Böcker av Peter Goldman

They call themselves the LadyKillers Liberation Army, bound together by their rage against women for denying them the sexual favors they feel are their birthright as men. Their leader is a shadowy figure known to them only as The Colonel. Their mission is to assassinate members of a bumper crop of newly elected Congresswomen at a rate of one a week. And they've made one big mistake: One of the women on their hit list is the wife of a streetwise New York PI named Max Christian. The Colonel brings in a ringer, a professional assassin, to bring her down on the steps of the US Capitol. Can Max and his pals get there in time to save her?Coauthored by a political journalist and a private investigator, Peter Goldman with Nicola Malatesta, PI, The LadyKillers War: From the Case Files of Max Christian, PI, is perfect for readers with a taste for thrillers played out in a real-world political setting-a world in which armed violence by right-wing fringe groups is the stuff of headlines.

Once, Sophie Guichard was a star-the toast of Paris and Hollywood, a screen goddess hailed as the next Bardot, the next Monroe, the next Bergman. But now, in her sixties and alone in her grand villa on the Côte d'Azur, she's fallen in love with a smooth-talking stranger less than half her age. He calls himself Tony Orsini and says he's trying to float a start-up investment business. In fact, he's a Brussels pimp with blood ties to the Corsican mob and dreams of building a Stateside chain of sex clubs, starting in Miami's South Beach party scene. He spends random weekends at Sophie's place, mostly in bed, and leaves with large checks from her partly earned, partly inherited fortune.In desperation, Sophie's son J-J (for Jean-Jérôme) hires two American PIs, Max Christian and Nick Testa, to bring him evidence of Tony's real start-up business-a brothel and call-girl service operating out of a fading South Beach hotel-and his real love life with his young and equally ambitious partner, Paulette Guyot.Max, a former NYPD homicide cop, and Nick, a Special Ops combat veteran, wire the hotel with spy-cams and hidden mics and gather what they assume are the makings of a slam-dunk case for the prosecution. There's a video tour of the hotel's sex-for-sale offerings. There's extensive footage of Tony and Paulette in nonstop two-, three-, and four-way sex play. And there's a tape of a poolside lunch at which the lovers partner up with Luca Paolucci, the don of New York's last viable Mafia family. For fifty-one percent of the take, he'll finance their dream of a transcontinental "empire of the senses."But when Max and Nick present their findings to Sophie at her villa, she stubbornly resists the evidence of her eyes and ears. It's not until Tony's goons beat her J-J nearly to death that she calls the detectives back to her villa and tells them she wants them to loose "a trail of blood" in revenge. "She doesn't want detectives, she wants a lynch party," Max frets. But they accept the assignment, not knowing whose blood will be spilled along that trail. It could well be their own…

On what starts out as just another routine day at the office, Max Christian, PI, receives a life-changing phone call. On the line is his old adversary, Carlo (Charlie Beak) Paolucci, don of the last Cosa Nostra family in New York. The Beaks hoods have snatched Maxs son, Jay, a Penn freshman, and he wants twenty-five million dollars for his safe return.The money is the least of Maxs worries. His wife is heiress to a $250 million family fortune. But the former NYPD homicide cop is brutally aware that kidnapping victims almost never come home alive. Even worse, the Beak is a notorious sadist and self-named student of pain who enjoys watching his victims suffer. After Max attempts face-to-face diplomacy with no luck, he fantasizes an armed rescue operation. Unfortunately he has no idea where Jay is being held. Its not until he hooks up with a mysterious Florida PI known as the Closer that a desperate strategy finally comes together. But when good guys without scruples meet bad guys with guns, there will be blood.In this thrilling tale, a New York PI is cast in the middle of a complex and dangerous investigation after his son is kidnapped by a mob boss.