About The Blackjack Player:
Few people know the anguish of keeping secrets
For a CIA officer, keeping secrets is a way of life, not an option, but Trenton Russell is a man who thrives on finding the truth. In the meaning of life, relationships, world affairs, and his own guilt-ridden past. And for a man obsessed with finding truth, lying for a living is particularly painful, he quits the CIA to be a journalist, revealing secrets, not being a part of them. He plays high-stakes blackjack to ease his guilt and sometimes a magical connection happens with a deck of cards. That flashing numbers reveal clues to the mysteries he’s grappling with. Visions from the universe and more often than not, the stakes are not money but human lives.
In the first book of the Trenton Russell series, someone is killing blonde blackjack dealers in Las Vegas. Three women so far have been killed in horrific rituals resembling an Indian massacre of the 1860’s. When the daughter of his best friend is taken, Trenton immediately fly’s to Vegas to find her. He soon discovers that all is not what it seems. That he has stepped into a web of lies and deceit that rivals anything the CIA ever threw him into. At the heart of the web seems to be a fisty stripper whose audacious sexuality reawakens his desire for love, but at what cost? Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is another.
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Author Bio:
Gerald Austin Boltz
is an artist, writer and cartoonist currently living in the Northern California delta. Born in Southern Missouri in 1940, he grew up in Kansas City. Newly married with a small son, he moved to San Francisco in 1966 to attend The Academy of Art University, from 1969 to 1971, majoring in fine art and design. He won four consecutive scholarships for semester tuition in painting excellence. After college, he exhibited widely around the bay area and was well on his way to becoming a prominent painter in the surrealist movement, however, periodic starving held no appeal, so he joined the carpenters union local 22 in San Francisco specializing in finish work and cabinet making. He worked in Hollywood for a few years, doing set construction, special effects model making and sculpture for the movies. Cartoon publishing credits include The Saturday Evening Post, Hustler and Men’s Action Magazine. Now retired, financial circumstances have limited his ambitions to keep painting, so he’s turned to writing to keep creatively active. He is the author of four mystery/ thrillers to date and is nearly finished with a fifth. http://tinyurl.com/geraldboltz. Art work can be seen at ArtPal.com/Gboltz. Enquires are welcome gboltz91@gmail.com