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The Inflection Point (free)
Note from Steve:
This is a novelette, shorter than a novel, shorter than a novella, but longer than a short story. I have put one idea for turning it into a novel at the end. Let me know what you think. Should I leave it as-is? Or, turn it into a full novel? The Inflection Point is a novelette about a man dying of pancreatic cancer. His always intense dreams are now enhanced to the point that he can't tell the difference between the dreams and reality. Is this just the effects of the drugs? Could it be his way of resolving his life and coming to terms with his death? Or is it something else? The Swimmer
Mitch Hamilton is swimming nude in Monterey Bay. While he doesn’t understand why someone has driven him to this desperate act, he feels it is a fitting way to end his life.
Samantha Louis, the talented psychiatrist we first met in The Misogynist, discovers that one of her teenaged patients has been driven to suicide by attacks on Social Media. And then, someone on Social Media begins a concerted effort to destroy her reputation. Neither is aware that they are just the first two pawns in a game where Social Media will threaten not only them, but those closest to them and even the entire country. The 15th Juror
We’ve all been there. The Jury Duty notice arrives. Most of the time, we're excused. But for the 16 people in our story, this wasn’t most of the time. This time it’s a major criminal case that will challenge their beliefs and cause lasting emotional damage for all.
Based on an actual criminal case, The 15th Juror tells the story from the jurors’ points of view. It could have been you! |
The Misogynist
George Gray, San Francisco-based reporter for the New York Sentinel, receives two similar emails an hour apart. One offers to expose well-known individuals who have criminally perverted use of the internet to enrich themselves. The other promises to murder women who have ruined the lives of technologists who were changing the world. Could they be the same person?
Mike McKenzie, San Francisco homicide detective was frustrated by his last major case. He never caught the serial killer who targeted the clients of prostitutes in the Tenderloin. He’s hoping that this time, he’ll be more successful. Samantha Louis, unmarried psychiatrist who has finally decided to find a life partner, takes on a new patient, a technologist suffering from late-onset schizophrenia who was hospitalized after a psychotic episode. Could he or one of her other patients be the killer? George, Mike, and Sam are about to embark on missions that will disrupt their careers and their lives as they race to identify The Misogynist. l'Ombre de Dieu
Jim Henderson, jeune cadre de Silicon Valley, est amoureux d’Elizabeth Leahy, diplômée d’une célèbre école de droit. Elle est belle, brillante et parvient toujours à ses fins. Jim est séduit par elle mais aussi par sa famille et ses amis exceptionnels. Tandis que leur relation évolue, Jim commence à soupçonner quelque chose de sinistre en toile de fond des soirées fastueuses, des badinages pétillants, derrière le charisme de Liz, de son père et de leur groupe social.
Dans ce thriller complexe, un jeune homme fouille avec urgence les côtés obscurs de la psychologie de sa femme et de ses beaux parents tandis que la police découvre des éléments susceptibles de la propulser dans l’intimité idyllique du couple. |
The Silicon Lathe
Bold and fearless, Jack charges into his Silicon Valley
career with the confidence he demonstrates in his extreme sports. Like catching a thermal hang gliding, for Jack, there is no where to go but up. But confidence leads to carelessness and Jack is unprepared for the greed and betrayal, the temptation of wealth and drugs, and the amorality of those who would do anything to succeed. The Shadow of God
Jim Henderson is a young Silicon Valley executive who meets and falls in love with Elizabeth Leahy, a recent graduate of Boalt Law School. She’s beautiful, brilliant and knows how to get what she wants. Jim is drawn not only to Liz, but to her larger-than-life family and friends. As the relationship matures, Jim begins to suspect that something sinister lies beneath the witty banter, generous parties, and charisma of Liz, her father, and their social set.
Ethics
Pursuing his first significant assignment as a New York Times reporter, George Gray learns that the successful Silicon Valley technologist he was to interview intentionally drove his car off a cliff. Why would Michael James, inventor of a world-changing technology commit suicide immediately after securing fame and fortune for himself and his employees?
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