Denver cabbie Brendan Murphy--known to all as Murph--has two goals in life. First, to earn no more than it takes to keep his bohemian lifestyle afloat. Second, to never, under any circumstances, get involved in the lives of his passengers.

In The Heart of Darkness Club, the third in novelist Gary Reilly's Asphalt Warrior series, Murph once again fails spectacularly at his second goal the minute he picks up a mover named Trowbridge. Movers in Murph's world are not to be confused with movers and shakers.

Trowbridge pays his fare with a crisp five-dollar...

Introducing Denverite Brendan Murphy or "Murph" as he is known to the rest of the world.

Murph lives alone in his crows nest apartment, fries a hamburger for every meal, does his dish, then channel surfs for reruns of Gilligan's Island.

Murph is a radical minimalist. He strives to earn no more money as a driver for Rocky Mountain Taxi Company than his needs require. He is determined to stay out of the lives of those he transports. He struggles with one issue and is spectacularly bad with the other.

The Asphalt Warrior is the first of eleven adventures. Come...

In Ticket to Hollywood, the second of 11 comic novels featuring cab driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a "Murph," a young woman on the way to a showing of The Great Gatsby leaves her purse behind in Murph's Rocky Mountain Taxi Cab #127--and then goes missing. Murph finds himself confronted by police and loses his job. He becomes entangled with filmmakers and makes his way to Los Angeles in search of the lost woman and in desperate need to restore his reputation and regain normalcy, which in Murph's case means doing as little as possible.

Denver taxi driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. "Murph," ignores the little voice in the back of his head that says to stay out of the lives of his passengers. Instead, he goes undercover as a hippie - muslin, sandals, VW van and all - to rescue two girls he believes have been brainwashed by a cult leader. Murph passes himself off as an old love child in his confrontation with Brother Chakra. As the good Brother might say, "it's a mind-blowing trip." Book #5 in The Asphalt Warrior series.

Taxi driver Brendan Murphy, known to all as "Murph," abandons his cab and the mean streets of Denver for his hometown, his "dear ol' Maw," and an Irish Catholic clan for the size of County Cork. It's Christmastime in Wichita. Murph reluctantly re-establishes relationships with his brothers and sisters while trying to save an old friend from making a soul-killing mistake: seeking a socially acceptable job. It will take all of Murph's persuasive powers to rescue Jimmy Callahan from "the suits." That, and maybe a Christmas miracle. Book No. 4 in The Asphalt Warrior Series.

The Enlisted Men's Club is the first of a trilogy of stories about military life by the late Gary Reilly, based on his experiences in Vietnam. Private Palmer is stationed at San Francisco's army base at The Presidio, awaiting orders. He's trying to find his place in the ranks. And trying to avoid work. While he's been trained as a Military Policeman, he has no idea what's next. Palmer keeps a low profile by day and seeks escape in the bars at night. The trick to survival, he decides, is not to care about anything during his time in the Army. To his surprise, that's the most difficult...

The Detachment is the second novel in a trilogy about military life by the late Gary Reilly, based on his own experiences as an MP in Vietnam. In The Detachment, Private Palmer flies to Vietnam where is assigned to Qui Nhon. The scenery changes from his time at The Presidio (where The Enlisted Men's Club took place), but not Private Palmer's efforts to mark time, avoid the spotlight, keep his head down and try to survive. As an MP, Private Palmer rarely leaves the military base but the war comes to him nonetheless. Private Palmer tests new limits of his capacity...