timsatx, I've got a few books by him I picked up at a sale. Almost threw the book away as it looked like it was just a silly LA crime drama read by folks on the beach who never had any excitement in their lives. It got better and now i' going to read the next in theseries after I'm done with this current book about a couple of WWII OSS guys hunting former Nazi's from late WWII Yugoslavia, man is it different, not graphic, well, yeah, its graphic, but thorough in describing torture techniques used.