It is 1806, early in Thomas Jefferson’s second term. A deeply entrenched secret society arranges for a dissident within their organization to be brutally murdered and left floating in the Potomac River, within clear site of the Jefferson White House. Clearly, the secret society is challenging Jefferson to either deal with them or suffer the consequences. Almost two hundred years later, after discovering a hidden diary written by one of Jefferson’s slaves, a small group of college students and a world class computer hacker learn about the crime and begin unraveling the modern day version of the secret society. As in life, sometimes the good guys win… sometimes the bad guys win… sometimes nobody wins. There are numerous plot twists which will keep you guessing until the very last page - who were the winners and who were the losers in “The Jefferson Files”?

The Jefferson Files

Literature & Fiction

Herman, Martin

Genre Fiction

Martin Herman - Writer

It is 1806, early in Thomas Jefferson's second term. A deeply entrenched secret society arranges for a dissident within their organization to be brutally murdered and left floating in the Potomac River, within clear site of the Jefferson White House. Clearly, the secret society is challenging Jefferson to either deal with them or suffer the consequences. Almost two hundred years later, after discovering a hidden diary written by one of Jefferson's slaves, a small group of college students and a world class computer hacker learn about the crime and begin unraveling the modern day version of the secret society. As in life, sometimes the good guys win... sometimes the bad guys win... sometimes nobody wins. There are numerous plot twists which will keep you guessing until the very last page - who were the winners and who were the losers in "The Jefferson Files"?

First Edition Design Publishing

It is 1806; a powerful and criminal secret society has almost complete control over many of the elected officials, international finance, and commerce in the young nation. Its leaders arrange for a dissident to be brutally murdered and left floating in the Potomac River so that the body surfaces within clear site of Thomas Jefferson’s White House. This criminal act is intended to send a message to the President and all those around him: ‘the society’s power should know no limit – elected officials – including the president – must acknowledge and support us, allow us to do whatever we want, when and wherever we choose, or suffer the consequences’.

The Jefferson Files: the expanded edition (The Will James Mystery Series)

194 Rodney Press

The second novel in the Will James Mystery Series, the anti-establishment private investigator and his crew are asked to help unravel a mystery that begins in a Brooklyn antique store and ends in the most unlikely of locations. Every Sunday morning, precisely at 10:30 sharp, there is an auction held in a sparsely furnished back room of Better Times Remembered, a small neighborhood antique store in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Albert Froog, the owner of the store and self declared auctioneer, personally chooses the items for each week’s auction. Generally these items are fairly ordinary but become more interesting because of the back story he is able to weave around them. At times there is even a speck of truth in the story he tells. At this particular Sunday morning auction, one of the items he offers up is a prohibition era permit in a battered old wooden frame authorizing the manufacture of alcohol. It was one of many items he acquired in an estate purchase. On his inventory sheet he has assigned a value of 50 cents to one dollar for this item because so many similar permits were issued during prohibition and the frame is of little or no value. Hoping he will wind up with something between 50 cents and a dollar he starts the bidding at $2.00. To his surprise and amazement two separate people quickly bid the price up to $100,000. “Who would pay $100,000 for this piece of junk?” Froog asks himself. “What do they know that I don’t?” When the head of the New York Mafia family also shows interest in the item Froog becomes doubly convinced that he really has a hidden treasure on his hands. If you think you know how this will all end you are so very, very wrong. As with all Will James Mysteries, the numerous twists and turns will keep you reading and guessing until the very last page. Discover for yourself what all the fuss is about!

The Hidden Treasure Files: ...A Will James Mystery (Will James Mysteries)

It is Christmas Eve, 2018. A bomb explodes in a packed movie theater. As the First Defenders move through the crime scene making instant life and death decisions, federal investigators pick up numerous clues, fingerprints and even D.N.A., all belonging to a known murderer. However, it soon becomes crystal clear that this particular criminal could not possibly have been responsible for this crime because he was executed almost eighty years before in the Cañon City, Colorado gas chamber. In “The Sweet Revenge Files”, the latest in the current series of Will James Mysteries, the resourceful and quick-witted investigator and his crew chase after three different, seemingly unrelated killers, all but obsessed by a need to dramatically settle old scores – A television preacher who claims to be doing God’s work by ridding the land of sinners… transgressors… non believers… but whose real driving force is to enrich herself and settle old scores regardless of the death and destruction left in her wake… An art dealer with a dark and well hidden past as well as all of the resources necessary for getting what he wants regardless of who or what he destroys in the process… A former KGB contract killer on a lifelong search for payback from the person who made it more challenging for him to ever rape another woman after he raped her… Each of these criminals seems to be willing and able to do whatever it takes to get their revenge even though such an all consuming objective can and does threaten their own survival. If you think you know how it will all end, guess again. You will almost certainly be wrong – so very, very wrong – because in a Will James Mystery things are very rarely as they first appear. You are about to be strapped into a roller coaster with no end in sight. You will feel as if you are moving in various directions at the very same time but you will refuse to get off until the very end.

The Sweet Revenge Files: ...A Will James Mystery (Will James Mysteries)

Evelyn Zaleson was the youngest of eight children. Like most parents in America during the 1930s, for Evelyn's father, the newly naturalized citizen Jacob Zaleson, the overriding objective was to provide a dry roof over his family's heads, plenty of food for the table, and the very best for his children. Unfortunately, Jacob was limited in what he could provide by his meager earnings from a slaughterhouse as an assembly line butcher. His American born wife, Marsha, many years his junior, was a stay-at-home mom. Together, they prioritized the needs of their four sons, because sons could always be expected to support and care for their parents in their old age. By comparison, they believed that their only responsibility to their four daughters was to actively search out rich husbands for them. One by one, Evelyn watched her older siblings be introduced and married off to their life partners and begin raising families of their own. "When will it be my turn?" she kept asking. Then she met Benjamin.

A Very Special Dress & Other Stories

Herman, Aimee

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Family Rakúsko

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Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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The Jefferson Files

The Jefferson Files

The Jefferson Files: the expanded edition (The Will James Mystery Series)

The Hidden Treasure Files: ...A Will James Mystery (Will James Mysteries)

The Sweet Revenge Files: ...A Will James Mystery (Will James Mysteries)

A Very Special Dress & Other Stories

The Family Rakúsko

Len Goodman Book: Dancing with The Star’s Judge Dies at 78 |Biography, Achievements, Career, Cause of Death and Facts You Didn’t Know About Him|