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The author of 7 books, Bob Weir is a New York Police Department sergeant, with
over ten years of undercover investigations and over 500 felony arrests to his credit.
His first book, “City To Die For” chronicles the attempted takeover of Dallas,
Texas by the Mafia in the 1940's. Bob also wrote, “Powers That Be,”a story of government collusion with organized
crime, and “Ruthie's Kids,” his account of growing up poor in NYC; as well as three other powerful novels.
According to the book description of
Out of Sight: What you can't see can be Murder, “When a man wanders into an antique shop
to get out of the rain, he discovers a way to satisfy his every desire. He soon learns that even unlimited power has drawbacks
if recklessly used. As he gets accustomed to his newfound ability to influence the world, he finds challenges that even he
can't overcome. He also learns that his lust for life can result in death. Each time the mysterious force is transferred
to another, the owner becomes obsessed with its possibilities. When the unseen power reaches to the highest levels of government,
it collides head-on with the two most famous names in politics, and together, this unlikely couple, forms an alliance to defeat
the sinister plot that targeted them in a scheme to rule the country.”
According to the book description of
Murder in Black and White: Ruthless ambition and the perilous journey toward salvation, “A
NYC cop comes across a small suitcase full of hundred dollar bills during a botched drug sting. He sees it as his big chance
to be somebody and give his family the lifestyle he hasn't been able to provide. In order to keep it, he must get through
the next few days without being tripped up by his fellow officers. Using his color as a weapon, he enlists the aid of the
black officer's association and accuses the department of racism as he attempts to put the blame on his white partner.
Determined to remove every obstacle between himself and the money, he engages in a diabolical plot to keep the authorities
at bay as the bodies pile up. Using every tactic he's learned as a cop, he begins to lose ground as the detectives put
the pieces together and close in on him.”
According to the book description of
Short Stories of Life and Death: Complexities of the Human Experience, “A woman, desperate
to save her marriage, gives her husband’s mistress a reason to break off the affair and disappear. A detective with
an unsolvable case discovers a leak in his own home. A cop learns a lesson about the evil that stalks the night. A chemist
invents a synthetic blood, and becomes its first victim. A man’s wife is savagely raped, and she knows who did it. Her
husband decides to save the court the expense of a trial. A man finds murder for sale at every meeting he attends. Lovers
plot to kill the woman’s husband, but find themselves trapped in a scheme they didn’t anticipate. An unscrupulous
lawyer fights a losing battle with her conscience. These and dozens of other stories to keep you up at night and make you
wonder about the people in your orbit that may not be who you think they are.”
One reader of Powers That
Be: When the Government Creates an Alliance with Organized Crime to Make Exposure Impossible, “I found
"Powers That Be" so true to life. It is so suspenseful, with so many twists and turns that you will not want to
put it down until you have read the last word. A man witnesses a murder, a faked suicide of a high level government official
in a park in Washington DC. It will be the beginning of his worse nightmare as a gruesome conspiracy unfolds, a massive government
cover-up by police and other prominent officials, all the way to the oval office. Leading to a string of murders, gangland
style. When his own wife and children are threatened they will die if he talks to the two detectives that have befriended
and protected him, the moment of reckoning is upon him. Can good triumph over evil? or will the conspirators prevail? I'll
never tell.”
According to the book description of
Deadly To Love, “Felicia Broderick had everything a woman could ask for, especially a woman
who started with nothing. But when a secret love affair becomes a mind-boggling scheme involving murder, blackmail, and organized
crime, she reaches back to her roots to find the toughness and tenacity to survive. Using her feminine charm, exotic beauty,
and streetwise savvy, she concocts a scheme of her own to get her life back. Using a police detective as her source of information,
she probes into the world of La Cosa Nostra and spins a web of mystery and murder that baffles both sides of the law. Learning
the value of love too late, she embarks on a homicidal journey to make up for her past mistakes. Along the way, she discovers
the dark side of her nature and struggles with the fear that she might never awaken from this lethal new identity.”
According to the book description of
Powers That Be: When the Government Creates an Alliance with Organized Crime to Make Exposure Impossible,
“A presidential aide is found dead in a park near the White House. A homeless person witnesses the faked suicide and
becomes the target of a powerful government/mob conspiracy to eliminate him and everyone he has been in contact with. Working
with a man and woman detective team, he struggles to survive long enough to tell what he has seen to someone who is not part
of the many tiered system of corruption.”
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