Bomb Squad NYC

An FBI bomb tech inadvertently gave me the title for this book.

Bomb Squad Detective Manuel Diaz exists in a troubled state. A former Army bomb tech, he misses the adrenaline rush of combat and feels little if any love from his partner, Sergeant Sandy Kahn. When he brings home the pressures of his job, it causes fights with his beautiful...

This one required a lot of research.

A tip from the CIA puts all New York law enforcement on high alert just days before the city’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

Then, mysteriously, small bombs begin exploding around the Five Boroughs, stretching the NYPD Bomb Squad thin—just when the main terrorist threat promises a scale of death and destruction...

This book was inspired by the research I did for Dynamite!

Acclaimed Italian tenor Claudio Spotto didn’t expect death threats when he came to New York to sing at the Met and teach at the famed Julius School of Music. But before he has even unpacked his bags, he learns that some nefarious character is threatening to blow him up.

At first, the case...

The premise for this book grew out of something eerie that a top bomb tech told me.

Nearly ten years ago, a jumbo jet exploded in mid-air near Kennedy Airport, killing hundreds of innocent people.

Federal authorities issued a report blaming mechanical failure, but Kieran Lehane, a dog handler and the most seasoned detective on the NYPD Bomb Squad,...