A small-time bookie is overcome by greed, lust, and extraordinary circumstances.Eddie Ryan operates in the rough-and-tumble East End section of Houston, and just lost a bundle on the World Series. For him, there's only one way out: a phone call to a local loan shark. This triggers a sequence of events which soon send him running to save his own skin.Complicating matters is the presence of two strong women. One is Felina, the Mexican beauty he has always desired. The other is Linda, his old...

"Dennis' staccato prose keeps the pages turning." -- Jonathan Woods, author of BAD JUJU & Other Tales Of Mayhem And MadnessJack Barnett has had it with the private eye business. They took his license away in LA, and fearing criminal prosecution, he split town in the middle of the night for Las Vegas, where anyone can become anonymous.He swears off the business, but his money runs low and when a man offers him $5000 to find his missing daughter, he agrees. He soon wishes he ...

A young, headstrong performer with white-hot talent. A president of a small record company with big ambitions. A nervous nation coping with a new, dangerous music. It’s Memphis, 1958. It’s rock & roll, brother! It’s… CADILLAC’S COMIN’!

What if a total stranger gave you $95,000 in cash as he lay dying in the street? Do you keep it? Even after knowing who it really belongs to?Ex-private investigator Jack Barnett is handed such an envelope on a back street in Las Vegas. He needs the money, but as he learns more about it, he is drawn deeper into the world of a shady real estate mogul, whose reach extends all the way to a Texas border town, where bribery is the way things get done.HARD CASH is a hard-boiled no...

In this short story, Harry's a blackjack dealer at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. The kind of guy you'd never notice. Ordinary-looking, inconspicuous, practically invisible. Lives in a little apartment behind the hotel. Been working graveyard shift for twelve years now. Got no life of any consequence.But one night Petra sits down at his table, and then…"Mike Dennis is a modern master of noir." -- Max Allan Collins, author of ROAD TO PERDITION"Dennis writes true noir." -...

It's 1984 and Biloxi, Mississippi has seen better days. Sherry Lamar, used car saleswoman extraordinaire, is feeling the pinch. Then one day, a stranger walks onto her small car lot and ushers her into a world of steamy sex and murder.

In the world of small-time bookie Eddie Ryan, only the cop cars are black and white. Everything else swirls in a kind of gray soup. Overcome by greed, lust, and the survival instinct, Eddie takes part in a high-stakes heist, stepping into a morally treacherous world where no one can be trusted, and where life expectancy is short.Set in the dim half-light of the Houston and New Orleans demimondes, THE TAKE is a fast-paced, nerve-jangling ride.This book also comes with a prev...

Las Vegas, October, 2003.Sandra Blake is dead. A bullet in her forehead. Her ex-husband wants former private investigator Jack Barnett to find the killer.The investigation leads Barnett into a high-powered world of shady characters and a rising body count, all for control of a seemingly unimportant slice of vacant land in a seedy area of downtown Las Vegas. A mysterious case of wine rests at the center of it all, and everyone wants it.Can Barnett find the killer bef...

"Dennis writes true noir."--Vicki Hendricks, author of Cruel Poetry"Noir with panache." -- Charlie Stella, author of Johnny PornoFULLY LOADED / It's 1984 and Biloxi, Mississippi has seen better days. Sherry Lamar, used car saleswoman extraordinaire, is feeling the pinch. Then one day, a stranger walks onto her small car lot and ushers her into a world of steamy sex and murder.THE DEVIL DRIVES A BIG MERCEDES / A seven-year-old boy is playing with his two younger sist...

Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, ...

The East German Ministry of State Security, popularly known as the Stasi, was one of the largest and most intrusive secret police systems in world history. So extensive was the system of surveillance and control that in any given year throughout the 1970s and 1980s, about one in fifty of the 13 million East German adults were working for the Stasi either as an officer or as an informer.Drawing on original sources from the Stasi archives and the recollections of contemporary witness...

Jacob is a small-time criminal who dabbles in everything from drugs to prostitutes to illegal weapons. When he finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural origin, he begins to dream of the big time. His dream turns into a nightmare when he realizes some supernatural beings want their toy back.Eve of Light is a dark metaphysical fantasy series chronicling the surreal events leading up to the Apocalypse—the Death of God. The setting is a contemporary, alter...