THE DEVIL ORDERS TAKEOUT
by Bill A. Brier
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GENRE: Mystery/Thriller
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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?
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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.
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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:
http://happyeverafter.usatoday.com/2017/04/24/bill-a-brier-interview-the-devil-orders-takeout/
Bill’s website with blog:
billbrier.com
https://www.facebook.com/Bill-A-Brier-Author-1651581281813646/
https://twitter.com/billbrier
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16577326.Bill_A_Brier
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