I’ve been a busy writer. Next month will see the release of my Sixties rock ‘n’ roll novel, Queensborough Rock, published by Crosswinds Press. (See COMING THIS NOVEMBER-A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF STEPHEN SHAIKEN NOVEL ) While that book is undergoing production and pre-release publicity, I find myself deep in the middle of another NJA Club novel, the fourth in the series.
The novel is still untitled, but I can say it takes place in the current time and is written in the third person as was the last novel, Bangkok Blues. The worst of COVID is over, and Bangkok has returned to normal, at least as normal as life can remain for Glenn and his eclectic band of friends.
In the first three novels, Glenn’s adversaries were all agents of one government or another, including our own CIA, North Korea, and the People’s Republic of China. An ongoing theme has been that you really can’t trust any government.
In the new book, there isn’t any government trying to harm Glenn and company, unless you count the attractive FBI agent sent to Bangkok to investigate the same Mafia scheme the NJA Club gang is dealing with. A crew of Brooklyn mobsters decide that declining business opportunities on the home front can be compensated for by selling hijacked booze in Thailand, where the real stuff commands top prices. When the mob’s local hires try to strong-arm Wang, the owner of the NJA Club, the General sends Sleepy Joe to deliver a message to the hoods. That’s when the action begins. Joe looks like a burnt out aging hippie , but the former Australian Special Forces soldier is as deadly as ever.
Readers will be brought into the inner sanctums of a local Brooklyn Mafia crew, and watch as their schemes are out into action. We’re talking about some violent people, so some of what goes on in Brooklyn is as bloody and deadly as some of the action scenes in the first three novels.
This novel will be published by Crosswinds Press, and will be available as an e book or print edition. The anticipated release date is mid January, 2023.
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Great news about the work-in-progress NJA novel. My wife and I are finally getting back to SEAsia–Bangkok included–in a few weeks. It’s been a long travel drought! I’m looking forward to the new book helping me through my February doldrums and post-travel blues. Cheers & best of luck!