Bruce Highland Series

A Private Investigator, Bruce Highland, a former Military Intelligence Agent, is working on a case to clear his client of a murder charge. His investigation leads him to a secret society (The Gatekeepers) that actively manipulates the government, aided by layers of rogue agencies and corrupt leaders. In addition to ultimately clearing his client, he manages to avert a major armed international conflict in the course of bringing justice to the corrupt intelligence agents that were responsible for the murder for which his client was accused. Primarily set in the San Francisco Bay Area, Highland’s adventures take him across the country, and internationally to Central America and the Caribbean islands.

A man, Sam Creed, kills a man in vengeance for the murder of his father. In an elaborate scheme of deception, he orchestrates his escape by faking his death, and returns to society under a new identity in an attempt to clear his own record. Alex Ryan takes you on an epic journey of a prison break and an attempt to return to society that spans the globe. 

The Vine Fraternity is an action thriller novel about Bruce Highland, a former military intelligence officer turned private investigator, who uncovers an illicit and illegal CIA backed operation spanning two generations, in the course of investigating the deaths of two of its former members. Bruce is at his best as he takes on a secretive and powerful enemy.

Gauthier's List (Third Edition) - A man, Leonard Gauthier, was a member of a secret CIA research project tasked with the development of a machine that can program the brain like a computer. The program was terminated. With the advent of advanced electronic and computer technology which became available years later, Gauthier privately resumed the development of the machine and produced a working portable unit that could be used to positively control people against their will. Corrupted by the power he then possessed, Gauthier turned in to a delusional psychopathic serial killer using the device, primarily targeting former enemies of his. Alerted by another former member of the secret research team that became aware of Gauthier’s exploits, the CIA recruits Bruce Highland, who is a private investigator with a background in military intelligence with knowledge of the original program, to find and stop Gauthier.

An Air Force Sergeant finds himself washed up on a remote South Pacific island with no recollection of how he got there. A major corporate executive is blackmailed and kidnapped. A key staff member from a national intelligence agency fights to protect a dark and embarrassing secret. Their respective lives become intertwined as private detective Bruce Highland is brought in to find the kidnapper, except that what he discovers is a much deeper, darker, mosaic of high tech conspiracy and corruption. The novel is the fifth in a series of action adventure novels featuring ace detective Bruce Highland, a private investigator and former military intelligence agent.

A scientist, Dr. Wiljam Koenig, working on a CIA funded primate research project, disappears from his research facility along with his animals. Ace private investigator and CIA contractor Bruce Highland is called in to find him. In the course of the investigation, Highland discovers a bizarre, diabolical twist in the nature of his research.

A rogue, dishonored Army soldier bequeaths a deadly gift to his son upon his death in a military stockade - a portable tactical nuclear launcher. The seeds do not fall far from the tree. This is the saga of ace detective Bruce Highland's understudy, Rodd Mace, as he tracks a deranged psychopath, Connor Sharpe, in an attemp to stop him before he can secure the weapon and use it for extortion and revenge in a major urban area.

A rogue author, disillusioned with the perception of an unhealthy alliance between a book publishing company and a government intelligence agency seeks to dismantle and destroy the company. Top level private investigator Bruce Highland employs his experience, knowledge and instinct to bring him to justice in a fast paced, action packed thriller.

As a Cold War era military intelligence agent investigating a double homicide, and the disappearance of a nuclear weapon from a major Army munitions depot in Germany, Bruce Highland manages to lose the main suspect. Years later, the main suspect, and the weapon, resurfaces, leading up to an extortion plot to hold a major metropolitan area in the United States hostage in exchange for money. Bruce Highland returns, as a private contractor to the government, to track down the terrorists, in a desperate effort to prevent them from using it to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Delve inside the minds of psychopaths, and the team of professionals that make a heroic effort to beat them at their own game.

Former military intelligence officer Bruce Highland is haunted by a ghost from his past. He was accused of complicity in an espionage ring, and a murder during his assignment in Cold War era West Germany. A local army CID unit is handed the cold case thirty years later. Bruce fights to clear his name and to bring the real criminals to justice.

A tragic shooting occurs in Alexandria, Virginia, yielding three fatalities, including a United States Senator. A senior intelligence officer fears the worst - that the crime may have been organized by his own subordinate agent. Bruce Highland is quietly and discreetly pulled in to track down the rogue agent, James Malone, and sort out a tangled web of lies and deception, which traces back to a private military contractor in Afghanistan.

Special Agent Bruce Highland with Army Intelligence performs a routine investigation into the apparent murder and disappearance of a government employee assigned to a classified project at the hands of a serial killer. Twenty five years later, the serial killer resurfaces thousands of miles away, and ace private investigator Bruce Highland helps authorities in an effort to find and stop the killer, only to become entangled in a classified government program in the process.

Take a base of Don Pendleton, stir in some George Orwell, and sprinkle with a dash of Upton Sinclair. It's a post-pandemic slightly dystopian era in the very near future, as Bruce Highland is called in to investigate the threat of a series of state level political assassinations. He struggles with conflicting personal convictions as he sorts through a tangled web of deception, corruption and conspiracy, in a race against time to discover and unfoil the plot.

A secret government research facility with a dubious reputation and speckled past becomes the focus in the investigation of a missing researcher who disappeared in the course of a terrible accident nearly four decades ago. Ace private investigator Bruce Highland is brought in to find his whereabouts, and uncovers a tangled web of corruption, deceit and lies.