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    The Subversive Detective: Detective Dave Levitan, #1
    The Reluctant Spy: Detective Dave Levitan, #2
    Low Light: Boardwalk Trilogy, #0
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    Detective Dave Levitan Series

    By Stanley Cutler

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    About this series

    George Koyne, an Iowa-born scientist, disappears in 1948. Concerned that the missing man might be a Soviet spy, the feds dispatch top investigator Dave Levitan to track him down. Levitan discovers Koyne's secret biography, an astonishing story of a Jewish American life churned by global politics. Levitan's dogged hunt takes surprising turns, finally onto an ocean liner bound for France. The future of the nuclear world hangs on the outcome of their fateful, storm-tossed confrontation. What part does the missing scientist play in the first contests of the Cold War? Is Koyne on a vacation to Europe or an assignment to Moscow? Will Levitan uncover the truth before it is too late?

    The Reluctant Spy is the second novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure, an engrossing tale that entertains to the final page.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStanley Cutler
    Release dateNov 1, 2022
    The Subversive Detective: Detective Dave Levitan, #1
    The Reluctant Spy: Detective Dave Levitan, #2
    Low Light: Boardwalk Trilogy, #0

    Titles in the series (3)

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      Low Light: Boardwalk Trilogy, #0
      Low Light: Boardwalk Trilogy, #0

      Low Light: Boardwalk Trilogy, #0

      Stanley Cutler
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       Gangsters Target FBI Director in Jazz Age Atlantic City            They made Al Rubin a terrific offer. He'd get a lucrative lease on an entertainment pier in exchange for a weekend of clandestine photography in a hotel room. Seduced by glamor and luxuries, aware of the risks, Al agreed. J. Edgar Hoover would be a guest of the city, a dignitary attending the gala 1929 Memorial Day ceremonies.         Al plans the photo shoot carefully. Hoover arrives for four days of high-living on the city's dime. Al's plan seems perfect, until the unexpected occurs and he is forced to flee. Desperate and enraged, Hoover sends his minions to hunt Al down. The photographer navigates the sin city of its day, from the neon-lit boardwalk to the dark shadows of casinos and pleasure houses. Feeling cornered, he concotes an ingenious scheme to save himself before he loses his livelihood, his family and his freedom.        Historians are puzzled by Hoover's hands-off approach to organized crime. During his thirty-seven year reign as the FBI's Director, he investigated and prosecuted civil rights advocates and union organizers - anyone on his political left. The bodies piled up, witnesses testified to reporters and in local trials, and still Hoover refused to investigate any nationwide criminal enterprise. Despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary, he claimed that gangsters were too stupid to organize. LOW LIGHT is an imagined tale, an action adventure that fits the historical facts and offers an explanation for the implausible behavior of one of the most peculiar men ever to hold high office.

       Gangsters Target FBI Director in Jazz Age Atlantic City            They made Al Rubin a terrific offer. He'd get a lucrative lease on an entertainment pier in exchange for a weekend of clandestine photography in a hotel room. Seduced by glamor and luxuries, aware of the risks, Al agreed. J. Edgar Hoover would be a guest of the city, a dignitary attending the gala 1929 Memorial Day ceremonies.         Al plans the photo shoot carefully. Hoover arrives for four days of high-living on the city's dime. Al's plan seems perfect, until the unexpected occurs and he is forced to flee. Desperate and enraged, Hoover sends his minions to hunt Al down. The photographer navigates the sin city of its day, from the neon-lit boardwalk to the dark shadows of casinos and pleasure houses. Feeling cornered, he concotes an ingenious scheme to save himself before he loses his livelihood, his family and his freedom.        Historians are puzzled by Hoover's hands-off approach to organized crime. During his thirty-seven year reign as the FBI's Director, he investigated and prosecuted civil rights advocates and union organizers - anyone on his political left. The bodies piled up, witnesses testified to reporters and in local trials, and still Hoover refused to investigate any nationwide criminal enterprise. Despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary, he claimed that gangsters were too stupid to organize. LOW LIGHT is an imagined tale, an action adventure that fits the historical facts and offers an explanation for the implausible behavior of one of the most peculiar men ever to hold high office.

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      The Subversive Detective: Detective Dave Levitan, #1
      The Subversive Detective: Detective Dave Levitan, #1

      The Subversive Detective: Detective Dave Levitan, #1

      Stanley Cutler
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      In 1944, the US Army occupies Atlantic City's hotels as military barracks and uses the convention hall as a training base. When an Army recruit is murdered with a strange bullet, police detective Dave Levitan overcomes the interference of his crooked bosses, the incompetence of the military police, and the FBI's suspicions about his politics in order to investigate the senseless execution. He discovers a deep-cover Nazi spy and a team of German saboteurs who intend to destroy a vital link to the American soldiers fighting in France. Does Levitan have what it takes to stop the Germans from derailing the American war effort? The Subversive Detective is the first novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure and rich depiction of wartime American life, this remarkable story keeps readers entertained from the first page to the last.

      In 1944, the US Army occupies Atlantic City's hotels as military barracks and uses the convention hall as a training base. When an Army recruit is murdered with a strange bullet, police detective Dave Levitan overcomes the interference of his crooked bosses, the incompetence of the military police, and the FBI's suspicions about his politics in order to investigate the senseless execution. He discovers a deep-cover Nazi spy and a team of German saboteurs who intend to destroy a vital link to the American soldiers fighting in France. Does Levitan have what it takes to stop the Germans from derailing the American war effort? The Subversive Detective is the first novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure and rich depiction of wartime American life, this remarkable story keeps readers entertained from the first page to the last.

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      The Reluctant Spy: Detective Dave Levitan, #2
      The Reluctant Spy: Detective Dave Levitan, #2

      The Reluctant Spy: Detective Dave Levitan, #2

      Stanley Cutler
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      George Koyne, an Iowa-born scientist, disappears in 1948. Concerned that the missing man might be a Soviet spy, the feds dispatch top investigator Dave Levitan to track him down. Levitan discovers Koyne's secret biography, an astonishing story of a Jewish American life churned by global politics. Levitan's dogged hunt takes surprising turns, finally onto an ocean liner bound for France. The future of the nuclear world hangs on the outcome of their fateful, storm-tossed confrontation. What part does the missing scientist play in the first contests of the Cold War? Is Koyne on a vacation to Europe or an assignment to Moscow? Will Levitan uncover the truth before it is too late? The Reluctant Spy is the second novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure, an engrossing tale that entertains to the final page.

      George Koyne, an Iowa-born scientist, disappears in 1948. Concerned that the missing man might be a Soviet spy, the feds dispatch top investigator Dave Levitan to track him down. Levitan discovers Koyne's secret biography, an astonishing story of a Jewish American life churned by global politics. Levitan's dogged hunt takes surprising turns, finally onto an ocean liner bound for France. The future of the nuclear world hangs on the outcome of their fateful, storm-tossed confrontation. What part does the missing scientist play in the first contests of the Cold War? Is Koyne on a vacation to Europe or an assignment to Moscow? Will Levitan uncover the truth before it is too late? The Reluctant Spy is the second novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure, an engrossing tale that entertains to the final page.

    Author

    Stanley Cutler

    Since beginning a professional writing career in 2008, Stanley Cutler has written six novels, two screenplays, dozens of newspaper columns, and a narrative non-fiction work on the rhetoric of political conventions. Away from his desk, he teaches Cyber Age Political Communication in Temple U’s OLLI program.  He volunteers as a Friend of the Library, doing his best to preserve Enlightenment values from the perils of digitized communication.  

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      Terrific historical fiction about Atlantic City in the 1920s. It's the story of an Everyman seduced by the offer of wealth and security who finds himself in a desperate contest with the powerful J. Edgar Hoover in the early days of the modern FBI and the national criminal organization that became the American Mafia.