"Chasin' the Wind" takes place in Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba. It is written in the first person view of journalist Liam Michael Murphy - his friends call him Mick - and he lives on his 40-foot sailboat, 'Fenian Bastard, ' in Key West. The book opens with Mick finding his friend Tom Hunter brutally beaten at the Key West Sail Club's clubhouse on the day Mick, Tom and Bob Lynds were meeting to organize the next Key West-to-Havana sailboat race. Days later Tom dies. The story involves the corruption of small town politics in the southernmost city of the United States - Key West. It...

A weekend in Tijuana, Mexico for the opening of the bullfight season turns into a battle between a group of American tourists, helped by some shady local characters and off-duty Marines and Central American secret police. Trying to get across the border becomes a full-scale firefight, while the secret police leave sections of Tijuana in flames.

Journalist Mick Murphy is walking across Harvard Yard when his name is called out. He turns and sees the woman of all his sexual fantasies. Under the spell of the pretty Filipina, Murphy is led into her search for the men that abused her brother while he was at Harvard. On the flight back to Los Angeles area, Murphy agrees to put her in contact with some of his old Harvard classmates and they soon begin showing up brutally murdered. His desire for his fantasy girls has him in jeopardy of losing close friends - including his on again/off again romantic interest. When he finally confronts his...

Mick Murphy returns a phone call that leads him into the world of a hit man for Boston gangster Whitey Blugler. Dick Walsh is on the run from witness protection now that Bulger is in custody and some think he knows where the money is hidden. However, others think he could be the long-missing Cold War agent that walked away with millions in diamonds. Soon these diverse characters arrive in Key West and want to talk with Murphy. Murphy's black bag friend, Norm, shows up with the CIA, soon followed by agents from MI6, the Mossad, French intelligence and ex-KGB agents. What starts off as a spoof...

With Mick Murphy recovering from near death, his black-ops friend Norm Burke assists him on his quest to kill Russian mobster Alexei, the man Murphy holds responsible for Tita's death. Almost close to Alexei, Murphy gets Alexei's journal from a Mexican drug lord and it leads him back to Key West where he must choose between his quest and savings the lives of innocent people caught up in a terrorist plot.

A simple request of Mick Murphy to find his cousin Cecil Fahey turns into a struggle of avoiding irate SAS soldiers determined to kill Cecil for his IRA activities in the '80s. Murphy's quest takes him into the shadowy world of the IRA in Los Angeles, New Jersey and eventually Dublin, Ireland, all the while avoiding efforts to kidnap him and trying to survive attempts on his life. In his quest to locate Cecil and find out who and why someone wants him dead, family and friends lie to Murphy. With a new identity provided by the IRA, Murphy can't escape his long-time black bag friend Norm's...

Two deaths in Key West lead Murphy and his friends into the world of bankers, land developers and politicians. With a little help from drug cartel money, the cabal plans to turn the skyline of Key West into Miami. Stopping the cabal might be impossible and it turns Murphy contacts against him.

When Mick Murphy stops at night on U.S. 1 to assist a teenage girl in distress, his world begins to unravel. Chased by thugs, the girl is traumatized and can't speak to Murphy. Once at home, his live-in Irish girlfriend Peggy Naughton helps communicate with the teenager. Soon a private investigator shows up in Key West looking for the teen and believes Murphy knows her whereabouts. Things get worse as Murphy tries to unite the girl with her family. In his way is his Russia Mafia nemeses Alexei, who wants the girl at any cost. Murphy wants to kill Alexei, up close and personal for his...