THE DEVIL ORDERS TAKEOUT
by Bill
A. Brier
GENRE: Mystery/Thriller
BLURB:
Grayson Bolt isn't
about to compromise his integrity to help a notorious crime boss escape the
cross-hairs of the IRS. But there's a steep price to pay for defying The
Man--Grayson's beloved wife and older son.
There's only one way
for Grayson to prevent his younger son, Jim, an innocent golf prodigy, from
also being taken out: play a dangerous game of cat and mouse. And what will Jim
be forced to do when the woman he loves gets ensnarled in a web of betrayal and
deceit?
EXCERPT:
“I’m
afraid you’re going to get it hard, Mr. Bolt.” Costanzo had that fatherly tone
of this will hurt me more than you. “Did you ever stop to think that there’s
only one way of being dead, but many ways of dying?”
Grayson
felt something cold touch his spine, all the way down. “I don’t follow.”
“Take
your man Stockard. He killed two of your beloved family members, wife and
eldest son. Isn’t that right?”
A
strangling tightness gripped Grayson’s throat. “That— that’s right.”
“Wouldn’t
you say a part of you died too?”
“What’s
your point?” Grayson’s voice erupted in suppressed panic.
“You
don’t have to die to feel dead. I’m going to kill your other son. That’ll be
your punishment.”
The
blood drained from Grayson’s face. Just like that. Most people held the basic
principle that no man should be punished for the deed of another. Costanzo was
not one of them. Grayson would be cut right to the bone, and his son would be
the sharpest knife Costanzo could use. Costanzo had spelled out the thought in
invisible brushstrokes. It was there and Grayson had tried not to see it.
AUTHOR BIO:
Bill
grew up in California and went to Hollywood High School, then served in the Air
Force as a combat cameraman.
After
hiring on at Disney Studios as a film loader, he soon advanced and moved on to
other film studios.
He
earned a master’s degree in psychology. A big help when working with Trumpish
Hollywood producers. You're fired!
During
his more than twenty-five years in the movie business as a cameraman, film
editor, and general manager, Bill worked on everything from the hilarious, The
Love Bug, to the creepy, The Exorcist, to the far out, Star Trek and Battle
Star Galactica.
Eight
years ago, Bill switched from reading scripts to writing thriller/mysteries and
driving racecars. After completing three award-winning novels, he signed with
Black Opal Books. His first novel, The Devil Orders Takeout, is about a devoted
father and husband who makes a deal with a real-life devil to protect his
golf-prodigy son after his wife and older son are killed in a mysterious
accident — and pays hell for it.
Bill’s
second mystery, The Killer Who Hated Soup, is Book One in the 1950s The Killer
Who series, and it launches this Summer. The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart
phones? Who you kiddin’?
Energetic
and eager to make his mark on what Time magazine called the next great boom
town, Bucky Ontario leaves his daddy and little sister in Louisiana and rides a
bus to Defiance, Oklahoma, a town not particularly adverse to murders, just the
embarrassment of them when committed by high officials.
Book
Two, The Killer who Wasn’t There, will be on bookshelves this fall.
Bill
writes every day and golfs infrequently (that damn right knee!). His five
children and eight grandchildren keep him busy going to birthday parties, and
he never misses a one!
The
Brier Patch is Bill’s wildly entertaining blog about his shameless early days
in Hollywood. It’s on his website, billbrier.com, along with a contest linked
to The Devil Orders Takeout, which will award the grand prizewinner $1,000.
Bill
is a member of Mystery Writers of America.
Bill’s
USA Today revealing
interview.
Bill’s
website with blog.
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