Bøger af Jed Power

THE SEARCH FOR STOLEN JEWELRY TURNS TO MURDER ON HAMPTON BEACH.Menace looms as Dan Marlowe hunts for his girlfriend's stolen jewelry only to find himself on the hook for murdering the thief. Dan enlists the help of friends and a beautiful beach junkie in the struggle to clear his name.Thwarted and threatened at every turn, Dan zeroes in on a pawnshop that deals in more than hocked items. The business conceals a dangerous secret-a seacoast crime ring run by crooked cops and hoods who will stop at nothing to keep from being discovered. That includes adding Dan Marlowe's body to the marshy graveyard on the dark side of Hampton Beach.It was never going to be easy for Dan to battle this gang and prove his innocence. But he makes it much harder! Spending time with a beautiful drug abuser is all Dan needs to fall off the cocaine wagon. Now Dan needs to also battle his worst enemy-himself.

Harvard Square, 1972. Sex. Drugs. Riots. Mike Malloy, a novice PI, has chosen to hang out his shingle in the Square. One of his first cases-find Susan Worthman, aka Susie Sparkle, a teenage runaway. With the help of Square denizen and small-time drug dealer Stoney Sundown, Mike begins a nightmare journey that sends him on a roller coaster ride through the turbulent counterculture of the Square-with all its drugs, sex, and political street clashes-and into the darkest depths of the Combat Zone, Boston's notorious red-light district-with all its strip joints, peep shows, dirty bookstores, and assorted other degenerate delights. Along the way, Mike knocks heads with outlaw bikers, big-time meth dealers, a South Boston Irish gang boss, mafia thugs, and crooked Cambridge cops. They all want Mike out of their hair, one way or the other. But there's something else just as dangerous to Mike and just as deadly-himself. Haunted by visions of his experience in Vietnam, Mike seeks solace in the arms of a beautiful woman-the love of his life. A love who turns on him in the dark, leaving him shaken and bleeding. As if that weren't enough, Mike decides to try the cocaine Stoney offers him, awakening new thoughts and sensations in Mike's already tortured mind. Thoughts that once out of the vial can never be put back.

When Dan Marlowe pays a visit to the run-down Honeymoon Hotel, he thinks he's just doing a favor for a friend-rescuing the friend's granddaughter from the clutches of a low-life junkie. He doesn't plan on the rescue turning into something ugly. Then the ugly turns uglier and local businesses find themselves prey to racial threats and thugs. Determined to find out who's behind the movement to drive local business owners off the beach, Dan embarks on a hunt that leads him down a trail riddled with arson and violence. Just as he's closing in on the truth a sinister figure appears, threatening his friends, his family, and ultimately, all of Hampton Beach. But who's behind it all? A tough-guy beach hotel owner? A big-time Boston lawyer? A South Boston gang leader? Greedy politicians? And how do two local dim-witted drug dealers and a strip club fit in? The more Dan investigates, the more he finds at stake, and every way he turns, he ends up back at the same dark, dangerous place-the Honeymoon Hotel.

There's something tempting at Hampton Beach, something besides the sea and sand. Money and lots of it. The kind of money that brings greed, violence and murder to anyone it touches. Just Dan Marlowe's luck to stumble across the murdered body of Hampton Beach's premier landlord. Now he has to find something else-her killer-and fast. Before a Hampton police detective, who thinks Dan is behind every crime on the beach, hangs the murder on Dan. In this, the third novel in the Dan Marlowe series, Dan finds himself facing death from a cast of suspects-a right-wing radio talk show host, a shifty fireworks dealer, two bumbling beach hustlers, a shadowy marijuana syndicate and every other beach low-life the tide can throw up-all of them as crooked as his best friend Shamrock's shillelagh. And they don't have any qualms about using Dan for pistol-whipping practice or inviting him to a cookout where he could end up the toasted marshmallow. There's one more thing Dan has to watch out for. Something just as dangerous to him as any beach killer and just as deadly. Himself.

Four quarters. It's not much, but when 13-year-old Kelsey Sweeney gives Dan Marlowe the coins as payment to find his mother's killer, it's enough to buy him a ticket to big-time trouble on Hampton Beach. In no time Dan finds himself knocking heads with beach drug dealers, thugs, and shady businessmen-all with something to hide. And they'll throw anything at Dan, including bombs and bullets, to get him to back off. But Dan can't back off-he's got his own demons to conquer-and helping Kelsey is the only way he's got a shot at winning that battle.

Cocaine. Dan Marlowe is doing his damnedest to stay away from the stuff. It's already cost him his family and his business, The High Tide Restaurant & Saloon. Now a bartender at the Tide, Dan's life is slowly stabilizing. That is until a boat with two dead bodies on board is found wrecked on the jetty at Hampton Beach. The hunt for its missing cargo, 200 pounds of cocaine, is on. Dan is forced into the search and realizes that the drug that stole everything short of his life might be the one thing that can give it all back. He's not the only one seeking the fortune in white powder. Others, on both sides of the law, are after it too, including a Boston mob boss and his right-hand man; a New Hampshire seacoast drug dealer/informer, his smokin' hot girlfriend, and his dim-witted muscle; a crooked D.E.A. agent and his junkie sidekick; two New Hampshire State policemen; and an Irish handyman. It's a violent, back-stabbing race to the end of the rainbow. May the best man win.

A mad cap treasure hunt is on. But will whoever finds the fortune live to enjoy it? There's a sickness raging through Hampton Beach, an epidemic more contagious and deadly than any pandemic virus. Gold fever. And Dan Marlowe-along with his friends-has been bitten by the bug. Joining the hunt for treasure are a half mad ex-Prohibition agent, an infamous Irish Boston gang leader, and other assorted thugs. Of course, the always bumbling small-time hustlers-Eddie Hoar and Derwood Doller-have to get in on the action...>When a treasure hunter is found beaten to death, Dan has to-once again-prove his innocence while battling his own dark demons. Only this time the demons might win.

Things couldn't be worse for Dan Marlowe unless he'd been found in bed with a dead woman. In this, the fifth novel in the Dan Marlowe series, Dan is asked to look into the disappearance of a young Hampton Beach waitress. But when the girl's body is found buried in the dunes-on the Island section of the beach only yards from Dan's cottage- he finds himself the prime suspect in her murder. To clear himself, Dan must uncover the real culprit among a cast of unsavory characters that includes a local outlaw motorcycle gang, a big-time heroin dealer, two sleazy beach pimps, and a scam artist restaurant owner. As if finding the killer isn't enough to keep Dan dipping into his anxiety medication, his personal life is rockier than the beach jetty. His own fault, but if he doesn't straighten it out, he may find himself a customer again at that little drug den on a dark back street of Hampton Beach. And that would be the end of Dan Marlowe.

XXX-RATED VIDEOS FLOOD HAMPTON BEACH! In this, the sixth novel in the Dan Marlowe series, Dan finds himself accused of operating a porn movie racket on Hampton Beach by none other than his old nemesis, Lt. Richard Gant of the Hampton Police Department. To clear his name Dan sets out to uncover who's really distributing the lurid tapes on the beach. His search takes him to seacoast strip clubs, dirty book stores, oceanfront mansions, and every bar on Hampton Beach. Along the way he encounters a millionaire rock star, a beautiful junkie stripper, adult film workers, and an enigmatic figure known only as the "Old Man," who may be nothing more than a figment of Dan's troubled mind. When dead bodies start turning up and Dan and his friends are threatened with death if he doesn't end his inquiries, Dan realizes there is more going on than the peddling of a few sex films. A lot more. There's a dark and sinister conspiracy. If it succeeds, Hampton Beach, the place Dan loves and calls home, will never be the same. Dan can't let that happen, no matter what happens to him.