website with blog:
billbrier.com
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