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James Nathan Post and Shelly Waxman

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We are a small publisher of books and screenplays. As our name states, we believe our titles belong to a new genre we call NEW pulp fiction. Those, who are old enough, surely remember the books and the black and white noir movies of Dashiell Hammett, Gil Brewer, Day Keene, William P. McGivern, Mickey Spillane, Lawrence Block, and others.

Why is our material “NEW” pulp fiction? Our stories are based on real events. Also, our pulp fiction stories are contemporary and involve contemporary events. They are “intelligent thrillers” in the Dan Brown mode. The Sam Cohen Series moves. The books are fluid, dynamic, explosive and shocking. You will never be bored. The sex scenes, although descriptive, are required by the genre and do not exceed contemporary standards. We would expect that the readers would be beyond the age of eighteen but, I guess, we would not suggest the Series as “children’s books". And there is violence, which is also part of the genre.

THE SAM COHEN CASE ADVENTURES

These are the first three in a series of exciting and thought provoking action mystery stories, about the cases of a tough street-wise Chicago lawyer with a maverick libertarian take on life. Though based on real cases from former Assistant US Attorney Shelly Waxman’s files, they are highly fictionalized, so as to be rough-edged pulp fiction reading, exciting, and challenging to ideas you may have, like Quentin Tarantino doing Mickey Spillaine.

#1 THE BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS Was he the black Donnie Brascoe of the FBI, or the Judas of the Black Panther Party? William O’Neal was both. As the FBI’s mole in the Chicago Black Panther Party, he was security chief and bodyguard for Party Chairman Fred Hampton, and he helped set up the pre-dawn raid in December 1969 in which Hampton was killed. As hot new Assistant US Attorney, Sam was called to defend O’Neal,the FBI, and the Cook County State’s Attorney of setting up the raid as a political assassination. When Sam learned about COINTELPRO, and J. Edgar Hoover’s spying and covert acts against the Black Panthers and others, he quit the job, ending his plush inner circle career. Now, thirty years later, a babe in distress walks into Sam’s office with a strange offer, and he soon finds those days coming back to haunt him. “I need to know what you found out, and why it made you quit,” she said. He knew what she wanted to know could get them both killed.

#2 PIRANHAS ON THE LOOSE Ryan Sedlack was a military assassin, a sadist exploited to do the covert dirty work. After Vietnam, he became part of the Chicago Legion Of Justice, a civic group taking “all legal steps” to oppose the efforts of anti-war protesters, dirty tricks to blacken the names and disrupt the lives of those involved in liberal causes. During one such operation, he and his colleagues, mysterious and sexy Mata Diaz and pious and patriotic Tim Kallman, were double-crossed and Sedlack ends up arrested – but for the wrong crime. He turns to veteran campaigner for the underdog Sam Cohen for assistance in clearing himself. The more Sam learns about America’s shady quasi-official right-wing underground, the less he likes it. Should maverick lawyer Sam Cohen defend them, or destroy them? When people close to him start getting hurt, and killed, Sam has to question what side he is on. Sexy pulp fiction based on astonishing true expose.

#3 THE JOSEPHUS ENIGMA When Sam’s client Andy McAndrew, hard-working honest family man and Vietnam veteran, was robbed of his ID, Andy found himself arrested and treated as a vicious criminal, again and again. It seemed clear to Sam someone very high up was protecting the real criminal behind the robbery. But when a witness identifies Andy as a fiendish killer, involved with a secret group of Chicago’s most powerful leaders who conduct and then cover up brutal sacrificial murders, and the evidence suggests he might not even remember it, even Sam begins to have doubts. What could the cryptic message “The Gospels Of Josephus” mean, and how could it possibly relate to Andy, and what can Sam do to stop them? What he finds is a shocking twist on the history of religion that trumps The DaVinci Code, and challenges the very existence of Christianity.

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We are ACCEPTING manuscripts from authors who write books with a newpulp focus, as do ours. Minimum word length is 50,000. Maximum is 57,500. Please submit as MSWord attachment, New Times Roman or Courier font, spaced one and a half lines. Our printing charge is $20–payable through PayPal. No charge if manuscript is mailed. There is no reading charge. The following are the elements necessary to qualify as a NewPulp book:

1. The premise should be realistic, rational and believable.
2. It should teach us new things.
3. It should have a chase–a quest.
4. It should have one good descriptive sex scene.
5. It should be fast paced.
6. Murder should be involved.
7. It should have a small cast of characters whose POV’s are written in first person.
8. The chapters should be no more than 6-8 pages and should be titled.
9. The paragraphs should be relatively short.
10. It should have a surprise ending.

Buyers may purchase our books on Amazon.com by clicking on the book covers to the right. They are also available at Barnes and Noble.com and all internet booksellers

Buyers may purchase AUTOGRAPHED copies by clicking on the paypal button below for the listed price (Black Messiah Murders for $11.95, Piranhas on The Loose for $15.95) plus $5 extra, which includes Shipping and Handling.

We provide a 20% discount for Bulk sales of 10 or more. We pay for Shipping and Handling. For additional information, contact Shelly Waxman at shelly@cybersol.com or phone at 269-207-6219.

“THE SAM COHEN CASE ADVENTURES, 1-3”
BY SHELLY WAXMAN, J.D. & JAMES NATHAN POST
Just Published–No. 3 The Josephus Enigma
Books Worth Reading, September 7, 2007—AMAZON.COM By D. Crawford “D.C.” (New Mexico) - See all my reviews
Authors Shelly Waxman and James Nathan Post are not afraid to tackle thorny issues and they do it in an entertaining and provocative way that always engages and challenges the reader. This latest (The Josephus Enigma) in the Sam Cohen series is no exception to the rule. I highly recommend this as well as the other novels in the series for those who enjoy hard-boiled detective fiction. A highly original and well-developed plot makes this an enjoyable read from start to finish.

The protagonist, Sam Cohen is an interesting character, reminiscent in many ways of the ‘hard-boiled’ protagonists of the classic Dashell Hammett and Raymond Chandler novels but with a depth that reflects the complexities of modern society. He is an attorney based out of a small but comfortable office in an old building in downtown Chicago. At one time, he rubbed elbows with the rich and powerful, but became disillusioned after being asked to represent the FBI against charges that it was involved in the assassination of a leader of the Black Panthers. Thus, he gave up that life to become “a champion of the downtrodden, a defender of the persecuted, and the last resort of those who have lost all hope.”

Indeed, his latest client, Andy McAndrew finds himself on the verge of despair, turning to Cohen as his last ray of hope. This short, but intense novel is a must read. The Sam Cohen novels represent a new generation of detective fiction for a new generation of readers. Modern writers of detective fiction and thrillers have focused on the scientific aspects of criminal investigations while completely ignoring the human element.

In the Patricia Cornwell variety of novels, nobody questions anything. Consider the character of Jack Ryan in the Tom Clancy adventure novels: he never questions the orders he receives from his government nor much of anything else for that matter. His character, like so many others found within the pages of the majority of the modern detective novels that flood the shelves of bookstores these days, lacks psychological depth. Indeed, Clancy’s Ryan seems more like a robot than a thinking, feeling human being.

Not so with attorney Sam Cohen. Authors Post and Waxman have succeeded in creating a character with whom readers can identify in the protagonist, Sam Cohen. He, like the rest of us, is far from perfect and his faults make his good qualities all the more admirable. Cohen questions authority, including that wielded by his own government, and even questions himself at times. The world of Sam Cohen is much more complex than the typical “us versus them” mentality seen in most modern detective fiction.

If you like the superficial sort of trash that passes for detective fiction today where the “good guys” have badges and wear white and the one-dimensional “bad guys” wear black, this book is not for you. But if you like fiction that challenges the prevailing myths of our times, in an entertaining and provocative fashion, then this latest in the Sam Cohen series is a must read. I highly recommend it. “THE BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS-#1”& “PIRANHAS ON THE LOOSE–#2”