Dave Gehrke

The Lock and The Damned (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It's 1942 and Seamus Taggert, a morose former St. Paul police detective recently pensioned out due to injuries incurred during a bank robbery, is playing at being a private detective, trying to make ends meet on a half-pension and wishing there was something he could do to help the war effort when a strange woman shows up in his crummy office with a horse-choking roll of cash and a missing person's case. Oddly enough the missing person is none other than Quinn Delaney, the infamous former bootlegger Taggert vainly pursued during Prohibition and currently Number Two on Taggert's "List of Guys I'm Going To Kill If I Ever Get The Chance". What's even better, there's a bonus if Taggert finds Delaney within a week's time!

But Quinn Delaney isn't your ordinary missing person. He dodged the St. Paul cops and the FBI all throughout Prohibition and if he doesn't want to be found, he isn't going to make it easy. No longer on top of his game and without the resources of the police department behind him, Taggert reluctantly accepts the help of Janice Pemberton, a resourceful young reporter with a mysterious past and with wants and needs of her own. Her price; an in-depth interview and a feature story on the Hero Cop who single-handedly stopped a bank robbery.

Despite Pemberton's assistance, Taggert soon finds himself butting heads with his former partner, the FBI, a team of Nazi saboteurs and Delaney himself who doesn't want to be found because he's walking a tightrope between the FBI and the Nazi saboteurs while trying to turn a profit off both.

So how far will Seamus Taggert, the pensioned-out and socially withdrawn Hero Cop, go to find Quinn Delaney? Will he risk his life for a wad of cash or a sense of patriotism? For the love of a woman? Or will he put everything on the line merely for revenge?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dave Gehrke
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005444105
• Artikelnr.: 75559193

Autorenporträt

I grew up reading comic books in my uncle's toy and hobby store. I didn't know how to read at first so I contented myself staring at the drawings while trying to figure out what the words meant. I believe the first word I learned was "Pow!". "The" wasn't far behind. Then my uncle started sending me home with a comic, often, purportedly so my parents could read them to me, but also because he grew tired of me being in the way of paying customers.

I learned two things from that experience; how to manipulate my uncle, which came in handy as I grew older, and how to read at an early age, which served me well my entire life.

Reading opened up a whole new world for me; a world of knowledge, entertainment and imagination, and that world lay just across the alley from me at the Dyckman Free Library. By the time I reached the second grade my family had named me "Professor". By the eighth grade I'd demonstrated to Mrs. Dombrowski, the librarian, that had I not only graduated from the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew section, I was well on my way through the adult fiction section and could pass a comprehension quiz on any book I'd already managed to smuggle out of the adult section when she hadn't been looking.

In high school my standard answer to a question from any teacher wondering how I happened to know something esoteric or arcane was "I read that somewhere." Which also brought a standard groan from my classmates.

Writing is a natural evolution from prolific reading. And when I discovered I could wow both my classmates and instructors with my completed writing assignments, I decided at age sixteen that I would someday become a writer of books.

Then life got in the way; graduation, marriage, kids, college (I've earned three degrees), various business pursuits, various stints at journalism, teaching, coaching, school administration and half a dozen hobbies. But I never forgot about becoming a novelist. So I studied people (future characters); their mannerisms, how they spoke, the way they conversed, what motivated them, how they reacted in various situations, how they expressed their hopes and their dreams, the way one wrinkled her nose when she laughed, the way another tended to begin the answer to any question with "basically".
And I gathered reams of notes; character descriptions, possible storylines, potential plots, locations, time periods, etc. And I continued to read, sometimes for entertainment, sometimes...