Overview
Iraq War combat veteran-turned-detective Moe Flynn, who has the improbable real name of Matthew Oliver Emmett Timothy Ambrose Flynn, must overcome emotional scars left over from his war experiences to take on the biggest case so far in his new career as a private eye.
The story begins as some children are enjoying an outing at a river beach. Their pleasure quickly turns to tragedy, however, when they suffer severe burns from caustic chemicals that have leaked from an unknown source into Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River.
A New Jersey oil and gas refinery is accused by state authorities of being the source of the leaked chemicals, so the refinery hires Moe to track down the real source of the leaking chemicals, and to find the persons responsible for the contamination. The detective must dig into old records, and interview potential suspects from many years in the past in order to unravel the complex history of the refinery’s dealings with those who were contracted to rid the refinery of its caustic waste products.
As he gets closer to digging out the truth, however, his investigations are noticed by the real culprits in the crime. As a result, Moe is made to confront his old combat demons, and is forced to decide whether “fight or flight” is in his best interest.
Making his decision even more complex, is his relationship with beautiful Diane, who was a client in an earlier case. Moe has fallen in love with his former client, and the only thing keeping the couple from making a lasting commitment is Diane’s uncertainty about Moe’s war-induced nightmares. Moe had already killed once before to protect Diane, and now she fears that as this case escalates into extremely dangerous—even fatal—territory, their history may have to repeat itself.
As Moe’s investigation reaches its exciting and action-packed climax, Moe discovers that he can, indeed, put the past behind him—solve the case, and win the heart of the woman he loves.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940045526265 |
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| Publisher: | Brighton Publishing LLC |
| Publication date: | 12/16/2013 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 452 KB |
About the Author
William Francis Kenney Jr. was the first of five born to a New York City high school swimming teacher and his stay-at-home wife. They lived in Richmond Hill, a neighborhood in Queens famous as the home of New York Yankee star Phil Rizzuto.
Bill was also interested in baseball, having played on the St. John’s Prep team that won the New York City championship and spent two seasons on the team at Yale while earning a degree in Chemical Engineering. .
While getting a Master’s Degree at Purdue he met fellow student Mary Megna. Two years later they married and she became the mother of their nine children.
Eventually Bill’s engineering career led him to Exxon Chemical Company in New Jersey. After a tour as head of the company’s energy conservation technology program, he transferred to the company plant in Linden, NJ, where he managed the plant’s environmental and process safety program. Some of that experience formed the basis for the story chronicled in “Victims of the Past.”
Meanwhile, he continued his athletic activities by officiating high school and college basketball games, coaching Little League baseball and helping several daughters improve their tennis game.
During his engineering career he published two text books, and a series of encyclopedia articles, His writing soon expanded into the athletic arena with articles about basketball refereeing in national publications devoted to sports officiating.
The smooth sailing came to a halt when Mary was diagnosed with leukemia. She died after a three-year fight, leaving two teenage boys still at home. Bill says, “We all just put one foot in front of the other for a couple of years until we all got our lives together again.”
After early retirement, Bill began to write fiction and some poetry. Several short pieces were published and he turned to novels, learning from a couple of failures before producing “Victims.”
These days Bill spends his time writing, (another novel with the protagonists of “Victims” is well under way), watching several of his twenty-three grandchildren’s athletic and theatrical achievements, teaching would-be referees the rules of basketball, and hitting golf balls into the nearest water hazard.