By Shelly Waxman, J.D, and James Nathan Post

These are the first three in a series of exciting and thought provoking action mystery stories, about the cases of a tough street-wise Chicago lawyer with a maverick libertarian take on life. Though based on real cases from former Assistant US Attorney Shelly Waxman’s files, they are highly fictionalized, so as to be rough-edged pulp fiction reading, exciting, and challenging to ideas you may have, like Quentin Tarantino doing Mickey Spillaine.

#1 THE BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS

Was he the black Donnie Brascoe of the FBI, or the Judas of the Black Panther Party? William O’Neal was both. As the FBI’s mole in the Chicago Black Panther Party, he was security chief and bodyguard for Party Chairman Fred Hampton, and he helped set up the pre-dawn raid in December 1969 in which Hampton was killed. As hot new Assistant US Attorney, Sam was called to defend O’Neal,the FBI, and the Cook County State’s Attorney of setting up the raid as a political assassination. When Sam learned about COINTELPRO, and J. Edgar Hoover’s spying and covert acts against the Black Panthers and others, he quit the job, ending his plush inner circle career.

Now, thirty years later, a babe in distress walks into Sam’s office with a strange offer, and he soon finds those days coming back to haunt him. “I need to know what you found out, and why it made you quit,” she said. He knew what she wanted to know could get them both killed.

#2 PIRANHAS ON THE LOOSE

Ryan Sedlack was a military assassin, a sadist exploited to do the covert dirty work. After Vietnam, he became part of the Chicago Legion Of Justice, a civic group taking “all legal steps” to oppose the efforts of anti-war protesters, dirty tricks to blacken the names and disrupt the lives of those involved in liberal causes. During one such operation, he and his colleagues, mysterious and sexy Mata Diaz and pious and patriotic Tim Kallman, were double-crossed and Sedlack ends up arrested -- but for the wrong crime. He turns to veteran campaigner for the underdog Sam Cohen for assistance in clearing himself. The more Sam learns about America’s shady quasi-official right-wing underground, the less he likes it. Should maverick lawyer Sam Cohen defend them, or destroy them? When people close to him start getting hurt, and killed, Sam has to question what side he is on. Sexy pulp fiction based on astonishing true expose.

#3 THE JOSEPHUS ENIGMA

When Sam’s client Andy McAndrew, hard-working honest family man and Vietnam veteran, was robbed of his ID, Andy found himself arrested and treated as a vicious criminal, again and again. It seemed clear to Sam someone very high up was protecting the real criminal behind the robbery.

But when a witness identifies Andy as a fiendish killer, involved with a secret group of Chicago’s most powerful leaders who conduct and then cover up brutal sacrificial murders, and the evidence suggests he might not even remember it, even Sam begins to have doubts. What could the cryptic message “The Gospels Of Josephus” mean, and how could it possibly relate to Andy, and what can Sam do to stop them?

What he finds is a shocking twist on the history of religion that trumps The DaVinci Code, and challenges the very existence of the church.

Ordered online at Amazon.com, these three books would cost about $47.00 including shipping.

Mail with check or MO to: Shelly Waxman, 548 Phoenix Street, South Haven MI 49090