The Killing Ploy

The Killing Ploy

Steve Haberman

Steve Haberman

Pablo de Silva is an agent in a CIA unit, whose work includes surveillance and killing. On a Berlin mission he fails to save a fellow agent, who’s also his lover.

Despondent, held now in low regard by his colleagues, he gets transferred to recuperate till his former mentor/head of that unit calls him home with a new assignment.  Liaise with the San Diego FBI and see why two Defense Department  contractors, headquartered in that California city, were murdered in Europe.  Are terrorists behind it?  If so, inform the unit’s head, and he’ll take over.

To de Silva, the task seems simple.  Off he goes to San Diego and beyond, not realizing he’s slipped again into a dangerous world.  Who are his true allies?  Should he watch his back as well as his front?

Not until the shocking conclusion of his mission one lonely morning does he find out.  And not until that morning, facing danger to himself and to U. S., do his allies discover Pablo de Silva is much more than he seems.

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Murder Without Pity

Murder Without Pity

Steve Haberman

Self Published

Paris at the start of the second millennium: dark with fog, riots over police killings, and Far Right demagogues. Here state criminal investigator Stanislas Cassel works at the Palace of Justice. Ashamed he’s a grandson of a French Nazi collaborator during Germany’s WWII Occupation of France, he avoids anything political. Instead he buries himself, solving small crimes.  

One dossier involves a pensioner’s bizarre murder. During his investigation, Cassel meets a beautiful Jewish woman, whose family the Germans killed.  Haunted by this, she tries to alert him to the Far Right’s re-emergence, but to no avail.

Tragedy strikes. He awakes to his blindness and understands a murderous evil, larger than his small crimes, as the Occupation portended, lurks. This understanding helps him proceed with his investigation to the end.

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