The Smoke Cat Burglar Books
The Smoke WW2 Espionage Series
Book 1
1941 – The US stands on the brink of world war.
A cat burglar the newspapers call the Smoke, inadvertently opens the safe of renowned scientist, Nikola Tesla. Tucked inside are the designs for a weapon of mass destruction. And suddenly, the Smoke is tossed headlong into the world of espionage and murder.
Book 2
Coming Soon:
A spy has infiltrated a top-secret facility working on the Manhattan Project. The Smoke is called on to help draw him out, but when he gets kidnapped by a foreign agents, survival becomes his first goal.
The Smoke Early Years Mystery Series
Book 1
The first prequel mystery to Stealing Tesla
The cat burglar called the Smoke tries to do a favor for a down-on-his-luck boxer. But when he trips over a body while cracking a safe, he gets ends up getting caught between two warring mob factions and begins to wonder about the boxer’s innocence.
Book 2
A plan for the perfect heist falls into the Smoke’s lap. A bank set for destruction holds a lucrative secret inside. No guards. No alarms. No one else knows the secret. What could possibly go wrong?
Book 3
A beautiful torch singer with the voice of an angel has a dark past. She needs a safe-cracker to keep that past hidden. She hires the best–the Smoke. But he soon learns that her dark secret will lead to murder and the Smoke might get killed in the aftermath.
Book 4
The Smoke is short on funds. And when he’s offered a simple work-for-hire job for a cool grand, he can’t pass it up. But before he knows it, he’s embroiled in a terrorist plot on US soil, and he just might end up becoming the fall guy.
Book 5
The Smoke has unfinished business with a Nazi terrorist cell. He hopes he can smoke ’em out. But to do so, he’ll have to pull off the most dangerous break in of his career. Kidnapping and murder follow, putting the Smoke’s life at stake.
Book 6
The Smoke is handed a calling card. Blue ink on white vellum. No name. No address. Just a logo of a parrot and a telephone number. Yet calling that number has consequences, and soon the Smoke is embroiled with the highest leaders of the mob families and a potential assassination.
Book 7
Coming Soon:
The Smoke’s mysterious friend they call the Baron, hires him as a courier for a questionable package coming into the NYC piers. But things go haywire quickly and multiple murders are left in the wake. And now the Smoke is wondering if it hadn’t been a set up all along.