John Leister

Private Investigator Lee Hacklyn puts himself in harm's wayon a regular basis.Sometimes for money.Sometimes because he's in the wrong place at the wrong time.Mostly?He does it because it's right.Lee lives in New York City during the mid-70s.These stories are mostly self-contained. They are light onpolitical correctness, and, well, in the author's less-than-humbleopinion, heavy on entertainment.

New York City. 1975. Lee is hired to investigate the murder of security guard Sean Doherty.And what is the agenda of the so-called League of Virtue?

New York City. 1982. Lee is hired by Connie DeWitt to find the killer of her husband,NYPD Officer Tom DeWitt. But what is Connie's real agenda?And are there wedding bells ringing for Lee? Whether he likes them or not?

New York City. 1976. Who is Patricia "Tequila" Bonnet?She's Lee's latest crush.But when she disppears, Lee is the only one who remembers her.This time, Lee's client is his heart.

New York City. 1974.Louie Angelopolous, seventeen, the son of Theodore Angelopolous the Third, one ofthe wealthiest men in the Big Apple, is being held for ransom.Lee has thirty-six hours to find him...or he dies.

New York City. 1983. A serial kidnapper of young women and teen-aged girls is on the loose.His latest victim? Twenty-one year old Molly Ryder, AKA, the Urban-Tigress.Lee, and his friend, tweny-one year old Tommy Ryder, Molly's brother, AKA theUrban Tiger, join forces once again, not only to find Molly, and the other girls,but to ensure that the guilty party never gets his day his day in court.

New York City. 1980. Lee is hired by Theatre Arts Professor Horace Lookinland to investigatethe murder of Truman University student George Vale.

1975. An alternate take. When thirty-five year old hedonist Wade Brewster wakes up from a five-year coma,he discovers that America, the land of the free, has become the land of Carlton Wolff,the wealthiest man in the world, who has successfully bribed and blackmailed hisway to becoming the most powerful man in the world.Wade's life suddenly has new meaning.He will do whatever he can, within his moral code, to end Wolff's reign of tyranny,once and...

New York City. 1978. Lee is hired to investigate the murder of actor Calvin Quirk,the star of a new science-fiction series called Star Quest.

New York City. 1980. Lee is hired by a shadowy government operative to find a missingnuclear scientist, Dr. Gunther Beckenbauer. By the time Lee findshim, with the help of his partner, Clint Courage, the countdown has alreadybegun for the lives of every man, woman and child in New York State.