198 pages.
Death, Be Not Loud
MEET JACK SAVAGE – SOFT-BOILED DETECTIVE.
Jack Savage is a private eye whose turf is
the Monterey Peninsula in California.No one tries harder than “Monterey Jack,” but
he unfortunately labors under two handicaps
—he is a neophyte, and he happened to be
born under a very strange star.Life, for Jack, is a succession of square pegs
and round holes.His first case is embarrassingly simple—find
a locket lost by two Mexican women visiting
the peninsula as tourists.Yet he soon finds
himself ensnared in a dangerous web that
links the CIA, a dominatrix, sinister visitors
from Taiwan, and a Silicon Valley company
with its super-secret “stealth bomb.”
All this while being upstaged by an inscrutable
dog with his own agenda.Read an excerpt