Late one April evening, retired Department of Defense research analyst Lewis Cole notices a disturbance in the state park across an inlet from his beachfront home in Tyler Beach, New Hampshire. Curious, Cole walks over and finds a solitary man who has been shot to death in the empty wildlife preserve's parking lot. Having a dead body turn up nearly on his doorstep doesn't happen every night, but since Cole writes magazine articles, not newspaper stories, he decides to let the matter drop. Other people have other ideas. A day after the man's death, Cole is visited by a team of Federal Agents, claiming to be from the Drug Enforcement Agency. They tell him that the murdered man was a drug courier sent to meet someone from Cole's neighborhood and the Feds want his help. Cole, who has bitter memories of dealing with the government, initially refuses, but is forced to comply when they take away his job, his savings, and even his home. He quickly learns, however, that the agents have another agenda, one that doesn't involve drug dealers at all. As Cole looks for answers, all he is able to find are more questions. Just where exactly was the man from? South America or the Middle East? Why was he interested in an old World War II tale involving German U-boats interned at a naval shipyard up the coast? Cole soon realizes that these mysteries are more dangerous than he ever imagined. They are leading him back into his secretive past, one that cost him many friends and now threatens his own life.

Killer Waves: A Lewis Cole Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Brendan DuBois

United States

Minotaur Books

Betrayed

Genre Fiction

Little, Brown Book Group

Birds of Field and Forest: Based on the Television Series Wild, Wild World of Animals

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Little,Brown & Company

FATAL HARBOR

January 2014

Lewis risks his life to unravel Mark's past, and protect Paula. Deceptive clues and treacherous witness pull him deeper into a decades-old tale of betrayal and obsession.

Blood Foam (A Lewis Cole Suspense)

Worldwide Library Worldwide Mystery

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Buried Dreams (A Lewis Cole Mystery)

Thrillers & Suspense

Worldwide

New Hampshire, as the voters in its primary help choose the next president of the United States. Usually, Lewis Cole, a magazine columnist and ex--Department of Defense research analyst, tries to stay out of the spotlight. However, when he attends a political rally for the front-running senator, gunfire breaks out, and Lewis becomes the initial suspect in the attempted assassination. With the Secret Service shadowing his every move, with his budding romance with a campaign volunteer in jeopardy, and with the threat of continued violence against him and the candidate, Lewis desperately tries to find out who set him up for the attempted killing, and who is still stalking him. Lewis is operating in the glare of the news media and among aggressive campaign rivals as he also tries to keep secret a decades-old connection with the leading presidential candidate, a secret that could have shattering consequences if revealed. Drawing on his own shadowy government background and with the assistance of his friend Felix Tinios, a man with a foot on each side of the law, Lewis dives into the unsavory world of presidential politics, where secrets are traded for favors, where votes are cast and sometimes discarded, and where a trail of bodies and broken promises can lead to the White House. Once more, DuBois brilliantly goes behind Lewis Cole's quiet existence to the flickering black shadows of his past. Are unknown plotters using his secret DoD record to kill the candidate and pin the murder on Cole? And can Cole outsmart---or outshoot---them before their plan can work?

Primary Storm

World Wide Publications

Enjoying his simple life by the New Hampshire coast, former government intelligence agent and small-time columnist Lewis Cole seeks to escape his dangerous past while pursuing his more secretive duties as a private investigator. Reprint.

Dead Sand (Lewis Cole Mystery Series)

Pocket

Discovering the corpse of a woman who has been buried in the sand for forty years, and the body of a recently murdered waitress, columnist Lewis Cole calls upon his local detective and mobster buddies to find if there is a connection. Reprint.

Dead Sand

Lewis Cole plans a relaxing end to his summer in New Hampshire, but corpses washing up on the beach and millions of dollars worth of stolen artwork disrupt his plans

Black Tide: A Lewis Cole Mystery

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