From The Author

While I grew up in Tampa, Florida, my first job after graduating from college was as a copywriter in New York City. I was one of 100 artists and writers who worked on the 17^thfloor of R.H. Macy’s in Herald Square cranking out ads and mailers for the entire country. 

I lived about two hours outside of the city, and for the first two months, I commuted. I took the train to Hoboken, then the Path to Penn Station. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I needed reading material. At the end of the first day, I stopped at a book shop and bought The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. I finished it the next day. This was a lot different from all the lit I’d read in college. I became obsessed, for a time, with detective novels, especially those from the 1920s and 1930s. After reading about a dozen books, I knew that my first book would be a detective novel set in Florida.

It took years to get this book done, and while I’m a much better writer now, it’s still a fun read. 

About Eye of the Storm

Vietnam 1966. Six U.S. Marines run frantically through the jungle as a vicious battle swirls around them. A bomb drops in their midst, killing five and wounding one. A lone Marine comes to the injured man’s aid. He removes the man’s dog tags, fires a shotgun into his face, sets the body afire and disappears into the jungle.

Thirty years later in Sarasota, Florida, when a murder investigation is closed under suspicious circumstances, ex-detective Jack Sterling takes it upon himself to find his friend’s killer and unwittingly stumbles into a trail of blackmail and murder leading to a U.S. Senator who appropriated his service record from another Marine. 

Jack Sterling’s laidback demeanor hides an undercurrent of bitter regret. He’s a man who won’t commit to anything, not to his girlfriend Casey, nor to his Blue Marlin pub. But his life and outlook change when he commits to finding the killer. While running for his life, from secret service agents and hired assassins, Jack finds “the” incriminating evidence the Senator has been trying to obtain for 30 years. Then he must give it up in trade for Casey’s life.