Mossad Agent Ari Stern is assigned to find a fugitive Iranian computer hacker, Ashraf Nazari, who has popped up at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and to determine his reason for being there. He is suspected of shooting a guard in pursuit of hacking the lab's Supercomputer information, and it is believed he is trying to steal the plans for a new hack-proof computer system based upon advances in quantum physics. Ari invites Agent Stella as his assistant, Leah his wife, his Amer...

Assassination in Santo Domingo is a combination of political satire and action/adventure taking place in the Dominican Republic, a banana republic with a blotchy history of dictators and military takeovers. It is the story of Raphael Trompero, a narcissistic dunce with autocratic ambitions and a corrupt mentality, who is elected president of the country in furtherance of a nefarious plan by Iran to gain influence in Central America. When Trompero outlives his usefulness to Iran, the Irania...

The Wanted, Barry Freeman's new novel, is a crime thriller for thoughtful readers. The book features respected lawyer, Benjamin Diamond, who is pushing 70 and retiring after many successful years as the head of an esteemed Chicago law firm. He lives with his wife, Elizabeth, and their two golden retrievers in their Highland Park, Illinois, steel and glass dream house on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan.One Sunday, mid-August morning, Ben and Liz take their dogs for a romp on the be...

Ahmed, born and raised in war-torn Yemen, is recruited by Al-Qaeda and sent by them to attend college in the US to join a group planning a terrorist attack on nearby Naval Station Great Lakes. During the months before the attack, he falls in love with Fida, a group member also from Yemen, Together they have committed to become martyrs in the name of Islam and thus achieve Paradise in the course of the attack. In pursuit of needed extra cash, Ahmed applies for an extension of his student vi...

A Tale of Two Lawyers is a combination of an entertaining fictional story with the educational revelations of informative nonfiction. After practicing law for forty seven years in Chicago, the author has a lot to say about the profession, and he says it in this book. It describes the colorful lives and loves of two Chicago attorneys, along with an in-depth, authentic exposé of the much maligned business of law and its most flagrantly practiced attorney/client conflict of interest—hourly bi...

Back in 1970, during the Vietnam War, Ray Auler brought four female exotic dancers from Chicago to live in a Saigon villa and perform for GIs in an adjacent nightclub called The Office. The book begins as the four ladies walk out of the villa and head for the American Embassy. There they tell sordid tales of imprisonment and forced prostitution that ultimately lead to the Chicago indictment and prosecution of Ray and his friend, Craig Poulter, for violations of the Mann Act: transporting a...