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Writing short fiction for over twenty years, Howard Giordano has published seventeen different stories in an assortment of twenty-two literary magazines. One story was a finalist in a Glimmer Train Press contest. Another, a racetrack tale, was a contest finalist in The Thoroughbred Times, a national racing magazine, and published in their ten-year anthology of winning stories. In three consecutive annual contests sponsored by the Creative Writers Notebook, one of his stories placed first, and two others received honorable mentions. This short-story collection is close to his heart and provides the reader with a strong sample of his creative storytelling ability. HOWARD GIORDANO is a native of New York City. A successful career in advertising on Madison Avenue preceded a period with The New York Racing Association (Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga Racetracks) as Executive Director of Marketing and Television. Later, former NYC Mayor Ed Koch appointed him the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation president. Howard began his short-story writing career in 1990. His first full-length novel, a thriller, was published in 2011 and became an international contest award winner. Three more thrillers have since been released.

It may have changed its name, but the KGB is up to its old tricks, only this time with a new puppet-the American Public! Steve Nguyen, a newly minted homicide detective with the San Francisco Police Department, is cut loose on his first solo case-the mysterious death of a young accountant with a public-interest foundation. Everything points to natural causes, but Nguyen, to the dismay of his chief, isn't ready to close the book. With no motive, means, or opportunity, the anxiety-racked law school dropout starts digging anyway. Nguyen's tortuous investigation leads through the halls of Congress, the gritty oil fields of the Siberian tundra, stately Black Sea palaces of the petro-czars, and the mean streets of San Francisco. Aided by his misfit cousins, Tina Ngo, an attorney with a special practice in feral law, and Tommy Tran, a computer geek straddling the tightrope of legality, Nguyen unearths a malevolent alliance among a billionaire Russian oligarch, a duplicitous foundation director, and a renowned philanthropist hell-bent on tightening Russia's monopoly on the European energy market by choking-off American exports. If it means corrupting the American electoral system through illegal campaign contributions, political blackmail, and a few dead bodies, so be it. In this dark world of Russian deception, Nguyen unravels a complex tangle of illegal offshore accounts, shell corporations, and front companies, all while ducking the crosshairs of the SVR's most skilled assassins. He may solve a murder and maybe save a republic.

Howard Giordano's charismatic protagonist, Luke Rizzo, is back in The Dark Side of the City. In this story, Rizzo takes on the Mafia. Again collaborating with his favorite FBI agent, Rizzo brings down a flourishing money-laundering operation, all the while dodging the mob's many attempts to whack him. Giordano's story gives his fans another thrilling ride from the start of the book to the last sentence. BluewaterPress LLC published Giordano's debut thriller, Tracking Terror, in 2016. The novel became a bronze medal award winner in an international contest where the top-of-the-line thriller author, Daniel Silva, claimed the gold. A Hollywood production company optioned Tracking Terror for film. Giordano's next thriller, The Second Target, dealt with the theme of revenge, and the third thriller in the series, Crossing Into Darkness, combined the subjects of drug smuggling and human trafficking. Luke Rizzo is back. This time the Mafia is his target. Howard Giordano's third book in his page-turning series shows an in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of the mob. It's sure to raise the question of whether it's based entirely on his research . . . or is he a "made man?"John Wayne Falbey, author of the Sleeping Dogs series of geopolitical thrillers

Lee Flandreau possessed a curiosity about animals and forests, leading him and a friend to an adventure of a lifetime in the forests of Peru.

Major Charles Stanek, an American OSS agent, is caught between French soldiers and Vietnamese Nationalists trying to complete a mission for the United States. A mission, which in the end, convinces him to seek another line of work.

At the end of the Vietnam War, Pan American World Airways successfully evacuated 463 American and Vietnamese civilians on April 24, 1975, aboard a Boeing 747-the last plane out. At the time, Allen H. Topping was serving as the Pan Am Director of South Vietnam and Cambodia and was instrumental in the success of that last flight.Topping lived and worked in South Vietnam for two and a half years. In addition to its global network of scheduled services, Pan Am was also involved in many other rescue and humanitarian operations throughout the world. These operations and missions included the Berlin Airlift, rescue operations from Tehran, operational support for US forces in WW II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and, most recently, the Gulf War.Prior to joining Pan Am Allan Topping worked for the Institute of International Education on and United Airlines in New York City. He joined Pan Am on June 2, 1969 as a sales representative, assigned to the San Francisco sales office. In November of 1972, Al became the Director of Vietnam and Cambodia, based in Saigon, South Vietnam. After managing operations at various stations overseas for almost eight years, he returned to the U.S. in 1982, Pan Am appointed him as Assistant to The Chairman Consumer Affairs. Topping continued to hold other management positions un���� l the company ceased operations on December 4, 1991. For the next 23 years he worked for The Miami-Dade School Board Administration, The Miami Herald and the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club in Miami, Florida. Now fully re���� red Topping is playing lots of golf in Ocala, Florida.

In 1936, a wide-eyed boy by the name of LeRoy Brown clambered aboard a 1929 Waco 10 converted to crop dusting duty, sat down in the grimy hopper, and then launched into a clear-blue Florida sky on a wondrous flight that ignited a life-long passion with flying and airplanes. More than 35,000 flight hours later, Captain LeRoy Brown stepped out of the cockpit of a Pan American World Airways DC-10 to end a commercial aviation career that spanned nearly five decades . In between, he filled dozens of logbooks with exciting tales of flying biplane crop dusters, B-17 freight haulers, old airliners, surplus military trainers, state-of-the-art propeller and jet airliners, and more than 150 personally owned airplanes. Packed with photographs and generous sidebars of supplemental information, From Crop Duster to Airline Captain chronicles the life and flying stories of Captain LeRoy Brown, 2009 inductee into the Florida Aviation Historical Association Hall of Fame and 2012 recipient of the Federal Aviation Administration's Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.

Pancho McMartin, Honolulu's colorful, unpredictable and successful criminal defense attorney will soon take on a client charged with the most brutal, high profile murder in Hawaii's history. Pancho's client is a former mercenary, accused of the brutal murder of the man who was once Honolulu's most sought-after investment counselor. As the case unfolds and the lies are exposed, the evidence against Pancho's client is overwhelming and Pancho, now desperate, must find a way to prove his client's innocence. The trial isn't going well and Pancho is forced to ask himself: is his client really innocent?"e;Finally, Pancho realizes there is one card he might be able to play in this life and death courtroom drama. It would be the biggest gamble of his professional life. The problem is that if it backfires, not only could it destroy Pancho's career, but also result in a guilty verdict that would send his client to prison for life. Tropical Lies is an edge of your chair legal thriller of nerve-wracking suspense and surprise twists.

Jennifer Shannon discovers hundreds of diamonds hidden inside and innocent garage sale purchase in McLean, VA. Terrorists, furious after treasure's accidental inclusion at the sale, must wrest the diamonds back in order to fund their explosive plot against America. From the strife-torn Middle East to the comforts of affluent McLean, conflicting philosophies clash with devastating effects. As danger to Jennifer and her family escalates, she must rely upon her ingenuity and inventiveness to hurdle the frightening obstacles thrown across her path. This mystery thriller is the second in the exciting Garage Sale Mystery series.