by Glenn | Sep 2, 2024 | General
I’m often asked, “Which of your books should I read first?” We all have different interests. Action, thriller, historical fiction, romance – the genres can seem endless. Most of us already know what we like. In a bookstore, we head straight to those aisles. Yet every now and then we seek a new author with a fresh variety of stories. So here are brief descriptions (one-liners to capture interest) for each of my novels. Hopefully, they will assist in your search. For in-depth descriptions, and to see the awards a book has won, select one of the books here on my website. My books are available in eBook and print formats at all major online booksellers. Autographed editions are at 1820 Coffeehouse in Alvin, Texas. There are sixteen books to choose from, and I hope you will enjoy them!
Glenn
THE DEVIL’S CONTRACT – coming in October 2024 – Abandoned on the streets, a boy is raised to be a governmental assassin and must endure the contract for life. In time, conscience overcomes him, and he breaks away knowing he will no longer be a predator, but the prey.
SOLOMON’S MEN – A professional thief is duped into stealing the true burial shroud of Jesus from an ancient order, then finds himself hunted by militant monks.
THE HONJO – sequel to “Solomon’s Men.” A priceless ancient sword is the ransom for Valdez’s daughter-in-law, forcing him to return to being a thief.
BLACK SUN – A boy grows to manhood in his quest for survival during the bloody Mexican Revolution of 1910.
WHEN THE VIOLIN WEEPS – From the Warsaw ghetto to a Treblinka extermination camp, Jacob Liebermann endures Nazi atrocities in hopes of one day exacting revenge for his murdered wife.
THE DAGGER MAN – Two men born the same night, under the same star; one becomes the Messiah while the other becomes a zealot group’s assassin.
MICAH – Stalin’s experiments to breed apes with humans to create a super soldier go astray when creatures are born and escape into the mountains.
McKENNA – An investigator’s daughter is caught up in a human trafficking ring and he must find and free her before she vanishes into the underworld.
INTO THE CAULDRON – In the midst of the Civil War, a Union cavalryman battles Indian tribes, Confederate guerillas, and unforgiving environments to protect settlers along the Santa Fe Trail.
AMAZON MOON – A man seeks redemption or death in his journey to find sanity through a war, government deceit, and a hideous creature lurking deep within the Amazon jungle.
THE COUNCILMAN – In 1956 Texas, a young man returns to his hometown in search of his mother’s murderer and finds corruption at every turn.
CHARON – In a dying East Texas town, five teenage boys discover their fates are entwined when they unleash the demons of a Ouija board upon their community.
STEEL JUNGLE – A terrorist attack on a refinery forces a lone security guard and his veteran friends to halt the bloodbath.
COBRA AND SCARAB – An Egyptian Queen steals control of a kingdom from her nephew until the day of reckoning comes.
YEAR OF THE RAM – In a time of savage war, a Mongol general finds a son he never knew was born and must risk losing him while saving his nation against the onslaught of a massive greed-ridden army.
THROUGH THE STORMS: THE JOHN G. SLOVER DIARY – non-fiction – a Civil War veteran’s life is detailed in the personal diary he carried in his saddle bag.
by Glenn | Aug 22, 2024 | Novels
Jack learned early in life how to survive in a cruel world. When five years old, his drug-addicted mother abandoned him to live with the homeless. By age eight, his feral qualities had caught the attention of the Colonel, an enigmatic man who recruited such lost souls into his fold. Through only a verbal contract, binding for life upon penalty of death if broken, the Colonel would care for and train Jack in his academy until accepted into Horus, a mercenary security company. An offer is made, and the boy found a home.
The academy is everything Jack could wish, and the skills he learns come as natural as the beat of his heart. In youth, Harold and Myra are his closest friends, but while one will be a lifelong comrade, the other becomes a rejected lover with a vendetta.
Over the years, the role of an assassin suits Jack well. He’s exceptional in every mission, shining like a favored son in the Colonel’s eyes until the day arrives in Afghanistan where conscience forces Jack to make a dreaded decision. He kills the warlord he’s assigned to protect, and breaking the Colonel’s contract, flees. Now, even his friends will hunt for him.
For years Jack ran, always looking over his shoulder. Then he met Valerie and hoped for a fresh start. Yet peace comes at a price, as Jack finds himself entangled in the web of a ruthless criminal organization and the Colonel, who tracks down his whereabouts. With nowhere to turn, the former assassin must choose between old friends and new, the chance to renew his life, and killing the man that had become like a father to him.
“The Devil’s Contract” is coming soon in eBook and print to all major book sellers.
by Glenn | Mar 10, 2023 | Novels
GREAT NEWS !!! “When the Violin Weeps” is a Book Excellence Award Finalist in the Historical Category!!! It is a great honor for an author to receive an award for their writings. The research performed for this novel was often mentally exhausting due to the traumatic events and its history.
Through life in a Warsaw ghetto and the Treblinka death camp, Jacob Liebermann lives for a day of reckoning with Klaus Hermann, the SS officer that killed his wife. After a harrowing trek to freedom in Palestine and joining Jewish resistance groups to combat a new enemy, Jacob makes the country home. He becomes one of Israel’s first Mossad agents. Then fate brings him face to face with the devil incarnate in South America.
by Glenn | Oct 5, 2022 | Novels
Through life in a Warsaw ghetto and the Treblinka death camp, Jacob Liebermann lives for a day of reckoning with Klaus Hermann, the SS officer that killed his wife. After a harrowing trek to freedom in Palestine and joining Jewish resistance groups to combat a new enemy, Jacob makes the country home. He becomes one of Israel’s first Mossad agents. Then fate brings him face to face with the devil incarnate in South America.
“When the Violin Weeps” is based upon the disturbing true events of the Holocaust in World War II and the struggles to create the State of Israel. It is the story of appalling crimes against humanity. Forcing Warsaw’s massive Jewish population into an overcrowded ghetto to starve was Nazi Germany’s first undertaking after invading Poland. Next came the merciless transports to the Treblinka extermination center. When Jacob Liebermann’s wife Hanna is murdered in a gas chamber, the former Warsaw Philharmonic violinist fell into an abyss of insanity. But he keeps his promise to her to survive the Nazi atrocities at all costs.
Award winning author Glenn Starkey has written another gut-wrenching novel that tears at the hearts of readers and makes them feel every page.
Available at Bookbaby Bookstore https://store.bookbaby.com/book/when-the-violin-weeps and all major booksellers!
by Glenn | Aug 29, 2022 | General, Novels
My Civil War based novel “Into the Cauldron” was awarded a Silver Medal at the 2022 Military Writers Society of America Conference in New Orleans. I’m truly excited about this award, as I am with all awards I’ve won for my writings.
After four cruel years, the Civil War still raged without peace in sight. The Union Army’s manpower was stretched to its limits fighting on two fronts; one on the eastern battlefields against the Confederacy, the other to protect the Santa Fe Trail and western expansion of citizens from marauding Indian tribes and vicious Confederate guerrillas.
Jonah Gustafson’s family was dead, leaving him to aimlessly wander. Rather than wait for the coming draft, he joined the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, expecting to be sent east into the war between the states. Instead, his regiment went west to ‘Bleeding’ Kansas and war-torn Missouri. There, along the Santa Fe Trail, they fought every major Indian tribe and Quantrill’s Raiders, a roaming, bloodthirsty guerrilla unit. Horrid weather and deplorable living conditions were the lonely troopers’ constant companions. Death always lurked near whether from disease, a bullet, or an arrow. But the cavalry of the frontier fulfilled its duties against all odds.
“Into the Cauldron” is the life of Trooper Jonah Gustafson based upon true events written in the pages of a Civil War diary by a Wisconsin cavalryman that served on the frontier. It is a novel to enjoy and learn from; one that will carry you back in time to feel the joys, heartaches and anguish of those days.
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Into-the-Cauldron
