Magnificent Guns of Seneca 6 (42 page)
16. Lucky Day, Tom Waits
All those guys kept me in the groove for the duration of this project and if you check out some of the songs by artists on there that you've never heard of, I'd be much obliged.
As a teenager, Bernard Schaffer starred in Nickelodeon’s “Don’t Just Sit There,” musical productions, television commercials, and a skit on Saturday Night Live.
He left acting to pursue a career in law enforcement.
Since 2000, Schaffer has worked as a patrolman, detective, and narcotics officer in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
In 2012, he released a series of books titled SUPERBIA about a dysfunctional police department.
As a result, he was stripped of his detective rank.
Schaffer is the founder of the Kindle All-Stars.
The project’s first release was an anthology titled RESISTANCE FRONT that starred Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster.
All profits from that book are being donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Connect with Bernard Schaffer Online
www.BernardJSchaffer.blogspot.com
EMAIL
Twitter
Available for Kindle, Paperback, and Free on Amazon Prime
"Ed McBain for the 21st Century."
Matt Posner, author of School of the Ages
"Schaffer is the very best independent author I have ever read...with Superbia, Schaffer has taken his game to an entirely new level."
David Hulegaard, author of Noble
“Step to the side, Joseph Wambaugh."
5-Star Customer Review
"Schaffer's writing is top notch. He is funny, dark and tortured throughout. I was laughing at one page and then crying the next."
The Book Nook Club
A deadly shooting leaves police officer Frank O'Ryan with a shattered knee and a growing addiction to Percocet. Upon his return to duty, he is assigned to assist the most despised person in his police department, Detective Vic Ajax.
Together, the two officers will encounter everything from drug stashes hidden inside dirty baby diapers to geriatric child molesters. They will journey into a world of madness, crushing isolation, and unsung heroism from which so few return.
Superbia is the funniest, scariest, most brutal account of what police officers truly experience, written by the only author in the world who could take on such a task.
Official Book Website with More Info, Links, etc
Available for Kindle and Free on Amazon Prime
"Superbia 2 is the knockout punch from the new heavyweight champion of police procedurals. With this book, Schaffer cements his place among the all-time greats and silences anyone who ever tried to stop him. In the face of oppression, he came back swinging and this book stands defiant. It is a true testament to his love of the police profession, those who (really) do the job, his hatred of those who don't, and his blistering talent at telling a damn good story. Welcome back, champ."
Cheryl G., reader review.
"The Postmodern Hamlet,"
reader review Amazon.com
"I did wonder if this book could equal the first one, Superbia. Well it did. It took me just 8 hours to read Bernard Schaffer's latest offering. I poured through it like a reader possessed,"
reader review, Amazon.com
"Bernard Schaffer must be my favourite author at the moment,"
reader review Amazon.com
"Just finished Superbia 2 and all I can say is 'WOW'. This storyline is getting better with each book,"
reader review Amazon.com.
After the publication of the first Superbia, Schaffer faced incredible resistance from his "other" profession, and instead of backing away from writing about what he knows best, vowed to come back swinging harder than ever. Superbia 2 continues the story of the men and women of his infamous unnamed suburban police department.
The end of the first book saw Detective Frank O'Ryan vowing to take revenge for his dead partner, Vic Ajax. Superbia 2 is a masterful journey into the heart and soul of one man, willing to do to whatever it takes to set things right...even if it means doing something terribly wrong.
Official Book Website with More Info, Links, Videos, etc.
WHITECHAPEL: THE FINAL STAND OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Available for Kindle, Paperback, and Free on Amazon Prime
"This duel between good and evil isn't about observational investigation skills but rather a story of redemption, heroes having to fight more than just a nocturnal psychopath, and a culture ill-equipped to deal with crime and its breeding grounds. Filled with surprising twists."
BookPleasures.com
"The writing is stupendous. Let me say that again, STUPENDOUS. Every character, from the most prominent to the lowest bit player, is deeper than an ocean. There are scenes in this book that I will never forget, including an ending that brought tears to my eyes."
DavidHulegaard.com
"Built on considerable historical research, a willingness to describe a hard world for what it was, and a good use of the original Sherlock Holmes canon to attract lovers of the Conan Doyle mythos. Disturbing, yes, but engaging as well."
Bookpleasures
"Mr. Schaffer's greatest feat with this book is in his extraordinary character development. Perhaps none more so than of notorious butcher, Jack the Ripper."
DavidHulegaard.com
"Author Bernard Schaffer hits it out of the park with a stylish, fictionalized story of the notorious killer Jack the Ripper with one of the ultimate investigators in fiction, Sherlock Holmes."
C.C. Cole
There have been many stories written about London's Great Detective and his pursuit of the world's first celebrated serial killer.
All of them were lies.
Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes has been called both a masterpiece and a shocking outrage in its realistic depiction of the Ripper crimes and the world in which Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved characters existed.
Bernard Schaffer cuts through the simplistic devices that readers have grown used to Sherlock Holmes stories, and instead of regurgitating the same tired reworkings of the canon, he creates something new.
Something fresh.
Something that will leave readers stunned.
Caution: Contains Graphic Content, including scenes of violence, sex, profanity, and realistic depictions of life in the East End where the Ripper killings actually occurred.
Readers looking to enjoy an edited version of the story are invited to purchase WHITECHAPEL: THE FINAL STAND OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (GENTLEMEN'S EDITION), available now for Kindle and paperback.
Official Book Website with More Info, Links, etc
Available for Kindle, and Free on Amazon Prime
"You will peel through it, just to see if the next one can possibly be better than the last...it was flawless. 5 stars."
The Book Nook Club
"Schaffer pulls no punches with Women and Other Monsters. His imagination unapologetically consists of a balance of vast intellect and fearlessness when it comes to spinning yarns. He is going to tell you his story in his way and will make no concessions in reaching that goal...For the mere price of four quarters, this book belongs in the palm of any reader with a slightly askew take on reality. When one can see reality every day, it's the gems like this book that make diving into insanity that much more fun."
DavidHulegaard.com
"Thank God for Schaffer"
KindleObsessed.com
WOMEN AND OTHER MONSTERS is the first short-story collection of supernatural thrillers from best-selling author Bernard Schaffer.
"The Reluctant Death" is a dark history lesson that takes place on a Virginian tobacco plantation, when an African Death God refuses to let the owner's daughter die.
"Codename: Omega" tells the epic story of a super-powered secret agent who's sent to destroy a Nazi experimental weapon development facility.
Had enough of sparkly vampires?
"Room Service" is the hilarious tale of a vampire who takes a victim and her nothing-to-lose boyfriend goes for revenge.
Few stories will make a reader squirm in their seats like the unforgettable "Cold Comforts," the grim story of a jealous wife who is the victim of shocking infidelity.
"Nazareth" presents an alternate possibility to one of the most important, and sacred events in human history.
The collection ends with a revealing personal essay by the author that examines the dark well that stories sometimes spring forth from, titled "Digestif."
Official Book Website with More Info, Links, etc
The work of Bernard Schaffer is being assembled into Collected Editions to make it easy for readers to acquire.
These new titles are the best place to start.
The Superbia Collected Edition
This volume includes the first two best-sellers as well as interviews with the author and the Way of the Warrior Essay.
Coordinates to Unmapped Places: The Collected Fiction of Bernard Schaffer
