Malcolm Cavanaugh Bleekston, MC Bleak, McBleak, enjoys hobnobbing with the one percenters and stealing from them. In The Extractors, he puts his life on the line to take a greedy manโs gain while wondering if his girlfriend sees through his faรงade.
Ned โNocโ Brenner is a drifter with an unusual skill set โ heโs an extreme athlete good at whatever he does be it MMA fighting to riding a motorcycle off a mountaintop. After winning in an all-night poker game, this sets in motion a series of events in The Anti-Gravity Steal where Noc must use all his abilities to prevent wholesale destruction.
Part Shaft and part Batman sans the cowl, Luke Warfield, a philanthropist with a black ops background, the Essex Man, goes on the trail in 10 Seconds to Death of the villain who killed his foster father and uncovers not only ghosts from his past, but must stop a deadly plan of mass slaughter in his own backyard.
Includes a bonus Essex Man short story, โMurder by Remote Control.โPraise for 3 THE HARD WAY โฆ10 Seconds to Death: โ โฆ itโs filled with more sex and violence than novels tenfold the length. Author Gary Phillips knows how to pile on the action. This is definitely a homage to the spin rack novels of the 1970s.โ โ Timothy Mayer, Z7โs HeadquartersThe Anti-Gravity Steal: โMr. Phillips has taken the menโs action adventure pulp genre of the thirties adding 21st century sensibilities and amping the energy level to 11. Doc Savage is the template for Ned โNocโ Brenner.โ โ Amazon customer review