A few weeks after disgraced Montgomery County, Maryland police detective John Bent gets out of prison, he lands a new job as a software developer on an important NASA contract. Hired to replace a programmer killed in a suspicious ski accident, Bent finds his new career more dangerous than his previous one.

On his first day at work he discovers another team member, a reserved computer guru, dead of an apparent suicide. Four days later, someone murders the database administrator—hours after her date with John Bent. Are the three deaths related to the project? Is someone trying to frame Bent for the murders? Can Bent find and stop the killer before everyone on the project is murdered?

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Part II of “Field Piece” takes place in Iran and in Azerbaijan.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia maintains its military prowess by hiring out Russian Army units as mercenaries to shore up the shaky government in Azerbaijan. The Russian Army troops are initially successful, but they make the disastrous mistake of using poison gas on a small village harboring Muslim dissidents. Read More…

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When a CIA agent is murdered in Tehran, the White House wants someone on the scene to determine what the agent discovered that led to his death, and who is responsible. The agent is supposed to remain low-profile — just get in, find out what the hell is going on, and get out. No women, no trouble, no killing.

U.S. State Department agent Steve Walker, who spent his childhood in Tehran, never thought he would return, but his boss selects Walker as the obvious candidate for the assignment. Read More…

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After reading the constructive reviews of Kindle Readers of “Field Piece”, I’ve split the novel into two parts. Part I takes place pretty much in and around Tehran, Iran. Part II takes place in Tehran and in Azerbaijan. Both parts are included in “Field Piece: The Complete Series”.

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