Answering a call-to-serve from the American President, detective Johnny O'Brien finds himself embroiled in more mystery, intrigue, and strangeness on steroids than he ever imagines possible.Journeying to the fallen city of Detroit to thwart a radical-Islamic terror threat, Johnny must up his game considerably. After all, he's now facing spies, gunnies, ghosts, and madmen. Not to mention the self-described, "Greatest criminal mastermind of all-time," the infamous Saal Moradi, and Mor...

She was young, she was blond, and she was beautiful--and she was dead. Crumpled in a pool of her own blood and gore, her stunning looks were gone. She wasn't very pretty anymore--but then, murder is never very pretty either.When retired homicide detective and newly minted private-eye Johnny "Jack-Ass" O'Brien gets the call to investigate this long forgotten and very cold case, he discovers an entire universe of intrigue and deception, and a far greater and more perilous puzzle than ...

Thirty years. My, how the time has flown by. And with that has come changes. But that's the way it is. Nothing ever stays the same. As old Johnny O'Brien always used to say, "Time is like a river. Either flow with it or drown."Here, in the near future of Bones and Ashes, 2053 has seen a bunch of changes. Johnny, long retired, has finally passed on and left Watchmaker Enterprises to a younger man, Chief Investigator Dallin Weeks.Weeks, in respect to his late mentor and frien...

Thirty years ago, three eight-year-old boys entered a summer woods, never to emerge again—alive that is. Their naked, butchered and lifeless bodies were discovered the next day, and three young area men were soon arrested and convicted for the sensational triple homicide. Finally released from prison after serving nearly two decades, a famous Hollywood movie producer and director engages the professional services of private detective Johnny O'Brien to reinvestigate the old crime and prove ...

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such as this edited, multidisciplinary collection is needed. This book confronts the vulne...