Bøger af Henry Hack

After killing her husband, Angela Chandler flees from New York to California abandoning her nine year old son, Frankie, leaving a cryptic note for him. When no relative will take him in, Frankie becomes a ward of the state and spends his next nine childhood years being bounced from the State Home and various foster homes all the time waiting for Mommy to return and reclaim him. During his time at the Home and other places, he is subjected to physical and sexual abuse. These incidents, plus the failure of his mother to return, turns him bitter and vengeful. However, his relationship with Detective Danny Boyland somewhat restores his good nature and he joins the Navy becoming proficient in computers. Using his new found knowledge he attempts to locate his mother and his search leads him to a trail of murders, a tragic deception when Angela confesses to him that she is not his biological mother, and a renewed search for his real mother. And when he finds her is it love or revenge that drives him, Detective Boyland and the story to its heart-racing, bittersweet conclusion?

When NYMPD Homicide Detective Danny Boyland investigates his first big murder case, the poisoning death of school teacher Laura Samuels, he falls in love with the chief suspect, the beautiful Niki Wells, with disastrous results. By cleverly manipulating the forensic evidence and the witness testimony, Niki and co-suspect, Marty Samuels, frame Danny for the murder. His struggle to prove his innocence and reclaim his family and career push the story to its conclusion.But there's a big problem. Danny still loves Niki. Or does he? And she still loves him, or is she just pretending to in order to tie up her last "loose end" and enjoy all her ill-gotten insurance proceeds? Danny Boy delivers a fast-paced mystery wrapped around a torrid love affair that will keep the reader in suspense right up to the last word.

The Romens, a fanatical domestic eco-terrorist group, launches a reign of terror, mass murder and widespread property destruction across America in order to achieve its ends. Claiming that existing environmental groups such as ELF, ALF, PETA and Greenpeace will fail to save the planet because they are not violent enough, the charismatic Savior, leader of the Resurrection of Mother Earth Now Society, targets those groups who he feels pose the greatest danger to the environment and its inhabitants: gas-guzzling vehicles, Big Tobacco and the nuclear power generation system in a three-phase campaign. The nation's law enforcement resources are mobilized under the leadership of New York Metropolitan Police Department's Commissioner, Harry Cassidy, to stop the Romens as the fate of millions of Americans living in the shadows of the nation's 104 nuclear power plants hangs in the balance.

NYMPD Detective Daniel Boyland settles back into his old job in the Nassau Homicide Squad, and when a golfer discovers two badly-mutilated bodies on the side of a golf course fairway, Danny and his partner, Virgil "Spider" Webb investigate. The bodies are identified as men wanted for the torture murder of Patty Ann Malloy, the pregnant middle daughter of Governor Thomas Keegan. Nailed to their foreheads are white index cards spelling out, in blood, the words CASE CLOSED.The investigation zeros in on Santino "Sonny Slick" Abbate, a Mob leader who was boyhood friends with Governor Keegan. Physical evidence implicates Sonny in the murders and also in two murders which occurred 34 years earlier -- murders that reach right up to the Governor's office and eventually force him into an agonizing decision. Will he pardon Sonny for the golf course murders, or allow him to die to protect himself from public exposure for the terrible deed he committed long ago?

When veteran beat police officer Harry Cassidy violates his oath of office by standing by and allowing a despised bartender, Richie Winston, to suffer a cruel beating and stabbing, he must withstand an intensive internal investigation while battling his inner demons over his betrayal of the shield. When Richie, who has been in a coma, dies a few days later, a murder investigation is commenced led by veteran homicide detective Charles "Pop" Hunter, a friend and former fellow police academy classmate of Harry's. Complicating Harry's situation is a developing love affair with his chief inquisitor from Internal Affairs, Sergeant Susan Goldman, who fights her own turmoil between her career ambitions and her love for Harry. As the psychological pressure builds on him with both Pop hunter and Susan Goldman inching ever closer to the truth, Harry becomes involved in a gun battle with the perpetrators who killed Richie Winston suffering gunshot wounds.Having recently admitted the truth to Susan after making love, she now agonizes over her next course of action. Will she betray the man she loves for the sake of her career, or will she destroy the tape recording she secretly of Harry's admission? This taut crime thriller will keep you in suspense as you race through the pages to find the answer.

A seemingly routine accidental shooting of a motorist is quickly solved by Detective Danny Boyland and his partner, Virgil "Spider Webb. The shooter confesses and pleads guilty - too easily they both think, but their bosses close the case. A visit by FBI Agent Mike Havlek reveals the victim was in the witness protection program and was not the first, but the fourth one murdered. They join forces to investigate who is doing the murders, why the victims are being murdered, and who is providing the secret identities and locations of the victims. What they eventually discover leads them to the highest levels of power, money, and influence in the government and corporate worlds, and the Group's quest to synthesize a magic elixir capable of curing the one disease thought to be incurable - the disease of old age.

The terrorist group, OBL-911, attacks New York City killing and wounding several hundred people, but they suffer major losses from the Joint Terrorist Task Force forcing them to go into hiding. JTTF member Harry Cassidy gets promoted to sergeant and returns to regular patrol duties now that the threat is over. With the help and love of his fiancée, Sergeant Rita Becker, Harry seeks to advance his career in the police department and re-establish ties with his daughters. After many years OBL-911 re-groups for one final assault on New York planning to kill millions using deadly poisons, nerve agents and dirty nuclear devices. The JTTF, now under the leadership of Inspector Harry Cassidy, is once again called upon to save the city, and the country, from death and destruction in one final confrontation.

A single scream in the night begins New York Detective Danny Boyland's investigation into the "crime of the decade." Melanie Smith, a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde escort, has disappeared after her last date. The search for her leads to the discovery of numerous bodies in the swampy marshlands of Long Island's south shore. Not only are blue-eyed blondes formerly employed in the sex trade turning up dead, but also several suspected drug mules, and a bevy of long-dead mobsters dating back to the Lufthansa heist in the 70s. From the Hamptons to Brooklyn, a three-pronged task force of the area's top detectives sets out to solve the murders. Danny's investigation leads him to the highest ranks of the New York Metropolitan Police Department, a meticulously crafted frame-up, and a resolution that will haunt him forever.Henry Hack served for twenty-two years in the Nassau County, NY Police Department, rising to the rank of Inspector. He commanded the Scientific Investigation Bureau and was qualified as an expert witness in several forensic evidence areas including blood, narcotics, and trace evidence. He also commanded the Eighth Patrol Precinct in Levittown. Henry was a long-time New Yorker, born and raised in the boro of Queens. He and his wife, Lorraine, currently reside in coastal North Carolina.The Marsh Mallows is the fifth novel in a crime series featuring NYMPD homicide detective Danny Boyland. The fourth, Forever Young, won the 2018 Silver Falchion Award at the Killer Nashville Writer's Conference for the best police procedural published in 2017. Henry has also published four novels in a thriller series featuring Police Commissioner Harry Cassidy, and a collection of short stories. More information and a description of all his work may be found on his website, www.henryhack.com.

While vacationing in the North Carolina mountains, New York Metropolitan Police Dept. Detective Danny Boyland unwillingly gets assigned to assist the Jesper County sheriff to lead the murder investigation of a prominent local resident. Martin Bayard has been stabbed to death with two different knives, his body incurring 42 stab wounds. During the autopsy Danny discovers the 46 year-old Bayard has the physical appearance and internal organs of a man at least 20 years younger. He immediately suspects that Bayard may be a member of The Group, a mysterious organization dedicated to extending their longevity through genetic engineering, in order to achieve their goals of power and control over the nation. As Danny and his team close in on The Group, they are closing in on him, determined to eliminate this obstacle in their path to domination and immortality.

Portraits in Blue is a collection of stories tracing the lives and careers of four New York Metropolitan Police Department officers as they progress from their rookie days to their retirement years. And it's all here as the reader accompanies the three Bs - Brauer, Braddock, Benevento - on patrol and Detective Duke Williams as he investigates crimes of murder and mayhem. The reader's emotions will swing between happiness and despair, loving and loathing, and fulfillment and frustration as the four dedicated officers cope with the tales of violence, compassion, success, failure, life, and death as can only be found on the streets and in the neighborhoods of New York City. Title The Three B's Me and Mickey On the Job Jimmy Dale Moneyball Betrayal There's always a Reason Pursuit Larry Beers Graduation Day The Assassin Dad The Second Coming Alone Notes: 1.) For continuity of storyline, stories should be read in the order presented. 2.) Some years in the future, where most of these stories are set, the NYPD has taken over police services for the City of Yonkers and the County of Nassau. All precincts have been re-numbered with #91 - #99 assigned to Patrol Boro Nassau.

Major league baseball superstar Hal Logan is chosen by space aliens to deliver a message to save the human race from extinction... if they heed it.Hal Logan is a promising high school baseball center fielder nicknamed the "Golden Boy," and he has accepted a sizable bonus to play for the New York Mets after he graduates. Coming home from the last graduation party, the Jeep he was riding with his three athlete friends gets involved in a horrific accident resulting in the deaths of two of them and leaving Hal, and his best friend, Billy Jenkins, with crippling injuries. While surviving the accident, neither Hal nor Billy will ever play sports again.Five years later, Hal is a college graduate planning to teach high school science, when an alien spacecraft crashes and begins to burn in the yard of his grandparents' mountain home. Hal rescues the pilot who is a teen-aged alien from our galaxy. He is rewarded by being totally cured of the burns suffered in the rescue and of his previous crippling injuries, allowing him to pursue his dream once more.Fourteen years later, the aliens return and ask the now-famous baseball superstar Hal Logan to deliver a message to the world that will save mankind from its impending destruction from climate change and overpopulation-if they heed it.