Trunk Series

War is hell and sometimes hell offers opportunities. When the United States military comes calling, we come with not only the best weapons on the planet and a bunch of hard ass soldiers, but with enough cash to buy anyone who stands in our way. But nothing is ever simple in war...or in Iraq. Harry Moore was a hustler from Alabama. Smart, good looking, but far too lazy, Harry joined the Army because they were the only chance he had to get someone to pay for a law school degree through their Funded Legal Education Program (FLEP). But when his name didn't make the yearly list his plan collapsed and he became desperate. He hated the Army and hated being told what to do and when to do it. Structure and discipline interfered with his relaxed attitude towards life. He didn't want to wait another year to reapply. At the same time Harry's dream collapsed another untraceable shipment arrived where he worked, at Building Seven of Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). No paperwork, no computer records, just a high ranking officer and a civilian who arrived with the shipment and kept it under verbal command only. The few who figured out that the shipments existed suspected they were cash from the CIA. Harry recruited the hardest soldiers he knew, including Julian a young man who needed therapy more than a gun, and Mamo, a man much too nice to be at war. But with Mamo at six foot seven inches tall nobody bothered to discover the real man inside of the mountain standing in front of them. Harry also recruited an young Iraqi thief and his friends.   The money was part of a secret deal between the CIA and the chief strategist for one of the largest insurgencies, run by a popular Shia cleric. For the right price, attacks would stop.   Bob Hunter and Tareef Jamal negotiated the agreement in a London safehouse..   The cleric that Tareef advised had a plan to change Iraq drastically. But he needed money and power to succeed. He had a plan to get both and would soon be the most powerful man in Iraq.   While he was at war Julian's wife Tina was having an affair with Eddie Moran, a sociopath kept on a short leash by his loving but career criminal father. When Julian told his wife about the money, she told Eddie. Eddie told his father and they came up with their own plan. They put together a team which included a young Dennis Trunk. Read Hearts and Minds, a Trunk story from years before you met him in Smoke and Mirrors.   'Never aim for the apple. There are much better targets' - Trunk Fictional violence? Yes Imaginary sex? Yes Words your mother won't like? Absolutely

Tired of  recycled police stories? When you can't call the cops.....Call Trunk Dennis Trunk has a reputation for solving puzzles and he's not afraid to get his hands dirty. He won't kill...unless he has to. Your new guardian angel is a psychopath. About one percent of the population are psychopaths. Trunk is highly functional. He has a steady job, an ex-wife, and a side business offering discreet services that work well with his condition. From investigations to body disposal, Trunk has your back. Drugs are a business and Art Piro is very successful. An arsonist is destroying his business. Trunk is hired to find out who is behind it and stop them. The list of suspects is long. Local news is reporting the fires as the work of a vigilante. But ever since Texas fell to a cartel, the drug business in nearby states has been on edge. Then there are tensions within the motorcycle club at the center of the business. Art will be stepping down as club president next year and the succession plan is simple, may the best man win. At stake is control of one of the most profitable drug businesses in the country and millions in offshore banks. Too many suspects and all of them ready to kill. DEEP DOWN YOU'VE ALWAYS KNOWN THE TRUTH... CRIME PAYS... ...most of the time "Fascinating insight into criminal minds." "another "Travis McGee" by John D. McDonald; but on STEROIDS" "Our hero (or anti-hero, if you prefer) is not a good man, but sometimes good outcomes require bad solutions." 'Never aim for the apple. There are much better targets' - Trunk Get your copy now before the cops show up. Fictional Violence: YES Imaginary Sex: YES Words Your Mother Won't Like: ABSOLUTELY

Dennis Trunk is a man of his word… …and sometimes that's fatal. Trying to escape from the cartel, with 7 million dollars stashed, he needs an exit – fast. But the cops have their own plan for his future. They want to pin a murder on him and force him to roll over on his customers, a who's who of southern criminals. When a job in Mexico goes wrong Trunk sees the opportunity to escape both the cartel and the cops. But to get out, he has to sell out a friend. What would you do? When you can't call the cops… Call Trunk   ... but who does Trunk call?

It started as a twisted contest. It gave birth to a serial killer.   Online Delores Hutchinson is known as His Hot Ex.   She is Holly Pepper's best friend in the adult online business. Last week Delores missed the monthly girl's night out. Her body was found naked and strangled in a dumpster at Disney in Orlando.   Lauren Dufrene is known online as Milf Monica.   She was murdered in Savannah, Georgia.   The cops haven't connected the cases yet. But Delores Hutchinson has a friend she never knew about... ...a friend with benefits.... Dennis Trunk. When Holly Pepper asks Trunk to find the killer.... ...the damage gets extensive. Holly's name is on the kill list.   If you want to catch a psychotic killer... ...it helps if you are one.   When you can't call the cops… Call Trunk

Someone murdered FBI agent Morrie Rabinowitz. Morrie was working to stop a serial killer targeting leaders of American Nazi groups. The killer now has a much more dangerous problem. TRUNK! He's coming for revenge. Psychopaths don't have many friends. Killing one is never the healthy option. Dennis Trunk gives up his life in the Caribbean to find a killer and take his own justice. Follow Trunk down into the underbelly of American culture, the mean ugly side filled with hate and intolerance, the parts you don't see on television. How was Morrie's death related to the assasination of Jonah Castillo, the head of a crime syndicate in the Deep South? Why did Morrie visit Jonah days before he died? Can Trunk solve his hardest case yet? Can he survive what he finds? Can we trust law enforcement? Judge and Jury is a story of today's America. You'll need to remind yourself it's fiction.

Nobody can screw you like family!   Tragedy strikes Holly's family. Things spin out of control when Dennis Trunk's long-lost father shows up at the funeral…so do two men that want to kill him.   Ralph Trunk is the consummate professional – a professional liar, a professional thief, and a professional cheat.   But he does have one redeeming skill.    He's good at planning – he plans heists, has a team to do the jobs, and has a near perfect record.   He's partnered with a woman who works for one of the arts and artifacts insurance companies.   They steal things that have already been stolen based on insurance investigation reports.   While the company is building an air-tight case, Ralph and his crew seize the moment for quick riches before the police are called in.   But Ralph is having a significant dispute with management and his team.   He refuses to do their next job.   It's their biggest ever. Their final job. And one they found by accident.   Would you murder forty people to score two billion dollars?   That's two thousand million bucks.   What if two of them were children? Would you still do it?    Ralph won't.   He knows it's a suicide mission against an armed team of ex-military.   So, he has taken off with the score from their last job.   And everybody wants their cut!   Management is threatening to put out a contract on him if he doesn't come to his senses.   But Ralph woke up beside the boss every morning until nine days ago.   If I told you where an $80 million painting was hidden and warned you that there would be people waiting to kill you, would you still try to get it?   Dennis Trunk must face the chaotic force that is his father without getting killed.   What kind of man frames his own kid for murder?   A rotten bastard like Ralph Trunk.   Crime and Consequences   Because nobody can screw you like family! !

Dirty Deeds… Reasonable Rates A judge with gambling debts, a defendant in need of a break, and Trunk's lawyer, Benny Baxter.   What should have been a simple deal goes wrong. Now Benny is the defendant. Trunk comes back to help his lawyer and runs head-first into a different crisis, Mehir Orbach.   You remember the twelve-year-old psychopath that despises Trunk, doncha?   You ain't ever gonna forget him after this. The boy got a gun. Kendall gets drunk a lot. Why not?   She's pretty, got that 'girl of your dreams' act down pat, and can kill you faster than you can count to the number one.   Maybe she shouldn't drink like that in her line of work.   But whenever Trunk is around, she knows she can cut loose and get drunk enough to stop those damned nightmares. He'll get her home safely. Always does.   When your friends get drunk, you take away their keys.   When Kendall gets drunk, Trunk takes away her Glock. What would you do if you knew the date and time of your murder and there was nothing you could do to stop it?   Trunk's curiosity goes to a dark place when he asks fundamental questions about remorse and the best way to help trauma victims. Military pension rules changed last year in a northern European country.   The result was an increase of the number of sharpshooters available for the private market.   The timing couldn't have been better, the market is booming.   Reddix Logistical Support is looking to expand to meet growing demand.   That leads to a meeting at a farmhouse, far out on the west side of Jacksonville, Florida.   Kendall was there.   Trunk and Benny too, although Benny wished he was somewhere else. I'll get a rag, we're gonna need it to clean the fan after this. When you can't call the cops…Call Trunk

Hugo Lopez should never have joined the cartel.   He can't pull the trigger.   After successfully running the bloody take over of the drug business from the Texas border all the way to Miami, Hugo wants out.   But nobody quits the cartel.   He turns to the only man he can trust, Dennis Trunk. Trunk turns to the man who was his mentor when he was first starting his criminal career. Walter Johnson leaves his peaceful retirement in Rio to help out the man he considers his second son.   Can Walter, Dennis, former sniper Tommy, and gun dealer Denise get Hugo out alive? Can they use Hugo's latest expansion as cover for his escape? California is the largest drug market in the country and the latest jewel in the crown for the cartel. Another cartel already controls the market and won't give it up without a battle.   A young woman gets on a bus in Amarillo, Texas headed for New Orleans. She's running from her abusive drug dealing boyfriend. But she stole all his money and his drugs when she left and he wants them back. She wants to make a new start in New Orleans and attend nursing school. But he wants her dead. Dennis Trunk is on that bus heading for New Orleans. In his bag are fake passports, prepaid debit cards, guns, and three bombs, enough to put him on death row for a recent explosion.    Armand can consistently hit a target with a handgun one hundred yards away. He's smart too, but nobody notices that because he's so good with a gun. Armand is new to Hugo's security team. Can he stop Hugo's exit plan?   This is Trunk's toughest job ever. Too many ways to make mistakes and most of them fatal.   Trunk, a dangerous man for desperate times.

As I ate breakfast, I realized it had been over a year since I killed someone. Then they murdered Adrian. Adrian Thompson just wanted a fun night out with his friends. Josh was getting married and they were celebrating. Four guys out on a bachelor weekend are murdered the same night as another shooting across town at a nightclub. Police captured Victor Cross, the nightclub shooter, an up and coming professional killer who recently moved from being a street level gun for hire to higher paying contracts. After days in police custody, he offered them a deal: give him a new name and a new life and he will provide testimony that will put thirty known criminals in jail for murder. He was offering to rat out all of his customers. The FBI wants the deal and Florida police can close 36 murder cases. But there is a problem. Adrian was the younger brother of Trunk's ex-wife, Emmie. Since his death his girlfriend has stayed hidden in her apartment with a gun. Her past has come back to haunt her. Another of the four men murdered was a cocaine dealer to the wealthy of Orlando, 99% pure Peruvian product, test results available. He sells it by the ounce with the help of Alice, his posh English girlfriend. Business was good. Another owns four car washes around the city. He employs the recently paroled and demands ten percent of their wages or he'll give negative reports about them to their parole officers. With little progress, Emmie asks Trunk to find the killer. The two cases are unconnected until after weeks in custody and a deal in his pocket, the nightclub shooter confesses to murdering the four men and names a low-level thief as his customer for the job. Trunk has questions like why was he arrested heading towards the shooting of the four men instead away from it? Why did he wait to confess to this shooting? On the other side of the world there are different questions. How far would you go for love? Would you kill? Would you steal? Would you sell false hope to the parents of a sick child to steal their money in order to keep the love of your life alive? Sarkis Danielian has done all of these things and more. But that was years ago. Now he is Gregor Kanaan and one of the founders of Thyone Therapeutics, a NASDAQ traded biotech company at the forefront of finding a cure for cancer. Adrian worked at Thyone. You remember Mehir Orbach don't you, the teenage psychopath that despises Trunk? He has a new online business. In addition to drugs, fake IDs, and stolen credit card numbers, his darknet emporium is pleased to announce the opening of murder-for-hire listings. Trunk's least favorite person is causing problems again and he could care less about the kid. But his tech resource, Chandler, is a partner in the darknet business and murder for hire services put not only Mehir and Chandler in danger, but also his and Trunk's therapist, Rabbi Chesed Giller too. Rabbi Chesed has a new patient, Kendall. So far she has confessed to multiple murders and is just getting started. And she's coming to town to have her first ever face to face session with her therapist. Can he survive telling a murderous patient he can't see her anymore? Breakups with Kendall can be fatal. Over the years Walter Johnson has saved Trunk's life three times. Walter is retiring and moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, putting down his pistol after nearly forty years. Strong and Wrong, Trunk #7 Where the bullet meets the barrel.

Tired of the same old police story?   Enjoy a crime series from the criminal perspective. When you can't call the cops.....Call Trunk . Trunk #1 Smoke and Mirrors Dennis Trunk has a reputation for solving puzzles and he's not afraid to get his hands dirty. He won't kill...unless he has to. Your new guardian angel is a psychopath. Between one and two percent of the population are psychopaths. Trunk is highly functional. He has a steady job, an ex-wife, and a side business offering discreet services that work well with his condition. From investigations to body disposal, Trunk has your back. Drugs are a business and Art Piro is very successful. An arsonist is destroying his business. Trunk is hired to find out who is behind it and stop them. The list of suspects is long. Local news is reporting the fires as the work of a vigilante. But ever since Texas fell to a cartel, the drug business in nearby states has been on edge. Then there are tensions within the motorcycle club at the center of the business. Art will be stepping down as club president next year and the succession plan is simple, may the best man win. At stake is control of one of the most profitable drug businesses in the country and millions in offshore banks. Too many suspects and all of them ready to kill. DEEP DOWN YOU'VE ALWAYS KNOWN THE TRUTH... CRIME PAYS... ...most of the time Trunk...a dangerous man for desperate times Trunk #2 Dead and Buried Online Delores Hutchinson is known as His Hot Ex. She is Holly Pepper's best friend in the online adult entertainment business. Last week Delores missed the girl's night out. Her body was found naked and strangled in a dumpster at Disney in Orlando. Lauren Dufrene is known online as Milf Monica. She was murdered in Savannah, Georgia. The cops haven't connected the two cases yet. It started as a twisted contest. A serial killer was born. But Delores Hutchinson has a friend she never knew about... ...a friend with benefits.... Dennis Trunk When Holly Pepper asks Trunk to find the killer the damage gets extensive. Holly's name is on the kill list. If you want to catch a psychotic killer... ...it helps if you are one. When you can't call the cops… Call Trunk Trunk #3 Armed and Dangerous Dennis Trunk is a man of his word… …and sometimes that's fatal. Trying to escape from the cartel, with 7 million dollars stashed, he needs an exit – fast. But the cops have their own plan for his future. They want to pin a murder on him and force him to roll over on his customers, a who's who of southern criminals. When a job in Mexico goes wrong Trunk sees the opportunity to escape both the cartel and the cops. But to get out, he has to sell out a friend. What would you do? When you can't call the cops… Call Trunk ... but who does Trunk call?