"Mike Dennis is a modern master of noir." -- MAX ALLAN COLLINS, author of Road To Perdition "Dennis writes true noir." -- VICKI HENDRICKS, author of Cruel Poetry "Noir with panache." -- CHARLIE STELLA, author of Johnny Porno From the other side of the human condition comes this collection of noir tales by Mike Dennis. 1. FULLY LOADED It's 1984 and Biloxi, Mississippi has seen better days. Sherry Lamar, used car saleswoman, is feeling the pinch. Then one day, a stranger walks onto her small car lot and ushers her into a world of steamy sex and murder. 2. THE DEVIL DRIVES A BIG MERCEDES An...

"THE GHOSTS HAVANA will keep you riveted. Author Dennis nails both noir tone and thriller plotting perfectly " -- JEFFERY DEAVER "THE GHOSTS OF HAVANA opens on a chill winter night in Key West, where blood runs thick on the floor of a Duval Street nightclub. From that noir beginning, Mike Dennis takes us on a thrill ride to uncover a long hidden secret, a race against death. Dennis' staccato prose keeps the pages turning to the surprising ending. Unputdownable." --- JONATHAN WOODS, author of "Bad Juju & Other Tales of Mayhem And Madness" "A relentlessly fast-paced conspiracy thriller...Mike...

"The ghost of Mike Hammer moves through these pages, as Dennis nicely executes several unexpected twists and turns..." -- JONATHAN WOODS, author of Bad Juju & Other Tales Of Madness And Mayhem "Fans of Elmore Leonard should find Mike Dennis an author worth watching - and worth reading." -- BOOKSANDPALS.com "His writing is tight, to the point, like a line drawing." -- NOIR JOURNAL Jack Barnett has had it with the private eye business. They took his license away in LA, and fearing criminal prosecution, he split town in the middle of the night and headed for Las Vegas, where anyone can become...

Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes.

"Mike Dennis is a modern master of noir." MAX ALLAN COLLINS, author of Road To Perdition It's hot in the Florida Keys in August. For Teddy Myles, it's even hotter as he tries to outrun both the law and his partners in crime. He flees to Key West to set up a new identity and an escape to the Caribbean. But he meets up with Gail, a sexy local, who has other things in mind for him. Soon, he finds himself trapped into pulling one more job, this one for over a million. His former partners are tracking him, the cops are onto him, and a hurricane is coming. Time is running out, but will it be on his...

What if a total stranger gave you $95,000 in cash as he lay dying in the street? Do you keep it? Even after knowing who it really belongs to? Ex-private investigator Jack Barnett is handed such an envelope on a back street in Las Vegas. He needs the money, but as he learns more about it, he is drawn deeper into the world of a shady real estate mogul, whose reach extends all the way to a Texas border town, where bribery is the way things get done. HARD CASH is the second installment in Mike Dennis' Jack Barnett / Las Vegas Series, pulling the reader down the darkest streets of Sin City, USA....

A young, headstrong, performer with white-hot talent. A president of a small record company with big ambitions. A nervous nation coping with a new, dangerous music. It's Memphis, 1958. It's rock & roll, brother It's... CADILLAC'S COMIN'

Las Vegas. October, 2003. Sandra Blake is dead. A bullet in her forehead. Her ex-husband wants former private investigator Jack Barnett to find the killer. The investigation leads Barnett into a high-powered world of shady characters and a rising body count, all for control of a seemingly unimportant slice of vacant land in a seedy area of downtown Las Vegas. A mysterious case of wine rests at the center of it all, and everyone wants it. Can Barnett find the killer before the whole thing blows up in his face? THE DOWNTOWN DEAL is a novel, the third hardboiled entry in the Jack Barnett / Las...