SAN DIEGO AUTHOR--Roger Conlee, a
veteran newsman turned novelist, is a throw back to an era when mystery writers
were able to find publishers and in return the public had good stories to read.
Roger’s
first Jake Weaver mystery/historical novel has been published and better yet it
is having its debut later this week.
It's
official! "Dare the Devil" will launch on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 5 p.m.
at Bay Books, 1029 Orange Ave., in Coronado. This historical thriller deals
with the postwar L.A. underworld and the never-solved murder of gangster Bugsy
Siegel.
Let’s
show up and salute Roger and toast “Dare the Devil.”
Snippet: Investigative
reporter Jake Weaver dares the devil by writing hard-hitting news stories
exposing the crimes of postwar Los Angeles gangsters Bugsy Siegel and Jack
Dragna. This not only puts himself in great jeopardy but also his wife and
daughter. To further complicate Weaver's life, a beautiful British spy emerges
from his past hoping to re-ignite an old flame while she searches for a
vicious, fugitive Nazi war criminal.
Other works by Roger
Conlee:
Fog
and Darkness [2012]
Roger’s
historical novel takes readers through the final year of World War II by
depicting the dramatic events in the lives of two Americans, one a journalist
and one a young Marine Corps officer. Time and again in great danger, these two
men experience the war in highly contrasting ways, but their lives intersect at
crucial points and they come together to forge a close bond of friendship.
Although a work of fiction, the novel describes this epic conflict's major
events with historical accuracy, while also providing a fresh examination of
America's wartime strategies, the good and the bad.
The
Hindenburg Letter [2008]
A
tension-packed historical thriller set in Nazi Germany. Full of surprises and
with a rich sense of time and place.
Souls
on the Wind [2010]
In
the Alps of Germany and Austria, legend has it that the souls of the dead ride
the strange, unseasonal wind known as the Fohn. In Souls on the Wind, readers
ride that mysterious zephyr from Vienna to California and, just possibly, into
one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. All because of a stolen
crown jewel that may have supernatural qualities. Souls on the Wind is
psychic-thriller, love story, ghost story, and science fiction all rolled up in
one.
Counterclockwise
[2006]
A
genre-busting book-within-a-book that combines alternative history, science
fiction and thriller, featuring a cop, a spy, a glamorous movie star and a
dogged newspaper reporter. Could a man from 1988 do something to alter a
devastating event that occurred forty-six years before?
Every Shape,
Every Shadow [2004]
It
is 1942 and the Japanese have overrun Southeast Asia and most of the Pacific
islands. They have to be stopped somewhere or Australia could fall. That
somewhere is a place called Guadalcanal. Every Shape, Every Shadow is Roger L.
Conlee's fictionalized account of one of the epic battles in American history.
Guadalcanal was where the Japanese were finally stopped and the Americans could
start on the road to Tokyo and victory. The story is told mostly through the
eyes of a frightened, lonely young Marine.
All
are available: www.amazon.com
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