Peter Goldman

They call themselves the LadyKillers Liberation Army, bound together by their rage against women for denying them the sexual favors they feel are their birthright as men. Their leader is a shadowy figure known to them only as The Colonel. Their mission is to assassinate members of a bumper crop of newly elected Congresswomen at a rate of one a week. And they've made one big mistake: One of the women on their hit list is the wife of a streetwise New York PI named Max Christian. The Colonel brings in a ringer, a professional assassin, to bring her down on the steps of the US Capitol. Can Max and his pals get there in time to save her? Coauthored by a political journalist and a private investigator, Peter Goldman with Nicola Malatesta, PI, The LadyKillers War: From the Case Files of Max Christian, PI, is perfect for readers with a taste for thrillers played out in a real-world political setting-a world in which armed violence by right-wing fringe groups is the stuff of headlines.

On what starts out as just another routine day at the office, Max Christian, PI, receives a life-changing phone call. On the line is his old adversary, Carlo (Charlie Beak) Paolucci, don of the last Cosa Nostra family in New York. The Beaks hoods have snatched Maxs son, Jay, a Penn freshman, and he wants twenty-five million dollars for his safe return. The money is the least of Maxs worries. His wife is heiress to a $250 million family fortune. But the former NYPD homicide cop is brutally aware that kidnapping victims almost never come home alive. Even worse, the Beak is a notorious sadist and self-named student of pain who enjoys watching his victims suffer. After Max attempts face-to-face diplomacy with no luck, he fantasizes an armed rescue operation. Unfortunately he has no idea where Jay is being held. Its not until he hooks up with a mysterious Florida PI known as the Closer that a desperate strategy finally comes together. But when good guys without scruples meet bad guys with guns, there will be blood. In this thrilling tale, a New York PI is cast in the middle of a complex and dangerous investigation after his son is kidnapped by a mob boss.

Max Christian, the only private investigator known to hold regular conversations with the ghost of Albert Camus, thinks the assignment is simple enough. An old friend running for Congress wants some assistance-starting with confirming or denying a suspicion her bad-boy husband might be cheating on her. He should know nothing's ever really that simple. Christian's former NYPD homicide partner, Tina Falcone, has her own problems. Newly married to her longtime girlfriend, Falcone finds herself at the center of a serial killer investigation, hunting a madman who gets his kicks slashing into young women with dreams of stardom. As the two seemingly independent cases merge, Christian and Falcone find themselves in an ever-changing world of shape-shifters, where mafia types rub shoulders with billionaire bankers and no one is ever exactly who he or she seems to be. Targeted by a vicious hit man, Christian is going to have to make an unhappy self-discovery-or his next conversation with Camus will be in the afterlife. A genre-bending mix of comedy, magical realism, and crime fiction, The Shape-Shifters continues the adventures of Max Christian that began in The Last Minstrel Show.

The Death and Life of Malcolm X provides a dramatic portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century. Focusing on Malcolm X's rise to prominence and the final year of his life, the book details his rift with the Nation of Islam and its leader, Elijah Muhammad, leading to death threats and eventually assassination at the hands of a death squad. In a new preface for this edition, Peter Goldman reflects on the forty years since the book's first publication and considers new information based on FBI surveillance that has since come to light.