About Gunnymac Private Detective Trouble in Chinatown
The author a former Marine Corps Officer, and historian brings this true story to life.
If you loved the movies like Casablanca or the movie The Maltese Falcon, private eyes like Sam Spade, Charlie Chan, and Micky Spillane. you will fall in love with Gunny Mac and his crew of tough, zany detectives in a book that reads like a black-and-white movie of the 1940s and 1950s.
It’s 1942 during the Guadalcanal campaign, Roosevelt panics and thinks the Marines are going to be annihilated on Guadalcanal and the Hawaiian Islands will be open to invasion by the Japanese.
He orders all the money in Hawaii to be collected and burned and replaced by money with Hawaii written across the back. Funny money the Japs will not be able to use against us.
Anyone who is someone wants to steal the money before it is burned.
Two Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeants, one Navy Lt., and one Navy Padre, a Jesuit priest, all terribly wounded and discharged join forces by an act of nature and get involved in the stopping of this unique heist. One last battle for their friends, one last battle for their Country.
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Author Bio:
I am a Careeo Infantry officer. My father worked at a General Motors factory in Cleveland, Ohio, and would come home around midnight after his shift. During the summer months, he would wake me up and together we would fry some baloney sandwiches and settle down on the living room rug and turn on the one o'clock show on channel eight. I smile when I can still smell the factory grease on him and the beautiful aroma of the baloney.
He would say to me in an excited voice, "Son tonight I'm going to introduce to you Hunmprey Bogart as the tough private detective Sam Spade." Throughout all those wonderful years he introduced me to the private eyes, Michael Shayne, Charlie Chan, and Mickey Spillane and great movies like Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and Alan Ladd in, "Where the Sidewalk Ends."
Because of my Dad, I started reading Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and decided I would try and write in their style. I hope I have succeeded in some capacity.
I miss my father so much. I write of the men of his age who served in WWII. My father served with the Fourth Marine Division and saw terrible things. When I started to write he gave me some advice. "Son write what you are passionate and knowledgeable about and make the rest of the crap up." Dad, I hope I followed your advice!
I have written three novels about Gunnt Mac and his zany friends. Trouble in Chinatown…Trouble in Cleveland…trouble in Tomahawk Gap…and fourth being written…Trouble on Jekyll Island. I hope you enjoy!