[See the end of this post for Bill's book blast giveaway... plus a chance to win $1000! ~ Lisabet]
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?
Excerpt
“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.
About
the Author
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
13 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
Welcome to Beyond Romance, Bill! I love your title, and the excerpt, though short, chilled me to the bone.
Thanks, Lisabet. I'm thrilled to be here!
Thanks so much for the chance to win. Great excerpt!
congrats and enjoyed blog post
The book sounds very good and you could feel the tension in the excerpt I'm looking forward to reading it.
I work with a bunch of attorneys so I know they take their integrity very seriously. I feel like this book would take me right into their minds if they were facing a similar situation. It will go on my list of books to read. Thanks for the excerpt.
Hi everyone, I'm unable to back up and answer everyone individually, but I thank all of you for the kind support. I wish you all good luck with the contest -- and if you enter my $1,000 winner contest, I wish you good luck with that one, too.
-bill
An interesting sounding book. I look forward to reading it. Thank you. aka Becky.
I think I would love reading scripts but I don't think I could ever write a novel! I think this book has a creative concept. Thanks for the post and the giveaway.
Thanks to pansypetal (love the name!) and Jen B, who came on a little later. Best of luck, ladies (I'm assuming pansypetal is a woman. (-:)
Hi Joseph, I'm busy writing my third book in THE KILLER WHO series, so I'm going light in my reading. I've got a couple Bill Bryson books on my list. Good luck with the contest. And by the way, you might want to enter my $1,000 contest, too. Good luck with that one also.
-bill
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