Calco Inc : 12 books

“What went on here?” demanded the New York police captain. It was a reasonable question. The room had two men shot dead, two more wounded, a thirty-two-year-old playboy screaming in pain. Hank Tower’s answer captured the tale behind the carnage. “Oil and weddings don’t mix, Tom.” The...

This is a tale of murder and greed on the beautiful island of St. Martin in the Caribbean. It starts with four New York golfers establishing a pact that lets them retire wealthy at age sixty. The devil in their plan is that if one of them dies before a set date, he loses all rights and the rest can...

A ruthless buyer wants to restore a depleted oil field owned by a wealthy New York family for generations. Only the patriarch can sell it and he doesn’t want to, despite his family’s frantic need for the money. Hank Tower is hired by the buyer “to make the deal,” then learns he’ll be murdered...

When the super-rich CEO of a giant hospital chain, Stewart Grumman, is found lying dead eye-to-eye with his beloved Doberman, Beowulf, tranquilized at his side, it exposes a web of jealousy and greed. Grumman was the client of a cunning ex-Brit and a cold-blooded South Korean who are making millions...

In 1982, at age two, Jonah was abandoned on an isolated Ozark farm by a desperate, young mother. The farm’s sole occupant, an elderly widow, kept him to help her as he aged. He had no birth certificate, recorded fingerprints, DNA or any other kind of traceable identification. He never learned to...

Overview Spencer Tillman collapses on the sixteenth tee while playing golf with his father and two brothers. The autopsy determines he was poisoned. But how? And by whom? Hank Tower, former spy turned New York PI, enters the case when Spencer's eighteen-year-old son skips school to seek his...

One of an elite group of four New York City detectives is a professional killer. The group’s former Chief tells the four that he is dying and leaving his three million dollar estate to them, but under an ominous condition. The Chief knows who the killer is, but won’t reveal it. Instead, he challenges...

Amir Carrington was the ideal plant to help the U.S. identify money flowing to the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS). He was Syrian/Canadian, a computer wizard, fluent in Arabic and living in Damascus. He succeeded grandly. He uncovered a transfer of a half-billion dollars going to the terror organization...

As Seen in the New York Times Book Review  Billionaire hedge fund managers are being murdered in New York.  In December 2009 when the Great Recession was at its peak and anger at Wall Street bordered on hysteria, two hedge fund managers were poisoned on Christmas Eve while...

A novel so captivating one reader said he kept his e-book in his car so he could read it while waiting at stop lights. It starts with a letter from a wealthy dead man to Hank Tower saying he was murdered by someone in his family. Two grown sons of his are counting on inheriting millions...

A page-turner that throws national security and a highly-placed military family into a mix of deadly action, international deceit, unbridled passion – and treacherous murder.  Three-Star Army General Thomas Linder holds the plans for a high-tech military weapon, a hand-held drone that in the...

Like “The Maltese Falcon” that has become a cinema classic, this action-packed caper seethes with the same suspense, humor and intrigue of a deadly quest for a priceless historic treasure. This time it’s the Temujin – a gold and jewel-encrusted miniature ship that dates back to Genghis Khan...