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Reading the Jack Handler series of thrillers set in the Midwest can be an exciting adventure for any reader who loves the murder mystery genre. Jack’s Sugar Island home (located on the bank of the St. Marys at the Canadian border), with its rugged and isolated terrain, deep forests, and small, close-knit communities, provides the perfect backdrop for this thrilling and suspenseful series.
As you delve into these books, you will quickly find yourself drawn into a life of secrets, intrigue, and danger. You will be captivated by characters such as Jack, Kate, Red and Robby, each of whom will transport you into his own complex and compelling world, with hidden motives and dark pasts that will keep you guessing until the very end. At the same time you will also encounter a rich and vivid landscape, where the natural beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is intertwined with the gritty reality of crime and violence throughout the whole of the Midwest.
We are sure you will find yourself immersed in the mystery of the moments, obsessed in your efforts to piece together the complex clues in your mission to solve the puzzle. You will experience the tension and suspense of the chase, and the thrill of the unexpected twists and turns that each story takes.
Overall, reading the series can be a thrilling adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.
About Michael
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
--Benjamin Franklin
Michael Carrier never had a doubt that he would become a writer of fiction. When, as a journalism student in college, his professor required him to write his own obituary, he wrote that when he turned fifty years of age he would begin writing fiction. The professor was not pleased that Michael wanted to delay his career, and so challenged the rationale. Michael simply told him that he would not start writing novels until he had accumulated an appropriate inventory of life experiences.
However, his professor, who happened to be the editor of a national weekly magazine, gave Michael a job writing for him. For two years (while still in college) Michael wrote or edited sometimes up to three articles a week.
Later he edited the Student Association Newsletter at the Graduate School of Hebrew and Cognate Learning (University of Pennsylvania).
From 1993 until 1998 Michael wrote a column that appeared in a few small magazines, and in 2006 he published his first book: “WIND.” It was a compilation of forty of the articles from his column.
In 1998 he founded “Goodschools.Com,” arguably the first real blog on the Internet. On his site he published articles regarding various aspects of education, and provided a forum for his readers to comment. He maintained that blog until 2006. It was at that point he decided to begin writing fiction. And because the blog was such a lightning rod of controversy, he decided to pull it off of the web.
Since that time he has published fourteen books of fiction, all centered on his main character, Jack Handler, a retired Chicago homicide detective. He is currently working on the fifteenth: “To China with LOVE.”
Regarding his comment to his journalism professor that he would not begin writing fiction until he had built up an adequate inventory of life experiences–he has definitely honored that commitment.
Michael has at different times in his life driven truck throughout the US, hustled pool and gambled poker from Texas to Montana, traveled the country hitchhiking, spent five years in Greenwich Village’s East Side, delivered diamonds for a diamond wholesaler in New York’s diamond district (he disguised himself as a down-and-outer), tended bar at a New York nightclub, climbed dozens of water towers throughout the US, panned gold, skydived, and worked for over two decades in private security. Oh, and yes, it is true–Mike and his wife did drop in on the Woodstock concert. It was, however, totally by accident. They had been backpacking in the mountains nearby and wondered about all the commotion.
Michael holds a Master of Arts degree from NYU, and has done an additional two years of postgraduate work at the Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia, where he was put to work inspecting incoming mail and packages for threats.
Currently Michael shares his time between his three seasons home on Lake Superior and Grand Rapids, MI.
His list of favorite places or things to do:
* Drinking a doppio con pana at Starbucks (or at any good coffee shop).
* Writing killer novels, of course.
* Exploring caves.
* Dining at a Ruth Crist.
* He has four favorite cities: Paradise (MI), New York City, Grand Rapids (MI), and Paris.
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“Books are gems. Books which leaves your spine aching from sitting up all night reading them; Books whose characters live in the bright corners of your mind. Books which hold the limits of space and time within them; Books which teach you all that man knows and all that man wants. Books are power” ― Philip Womack.
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Some of Evie's Favorites
Skydiving onto the deck of a moving freighter…at night…and then add bombs and explosions…
In Superior Shoal, murder and mayhem stalk Jack Handler throughout the Great Lakes, culminating in the fiery sinking of a thousand-foot freighter in Lake Superior.
The greatest challenge of his life…at night…
His two fourteen-year-old foster boys have witnessed a murder and are being hunted down by the killer. At the same time Henry, Jack’s best friend and right-hand man, is assaulted and nearly killed in an attempted revenge attack. To make the situation worse, his Chicago bar is targeted with an audit by former First Lady Allison Fulbright, his long-time nemesis, in an intricate plot to have him killed by his own clients. With everything except the sky crashing down on him, Jack calls on his daughter Kate, a New York City homicide detective, to come to their aid. Together with their good friend, Secret Service Agent Roger Minsk, they struggle through the greatest challenge of their lives.
Former First Lady Allison Fulbright is back, and she again has her sights set on killing former Chicago Homicide Detective, Jack Handler. Jack’s “motor mouth” friend, Legend, has agreed to take Jack’s two foster boys on a one-week Lake Huronfishing trip to protect them from Allison. But, it didn’t work out very well. While they were fishing, Deep State“terrorists” blew up the Soo Locks, releasing a twenty-two foot wall of water, catching Legend and the boys by surprise.But, as usual, nothing is as it would seem. It turns out that the reason for the Soo Locks’ bombing was to hide the Government’s mismanagement of the Locks.And Legend was the man who discovered the problem. He further found out who was responsible.Adding weight to the situation, Legend proves that his discovery, Government Malfeasance, is the underlyingcause of the devastating Great Lakes Erosion Disaster
Federal Judges are being murdered. One of the cases was broken by Kate Handler, New York City homicide detective. She is concerned about the nature of the case because the killer’s legal team seem all to eager to settle the case quietly.
But when a justice on the US Supreme Court dies mysteriously at a hunting camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Jack Handler swings into action. Before all the smoke clears, more than a few members of the Federal bench meet their end.