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"Holton
writes with the stark, gut-wrenching realism of a cop who knows the slime pit
cops work in."
—William J. Caunitz, The New York Times best-selling author of One Police
Plaza.
  The Devil's Shadow
(Click title to order book online now)Format:
Hardcover, 416pp.
ISBN: 0312877846
Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Pub. Date: April 2001
Edition Description: 1 ED
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an Excerpt from The Devil's Shadow Larry Cole has taken
on some tough criminals in his rise to Commander in the Chicago Police
Department, but in The Devil’s Shadow, Commander Larry Cole is
confronted with the most cunning and beautiful criminal he’s ever faced.
Julianna Saint is world renowned, with a reputation for getting anything
she wants—anytime, anywhere, and without consequence. Her occupation,
international theft. Her reputation has spread from the underworld to
Chicago mob boss, Jake Romano. Word is that no matter how rigorously
secured, no matter what precautions are taken, Julianna can and will steal
it
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  Time of the Assassins
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Hardcover, 383pp.
ISBN: 0312873336
Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Pub. Date: February 2000
Edition Description: 1 ED
The most controversial story in today's inner
cities is the CIA's apparent funding of counterinsurgent druglords in Latin
America, who, instead of fighting revolutionaries, have used that funding to
wholesale crack cocaine in this country's ghettos." "In this novel,
Commander Larry Cole battles these Agency-funded druglords. Their "personal
representative" is Baron von Rianocek, a hitman. A well-paid professional,
known as a world-class "problem solver," he has successfully
eliminated both high-profile British industrialists and South American
dictators. The CIA, the FBI, and Interpol, all suspect him of being behind
various incidents, but they have never been able to pin anything on the slippery
millionaire, who claims to be descended from European royalty."
"Police detective Larry Cole has unwittingly crossed paths several times
with the notorious assassin. Appearing at the wrong place at the wrong time, he
has twice foiled the assassin's work. Now the well-heeled assassin has a new
target. He has set his telescopic sights on the CPD chief of detectives - Cole
himself.
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  The
Left Hand of God
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Format: Hardcover, 384pp.
ISBN: 0312867638
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
Pub. Date: February 1999
Chicago police Chief of Detectives Larry Cole
faces his biggest challenge yet. Joining Larry Cole is Lieutenant Blackie
Silvestri, the beautiful and smart investigative journalist Kate Ford, and
Cole's seventeen-year-old son, Butch, who is visiting his father for the summer.
When Butch visits a nightclub on the north side, he stumbles across a plot to
fix an Olympic basketball game between the US and the Italian national team.
Meanwhile, Cole has uncovered a plot to assassinate the sultry newscaster Orga
Syriac when he escorts her to a political ball. The would-be assassin, a
demented Catholic priest, is intent on stopping her from exposing a secret
right-wing organization.
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 Red Lightning
(Click title or book to buy On-line Now)Author: Hugh Holton
Publisher: Forge
Date Published: March 1999
Format: Trade Paper
When
scientist Jonathan Gault is fired from his high-paying job at a military research
facility, he is desperate to find new sponsors for his bizarre experiments. Gault's new
racket is a deadly home security business for the ultra-rich: booby-trapping their
property with high-voltage electricity and snake venom injection devices. Kate Ford,
investigative journalist, is tipped off about Gault's shady business. She sets out to
uncover his scheme, but soon finds that she may be in over her head, as Gault won't
hesitate to use any means necessary to rid himself of the snoop on his trail. Larry Cole,
Chief of Detectives for the CPD, is led to Gault by his investigation into the recent
strange deaths of criminals in booby traps. Cole and Ford team up to try and stop the
renegade scientist, who has now built a solar-powered vehicle equipped with a flamethrower
and a laser beam, which he has nicknamed Red Lightning. Gault's ingenuity, coupled with
his fondness for high-powered explosives and deadly snakes, may well make him the most
powerful foe Cole has ever faced.
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 Violent Crimes
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Publisher: Forge
Date Published: June 1998
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
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A Black Muslim mosque is blown off the face of the earth. A
novice nun is0 stalked, tortured, and raped. A famous Chicago columnist is slain in vicious
ritualistic fashion. And suddenly Commander Larry Cole is on the trail of Martin
Zykus,
the most cunning killer he has ever faced. To solve these crimes, Cole will have to dig
deep into both his past and his present. He must return to a long-ago search for another
sexual psychopath in another time - and a terrifying chase through the bowels of an
abandoned, rat-infested Loop hotel. He must also deal with a vastly different man. Steven
Zalkin, a mysterious tycoon, is engaged in a program of prodigious philanthropy in which
he is giving away untold millions to Chicago's most worthy citizens and institutions. What
is the connection between Zykus and Zalkin? Sister Mary Stallings, one of Zykus's earliest
victims, holds the key to Cole's case - a case he must solve before her tormentor returns
to settle an ancient score.
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 Chicago Blues
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Publisher: Forge
Date Published: January 1997
Format: Trade Paper
In Chicago Blues Police Commander Larry Cole returns in his
most dangerous case to date. The investigation of the murders of two hitmen employed by a
Chicago crime boss leads Cole to an old colleague, FBI Special Agent Reggie Stanton. Cole
had known Stanton fifteen years before when the FBI man was a Chicago cop accused of
vigilante knife-murders on Chicago's South Side. Now the murders of the two assassins bear
the same M.O. as those long-ago cases.
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 Windy City
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Publisher: Forge
Date Published: February 1996
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
Margo and Neil DeWitt seem like any other fun-loving,
superrich couple until Chicago Police Commander Larry Cole sees through their fluent
charade. While investigating the death of a fellow officer, Cole stumbles across a pattern
of killings that leads him to discover the DeWitts' gruesome hobby--murdering people using
methods from their favorite mystery novels.
"Real-life
cop Holton follows up his exciting 1994 debut, "Presumed Dead", with another
suspense-filled story set in Chicago. Holton has been a Chicago cop for nearly 30 years,
and it shows in everything from his realistic jargon and no-blood-barred crime scenes to
the verisimilitude with which he depicts police politics and interdepartmental squabbling.
In this outing, police commander Larry Cole matches wits with a pair of upscale killers.
Neil and Margo DeWitt are one of Chicago's wealthiest, trendiest, most socially prominent
couples. But they have a macabre hobby: they love to kill, basing their murders on scenes
from their favorite mysteries. When one of Neil's victim's turns out to be Cole's best
buddy, the cop vows to avenge his friend's horrifying death. It's white-knuckle time as
Cole first tracks Neil and then squares off against the even-more-dangerous Margo. A
shivery, grisly read that's bound to add to Holton's growing reputation as a first-rate
crime writer." -- Emily Melton Booklist
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 Presumed Dead
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Publisher: Forge
Date Published: March 1995
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
Tough Chicago cop Larry Cole encounters an unexplored
phenomenon that's overtaking the Windy City. His investigation of a botched routine drug
bust out side the National Science and Space Museum reveals that 188 people have
disappeared from the museum over the years.
"In the tradition of King and Koontz, first-time
novelist Holton, a veteran Chicago cop, offers a mind-bending, this can't be real tale of
terror that's both implausible and disturbingly believable. The National Science and Space
Museum is a (fictional) Chicago landmark, but there's always been an air of mystery about
the small island behind the building, where nearly 200 people have disappeared since the
beginning of the century. A drug bust gone wrong refocuses public attention on the
long-forgotten disappearances, and Commander Larry Cole, leader of the doomed drug bust,
becomes curious about those who have vanished. But there's more to worry about than
disappearing Chicagoans. A sleazy local developer has decided to turn the museum grounds
into another Disneyland, and the museum's curator is determined to stop him at any cost.
When Cole and an attractive female detective team up, they discover an incredible secret
hidden behind the museum's famous facade. Thumbs up for mostly skillful writing, a can't
put it down story line, an ingenious if sometimes unlikely plot, and plenty of
spine-tingling thrills and chills. This one's sure to be popular". -- Emily
Melton Booklist
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