The Godsend Series

In the thirteenth book of the Godsend Series, there's a valuable lesson to be learned: If you can't stand the heat … stay your ass away from the Mojave Desert. At 118 degrees, the human body dehydrates quickly. Then comes the dizziness. Then Echo passes out. Kira Sutton should have never told him about the mixed martial arts fighter who stalked and sexually-harassed her. Echo's attempt to punish the MMA fighter has backfired. He's never needed Kiandra more. Brian and Needles, meanwhile, are investigating a suspicious suicide in Michigan. After confronting the right suspect in an auto body repair shop, a little torture gets the case mostly solved.

In the tenth book of the Godsend Series, Kim Hughes stole $42,000 from the wrong prospective pimp three years ago, which explains why she is still in hiding. The pimp, with the help of an old conjure woman from New Orleans, got to Kim's mother and killed her. Rather than paying back the stolen money, Kim decides to go for the big payback: She hires Godsend. Echo has an old score to settle with a fat, sneaky bastard; but first he and Kiandra want to meet the old black woman who practices black magic. Why? Because they want to know what she and her damn evil spirits know. And while in New Orleans, Brian and Needles attempt to arrest the pimp--even though the police are watching. After Brain finds himself riding in the back of a police car, Needles is surprised when she sees Brian working with the cops.

Mike Hudson wants to know who killed his wife. The police have always suspected him, so he hires Godsend Investigations in order to clear his name. Bad-ass Mike-Mike, the 14-year-old son, also wants to know who killed his mom, only because he plans to do more about it than his dad does. Sheronda Foster, the young boy's aunt, is ugly. In more ways than one. Although something about her turns Echo and Kiandra on, something else about her turns Brian and Needles all the way off. When her husband catches Echo with his pants down, deep in the middle of a sexual act, and easy case suddenly gets complicated to death.

In the fourteenth book of the Godsend Series, Brian and Echo finally work the wrong case. While Brian runs across a girl who is seeing a man too old for her, Echo gets upset with a Godsend client … and shoot her in the ass. Now the FBI is involved, and they are learning more and more about Godsend every day. A press conference exposes the unethical and illegal nature of the private investigative agency, so Brian and Echo are forced to shut down the business as we know it. But they vow to revamp the agency and widen their net of villains to go after. This, of course, means showing the FBI how to do their jobs.

In this controversial installment, Number 15 of the Godsend series, an elaborate plot to get a Godsend member killed runs through Brooklyn, South Bronx, Queens, Alabama, and Pennsylvania. Seven years ago, an armored truck robbery and murder left Big Pat with just over a half million in cash. He's been wanted by the Feds and probably would have turned himself in if he'd known it would lead to an apartment shootout in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. This results in the kidnapping of a sexy female suspect who cannot be trusted. It also gets her boyfriend an instant eviction–from the 10th floor window.

Rian Cathcart, a 27-year-old black man, is a private investigator of a different sort. He only takes serious cases that the police have abandoned. When asked what kind of laws he might break, Brian counted on his fingers while saying, "Illegal phone taps, bribery, extortion, assault, blackmail, threats--" After solving a missing persons case, which turned out to be a 12-year-old homicide, Brian hardly has time to celebrate. His girlfriend is killed and his assistant is shot in the chest, so he wants to close Godsend Private Investigations before the agency can even get started good. But then something changes his mind: A wealthy couple offers him $600,000 for the return of a kidnapped child. And since Brian himself is the father of an adorable little girl, he decides that his agency shoud exist as a necessary evil. This time he may break a law called homicide.

The second book of the Godsend series, Brian Cathcart, a deadly PI with illegal tactics and a good heart, knows what he must do to find 4-year-old Rochelle. But why was the biracial child kidnapped by a Mexican gang known as the Cocodrilos ,Crocodiles in the first place? Why has there been no ransom demands fourteen months after the incident? Why would anybody think they could get away with such a crime? Brian is forced to add help to his unauthorized agency, so he hires his cousin Echo, a reckless ex con who is pissed about having to work at a fast-food joint. Brian and Echo takes a hostage who was involved in the kidnapping case, but the man won't talk. Brian tells him, "When my partner is done with your ass, I might have to back this truck up in your mouth just to get you to shut up." When Brian leaves to contact his conspiring assistant and his FBI source, a sexy black woman causes Echo to lose control of the hostage situation. Smashing the Cocodrilos and finding Rochelle just got harder.

In the third book of the Godsend series, Brian Cathcart sleeps with his FBI source and gets emotionally attached. He agrees to work an ongoing case for her, a case that will also tear them apart: Some lunatic actually gets off on raping elderly women, killing them, and then pissing all over them. Brian and his impetuous cousin Echo will take this one for free. But there's a cold case hanging in the balance, one that involves an old man being killed for his rare coins. It's probably a mistake to let Echo work most of this case by himself, but Brian is trying to multitask with Godsend Investigative Services. When a skinny white woman curses Echo out and spits a flurry of racial slurs at him, everybody else has to pay for it, even a man behind him in a fast-food drive-thru. And by the time Echo hooks up with Brian to work the ongoing federal case, Echo is hardly in the mood for legal justice. He and Brian will certainly fight about this one.

Godsend:All Jokes aside. The sixth book of the Godsend Series, Ramona Hartley has been missing for three years and someone has to pay for it. The focus will be on Zavius Shotglass Grant, the best free-form comedian in America. But it is no laughing matter when Brian Cathcart and two of his Godsend trainees run up on a violent China-man and his two henchmen. An unexpected shootout in Ojai Valley, California, will even have readers ducking, especially when Brian goes against the norm to extinguish the situation. Echo is training Kiandra, a fine black woman from Watts who is no stranger to danger. He agrees to help her get personal revenge against a big-time Crip member and rapist; but if you've been keeping up with Echo, you know what it will cost her. After some trickery with a Ramona Hartley witness and some gunplay in Compton, Echo and Kiandra try to surprise three Crip members in a South Lake Tahoe motel. The surprise doesn't work for the leader, and of course there will be blood in the snow. As for Ramona, her disappearance may not have been much of a mystery to someone close to her in New York.

In the fifth book of the Godsend series, Echo and Brian work the cold-case murder of a gay man who was stabbed in the head 23 years ago. While Brian is busy running down leads, Echo encounters a Middle-Eastern man whom he suspects is a terrorist. Echo's Plan is simple: Kidnap Abul al Shaziz' wife, and if the man doesn't report her missing then he must be up to no good. Brian has just learned that his main suspect in the cold-case murder claims to be a Christian man of God, so now it's time to confront the good Reverend Ambercrombie on the job. What is done in the dark must come to the light, but thousands will witness Brian's work. And by now Echo has shot Abul in the ass and has paralyzed the man from the neck down. An al Qaeda terror plot involving five bombs in California is discovered. Two deadly explosions occur, killing 24, but it could have been much worse. This pushes Brian and Echo to train three new Private Eyes, but first they must show them the ropes.

Godsend 8: The Value of a Woman In the eighth book of the Godsend Series, the underground private investigators set out to discover the person responsible for killing Milana Rockerson, a beautiful call girl. The victim's father offers a bonus if the killer is delivered to him; the bonus is bigger if the killer is handed over unharmed. No use running those conditions by Echo who, after injuring his right hand during a mouth-provoked fist fight, becomes revenge-driven when he learns that Brian has been abducted by members of the Echelon Escort Service. Somebody knows something, and they better start talking. Not even a paraplegic in a wheelchair is exempt from Echo's wrath. However, too much talk reveals some disturbing details about additional crimes against children. Echo, Kiandra, and Etceterra are faced with the task of rescuing Brian as well as three young girls who are at the mercy of a few pedophiles. But what's taking them so damn long? By now Brian has a black eye, sore ribs, a couple of knots on his head, and a bruised face. If he doesn't give the owner of the escort service some answers, he will literally be considered an "underground" private eye--coffin and all.

In the fourth book of the Godsend series, Echo damn near gets his back broken in a brawl and is later sucker-punched. His anger leads to a high-speed chase with the police out in Santa Barbara--except he's the one chasing the police! He and Brian are investigating the cold case death of a promiscuous woman, and the murderer is hiding right under the nose of the law. Their new California resource--a young woman who gets illegal trade tools for them--is in trouble, and they have just made things worse for her. And while he's out in California, Brian decides he might as well track down and confront the crew that took his wallet and pat-searched his 4-year-old daughter in an upscale restaurant a few weeks earlier. The beautiful black woman who will help him get to the bottom of this is one he can see himself with until death do they part. At least that's what happened to her last boyfriend.

In the seventh book of this new thriller series, the Godsend private investigators must work their way inside a motorcycle gang in order to learn more about the murder of a pregnant woman. First, though, Brian and his two private eye trainees confront one of the victim's ex-boyfriends, Halo Cameron. Somehow during the interrogation Halo gets the police to show up. The distraction allows Halo time to make a clean getaway while Brian and his trainees engage in a shootout with the police. When one of the trainees is killed in the gunfight, Brian personally wants revenge against sneaky-ass Halo. Echo and Kiandra are working a different angle of the homicide investigation. Dickie Slater, 280 pounds of mostly fat, is a member of the biker gang called the Chrome Bones, but right now Echo has him hanging upside down in a tree. Of course, Dickie and his wife would rather talk than become the subjects of Echo's crime scene. But Dickie's act of deception puts Echo and Kiandra on the wrong trail, on the wrong biker member. When Echo and the Godsend investigators wreak havoc in a biker bar and lounge of more than 75 members--even kicking the hell out of their dog--getting information from the club's leader will result in the watered-down truth about Dickie Slater. By now, Dickie and his wife have committed a robbery and two more brutal murders. This time Echo wants revenge against the fat biker who tricked him then disappeared. . . sort of like the Halo Effect. This action-packed short story thriller series consistently strings together multiple plots, stories with twists, a few characters from urban fiction, an outlandish vigilante detective, and original humor.

This ninth installment of the Godsend Series follows the full-length Godsend novel titled The Weight of Echo. After Etceterra runs into a deadly situation during an investigation, not paying attention, Brian recruits a street-smart, attractive white woman named Needles. She shoots two suspects and gets to the bottom of a clever cover-up, proving she's dangerous and smart. But Needles doesn't feel so dangerous less than 10 minutes after meeting Echo. Echo and Kiandra become victims of an attempted armed robbery in Dallas, Texas. His eye gets blackened, and she has to get away from a fool who sprays at her with a submachine gun. Echo can't wait to meet the shooter. He wants to hit the man square in the mouth, in the most unusual way, and he wants to make sure Needles is paying attention when he does.

Brian Cathcart and Inell "Echo" Harrison set out to solve missing persons cases and cold case homicides that the police have given up on, and they don't give a damn about any laws that may be broken along the way. Godsend Investigative Services will get results for the right price. In this 5-story edition, which is a compilation of the first five books in order, Brian and Echo will cross paths with a war vet who has PTSD, an FBO criminal profiler who sells information, a Mexican gang that kidnaps children, a construction worker who is dying for a good fist fight, a few rappers who also pose as robbers of fancy restaurants, a murderous cop who has been promoted to detective, a Middle-Eastern terrorist couple, and a reverend who has a radio station and a deadly past. But even with this heads-up notice, you still won't be prepared for this violently savvy thriller series and its constant, over-the-speed-limit pace.