I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.
I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.
Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.
When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.
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"Nothing on earth can equal the sensation and excitement of violence. The energy it generates is like a fabulous heat from another sun, and the human race is attracted to it like the proverbial moth to the flame."
Police detective Stuart Haydon returns in another suspenseful, psychologically-charged mystery, the 2nd volume of five in the Stuart Haydon series. Heat From Another Sun unravels a story of murder and corruption involving both the superrich and the desperately poor during Houston's boom years of the 1980s.
When a motion-picture cameraman is found murdered in the darkroom of a Houston ad agency, Haydon begins an investigation that ultimately brings him face to face with the darkest side of human nature. Bit by bit, clue by clue, Haydon comes closer to what his mounting suspicions can only begin to imagine. As the case progresses, the story twists and coils its way from a luxurious mansion in the center of a posh estate, to the seamiest parts of the city's gritty ship channel where an abandoned warehouse gives up its gruesome secrets, astonishing evidence of appalling crimes.
At the heart of all this is a reclusive business magnate—a man as mercurial in his personal life as he is in his business dealings. Josef Roeg has enormous wealth and takes for granted the power that comes with it. Obsessed by a perverse passion, Roeg indulges every whim his appetite demands, and he will go to any lengths to satisfy it. He denies himself nothing, not even when his desires require everything of others—even their lives.
For Stuart Haydon the Roeg investigation is further complicated by the fact that Haydon himself has a secret about violence that he has never shared with anyone. He has hidden certain facts about his own psychological struggles with the mysteries of violence that directly affect why he continues to be a homicide detective. And why he continues to turn down the many promotions that the Houston Police Department has offered him over the years. His singular determination to confront his own complex potential for evil while he pursues the evil in others pulls him dangerously closer to the verge of his emotional breaking point.
Título : Heat From Another Sun
EAN : 9781963821109
Editorial : David Lindsey
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