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Philip Anthony
I used to read fiction, mostly suspense/thriller books. I was reading more and enjoying it less. Then, a thought slammed me up side the head; hey, I can do this. so, I did. Seven books later, here I am, though it isn't as easy as I once thought. I have a great deal of respect for my fellow authors who put themselves out there every time they release a new book. An author can put personal fantasies, ideas and notions onto paper and let everyone out there take a look and make judgments. Hopefully, those who read them can enjoy them, maybe get something out of them, the least of which is simple enjoyment.
All Books By This Author:
- No Diminishing Returns
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Ex-ForceRecon Marine, now private detective, Martin Glazman, takes four bullets in the back protecting the woman he believes will become the love of his life. A violinist with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and stardom just around the corner, Charlene Williams, who thinks Marty might just be the one, takes three of the bullets that passed through Marty, one ricocheting off her head, plunging her into a coma.
They inadvertently stepped in the middle of a mob assassination, perpetrated by Bobby Groat, son of Vincent Groat, head of the largest crime syndicate in the valley of the sun. Trying to consolidate all of the Phoenix metropolitan area under their auspices by eliminating any and all competition, Bobby and Vince must silence Charly and Marty before they can identify Bobby as one of the shooters and disrupt all of their plans.
Kino Kessay, Marty’s boyhood friend, Marty’s sister, Holly Glazman, a gorgeous, tough Phoenix homicide detective, and her partner, Frank Ducek, who has romantic aspirations of his own with Holly, try to protect Charly and Marty as they fight for their lives.
Will Marty recover from his near fatal wounds? Will Charly finally emerge from a coma that has her lying in a hospice, life and death betting on the outcome? If they do recover, will their physical and mental status leave them less than they were before? And if they do manage to return to some semblance of their former selves, can they extricate themselves from the Groat’s ongoing efforts to take their lives and shut them up forever? The question, then, is, how do you fight an entire crime syndicate once they have marked you for death?
Find out as Charly and Marty struggle to regain their lives, putting them back on their original paths, destined to merge in what promises to be a perfect union while suffering no diminishing returns.- Genres: Adventure, Suspense
- Divine Intervention
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Believe in the bible or not, angels and demons do exist. Just ask Caelan Holmes and Natasha Belleville. They’ve met their guardian angels, and, incredibly enough, Michael, the right hand of God. Ask Walter Ollident, too. He may not be aware of the devil’s presence but the devil is well aware of him and his evil ways. Belial, one of the four crown princes of hell, and often mistaken throughout human history as the devil himself, knows the value Ollident promises and the benefits he offers to hell in the war against heaven. With Caelan as her protector, only Natasha can stop Ollident and the shift in the balance of power to the dark side. As Belial and his reluctant ally, Abaddona, try to eliminate Natasha, Ollident’s only threat to his climb to become the most powerful and dangerous man in the world, Caelan and Natasha join forces to bring Ollident down. They also join together in love, initiated when this struggle began while they were mere youths. From Arizona to Great Britain and back, the war between heaven and hell and good versus evil rage to a fiery conflagration with humans as pawns while angels and demons pull their strings.
- Genres: Fantasy
- Redemption
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Dreams can go one of two ways. Either they are realized through hard work and perseverance or just plain luck, or they can be destroyed by never coming to fruition or by someone else with evil intent. Doug Harriman had a dream. Having graduated from college as arguably the best basketball player ever to come out of college, his dream was looking forward to a brilliant NBA career. One fateful day, his dream was shattered, changing his life forever. Susan Bennett had always been a Doug Harriman fan starting in high school, all the way through college. Actually, it was a one-sided love affair that seemed destined to be an unattainable dream of her own. She never gave up on Doug, even after his career was ended and he was sentenced to prison for the rest of his life for a double murder he didn’t commit. Against all odds, he escaped while being transported to prison to serve out his sentence. He hid for five years until someone finally recognized him. Thankfully, miraculously, it was Susan. After she confronted him, urging him to return and clear his name, to point forward in his life instead of forever running away, he had a decision to make. Well, he made it. Together, Doug and Susan attempt to do the impossible, reverse a court decision and sentence that seemed airtight, beyond question, unbreakable. As they fall deeply in love, they come up against evil conspirators who will stop at nothing to stop their investigation. Enlisting aid from past enemies, they struggle to learn the truth, evading the best efforts of those wanting to eliminate them as they narrow in on the real perpetrators and a future of redemption, freedom and true love.
- Genres: Suspense
- We Meet Again
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Under the tutelage of his father and the memory of his grandfather, both having fought against tyranny and injustice their entire lives, Drew Keller became an assassin for the Israeli Mossad. After many years on the job, disillusioned by the growing political nature of his assignments and near death injuries sustained on the job, Drew took a break only to become a contract killer for the CIA under the guidance of Fred Jones, who saved his live. Drew’s exploits and unrivaled accomplishments gained him infamy, eventually earning him a reputation as the most dangerous man alive in certain circles, first as The Leopard when he was Mossad, later as Trudy with the CIA.
Lisimba Badawi was a happy child growing up in Egypt until his father was killed while on a business trip to Libya as an American cruise missile on a retaliatory strike aimed at Tripoli veered off course. Lisimba’s course changed that day, sending him on a path of death and destruction and revenge.
Local militia leader Leroy Jefferson Davis spent nearly six years in a federal prison after his attempt to blow up government buildings in Phoenix was foiled by an informant. Once out, he is at it again, but this time, he has help. In an uneasy alliance, Leroy and Lisimba plot to carry out Leroy’s original plans, but Lisimba has a different target in mind, an even more heinous target.
After a decade together, Drew and Fred finally had enough of their thankless and perilous lives and go their separate ways into the serenity and relative safety of the public sector. As a small business owner, Drew finds it increasingly difficult to escape conflict, this time instead of fighting terrorists in far away countries, he faces local gangs in his own neighborhood, first in Chicago, then in Milwaukee. Despite that, he is content, until word reaches him that his friend and mentor, Freddie Jones, has been killed in an apparent robbery gone wrong.
Drew Keller travels to Phoenix to look into Fred’s unsolved murder. While there, he reunites with Trudy Wilson, a special agent with the FBI. They met briefly years before in Afghanistan. Neither forgot the encounter, each fantasizing about the other ever since. Together, as their unexpected reunion blossoms from unrequited dreams into overwhelming reality, they battle home grown and foreign terrorists across the valley of the sun, uncovering a plot to kill tens of thousands of innocent Americans. Eventually, they learn of Lisimba’s ultimate target and the pressure to succeed intensifies with a likely conclusion of a massive death toll and an explosive conflagration, bringing America to her knees and striking a devastating blow for terrorism around the world.- Genres: Suspense
- Desert Heat
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Darryl MacArthur (Mac) Lester and Raymond Vincent (Raven) Watkins help people while running Mac’s laundry and dry cleaning business. You have a child in trouble? You have a problem with crime in your neighborhood? If you have a loved one go missing? They will help you. Mac, a college graduate with a degree in cultural Anthropology, never able to ply his trade as a vocation due to inheriting the laundry from his ailing father, now uses what he learned in college as an avocation in the real world. Ray quit college his freshman year due to the murders of his pregnant wife, his cop brother and his brother’s wife along with Ray, himself, taking two bullets to the chest. He went into the military after he recovered physically and remained there until the rage ebbed. Still troubled, he returned and went to work for Mac. In the years since, he has built a reputation as a crime fighting urban legend.
Julia Olson, an award winning investigative reporter who, three years ago, lost her beautiful younger cousin forever as she tried to come from Mexico across the desert to live the American dream, specializes in writing about America’s immigration issues. Julia is a strong voice for immigrant’s rights within a sane American immigration policy. She digs deep, leaving no stone unturned, practices fair reporting but remains thorough and tough when she has to be.
Somewhere in the desert south of Tucson, Arizona, a truckload of recent arrivals to America are gunned down. Julia comes down from Phoenix for the story. Mac and Ray come down because they believe the daughter of one of their employees might be among the dead. Together, the three of them investigate the incident that takes them back to Phoenix and a human and drug smuggling operation run by evil and greedy men who slough off human life for the almighty buck.
As Ray fights his own demons and Julia and Mac find each other, they come up against ruthless drug and human smugglers and a Mexican drug cartel that will stop at nothing to protect their operation and themselves.
The action spans the valley of the sun ending up all the way down to Mexico as the passion of love, the bittersweet taste of revenge and the challenge to stay alive against unbeatable odds reverberates from every page until the final fiery confrontation.- Genres: Suspense
- Jack & Jill
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By chance, by accident or by design, many events can occur during pregnancy, potentially causing irregular if not devastating consequences in newborns. Some are; the mother-to-be having a bad fall or consuming alcohol or drugs, moderately or to excess, or abuse in all its many forms, physical or emotional. The list goes on and on. Is it necessary the by-products of any or all of those events result in wholly negative repercussions? Meet Jack and Jill.
The twins were born with abilities that set them apart from all other children. Without a father on the scene from day one, and now, due to one of the…no…make that, due to THE final disastrous event, no mother, they were separated at birth. Jill was fortunate enough to be immediately adopted by a loving couple. Jack, waiting for an adoption that never came, entered the foster care system. Despite their separation, they grew up close to one another, their abilities gaining in strength with each passing year.
At 12, tragedy struck Jill and she found herself in the same group home where Jack resided, The Randolph House. After nearly two years she was lucky enough to be placed with a family of four. The older child, Joey Jones, a dour, aimless college sophomore becoming addicted to heroin purchased from Jasper Johnson, an evil man with three equally evil cohorts, witnesses Jasper murder a man. Joey flees, only to have Jasper track him down and threaten his entire family, including Jill. The only problem for Jasper and his crew is never having come up against the likes of Jack and Jill and their unique powers, despite their young age.
As the twins become teenagers, they face the typical problems that plague all our youth; love, romance, rivalries, bullying, all while fighting off the lethal aspirations of a band of drug dealers, rapists and murderers, concluding with one perilous final assault.
Sprinkled throughout the present day story are reports from Joyce Whitaker, the twin’s social worker who has been with them since their birth. She details important events through the years that demonstrate the twin’s growth and development and abilities, forever in a quandary as to how much of their story to tell, their protection and privacy her number one goal.- Genres: Young Adult
