If you have enjoyed my blog over the years, please considered buying some of my books this Christmas, either as gifts or to read yourself. Johns Hopkins Press is holding a big sale on my book Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Font Lines of the Opioid Epidemic. Only $6.95 in hardcover. My first…
Time for Christmas Shopping. If you enjoy my blog, please consider buying some of my books either for yourself or friends. They are all available on Amazon or to order at your local bookstore. Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic, (selected by Amazon as one of the best…
I am pleased to announce, the EMS Novels, Mortal Men (2012) and Diamond in the Rough (2016) are now available in paperback from Amazon.com or for order at your local bookstore. *** Mortal Men is a novel about paramedics in Hartford, Connecticut in the 1990s when a gang war was raging in the city. It…
Below is an excerpt from my novel, Mortal Men: Paramedics on the Streets of Hartford, that came out in 2012, and is still available on Kindle. In the book, while the main characters had fictional names, I used the names of real people who worked the streets as extras. I did it because I wanted…
(This is an excerpt from a fictional work-in-progress.) Frank Anastacio walked out of the brick building with a small paper bag in his hand. His work boots trudged forward, each step taking him deeper into a world he no longer wanted to live in. The autopsy report said she had died of asphyxia from tying…
(An excerpt from a fictional work in progress.) Prologue Hernando already had a 200-gram bag of heroin on the table, as well as a smaller baggie of fentanyl, a canister of baby formula, four packages of Benadryl, and several small open cardboard boxes, each holding 600 of the blank glassine envelopes they would be putting…