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Terminator 1+: The Future Is Not Set, bridges the timespan between Terminator and Terminator 2: The Rise of the Machines. It answers the questions left hanging and introduces us to characters that ultimately populate the Terminator Universe.

This pre-prequel novel answers many of the outstanding questions left open to Star Wars fans everywhere. This story begins twenty years before "Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace." Its goal is to provide a logical backstory or history of the dozens of characters that populate the Star Wars Galaxy. The lore of this Saga is complex and interwoven over a long span of time. But, for me at least, there were many questions that never seemed to be answered (although sometimes hinted at) through the many novels, movies and ancillary writings that came before. This is my attempt to “fill-in...

This novel covers a nine-year span in the known Star Wars Universe, filling-in the backstory of most of the existing characters as they travel from Episode III to Episode IV, while introducing many new characters. While this is an unauthorized work, it makes every attempt to be true to the entire lore of Mr. George Lucas' vision while answering many of the questions raised.

This story begins with a series of murders in Charleston, South Carolina, the Summer of 1994 and ends up in the San Francisco Bay area the Summer of 2004. By the time the Charleston Police Task Force assigned to investigate these crimes determines the killer’s identity, six persons have been killed, the killer disappeared, and the lead homicide detective, Lieutenant Theodore (Teddy) Stokes, is forced into retirement. Now a struggling Private Investigator, Teddy Stokes discovers a murder victim floating in the cold backwaters of San Francisco Bay. This gristly find might save his failing ...

A nearly broke ship's Captain, Jack Asp, manages to convince seven "tourists" to leave Mars Port City on a 10 day cruise of the giant planets in his second-hand ship, the Robert Trout. A gang of space pirates, based in a cave on Ganymede (one of the large moons of Jupiter) have other plans for two of the passengers, the richest man in the Solar System and his wife.Captain Rodger Dodger of the Planetary Patrol gets the call and has to rescue the Robert Trout from these predators with the help of his partner, Cupcake and some deception by both Dodger and Captain Asp.This "realistic" space ...

It’s 1933 and the Nazis are coming to power in Europe. Albert Einstein is forced to flee Germany where there is now a bounty on his head. The Nazi intelligence service (Abwehr) has conspired to send their chief assassin, Hans-Peter Brumbach, aka Schere, to kill him. The French Resistance has discovered the plot and has warned British MI6 who sends one of their new agents, Nevil Rockland, aka Rock, to protect him as he travels between Europe, America, and England. Rockland, essentially on his own, is aided by a US Army Nurse, Nora Fidd, and a French Resistance fighter, Elodie Tabruix, aka ...

After two of his recent cold cases suddenly become somehow related by the murder/suicide of his two clients, Justinian spends some time with a new Chicago Homicide detective trying to discover what links the two victims. Justinian Kase is fascinated by Detective Sergeant Wanda Raines and he wants to get to know her a little better. The feeling seems to be mutual. Over a few friendly beers at the 12th District’s watering hole he answers her question about how he became a PI in the first place. The evolution from a manufacturing company’s project manager to a crime-solving investigator is...

An injured old man, running for his life is the beginning of a plot that thickens quickly for the old man's only living relatives. Willard Parker has just staged his own death, so that he might live a few more years without his nemesis, the Vinegar Hills Mine Company becoming aware that they have failed in their attempt on his life. Justinian Kase is brought into the mix after Willard's nephew, Ron Parker, inherits the farm and discovers a break-in with apparently nothing missing from the house. They begin to think that foul play was the actual cause of Willard's death rather than the ...

An aging FBI agent (Harry Watson) from the Phoenix office is sent into a deep cover operation in an adult (55+) community in the Chicago suburbs where it is feared a group of ex-mobsters in the Witness Protection Program have begun to discover each other and "reorganize." As Harry is on his own, when the gangsters he is supposed to be observing begin to die, he reaches out to his friend, Chicago-based Private Investigator Justinian Kase for assistance and technical support. Between them they find unexpected twists as they solve the mystery of the Oldest Don.