Richard Brawer Catalog
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Keiretsu
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Available wherever books are sold
Keiretsu is an explosive political thriller ripped from the headlines
“Tokyo Grows Wary of China Military” The Wall Street Journal 5/14/2010
“Japan’s Nationalist Movement Strengthens” The Wall Street Journal 8/15/2012
“Chinese Warships Put Japan on Edge” Huffington Post 10/16/2012
Toshio Nagoya, ultra-nationalist CEO of Japan’s largest keiretsu, foresees dire peril approaching his country. China and Japan have been enemies for centuries. Under Kublai Kahn, China tried and failed twice to invade Japan. However, Japan invaded China during WWII and exacted huge atrocities for which Japan never apologized.
With the United States’ power and influence declining in Asia combined with China’s expanding militancy throughout the region, Toshio feels it is only a matter of time before China defies the U.S. and attempts to exact its revenge on Japan. To protect his country Toshio forms a secret cabal with the CEOs of Japan’s seven largest keiretsus to build nuclear weapons, and allies with nationalist groups to heighten the peoples’ fear of China.
Toshio is well aware that he can’t hide his nuclear weapons ambition from the U.S. forever. The United Sates is still Japan’s sole defender, and with its unceasing demands that Iran and North Korea abandon their nuclear weapons programs, when the U.S. discovers Japan is making nuclear weapons, the administration will have no choice but to command Japan stop.
Enlisting the help of his cousin, John Nagoya, a lawyer in the United States, Toshio forms a large political action committee within the U.S. to influence congress by donating huge sums of money to congressmen’s
campaigns. Then the PAC will “ask” the congressmen under their control to blunt the administration’s insistence that Japan “stop or else.”
Standing in Toshio’s way are Senator Ted Morrison, an avid fighter against foreign companies donating money to America’s politicians and PACs, and Roger Nagoya, John’s son. Roger is John’s heir apparent in
their law firm, but John has kept all dealings with Toshio secret which foments Roger’s curiosity.
Conspiracy, lust, infidelity, treachery, betrayal and murder permeate this political thriller. Marriages are destroyed; A son becomes estranged from his father; A sister chastises her brother for disloyalty; A cousin distrusts his cousin, questioning his fidelity; A mother-in-law openly professes her dislike for her daughter-in-law; forbidden love becomes obsessive lust.
Keiretsu is chilling fiction, not in the genre of horror, but in the sense that as China continues to intimidate its neighbors, the plot may not be so fictitious in the near future.
Keiretsu is an explosive political thriller ripped from the headlines
“Tokyo Grows Wary of China Military” The Wall Street Journal 5/14/2010
“Japan’s Nationalist Movement Strengthens” The Wall Street Journal 8/15/2012
“Chinese Warships Put Japan on Edge” Huffington Post 10/16/2012
Toshio Nagoya, ultra-nationalist CEO of Japan’s largest keiretsu, foresees dire peril approaching his country. China and Japan have been enemies for centuries. Under Kublai Kahn, China tried and failed twice to invade Japan. However, Japan invaded China during WWII and exacted huge atrocities for which Japan never apologized.
With the United States’ power and influence declining in Asia combined with China’s expanding militancy throughout the region, Toshio feels it is only a matter of time before China defies the U.S. and attempts to exact its revenge on Japan. To protect his country Toshio forms a secret cabal with the CEOs of Japan’s seven largest keiretsus to build nuclear weapons, and allies with nationalist groups to heighten the peoples’ fear of China.
Toshio is well aware that he can’t hide his nuclear weapons ambition from the U.S. forever. The United Sates is still Japan’s sole defender, and with its unceasing demands that Iran and North Korea abandon their nuclear weapons programs, when the U.S. discovers Japan is making nuclear weapons, the administration will have no choice but to command Japan stop.
Enlisting the help of his cousin, John Nagoya, a lawyer in the United States, Toshio forms a large political action committee within the U.S. to influence congress by donating huge sums of money to congressmen’s
campaigns. Then the PAC will “ask” the congressmen under their control to blunt the administration’s insistence that Japan “stop or else.”
Standing in Toshio’s way are Senator Ted Morrison, an avid fighter against foreign companies donating money to America’s politicians and PACs, and Roger Nagoya, John’s son. Roger is John’s heir apparent in
their law firm, but John has kept all dealings with Toshio secret which foments Roger’s curiosity.
Conspiracy, lust, infidelity, treachery, betrayal and murder permeate this political thriller. Marriages are destroyed; A son becomes estranged from his father; A sister chastises her brother for disloyalty; A cousin distrusts his cousin, questioning his fidelity; A mother-in-law openly professes her dislike for her daughter-in-law; forbidden love becomes obsessive lust.
Keiretsu is chilling fiction, not in the genre of horror, but in the sense that as China continues to intimidate its neighbors, the plot may not be so fictitious in the near future.
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Beyond Guilty
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At fifteen, Eileen Robinson lives in an ideal, middle class African-American family in Houston, Texas. When her father is murdered, an innocent victim in a drive by shooting, her sheltered life spirals downward into gloom. Her once stay-at-home mother is forced to go to work cleaning offices at night. Instead of enjoying her carefree teenage years hanging with her friends, Eileen is relegated to babysitting her two younger sisters. One night she sneaks out on them. Trying to cook something, they die in a fire. Tormented and wanting to kill herself, Eileen runs away from home. Befriended by a drug dealer, she moves in with him. At twenty-one she is a single mother of two, falsely convicted of killing a state senator’s son. At thirty-two she is executed. Or is she?
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Silk Legacy
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In early twentieth century Paterson, New Jersey, dashing twenty-nine year old Abraham Bressler charms naïve nineteen year old Sarah Singer into marriage by making her believe he feels the same way she does about the new calling of a modern woman. He then turns around and gives her little more respect than he would a servant, demanding she stay home to care for “his” house and “his” children.
Feeling betrayed Sarah defies him and joins women's groups, actively participating in rallies for woman suffrage, child welfare and reproductive freedom. For a while she succeeds in treading delicately between the demands of her husband and her desire to be an independent woman. Her balancing act falters when a strike shuts down Paterson’s 300 silk mills. With many friends working in the mills, Sarah is forced to choose sides in the battle between her Capitalist husband and his Socialist brother, a union leader who happens to be her best friend’s husband.
Jealousy, infidelity, arrogance, greed—the characters’ titanic struggles will catapult you into the heights of their euphoria and the depths of their despair. Who will triumph and who will be humbled is not certain until the last page.
Feeling betrayed Sarah defies him and joins women's groups, actively participating in rallies for woman suffrage, child welfare and reproductive freedom. For a while she succeeds in treading delicately between the demands of her husband and her desire to be an independent woman. Her balancing act falters when a strike shuts down Paterson’s 300 silk mills. With many friends working in the mills, Sarah is forced to choose sides in the battle between her Capitalist husband and his Socialist brother, a union leader who happens to be her best friend’s husband.
Jealousy, infidelity, arrogance, greed—the characters’ titanic struggles will catapult you into the heights of their euphoria and the depths of their despair. Who will triumph and who will be humbled is not certain until the last page.
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The David Nance Mystery Series
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Secrets Can Be Deadly (First book in the volume)
As a single parent, David Nance’s mother is devoted to her son. When David finds her murdered on the eve of her sixtieth birthday, he sets out to avenge her death.
His investigation uncovers a brain impaired baby born twenty-six years ago that had either been switched at birth or murdered. The mounting evidence forces David to come face to face with the idea that his mother may not only have been involved, but as a delivery room nurse in the hospital for thirty years, may also have been a blackmailer.
As David digs into the backgrounds of the murder suspects, he is tormented when one by one he realizes each could be his father. One is, but is his father also the murderer?
His investigation uncovers a brain impaired baby born twenty-six years ago that had either been switched at birth or murdered. The mounting evidence forces David to come face to face with the idea that his mother may not only have been involved, but as a delivery room nurse in the hospital for thirty years, may also have been a blackmailer.
As David digs into the backgrounds of the murder suspects, he is tormented when one by one he realizes each could be his father. One is, but is his father also the murderer?
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Diamonds are for Stealing (Second book in the volume)
David Nance is still angry, still mourning his mother when he takes on an insurance case from an old rival. Investigating the circumstances surrounding a missing diamond necklace, the new case throws him into the path of his old nemesis, the man he blames for his mother's death.
Already on notice from his gorgeous girlfriend, Bobbie, about his insatiable thirst for vengeance, David must walk a fine line between cool, rational deduction and his inner rage.
When the body count starts mounting, the trail of diamonds leads him to a dangerous killer and a confrontation with his own demons.
Already on notice from his gorgeous girlfriend, Bobbie, about his insatiable thirst for vengeance, David must walk a fine line between cool, rational deduction and his inner rage.
When the body count starts mounting, the trail of diamonds leads him to a dangerous killer and a confrontation with his own demons.
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Murder On The Links (Third book in the volume)
Rooting out the murderers of a penny stock scam artist, a mob boss’ daughter, and a prostitute, David Nance
uncovers mob infested stock brokers, fraudulent hedge fund operators, loan sharks, blackmailers and deviant sex addicts from among the high powered CEOs, lawyers, investment bankers, philanthropists and heirs to fortunes at exclusive Riveredge Golf and Country Club.
uncovers mob infested stock brokers, fraudulent hedge fund operators, loan sharks, blackmailers and deviant sex addicts from among the high powered CEOs, lawyers, investment bankers, philanthropists and heirs to fortunes at exclusive Riveredge Golf and Country Club.
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Murder Goes Round and Round
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Payroll padding contractors, sleazy bar owners, cops on the take, real-estate scammers, mob infested politicians, and rabid carousel fanatics make Murder Goes Round and Round a roiling crime tale that
will keep you guessing until the end.
Grief stricken over his wife’s untimely death, Russell Gerrard’s life is on the verge of total shutdown. When his brother-in-law is arrested for murder, Russ, knowing his wife would have done anything for her brother, pulls himself together and comes to his brother-in-law’s aid.
Russ suspects a frame-up incited by his financially strapped brother-in-law putting his million dollar antique carousel up for sale. Many in Sea Gate, a decaying resort, feel the ninety year old carousel is the last vestige of the town’s glory days, and want to use it as the centerpiece of the town’s revival plans.
At the same time Russ is trying to save his brother-in-law he meets a woman who saves his life from total destruction. Russ stormy relationship with this woman is as much a part of “Murder Goes Round and Round” as is the mystery.
If you’ve read my “Murder at the Jersey Shore Trilogy” you met Russell and Susan Gerrard in the third book, “Murder on the Links”. How did this unlikely couple get together? Find out in “Murder Goes Round and Round”.
We have all ridden a carousel at some time in our lives whether at an amusement park or at a traveling fair. How were carousels invented? What inspired the inventors? Why are the early ones antiques today? What is the story behind the colors and the brass ring machine? While reading this great puzzler mystery, you will find answers to these questions.
Read more about Richard Brawer and his novels, and find links to booksellers at: www.silklegacy.com
will keep you guessing until the end.
Grief stricken over his wife’s untimely death, Russell Gerrard’s life is on the verge of total shutdown. When his brother-in-law is arrested for murder, Russ, knowing his wife would have done anything for her brother, pulls himself together and comes to his brother-in-law’s aid.
Russ suspects a frame-up incited by his financially strapped brother-in-law putting his million dollar antique carousel up for sale. Many in Sea Gate, a decaying resort, feel the ninety year old carousel is the last vestige of the town’s glory days, and want to use it as the centerpiece of the town’s revival plans.
At the same time Russ is trying to save his brother-in-law he meets a woman who saves his life from total destruction. Russ stormy relationship with this woman is as much a part of “Murder Goes Round and Round” as is the mystery.
If you’ve read my “Murder at the Jersey Shore Trilogy” you met Russell and Susan Gerrard in the third book, “Murder on the Links”. How did this unlikely couple get together? Find out in “Murder Goes Round and Round”.
We have all ridden a carousel at some time in our lives whether at an amusement park or at a traveling fair. How were carousels invented? What inspired the inventors? Why are the early ones antiques today? What is the story behind the colors and the brass ring machine? While reading this great puzzler mystery, you will find answers to these questions.
Read more about Richard Brawer and his novels, and find links to booksellers at: www.silklegacy.com
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The Nano Experiment
At fifteen, Eileen Robinson lives in an ideal, middle class African-American family in Houston,
Texas. When her father is murdered, an innocent victim in a drive by shooting, her sheltered life spirals downward into gloom. Her once stay-at-home mother is forced to go to work cleaning offices at night. Instead of enjoying her carefree teenage years hanging with her friends, Eileen is relegated to babysitting her two younger sisters. One night she sneaks out on them. Trying to cook something, they die in a fire.
Tormented and wanting to kill herself, Eileen runs away from home. Befriended by a drug dealer, she moves in with him. At twenty-one she is a single mother of two, falsely convicted of killing a state
senator’s son. At thirty-two she is executed. Or is she?
REVIEW EXCERPTS:
“A fast paced thriller” “Thought provoking” “Twisting Action” “Spirited Prose” “Authentic Dialogue” “A sympathetic Character” “A strong female Protagonist” “A Real Winner” “A Dam Good Story”
Texas. When her father is murdered, an innocent victim in a drive by shooting, her sheltered life spirals downward into gloom. Her once stay-at-home mother is forced to go to work cleaning offices at night. Instead of enjoying her carefree teenage years hanging with her friends, Eileen is relegated to babysitting her two younger sisters. One night she sneaks out on them. Trying to cook something, they die in a fire.
Tormented and wanting to kill herself, Eileen runs away from home. Befriended by a drug dealer, she moves in with him. At twenty-one she is a single mother of two, falsely convicted of killing a state
senator’s son. At thirty-two she is executed. Or is she?
REVIEW EXCERPTS:
“A fast paced thriller” “Thought provoking” “Twisting Action” “Spirited Prose” “Authentic Dialogue” “A sympathetic Character” “A strong female Protagonist” “A Real Winner” “A Dam Good Story”