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A high
profile murder of a Wall Street executive in Westchester pits three people against the
criminal underbelly of Manhattan nightlife. The key players are two
ex-cops turned private investigators—Kevin Whitehouse, whose sharpest tool is
his keen analytical mind, and David Allerton, a former Special Forces
operative—and Margaret Alexander, Kevin’s lover. In their search for a killer,
they are forced to travel to the edge of sanity and morality, while stumbling
onto their own confusing secrets as well. The Cover of Darkness is a
gritty noir saga that untangles a web of deceit in the course of tracking down
a brutal murderer.
Teaser Excerpt:
David first opened
the door to a closet on the left, searching it with the gun muzzle, before
approaching the door at the end of the hall and kicking it open. An angry,
naked man stood on the other side, his anger changing to fear in seconds once
he beheld the gun pointing in his direction.
“Get back into
bed,” David ordered.
The pale-bodied
man responded as he staggered backward. The foot of the bed struck the back of
his knees, sending him seated on the mattress. The woman on the bed had by this
time covered herself with the sheets, and curled her legs up.
While Kevin stood
nervously in the doorway, David searched the room and the closets, the muzzle
of the shotgun again serving as a probe, but found no one.
“What the…?” Chase
asked David.
After searching
through the room, David tossed the shotgun to Kevin.
Suddenly, Chase
went white-hot heat, crawling backward into the arms of his woman in sheer
panic screaming, “What do you want?!”
“I want
information,” David demanded, going to the foot of the bed, standing before
them with Kevin directly behind him. “I want to know who whacked Osterman.”
“How am I to know?!” Chase shouted back.
His hair was a wild tangle, his eyes wide as saucers with fright.
“Don’t yell at
me,” David said calmly. “I want answers. I’m not interested in killing you.”
“You bust into my
crib and start throwing guns around. You’re crazy, man, what do you think I’m
thinking?”
“You were moving
dope for Osterman,” David persisted, ignoring Chase’s remarks.
“Osterman! He jerked me.”
“With the
Colombians.”
“Damn right.”
“And you didn’t
like that.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“So, you had one
of your soul brothers do him in.”
“Oh hell, no. My
people don’t kill. We don’t mess with weapons like you do.”
“And the reason
for that?”
“More jail time .
. . What are you? A cop?”
“Don’t worry about
what I am,” David growled back. “You are moving weight. I want to know what
happened after Osterman jerked you.”
“He jerked me.
That’s all.”
“That’s all? You
didn’t go to the Colombians? Liar!”
“Yes, yes, I did
that!” Chase corrected. “I went to the Colombians as soon as I knew he jerked
me. I begged them to give me another chance. They said they would, if I
replaced their one hundred kilos. One
hundred kilos! How do I do that?”
“Put bullets into
Osterman for revenge.”
“How is that going
to get me my one hundred kilos?”
“Let me explain it
to you, genius. The Colombians trust Osterman enough to give him a heavy
shipment. You find it, whack him, and take his shipment back to the Colombians.
Paid in full.”
Chase thought that
over for a second or two. “But that’s not what happened.”
“Convince me
otherwise.”
The word “Freeze!” were suddenly heard from the
doorway. David frowned as he glanced over his shoulder to see a scruffy looking
black male, armed with his own shotgun.
About the Author:
Gregory
Delaurentis spent his adult life roaming from job to job, working for Lockheed
in California , various law firms in New York , and financial firms on Wall
Street. Throughout this period of time, he was writing—unceasingly—finally
producing a large body of work, albeit unrecognized and unpublished . . . until
now. Cover of Darkness is the first in a series of upcoming books that
include Edge of Darkness, Pale of Darkness and Cries of Darkness.
These novels follow the lives of three individuals who do battle bringing
criminals to justice, while they struggle to understand the complex
relationships that exist among themselves. This intriguing trio has absorbed
the attention of Mr. Delaurentis for the past year and a half, so much so he
decided to self-publish their stories to bring them to a wider audience.
[AUTHOR’S DISCLAIMER:
These are works of fiction. Name, characters, places, and incidents either are
the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
coincidental.]
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http://gregorydelaurentis.blogspot.com/
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7 comments:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the hosts of Dawn's Reading Nook for featuring my book today on their blog and to also thank all of those on the blog tour for participating by commenting. Have an excellent day.
Great excerpt, thank you. I enjoyed reading it.
Kit3247(at)aol(dot)com
Karen, hopefully we'll have new and more exciting stuff for you next week. I would just like to thank you deeply for staying with me these past few weeks on this tour. I hope you are having a great time. Have an excellent weekend.
Thank you Rita, and thanks for being on the tour. Have an excellent weekend.
It's been a great tour thus far!
vitajex(at)aol(dot)com
Thank you Vitajex. I'm grateful that you are on it with me.
Thanks for sharing the excerpt and the giveaway. Sounds like a really good book. evamillien at gmail dot com
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