Frank shifted in his seat and stared straight forward without speaking.
Vic slammed the wooden pew in front of him with his hand, “Jesus Hirschfield Christ, Frank! What the hell were you thinking? I asked you to do one fucking thing, and you couldn’t even do that for me?” Vic spun on him, glaring into his face, showing him where the worms had eaten through his cheeks and bored holes in his eyeballs. Bugs tumbled out of his hair and fell on the floor, fell on Frank’s lap while he sat there motionless. “I’m not done with you, rookie. Not by a long shot.”
Frank O’Ryan bolted upright in his police car, slamming his knees into the radio console.
The early morning sun was fierce, reflecting off every car surrounding his vehicle in the bank parking lot. The lot had been empty when he pulled into it at three o’clock in the morning. Frank watched a mother holding her little girl’s hand come out of the bank and head for their car. Both of them were looking at him.
“Mommy, was that policeman sleeping?”
The mother instantly shushed her daughter and yanked her away. Frank put his head down and drove out of the parking lot, stomping on the gas as soon as he was on the street.
Bernard Schaffer is the father of two children. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, his work has ranges from best-selling gritty police procedurals to fantasy westerns.
A real life police officer, in 2012 he released a series of books titled SUPERBIA about a dysfunctional police department that reached the Kindle Top 100. As a result, he was stripped of his detective rank.
Schaffer is the founder of the Kindle All-Stars. All profits from their collections are donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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The Guns of Seneca 6 Series
Get Your Guns Ready to travel to Bernard Schaffer’s dusty world of the Old West set on a distant planet. Outlaws, gunslingers, native tribes, the occasional spaceship crash landing, and men willing to risk it all. A perfect combination of science fiction and westerns.
Guns of Seneca 6
Old-Time Lawmen
Magnificent Guns of Seneca 6
Immaculate Killers
Guns of Seneca 6 Collected Saga
Recommended for fans of Firefly, Star Trek, Old West legends, Tombstone, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
See the Guns of Seneca 6 Pinterest Pagefor some of the author’s influences.
The world of police work is a dangerous, terrifying place… and that’s just dealing with other cops. Not-Even-Promoted Detective Frank O’Ryan spends more time with drug dealers and child molesters than his own family, but it’s better than having to circumvent the unspeakable bureaucracy of his own agency. Called the literary equivalent of The Wire and one of the most subversive books on law enforcement ever written.
Superbia
Superbia 2
Superbia 3 (COMING SPRING 2013)
Way of the Warrior (Non-Fiction Law Enforcement Leadership and Philosophy)
Superbia: Collected Edition (Books 1-2 + MORE)
Recommended for fans of Joseph Wambaugh, Ed McBain, The Wire, NYPD Blue, and Homicide: Life on the Streets.
See the Superbia Pinterestpage for some of the author’s influences.
Several hundred years in the future, humanity has spread to multiple planets and made contact with a wide variety of alien life forms. Under the banner of Unification, they’ve sought to extend their reach and philosophies, sometimes by legitimate means and sometimes by military or economic force.
As with any government, there are dirty jobs that need to be done. Enemies that need to silenced. Terrorist cells that need to be eliminated. That’s when they call the Grendel Unit.
The Fight for the Future Just Got Dirty.
Grendel Unit: Bad Day at Khor-wa
Grendel Unit: The Big Payback (Coming Soon)
The fog is dense and the cobblestone streets of London’s East End run with blood. This new and exciting take on the classic characters from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books has left readers over the world stunned… and begging for more.
Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes
Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes (Gentlemen’s Edition)
Recommended for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Thomas Harris, Jack the Ripper, historical crime fiction and serial killer investigations.
See the Whitechapel Pinterestpage for some of the author’s influences.
The Federation is broken.
A hero will rise.
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Short Fiction Collections
WOMEN AND OTHER MONSTERS
OVERDOGS
Novellas
Codename: Omega
THE KYOSHI SCROLL
Non-Fiction
REGARDING FREEMASONRY: CONSPIRACY THEORIES
ABOUT MASONS, ILLUMINATI, NEW WORLD ORDER)
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Collections
Coordinates to Unmapped Places: The Collected Fiction of Bernard Schaffer
Chambered Rounds: The Collected Non-Fiction of Bernard Schaffer
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Edited by Laurie Laliberte
Copyright 2012 Bernard Schaffer
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