Bernard Lee DeLeo
Born and raised in Warren, Ohio, I write adventure fiction and have Twenty-one of my novels offered for Amazon Kindle. Some of my latest novels are: COLD BLOODED, HARD CASE, HARD CASE II: THE LURE OF HELL, and THE PROTECTORS published by RJ Parker Publishing. My new paranormal novel LANCELOT was released in October of 2012. I published my humorous paranormal romance, LAYLA, in November of 2012. My YA paranormal trilogy: DEMON, DEMON INC, and DEMON AT WAR are now all on sale. The latest releases are the humorous detective novels, RICK CANTELLI, P.I. and Rick Cantelli, P.I. Book II: Deadly Liaisons. Also on Kindle and paperback are the third and fourth books in my John Harding series: HARD CASE III: VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED and Hard Case Book IV: A VIOLENT LIFE. I served aboard the USS Ranger (CVA61) from 1969 until November of 1972. I earned an AA degree in Auto Technology from Chabot College in Hayward, CA, and a BA degree in English from Cal State Hayward. My hobbies are basketball, backpacking, and scuba diving. My favorite dive spot is Point Lobos near Pacific Grove, CA.
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HARD CASE (The John Harding Series #1)
Action Thriller
HARD CASE begins in a back alley warehouse in East Oakland, CA, where Harding fights for money, and to keep his skills honed, coupled with the fact he likes it. Harding does odd jobs with the only guy he trusts implicitly, his handler and manager, Tommy Sands. They bodyguard, escort tourists around the Bay Area, and do bail bond, skip trace work for a lawyer named Tess Connagher. Two events throw Harding's seamy life in the shadows out into the light. Strobert is ordered to enlist Tess Connagher's law firm to act as an intermediary with Harding in order to protect an outspoken Afghani woman whose family Harding protected long ago. The woman's father requested him, and the state department realizes they'll be off the hook if anything happens to Samira Karim while under Harding's care. Secondly, Harding fights a particularly brutal fight with a Russian mob backed fighter named Van Rankin who hates Harding. They'd had words. The YouTube video of Harding's subsequent beat-down of Rankin goes viral along with many of his prior fights. When Rankin's Russian mobster backer, Alexi Fiialkov pushes for a rematch on the UFC circuit, CIA Agent Strobert sees infinite possibilities since the United Arab Emirates has part ownership in the UFC. Some matches would be taking place in Dubai, where the CIA knows targets of opportunity show up from time to time. |
HARD CASE (The John Harding Series #2) - The Lure of Hell
Action Thriller
John Harding launches Harding's West Coast Murderer's Row into Mexico after the Zeta cartel, a Las Vegas sanction fight, and on the trail of three psychopathic serial killers. To achieve these objectives, Harding's CIA boss, Denny Strobert, introduces two new cold blooded killers to John Harding's Oakland crew, Clint Dostiene and Lynn Montoya. Strobert has big plans for Lynn Montoya once she's freelancing with Harding's crew in the future too - he needs a woman on the West Coast Murderer's Row not afraid to get her hands or her knife dirty. |
HARD CASE (The John Harding Series #3) - Voyage of the Damned
Action Thriller
John Harding's Murderer's Row uncovers a name while on a standard protection gig. Soon, they're plunging into a South American jungle stronghold on a snatch and grab rescue. Under Lynn Montoya's knife, they learn the kingpin financier's identity spreading chaos around the world. Harding and his crew race from one locale to the next, one step ahead of a brutal financial puppet master's plans to wipe them out even after his death. In addition to his ongoing missions, Harding has agreed to fight a behemoth nicknamed 'The Destroyer' in the converted Oakland warehouse with rigged judges. Throw in a little show business consultation, and John has his hands full with the usual: violence, America's safety, love, and of course humor. |
HARD CASE (The John Harding Series) Boxed Set Books 3 in 1
Action Thriller
3 bestsellers in 1 book. The John Harding Series Harding is a mountain of a man, 6'5 250 lbs, Marine, CIA Operative, Cage-fighter, owner of a Security Protection Agency. Cage-fighting is just a front for his CIA wet work. Action-packed scenes with a high body count. "John Harding takes no prisoners. He's a cage fighter who plays by the rules unless it's necessary to break them along with a few other things. The fast-paced dialogue fits the no holds barred action that pits Harding against terrorists, the Russian Mafia, and guys who just don't like his attitude or his prowess in the ring. This cool story interweaves Harding's personal life with his kick-boxing life as well as a little CIA covert action thrown in. This one delivers a terrific knock-out punch and you'll love every minute of it."- ★★★★★ by Gayle Pool "Bernard Lee DeLeo is one of the purest writing talents I have ever had the pleasure of reading - a brilliant writing talent that I can only envy."- ★★★★★ by James Byron Huggins - New York Times Bestselling Author |
HARD CASE (The John Harding Series #4) - A Violent Life
Action Thriller
Hard Case Book IV - A Violent Life blends horror, humor, terror, and cage fighting as John Harding's crew of killers battle against a deadly bio weapon attack. They know thousands of lives hang in the balance, and they have no qualms about doing anything it takes to stop it. The approaching holidays find John Harding's West Coast Murderers' Row crew in the usual Las Vegas double duty mission. John takes on a rising star in the UFC world nicknamed Rattler, because of snake fast striking ability. On the flip side, Denny Strobert turns the crew loose on a lady drug queen, Victoria Lydia Voltaire. She plans to use her drug network to aid and supply a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot setting up terrorist cells across the country. Thanks to Lynn Montoya, nicknamed Cruella Deville, the crew gets a bonus when she initiates a plan to lure the Muslim Brotherhood gang readying to be dispersed across the nation into a public trap. A successful sting leads out in spiraling directions with terrorist plots involving Alexi Fiialkov's container shipping line. Soon, the crew launches a rescue mission for Fiialkov's granddaughter, and entraps the architect of a weaponized anthrax threat. The kid gloves are off, and the bodies begin piling up. Add in a taste of what happens when Murderers' Row decides to end an infamous start of the 'Knockout Game' in Oakland, and another excursion to help their 'Hollywood Bounty Hunters' reality show favorites take down a deadly assassin returning to our shores - all happening around the holidays, and a dreaded return visit by the in-laws to the Harding household. It's business and humor as usual, but with a final cage rematch like no other. |
COLD BLOODED (The Nick McCarty Series # 1)
Action Thriller
Rachel Hunter thinks she and her daughter Jean are safe in the Witness Protection program, when she meets a cold eyed man with an easy smile at the restaurant where she works. In the days following, Rachel discovers that Nick McCarty, is much more than just an author. Nick McCarty, assassin and bestselling author, contemplates a change in life styles after receiving an order to kill a woman who reminds him of someone from long ago. Six days later, Nick puts a fifty caliber bullet through the head of Hayden Tanus, the man who'd ordered her death, launching himself down the path of protecting a mother and daughter he barely knows, for reasons he isn't fully prepared to admit. Rachel realizes the unstoppable killer protecting them lives by only one code - whatever it takes until the danger is past. With their lives forfeit if she makes the wrong decision, will Rachel choose life by Nick's side, regardless the costs? |
Cold Blooded II: Killer Moves (Nick McCarty Series #2)
Nick’s partner, Gus Nason, thinks Nick may be going slowly crazy trying to retire as a reclusive bestselling author. Gus assumes even with Nick’s wife Rachel pregnant, and walking Jean and Deke the dog to school, Nick will become a danger if not pursuing what he does best: killing people. Gus quickly regrets his influence over his partner, when the first time out of the retirement chute, Nick’s contract on Sheik Abdul Nazari begins a chain of events he never envisioned. Nick incorporates only one guideline in his life - he has a handful of people and a canine pal he protects at all costs. An unwitting number of people decide to test what they think is Nick’s weakness. It proves to be a fatal error in judgment.
Check out bestselling Cold Blooded, the first book in the Nick McCarty series. |
RICK CANTELLI, P.I. (The Rick Cantelli Series # 1)
Action Thriller
Ex-SEAL Sniper, Rick Cantelli was recruited and handled by CIA Counterintelligence Agent, Lois Madigan back thirty years ago. After a close call for Lois and Rick, Lois’s husband Frank convinces them to retire, and together they form, Madigan & Cantelli Security and Investigations. They’re winding down now after two decades in the P.I. business, handling the start of their seventh decade with class, and snarly resignation. Each chapter is written as an individual case, and besides being hilarious, it's also packed with action. |
RICK CANTELLI, P.I. (The Rick Cantelli Series # 2)
Action Thriller
Rick Cantelli, ex-SEAL and his former CIA Counterpart, Lo Madigan are back and operating their Private Investigation business in the second book of this series. Love rocks Rick's world. He starts his seventh decade out on a sour note. The infamous Cantelli Land of darkness and shadows engulfs everyone in this new chapter of Rick and Lois adventures. His prison pen-pal, contract killer Trish Rocha is set free, and Rick's world is on fire once again. Lois reveals their first meeting, and a few past interludes much to Rick's chagrin - including a liaison with a beautiful Mossad agent named Adina. A dreadful conjuring of the past explodes into present day Cantelli Land with a vengeance, but Rick and Lois are up to the mark. |
THE PROTECTORS: Halloween Rave (Short-story sequel)
Crime, suspense, thriller
Short-story sequel to the bestselling novel, THE PROTECTORS Oakland Police Officers Connor Bradwick and Ellie James take Doc Julie Morrison undercover with them at a Halloween Rave, trying to stop the dealer distributing the flesh eating heroin substitute: Krokodil. The trio bust bad guys on the way, as the three costumed crime busters hit the rave trail with humorous results. |
THE PROTECTORS - Vigilante Justice
Crime, suspense, thriller
This action-packed, suspense-filled police story begins with a bit of righteous vigilant justice: After rescuing four kidnapped children from kiddie porn dealers, (he brutally executes the three kidnappers), the duo is pulled to desk duty and required to go through psychological evaluation. The straight-and-narrow psychologist has concerns about Connor's readiness to return to duty, so when their boss clears them for duty she decided to ride along. Ex-Ranger Connor Bradwick and his partner, Ellie James, are an Oakland PD patrol team who care about the people of their community. They are tired of the bad guys trying to take over their turf. Tired of picking up criminals just to have them released, Bradwick devises a plan of proactive patrolling. When parolees are released in their area, they will monitor the criminals' known places of business to catch them in the act or deter them from doing business. Their very first effort nets them an arrest and everything, both good and bad, snowballs from that point. Elle has a smart attitude bigger than her six-foot-plus partner. Connor brings his experience as a soldier to the streets. Julie, the psychologist, finds herself more involved with this dynamic duo than she ever dreamed possible. |
Monster
Thriller/ suspense
They needed a monster to get a little girl back. They imprisoned him for the way he did it. Now they need the monster again to do what he does best. FBI Special Agent Diane Reskova waited with her team for a tracker to arrive on site in the Caribou Wilderness of California. A psychopath pursued unsuccessfully for two years by Reskova’s team had kidnapped California Senator Fred Hokanson’s niece, dragging her into the surrounding mountains. Hokanson recruits Jeremiah McDaniels unbeknownst to Reskova as the tracker. McDaniels, a Delta Force Colonel with CIA background, leads the FBI agents after Hughes. Ditching Reskova and her team, McDaniels saves Hokanson’s niece and beheads her kidnapper, Stanton Hughes. After an off-hand remark McDaniels makes concerning a movie while accepting blame for the Hughes’ fiasco, the press label him ‘Cold Mountain’. Taken into custody on Reskova’s orders, McDaniels avoids prison by public outcry and Senator Hokanson’s intervention. With Hokanson’s shadowy sponsorship, McDaniels becomes the enforcement arm of Reskova’s team. With Kumar Rasheed, an Iraqi whose family McDaniels had saved during the second Iraq war, McDaniels supplies Reskova with a weapon she has neither asked for nor condones. Funneled between America and Iraq, McDaniels stays one step ahead of American bureaucrats more interested in appearances than the safety of the country. Reskova, at first repulsed by McDaniels’ methods, soon embraces both the enigmatic McDaniels and his tactics. Reskova threads McDaniels and his Iraqi comrade Kumar Rasheed into her anti-terrorism unit with murderous result. McDaniels’ background and deadly skills become a point of fascination for the bewildered Reskova as her attraction to McDaniels quickly rivals her dedication to the FBI. |
Peace
Action/thriller
Dan and Pauley walk to school together, beginning a lifetime friendship. Dan embraces honor and courage, while Pauley endures his school years in fear. They go their separate ways after high school, until fate reunites them in an Iraqi prison cell. Finally rejecting his fear, Pauley dedicates himself to following Dan’s example. Earning his way onto the Navy Seal Team, Dan commands, Pauley embarks on a path paralleling Dan’s. In dogged defense of their nation, Dan leads with concrete ideals, and Pauley follows from the shadows. Peace, as Pauley is known to his Seal Team comrades, blends honor and duty with darker means. Brutally tempered during his imprisonment in Iraq, Peace becomes a deadly sentinel against America’s enemies. |
Sotello
Action/thriller
Ex-Secret Service and FBI agent, Jim Sotello, runs a detective agency out of Oakland, California with the help of his college age daughter and son. In the space of a few weeks time, the world he took for granted turns upside down. From an unexpectedly dangerous caseload, threatening his own family’s very existence, Sotello weaves his way into a run for the Governor’s Office of California on the Republican Party ticket. As he honestly professes his ultra-conservative views, Sotello shockingly enthralls the hearts and minds of the California voting public, making him into an overnight sensation. In Sotello’s campaign, he vows to form a steel wall against terrorist infiltration, and out of control illegal immigration across California’s porous borders and ports. His soaring ascent, in the polls, brings his foes scurrying from their holes in an attempt to defeat Sotello, or remove him entirely. Between special interest groups, and foreign sponsored terrorists, Jim Sotello’s twelfth hour campaign becomes a roller coaster ride into danger. |
American Survival
Action/thriller
American Survival follows a family fighting in the last stages of a guerilla war, against a group of countries using infiltration across our borders, of soldiers and bio-weapons. After high tech transfers to Red China, and the breakdown of our border security result in four long years of war. The pace quickens as the family encounters the last desperate assault from the enemies arrayed against them. Homecoming involves battling a government plot in the end to use the gangs in the major cities as a ploy to again disarm America, and build a police state. The tenacity of this family and their friends to regain what they thought lost forever faces the final challenge. |
Young Adult and Paranormal
Demon: 1st book in the Mike Rawlins series
YA/Paranormal
DEMON is the first book in this fun and adventurous YA/Paranormal series. Demon is a lovable dog who enjoys catching and eating ghosts. Mike Rawlins helps some stranded teens on their way to a haunted house Halloween night jaunt. Horror and a canine savior bond together an unlikely team of kids, led by the dog who knows no fear: Demon. |
Demon Inc: 2nd book in the Mike Rawlins series
YA/Paranormal
Demon, Mike, and the gang fight on against the dreaded Haunts. The teen wild bunch band form Demon Inc to pay for the paranormal battles thrust on them. With the SyFy Channel writing checks for exclusives, they go after lost kids and the dreaded Haunts. Scarred by the Haunts and healed with holy water, Mike faces a growing darkness inside him, and unusual powers stumping even his canine partner. It's a new wild ride for the most humorous and deadly teen crew ever assembled, led by Demon, canine Haunt killer extraordinaire. |
Demon at War: 3rd book in the Mike Rawlins series
YA/Paranormal
Demon, Mike, and their Demon Inc crew take the dimensional war to the Haunts. Demon and Mike communicate directly with hilarious results, but the darkness within Mike grows after another Haunt wound and holy water healing. Facing Haunt attacks, sexual awakenings, and teenage drama, the kids turn to their sarcastic paranormal pup Demon for rebuke and humor to keep their minds set on survival and victory. |
Layla
Paranormal
Cole Warren searches the Northern California Bay Area flea markets for stolen equipment from his shop: ABC Auto Repair. Instead, he finds and buys an ancient oil lamp from a reluctant old man. After fruitless hours of searching, Cole takes his newly acquired lamp home and wipes it off. A Djinn appears offering three wishes. Her name is Layla. Cole frees her from the lamp instead of risking doom with the notorious Djinn creature. In doing so, Cole embarks on an adventure where he and the beautiful Djinn gather a new crew for Cole’s ABC Repair Shop: a Werewolf, Wraith, Witch, and of course, Layla. Together, they face down all manner of mythical monsters, while practicing ABC’s main purpose: auto and truck repair. Some monsters look for retribution on their creator: Layla. Some come looking for a way to steal Cole’s immunity to Layla and his ability to wish without harm. The predators find nothing but hard times from the ABC crew. Through it all, the shadowy firm of Spenser and Associates emerges as ABC’s main adversary. |
Storm
Paranormal
The FBI blackmailed Storm Crandall; but only after Storm hacked their database. At sixteen, she’s under cover at a high school, looking for clues involving five missing girls. Besides computer skills, Storm has game in the magic department. A sect of the Temple of Set soon finds out power comes in many guises. With two FBI agents posing as her parents in the city of Warren, Ohio, Storm finds love, allies, and tragedy in her hunt for answers. By fulfilling her end of the bargain, Storm can buy her way out of spending the days until her eighteenth birthday in a juvenile detention facility. The FBI agents discover their young charge can do more than type ast. Their first encounter with the creature behind the disappearances shows the agents they need Storm for far more than information gathering as a high school spy. With Storm’s FBI handlers shadowing her every movement and conversation, small breakthroughs in the case come to light. Three girls from the high school visit Perkins Park at night where the disappearances had happened, playing a dangerous game of dare. Two of the girls, Nancy Alverson and Chris Vasquez, leave their friend Carol Wangden alone in the park after an argument. They walk to the local Burger King only blocks away, hoping for a ride from Logan Stanfield. Finding Storm there with Tracy Washington, they explain the game they had been playing. Logan drives to the park with Storm and Tracy to find Carol. Agents Dixon and Holloway, listening in, head for the park too. Logan holds off the monster they find chasing down Carol long enough for Storm to cast an impromptu invocation which disperses the demon in front her companions. Teaming up with the enigmatic Logan, Storm begins unraveling a horror no one anticipated. When the case morphs from serial kidnapping into a supernatural witch hunt, Storm and her friends, under the guidance of the FBI agents, scramble to stay alive while tracking down monsters both human and inhuman. |
American Mutant
Paranormal thriller
Thomas Connor, through horrendous tragedy, hones his body and mind to accomplish the incredible. American Mutant follows the course of Connor's journey to attain a violent and unrelenting brand of justice. On the way, he assembles a cast of characters, who join him on his quest to reshape a treacherous world into his vision of the future. Washington D.C. becomes a backdrop for Connor's rise from incarcerated enforcer in a branch of the National Security Agency, to the head of a complex intelligence network, owing allegiance to Connor alone. An old friend from his CIA past assists him in his goal to make a difference. Connor gathers a cadre of inner city young black men capable of turning their lives around to build a business front and house his intelligence gathering aspirations. With the help of Nate Johnson, a CIA assassin, Connor takes on a web of Russian Mafia and Red Chinese intelligence gangs, to break a slave ring kidnapping young girls for foreign sources.With his growing extraordinary powers, Connor takes the murder capital of the country to a new level of violence, frightening in its scope. After meeting Connor, his unruly band learns fear, discipline, and a terrifying way to make dreams come true. In return for their loyalty, Connor provides them with an escape hatch from oblivion. |
LANCELOT
Paranormal, historical, thriller
The most feared knight in the world, Lancelot, battles a thousand years into the future, vowing to change legend and destiny. He finds love, old friends, old enemies, and an eight year old Arthur needing guidance. Lancelot forges a new alliance to defeat an ancient plague. |
ARCHANGEL
Paranormal
When the Lord looks down one day upon the earth and decides he’s had enough of turning the other cheek to his prodigal son, Lucifer, he sends the Archangel Raphael to put Lucifer in his place. After Raphael gets his butt kicked and held for extortion, what does the Lord do then? He plays hardball. From the darkest realm of reality, the Lord asks the Archangels Michael and Gabriel to bring back his Avatar from exile: Abaddon, the dreaded Archangel of the Abyss. Forged by an angry God to stop the rampaging Lucifer from decimating Heaven’s host, the black winged Angel of the Abyss did all he was created for, and more. Banished by God’s hand before Abaddon could obliterate Lucifer completely, the Lord’s Avatar passed the eons stoically, enduring without complaint, his only companionship the unsanctioned visits from his Archangel brothers. Raphael was Abaddon’s favorite. Reunited with the Lord, Abaddon is given a mission: save Raphael, find two tortured nuns who hold the key to exorcising demon kind from human hosts, return the balance between good and evil, and punish Lucifer. The grim Abaddon had four words for his Lord: “I can do that.” Saved from brutal captivity, Sister Mary Catherine and Sister Angelina begin their journey beside the Seraphim of Heaven with both pure and impure motives. The Archangel of the Abyss makes the two nuns one promise: no force on Earth will ever hold them captive again. Desired captivity would be another matter. |
Casserine
Science Fiction
Casserine takes the reader on a futuristic journey with a conservative bent. Duty and honor, in this Sci-Fi adventure, infuses the tale from beginning to end. If you love it when political correctness takes a hit, and touchy feely space operas bore you, Casserine will take you where you want to go. This nonstop rush across space, from one battlefield to another, illustrates a far different handling of Alien cultures. A nearly superhuman Marine finds love in a most unusual way, and when duty rips him from her, he uses any means necessary, within his code of honor, to return to their small universe. Chosen to lead the most powerful space force ever assembled, because of a fluke mixing of DNA with an Alien monster, Jake Matthews spares no entity standing in the way of his mission. He vows to forge an unbeatable engine of destruction, powerful enough to force peace across eternal space. Casserine provides a wild ride for a reader who wishes to see a vista of future America, where citizens across the galaxies pledge allegiance to one Earth nation's flag. In so doing, they birth an empire of single minded purpose, and incredible power. |
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