Mr. Linden continues his enigmatic and powerful instruction with an allegorical tale of test and triumph in the high Himalayan Mountains in Nepal. Journey - On Mastering Ukemi is for everyone who has ever fallen down. Those of us who train at Aikido know it as taking ukemi, but it is still falling. The country song goes, 'Funny how falling feels like flying - for a little while...' and taking ukemi is just like that. Until you land. This book is about the landing and all the rest of it, from the initial attack until we are back on our feet. The Journey we all take from birth to death can be...

This is the first novel in the popular Aikido Mystery Series. We meet Aikido Sensei Parker who is struggling to make ends meet now that the economy has tanked. He knows he's only a payday from disaster so he asks his old boss, (Fat) Albert Diamond to rehire him as a private investigator. "Sure," he says. "Why not?" and the chase is on. Why? Because Parker won't wear a gun. He hates them, and that makes him very popular with the crazy celebrities that make movies about shooting 50 or 100 bad guys, but who personally feel that guns are bad. They're willing to pay double time to have Parker be...

The martial art known as Aikido just isn't as popular as it once was. Parker is a great teacher, but his school has fallen on hard times and he needs a job to keep it going. He hates it, but he goes back to being a Private Investigator for Fat Albert Diamond, the owner of Black Diamond Investigations. Actually, what he hates is getting shot, and it seems like every time he picks up a gun, someone is shooting at him. Hey, life isn't always a bowl of cherries. Sometimes it's the pits. THE AIKIDO-KA, the second book in The Aikido Mystery Series, starts with Derek Gunner asking Parker to find...

AIKIDO ANEJO is the story of old Willie Brown, an ancient friend of Parker's grandfather. Someone is trying to make Willie leave his homestead and Parker isn't having any of that. He puts together a legal team and heads for court and while there, meets a man who is simply the scariest person Parker has ever encountered. Like Quint said in the movie Jaws, "He has dead eyes, lifeless eyes... until he bites you..." and he gives Parker a blast from both of them as he stares deep into his soul. Later he asks, "Mr. Parker, have you ever looked into the eyes of a wild animal and understood...

THE AIKIDO SENSEI is the 4th book in the Aikido Mysteries series. We find Parker, our sometimes private eye and full time Aikido Sensei trying to help his old teacher, Hunter James, build a barn up at his farm in Maine. Hunter reveals why he gave up Aikido and tells Parker about the time he spent in Japan before he received his black belt promotion from the founder of aikido, O'Sensei. Parker is still the man's loyal student and they remain very close, spending days in the field hunting birds and nights around the table drinking beer. So why was he murdered? Parker has to return to Maine and...

Aikido Au Revoir is the 5th novel of the Aikido Mystery Series with Sensei Parker. He is in France on the Cote d'Azur teaching a pair of Aikido seminars. Hey, it's tough work, but someone has to do it, right? Why not Parker? He is a master of the art. And besides, his old girlfriend Kara runs the place, crazy as she is. Everything is great: the bread, the cheese, the wines, the blue, blue Mediterranean Sea and the beautiful French women who daily bask beside it... everything is great until someone breaks into the dojo and steals the only thing there worth a plug nickel, the kakemono on the...

Aikido Carumba is the sixth book in the popular Aikido Mystery Series. Sensei Parker is a private investigator and bodyguard when he isn't teaching Aikido in his school in Orlando, Florida. Parker finds himself in Key West with his childhood friends Willie and Sandra, they run a charter boat that caters to tourists. Their nephew has disappeared and his wife and child are frantic for his return. He wouldn't just walk out, something bad is happening, and Parker must find him. Others are disappearing as well and the charter boat business is in deep trouble. Something is terribly wrong in...

Review "A powerful, unflinching examination of the psychological wages of war." - Kirkus Reviews Conspicuous Gallantry is the long-awaited sequel to The Content of Character. Charlie Cooper has returned from a hitch with the US Marine Corps in Afghanistan and is scarred so badly he calls himself a freak. He is incapable of dealing with his family and his wife Annie, and only his dog Gibbs has the power to get though his shell. His best friend died protecting Charley on the battlefield; died protecting Charley with his own body, and Charlie heard and felt every bullet that hit him and killed...

The local newspaper called him the Aikido Killer, but he was just a tired old man who had fought back. Sure, he was an Aikido teacher, but so what? He had been unarmed and the three attackers had all carried knives. Why was he in jail for murder? Why? Parker wants to know. His old friend wasn't an innocent to be sure and Parker was well aware of his war record, the night-time insurgencies that based success on the number of ears brought back to base. Gunner had done it all and done his duty, but that had been forty years ago. Somehow the District Attorney had found out about Gunner's war...

This is the 9th Aikido Mystery. Parker is invited to a special event in Washington D.C. complete with congressmen and old Aikido friends, and of course there will be a seminar. When isn't there a seminar? The purpose of the gathering is to repatriate an old katana - a Japanese sword - lost in WWII and now residing in the Smithsonian Institute. It will be returned to an Aikido Sensei who lives and teaches in Japan, the heir of the man who lost it. The congressman who donated the katana to the Smithsonian wants to give it back, and to present it himself. And why not? What harm could it do? Who...