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What would you do if your best friend was killed right in front of you, and the assassin fled without a trace and was never found? Would you wait forever for justice to run its course, or take it into your own hands?
What would you do if you were a private investigator specializing in defending indicted felons but was forced to switch to the other side of the street to hunt down a killer? If your family is threatened along the way, and someone tries to kill you, would bringing the murderer to justice satisfy you? Or would you want something more?
Welcome to the murky world of boxer Danny Cullen and former legendary DEA agent Frank Boff, a world where the line between right and wrong gets bent out of shape and the only real satisfaction is vengeance.
They are the unlikeliest of teams. Cullen is a disciplined professional boxer who plays by the rules. Boff is a maverick investigator who believes anything goes as long as he doesn’t get caught doing it. They have nothing in common except the mission: find out who killed Cullen’s best friend, world champion boxer Julio Babbas.
Neither attempts to hide their disdain for each other. But like it or not, they find themselves travel partners on a journey into a Shadow World where Cullen’s friend lived and died. What they find there shocks Cullen and eventually pulls him over to the Dark Side, a place Boff calls home. Constantly in conflict, they find a common ground: find the killer and seek a punishment more just than justice: THE HURTING GAME.
Boff and Cullen are back in THE PUNISHING GAME. Cullen is nearly killed when he, his trainer Ryan McAlary, and trainer Nino Biaggi get caught in the crosshairs of a drive-by shootout between Brooklyn street gangs. A bullet grazes Cullen’s head, Biaggi is dead, and the cops say they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Boff doesn’t think so. He believes the shootout was staged and Cullen was the real target. So Boff flies from Las Vegas to Brooklyn to investigate. Cullen, who is in Brooklyn training for a major fight at Madison Square Garden, doesn’t for a moment think he was the target. Once again he and Boff are at odds.
But when evidence starts to turn up that the gang shootout indeed had been a charade, Cullen once again joins forces with Boff. Their investigation will take them into a dangerous world where powerful people are playing a game of high stakes poker in order to pull off a multi-million dollar scam. Boff himself is nearly killed, and now he and Cullen are dead set on not only stopping the scam from coming off, but punishing the people involved.
In THE KILLER SEX GAME, Boff and Cullen have moved permanently to the Big Apple, where they bite into a complex case involving a murdered Cuban boxing legend, high class call girls, and a string of related deaths. One of those killed is Cullen’s girlfriend, who is raped and murdered in a Brooklyn alley. The killer is caught in the act and slain by a couple cops who just happen to be on the scene…or so it seems.
As Boff and Cullen look into both the murder of his girlfriend and the boxer, some ugly truths emerge, including the fact that Cullen’s lady friend lived a dual life as a second-year law student at Columbia, and also as a hooker for an elite escort service. When the dead boxer is also linked to the escort service, Boff and Cullen find themselves searching in a world where the price of sex is cheaper than the cost for betrayal: death.
Boff’s latest case can be found in the mystery novel THE PAYBACK GAME. A decorated New York City detective in the prime of his life suddenly dies of a heart attack. Or so it seems. But a star columnist for the Daily News isn’t buying it. No way, no how. Using information supplied by a street snitch, the investigative reporter believes that the cop was killed by a hitman who used a shot of potassium chloride to simulate a heart attack. When the reporter starts nosing around, he himself is killed by an assassin who disappears without a trace. Months later, when the dead reporter’s murder goes stone cold, a retired legendary columnist hires rogue private investigator, Frank Boff, to hunt down the killer. Boff and his sidekick, boxer Danny Cullen, team up once again, and this time they find themselves up against a ruthless biker gang, bent cops, and a criminal mastermind who’ll stop at nothing to launch a multi-million dollar criminal operation in Brooklyn. Lied to, shot at, and constantly under threat, Boff and Cullen cut through layers of deceit and misdirection to zero in on the mastermind with one intention only: to seek and destroy.
THE DEATH DEALING GAME Meet Emily Lynch, a hot-tempered, ex-Iraqi vet currently on suspension from the NYPD for hitting the booze too hard while on the job. She’s six-feet tall, rangy and strong, and has the looks of a runway model. But don’t tell her that unless your dental insurance is paid up. Impulsive, brash, brutally honest, and prone to use physical force when a clever question would get better results, she’s the polar opposite of elite private investigator, Frank Boff, legendary ex-DEA agent and world-class junk food aficionado.
When two people close to Lynch are brutally murdered, she can’t investigate their deaths because of her suspension, and so with great reluctance she teams up with Boff, for whom she has nothing but disdain. As they begin investigating the double murder, they discover that it’s just the tip of a massive conspiracy involving gunrunning, high-stakes poker games, a seriously weird string of assassinations, and caffeinated mobsters with short fuses and big guns.
Once again, private eye Frank Boff finds himself on his home turf, the Dark Side, where nothing is as it appears to be.
Constantly running into roadblocks of lies and deception, and twice the target of assassination, Boff and Lynch finally find common ground—seek and destroy the killers in an endgame scenario that gives new meaning to Boff’s code of doling out a punishment more just than mere justice.
THE CASHING OUT GAME When private investigator Frank Boff finds the decomposing body of a woman in the trunk of his car, he and his partner Emily Lynch are forced to search for answers in a shadow world where nothing is as it appears to be.
The investigation gets even more difficult when Boff and Lynch find themselves caught in the middle of a bloody mob war and targets for assassination.
By temperament, Boff and Lynch are polar opposites. He’s a former DEA agent who’s patient, crafty, doesn’t carry a gun, and is a master at squeezing information out of people using guile and wit. Lynch is a hot-tempered, ex-Iraqi War vet who was canned from the NYPD for hitting the booze too hard. She lacks patience and is prone to use physical tactics when a probing question would get better results.
The odd couple of private investigators is back, and as usual, sparks fly between the two ill-matched partners.
What would you do if your best friend was killed right in front of you, and the assassin fled without a trace and was never found? Would you wait forever for justice to run its course, or take it into your own hands?
What would you do if you were a private investigator specializing in defending indicted felons but was forced to switch to the other side of the street to hunt down a killer? If your family is threatened along the way, and someone tries to kill you, would bringing the murderer to justice satisfy you? Or would you want something more?
Welcome to the murky world of boxer Danny Cullen and former legendary DEA agent Frank Boff, a world where the line between right and wrong gets bent out of shape and the only real satisfaction is vengeance.
They are the unlikeliest of teams. Cullen is a disciplined professional boxer who plays by the rules. Boff is a maverick investigator who believes anything goes as long as he doesn’t get caught doing it. They have nothing in common except the mission: find out who killed Cullen’s best friend, world champion boxer Julio Babbas.
Neither attempts to hide their disdain for each other. But like it or not, they find themselves travel partners on a journey into a Shadow World where Cullen’s friend lived and died. What they find there shocks Cullen and eventually pulls him over to the Dark Side, a place Boff calls home. Constantly in conflict, they find a common ground: find the killer and seek a punishment more just than justice: THE HURTING GAME.
Boff and Cullen are back in THE PUNISHING GAME. Cullen is nearly killed when he, his trainer Ryan McAlary, and trainer Nino Biaggi get caught in the crosshairs of a drive-by shootout between Brooklyn street gangs. A bullet grazes Cullen’s head, Biaggi is dead, and the cops say they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Boff doesn’t think so. He believes the shootout was staged and Cullen was the real target. So Boff flies from Las Vegas to Brooklyn to investigate. Cullen, who is in Brooklyn training for a major fight at Madison Square Garden, doesn’t for a moment think he was the target. Once again he and Boff are at odds.
But when evidence starts to turn up that the gang shootout indeed had been a charade, Cullen once again joins forces with Boff. Their investigation will take them into a dangerous world where powerful people are playing a game of high stakes poker in order to pull off a multi-million dollar scam. Boff himself is nearly killed, and now he and Cullen are dead set on not only stopping the scam from coming off, but punishing the people involved.
In THE KILLER SEX GAME, Boff and Cullen have moved permanently to the Big Apple, where they bite into a complex case involving a murdered Cuban boxing legend, high class call girls, and a string of related deaths. One of those killed is Cullen’s girlfriend, who is raped and murdered in a Brooklyn alley. The killer is caught in the act and slain by a couple cops who just happen to be on the scene…or so it seems.
As Boff and Cullen look into both the murder of his girlfriend and the boxer, some ugly truths emerge, including the fact that Cullen’s lady friend lived a dual life as a second-year law student at Columbia, and also as a hooker for an elite escort service. When the dead boxer is also linked to the escort service, Boff and Cullen find themselves searching in a world where the price of sex is cheaper than the cost for betrayal: death.
Boff’s latest case can be found in the mystery novel THE PAYBACK GAME. A decorated New York City detective in the prime of his life suddenly dies of a heart attack. Or so it seems. But a star columnist for the Daily News isn’t buying it. No way, no how. Using information supplied by a street snitch, the investigative reporter believes that the cop was killed by a hitman who used a shot of potassium chloride to simulate a heart attack. When the reporter starts nosing around, he himself is killed by an assassin who disappears without a trace. Months later, when the dead reporter’s murder goes stone cold, a retired legendary columnist hires rogue private investigator, Frank Boff, to hunt down the killer. Boff and his sidekick, boxer Danny Cullen, team up once again, and this time they find themselves up against a ruthless biker gang, bent cops, and a criminal mastermind who’ll stop at nothing to launch a multi-million dollar criminal operation in Brooklyn. Lied to, shot at, and constantly under threat, Boff and Cullen cut through layers of deceit and misdirection to zero in on the mastermind with one intention only: to seek and destroy.
THE DEATH DEALING GAME Meet Emily Lynch, a hot-tempered, ex-Iraqi vet currently on suspension from the NYPD for hitting the booze too hard while on the job. She’s six-feet tall, rangy and strong, and has the looks of a runway model. But don’t tell her that unless your dental insurance is paid up. Impulsive, brash, brutally honest, and prone to use physical force when a clever question would get better results, she’s the polar opposite of elite private investigator, Frank Boff, legendary ex-DEA agent and world-class junk food aficionado.
When two people close to Lynch are brutally murdered, she can’t investigate their deaths because of her suspension, and so with great reluctance she teams up with Boff, for whom she has nothing but disdain. As they begin investigating the double murder, they discover that it’s just the tip of a massive conspiracy involving gunrunning, high-stakes poker games, a seriously weird string of assassinations, and caffeinated mobsters with short fuses and big guns.
Once again, private eye Frank Boff finds himself on his home turf, the Dark Side, where nothing is as it appears to be.
Constantly running into roadblocks of lies and deception, and twice the target of assassination, Boff and Lynch finally find common ground—seek and destroy the killers in an endgame scenario that gives new meaning to Boff’s code of doling out a punishment more just than mere justice.
THE CASHING OUT GAME When private investigator Frank Boff finds the decomposing body of a woman in the trunk of his car, he and his partner Emily Lynch are forced to search for answers in a shadow world where nothing is as it appears to be.
The investigation gets even more difficult when Boff and Lynch find themselves caught in the middle of a bloody mob war and targets for assassination.
By temperament, Boff and Lynch are polar opposites. He’s a former DEA agent who’s patient, crafty, doesn’t carry a gun, and is a master at squeezing information out of people using guile and wit. Lynch is a hot-tempered, ex-Iraqi War vet who was canned from the NYPD for hitting the booze too hard. She lacks patience and is prone to use physical tactics when a probing question would get better results.
The odd couple of private investigators is back, and as usual, sparks fly between the two ill-matched partners.
