Steve’s Writing
Steve’s novels are entertaining, profound, and socially relevant. His short stories pack a similar punch. And he is outspoken when he writes about current events and writing in his blog posts. Enjoy!
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Novels
Steve’s books are available at the publishers’ websites or click on “BUY THE BOOK” or “Buy Now!” to order from Amazon. Overseas they are also available at numerous on-line booksellers.
Full Medical (Xlibris, 2006)
It is 2053. Only the privileged few who can afford full medical coverage have access to all the advances of the last fifty years. Periodic terrorist attacks are the aftermath of wars in the Middle East. These problems and others have poisoned the body politic. A small group of government and industry leaders, who believed they had the right answers to these problems, devised a plan twenty years earlier to ensure that they would stay in power as long as possible. As the plan unravels and the cover-up begins, three courageous individuals are caught up in the maelstrom.
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Soldiers of God (Infinity, 2008)
It is 2077. (1) A grad student of Arab descent is writing a thesis about the assassination of a U.S. President in 2037, an event which led to the third war in the Middle East that this country becomes involved in. The grad student is brutally murdered. An FBI special task force investigating hate crimes takes charge of the case. (2) In a parallel development, a priest becomes involved with terrorist cells of religious extremists. Or is he on a mission to eliminate them? (3) In another story thread, a ruthless businessman goes after South American heavy crude oil in the llanos, the vast plains shared by Colombia and Venezuela. As expensive as it will be to refine, the oil is worth billions now that the world’s light crude is mostly gone.
These threads all come together in a weighty tapestry that emphasizes man’s continuing struggle against extremists who promote the fundamentalist ideas that would take us back to the dark days of the Middle Ages and other ruthless men that exploit the extremists to further their own agendas. Oh, yes, and also the first nuclear exchange in the Southern Hemisphere. Or, is it all nuclear?
The Midas Bomb (Infinity, 2009)
The murders of an economist and a Navy SEAL in Manhattan only miles and minutes apart seem unrelated, but two homicide detectives discover a connection. As the strange cases merge and they chase down the killers, even with federal stonewalling, they uncover a terrorist plan to destroy two American icons and generate a financial crisis bigger than the Wall Street implosion of 2008. Hiding in the background are webs of international intrigue taken from today’s post 9/11 world. Soon available as an eBook.
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Short Stories
Most of Steve’s short stories are available for free. You can check out the following in his blog category “Steve’s shorts”:
Other stories appear on some other websites:
The Force of Tradition
Rain World
Doctor Carlos and the Moon People
Doctor Carlos and the Mona Lisa in Overdrive
Responsibility
Trek to Heaven’s Portal
The Town Hall Gang
Finally, you’ll pay a few cents for the following:
Character Assassination