Steve Haberman
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B. A. Degree from the University of Texas. Former stock broker before earning legal assistant certification from UCLA. Worked at major Los Angeles law firm before stock market investments permitted early retirement. Have traveled extensively and often to Europe, and its cities feature in my stories..."Murder Without Pity" (Paris), and the soon-to-be released "The Killing Ploy" (various cities), along with its sequel, "Darkness and Blood" (various European cities). My fifth novel will take place in post-World War II Berlin.
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Murder Without Pity
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Atmospheric Murder Mystery
Paris, France: dark with fog, riots over police killings, and Far Right demagogues. Here state criminal investigator, Stanislas Cassel, grandson of a French propagandist for the Nazis during WWII, works at the Palace of Justice. Ashamed of his family's infamy, he avoids anything political. Instead he absorbs himself solving small crimes. Little does he suspect the life-changing shock awaiting him when he looks into the bizarre murder of a pensioner, who seemed to have lived an uneventful life. Murder Without Pity by Steve Haberman, a mystery thriller for today's turbulent, dangerous times! 
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The Killing Ploy
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Spy Thriller, Murder Mystery, Suspense
Several years have passed since 9/11. Pablo de Silva, mother, a tennis champion; father, a wealthy, but now bankrupt Swiss hotelier, walks into the American embassy in Switzerland and volunteers to work for the CIA. Accepted, he does admirable work for them. Then tragedy strikes, leaving him devastated. He becomes yesterday's man, mostly written off. Except by his CIA mentor, who gives him a second chance. Liaise with the FBI to see if the murders of two top corporate executives, contractors for the American military, with their passports missing, have a terrorist angle. This he does. Soon, however, as he gets deeper into his task, he discovers it becomes dangerously different than expected. And he finds himself ensnared in a scheme to ensnare a ghost where rumor becomes reality for a paranoid on the run. A spy thriller with locals ranging from sunny San Diego, California to the menacing streets of London, Paris, Lugano, and Berlin. Based on extensive on-site research, this highly contemporary thriller shows that before there was "fake news," there was The Killing Ploy. Sample 
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Darkness and Blood
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Spy Thriller, Thriller
A former American spy, now in hiding, and his former CIA handler are on the run in Europe from governments, after they unearth damaging, top-secret information. A thriller set against a backdrop of paranoia, a infested London, whistle blowing, and high-level backstabbing at MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency. Sample 
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Winston Churchill's Renegade Spy
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Historical Thriller, WWII Fiction, Espionage Thriller
Mid-1940, the darkest of the nights for Britain during WWII. Adolf Hitler's unstoppable military has conquered most of Europe, including France, only twenty miles from the English coast. It is now set to conquer the island-nation itself. Plotting to aid this onslaught, a German spy lurks somewhere within Winston Churchill's government. Such is the dire news an emissary of the prime minister secretly brings to disgraced Churchill bodyguard, Jonas Shaw, an ex-New York City detective, along with a plea: help discover the agent before the Nazis invade. Shaw has faced many challenges in his eventful life, but none as dangerous and fateful as this one, helping save Western civilization. First in a series. Sample 
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Where the Bones Lie
The Spy from Palestine
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Historical Thriller
British-controlled Palestine, 1947. Teeming with intrigue and treachery. Here prize-winning American war journalist, Charly Lawrence, and her lover, Jonas Shaw, ex-Churchill bodyguard and spy, arrive on a dangerous mission: amid this scrap of desert, fought over for centuries, find a Jewish survivor of a notorious WWII Nazi massacre in Europe. Then interview her for a scoop for her struggling London-based newspaper. Little do these worldly travelers realize the life-threatening danger and plotting that await them. Sample 
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