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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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To Die in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills detective Travis Bailey knows that beneath the sun-baked sheen of luxury there is a world of predators on the prowl. He also knows how to take advantage-and his million-dollar scams fleecing the Beverly Hills rich are going just fine. Then a Treasury agent named Charles Carr steps onto his turf, and Bailey's cover is blown sky-high. LA's permanent layer of smog was hidden by darkness. Charles Carr adjusted the binoculars to get a better view. From then on, he had pr...
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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Terrific . tightly spawn, with imaginative twists and turns . dead ends, dead people, unlikely heroes . great entertainment. And insight into a world we rarely see! New York Times book Review. Spectacularly readable . spy-telling at its fast, surprise-strewn best! Los Angeles Times Book Review. There was the sound of the steel door clicking shut. Stryker whirled and saw a familiar face.and a gun being raised to the level of his head. P e t i e v i c h . c o m. Website Design by PacificSFX.
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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When Eddie Sands decides to shake down a famous Hollywood star whose sex life could ruin his screen career, he sets off a chain of events that leads straight to the white-hot center of Las Vegas, and brings down on himself the attentions of Tony Parisi, the mob's kingpin of Las Vegas, and FBI agent John Novak. Shakedown is a gem. Stopped writing to read it, something. I have sworn I would never do, but couldn't help it. Dr Rhodes will see you now. Your file says you've been an FBI agent for twenty years,...
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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To Live and Die in L.A. Rick Masters is a big time counterfeiter with big problems. For one thing, one of his dealers, Max (the Money Man) Waxman, has just ripped him off. For another, his partner, Carmine Falcone, is in jail and threatening to cooperate with the government unless Masters gets him out fast. Petievich, who is himself a Treasury agent, brings a wonderful sense of reality to his work. Petievich has a sure hand, a fine ear for dialogue. And a canny feel for plotting. My car broke down. At Ca...
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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Petievich's tough, lean prose races with action. The dialogue snaps and crackles. A sure hand, a fine ear for dialogue,. And a canny feel for plotting! The New York Times. In 1992, Money Men was released as the United Artists motion picture Boiling Point, starring Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper and Lolita Davidovich. Dennis Hopper, Dan Hedeya. No more bad publicity! The visiting-hour trips to Chino were rough at the beginning - forced laughs followed by embarrassing silences. I got a letter from my daughte...
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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This story may be fiction, but it is so graphic it reads like fact. The sharp pace, grim, down-to-earth action is a real bet. To keep the reader up past bedtime. Clear and hard, and at the same time almost politic. The voices are real. A cop novel where the cops are. All too human and the problems all too real. Rocking back and forth, Payaso surveyed the line of customized lowriders parked at the curb in front of the church. The cars were all washed, polished, and decorated with paper flowers and str...
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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Gerald Petievich returns with another wild, well-written, speed of light escapade featuring Charles Carr, the epitome of a brash U.S. agent. St Louis Post Dispatch. Paul LaMonica sat at a cocktail table with Teddy Mora, a gaunt man with an oatmeal complexion. The meeting had been Mora's idea. He said he had a proposition. LaMonica said. He sipped a Bloody Mary. Where do I fit in? I need front money for the first load of snow, Mora said. I'm offering you the chance to go in with me. We'd be partne...LaMon...
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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Charlie Carr, Petievich's unforgettable T-man in the hardboiled, street-smart tradition of Hammett and Chandler, is scouring the underbelly of Los Angeles once again. When sheets of government security paper are stolen, Charlie is there, working to grip the lid of an intricate scheme to print 10 million in U.S. Treasury notes. An author writing out of real experience. And with the gift of transforming it into real art! A hound-jowled guard with a jagged scar circling one of his eye sockets stood behind a...
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PETIEVICH.COM - Gerald Petievich - Secret Service Agent and Novelist
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Gerald Petievich belongs to that tiny group of writers who came to crime fiction from careers in law enforcement. He has been an Army counterspy and a U.S. Secret Service agent, using his real life experiences to achieve verisimilitude in his fiction. His novels are known to come as close as any in the mystery- and-thriller genre to a genuine realism. Three of his novels have been produced as major motion pictures. But the operation is blown and the agent is killed. After the shooting, Carr swears ve...
