See You in Saigon (20 page)

“What are you
doing?” Scorpion screamed in panic as he felt his chair jerk with the weight.

Chris glared at
him in silence for a moment then reached down, grabbed the chair’s two front
legs and yanked upward, flipping the chair and its occupant backward over the
gunwale and into the sea.

As Scorpion
disappeared from sight, Chris replied, “I’m righting a wrong.”

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Vigilante

Book 1 of the
Vigilante Series

Montreal
. . .
the long, hot summer of 1996. . . and in the dark of night, moving like a
shadowy wraith, a vigilante prowls the city's streets. The targets of his
bloody rampage: the worst of the worst. . . Murderers. Gangbangers. Rapists.
Six months. Sixteen murders. The harried police are still without a clue . . .
until the day they receive an email from the assassin himself. Lieutenant Dave
McCall, head of Montreal's Special Homicide Task Force, needs help to crack the
secrets of the killer's taunting message. He calls on an expert, Chris Barry,
who runs a security firm specializing in computer communications. Together,
McCall and Barry launch a grim quest to track down a man who preys on predators
- an urgent quest to bring this remorseless killer to justice. But whose
justice will prevail: theirs--or the vigilante's?

The
Consultant

Book 2 of the
Vigilante Series

The friendly
takeover of CSS Inc. leaves computer executive Chris Barry unemployed, very
wealthy and pleased with the situation. But the hiatus is short-lived. . . As a
result of his involvement in the recent ‘Vigilante’ investigation, Barry is
approached by Jonathan Addley and invited to join ‘Discreet Activities’, a
government agency of the clandestine variety. Accepting, he promptly takes on
his first assignment under the guise of an IT consultant, to investigate
possible links between a local import business and the murder of its MIS
director. As he discovers the firm is being used to import narcotics, his cover
is blown and things get personal, spurring him to show that murderers, drug
lords, biker gangs and kidnappers are no match for. . . The Consultant. . .

Mind
Games

Book 3 of the
Vigilante Series

Montreal
is
plagued by a string of vicious sex slayings. . . Captain Dave McCall and his Special
Homicide Task Force are in a frustrated frenzy as they try to bring an end to
the savage butchery. . . Assisting officially is noted psychiatrist, Doctor
Samuel Bowman and unofficially, computer genius and multi-millionaire, Chris
Barry. . . With each passing day, McCall works his way closer to the truth. . .
Unaware that they are heading deep into the deadly core of. . . Mind Games. . .

The
Homeless Killer

Book 4 of the
Vigilante Series

The homeless of Montreal are dying at the hand of 'Allan', a serial killer set on ridding the city of
street people. . . As the killer taunts the police about the increasing body
count, Captain Dave McCall calls on the services Jonathan Addley and Chris
Barry, both operatives with the government's clandestine 'Discreet Activities'
team. . . All while fighting the city's proposed by-law banning the homeless
from downtown parks, philanthropist and activist, William Enright, joins the
law-enforcement crusade to capture the assassin. . . But will the combined
efforts of the law and old money be sufficient to stop the Homeless Killer?

6 Hours
42 Minutes

Book 5 of the
Vigilante Series

Though most of
them dabbled in a variety of criminal activities, they weren't experienced in
this particular field and had never been involved in a job like this before.
However, with proper planning, careful organization and the inside information
available to them, they were certain that this bank heist would be a piece of
cake. Ten minutes, in and out, was all it would take and they'd be sharing 2.5
million dollars. Nothing could go wrong as they had thought of everything. .
.How could they possibly know that a new member of the board was visiting the
bank that morning?How could they know that the new board member was Chris
Barry?

Discreet
Activities

Book 6 of the
Vigilante Series

As a result of
information gathered via electronic surveillance by intelligence agencies in
the U.S. and Canada, a budding terrorist organization, the Army for Islam or
AFI, is suspected of planning an attack, its target possibly NYC, Burlington,
Vermont or even Canada's famed Montreal. . . When four foreign students from Pakistan with known ties to the AFI's Montreal cell arrive in the area on New Year's Eve,
Discreet Activities' head, Jonathan Addley, along with Chris Barry and other DA
consultants are more than willing to take on the additional workload. . . After
two of the DA team members die violently in an AFI related suicide-bombing, the
job becomes getting revenge on those responsible for this Holy War...

Femme
Fatale

Book 7 of the
Vigilante Series

Less
than two years earlier, Leslie Robb, an accountant in her late twenties working
for the Imperial National Bank, had seen her life-partner and co-worker, Gina,
shot to death during a bank heist subsequently foiled in part by Chris Barry,
millionaire and clandestine operative of the government's 'Discreet
Activities'.Taken as a hostage along with Chris by the remaining robbers onto a
helicopter secretly piloted by two 'DA' operatives, including 'DA' head, Jonathan
Addley, Leslie had played an integral role in helping bring the offenders down.
As a result, thanks to her sang froid, sense of moral justice and martial arts
affinities, Leslie left the world of finance to fight crime as a member of the
'DA' team.Now, Leslie has a new partner in life, Dominique Petit, a
Canadian/French dual citizen who suggests Leslie visit Paris with her while she
is in the City of Lights on business. Less than twenty-four hours after Leslie
arrives, Dominique and her sister, Corinne, disappear, turning Leslie's
vacation into her own business trip of justice and revenge...

Thirteen
to None

Book 8 of the
Vigilante Series

Born of a violent,
criminal father, an alcoholic, promiscuous mother and left to fend for himself
at an early age, Butch Kincaid was destined for a life on the darker side where
he would live and lead by his own rules… Savvy, charismatic and narcissistic,
Kincaid headed a handful of deviants involved in theft and drug distribution in
small-town Ontario by his mid-teens and was running a prosperous organized
crime crew of twelve in Toronto before the age of twenty… An iron-fist ruler,
Kincaid demanded an intense, high-risk pace from his men throughout most of the
year but rewarded them with a month or more of down time each summer during
which the crew would go on a nomadic road trip geared toward relaxation,
amusement and lessened criminal activity... Until the summer of 2012… With a
penchant for violence and a desire for increased domination, Kincaid introduced
a new activity at the end of that summer's vacation… A home invasion, the
purpose being death and destruction for pleasure, at his command… Pleased with
the enthusiastic participation of his crew, Butch promised them the following
summer would be the vacation of a lifetime... Multiple invasions, an orgy of
terror, rape and murder… Their first stop, the home of a retired couple in
Brighton, Ontario, was a resounding success, as per their standards… Their next
stop, several hundred miles away in Knowlton, Quebec, promised to be even more
exciting… The home of an attractive and obviously affluent couple… The home of
Sandy and Chris Barry…

The
First Sixteen – The Prequel

Book 9 of the
Vigilante Series

Once upon a time,
there was
Vigilante
, the first volume of the
Vigilante Series
… but
from its beginning, it was said that sixteen victims had already fallen prey to
this self-appointed judge, jury and executioner… Who were these wrong-doers?
What crimes had they committed to deserve to be chosen? What led this killer to
deliver his own form of justice upon them to begin with? Join the
Vigilante
himself in this prequel novella as he tells you firsthand about…The First
Sixteen…

See You
in Saigon

Book 10 of the
Vigilante Series

Seventeen years
earlier, Dennis ‘Scorpion’ Roy of the Devil’s Delight was assassinated by the
infamous serial killer known as the Vigilante. Shortly after, the notorious
biker gang allegedly went defunct though rumours amongst law enforcement
officials suggested the organization continued to operate and thrive in stealth
mode. When the Devil’s Delight’s sustained existence is confirmed, the Discreet
Activities team is shocked to learn the gang’s leader is none other than
Scorpion, alive and well and currently in Vietnam on ‘business’. Asked to assist
in the dismantling of the Devil’s Delight, the D.A. team heads Vietnam to hunt
down Scorpion, the only criminal who managed to survive the Vigilante…

ASYLUM

As Managing
Director of the “Montreal Hospital for the Criminally Insane”, Doctor Matthew
Russell has always put his professional responsibilities ahead of all else.
That is, until he one day realizes he is losing his wife, Cassidy, and his two
children, Stuart and Jennifer. . . With only his family in mind, Russell takes
an adventure-filled, impromptu vacation of indefinite duration, leaving all
else behind and stopping at nothing to show how much he cares for his loved
ones in an effort to win them back. But, will he succeed . . Or, will it prove
to be all too late in the end?

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