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Writing short fiction for over twenty years, Howard Giordano has published seventeen different stories in an assortment of twenty-two literary magazines. One story was a finalist in a Glimmer Train Press contest. Another, a racetrack tale, was a contest finalist in The Thoroughbred Times, a national racing magazine, and published in their ten-year anthology of winning stories. In three consecutive annual contests sponsored by the Creative Writers Notebook, one of his stories placed first, and two others received honorable mentions. This short-story collection is close to his heart and provides the reader with a strong sample of his creative storytelling ability. HOWARD GIORDANO is a native of New York City. A successful career in advertising on Madison Avenue preceded a period with The New York Racing Association (Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga Racetracks) as Executive Director of Marketing and Television. Later, former NYC Mayor Ed Koch appointed him the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation president. Howard began his short-story writing career in 1990. His first full-length novel, a thriller, was published in 2011 and became an international contest award winner. Three more thrillers have since been released.

It may have changed its name, but the KGB is up to its old tricks, only this time with a new puppet-the American Public! Steve Nguyen, a newly minted homicide detective with the San Francisco Police Department, is cut loose on his first solo case-the mysterious death of a young accountant with a public-interest foundation. Everything points to natural causes, but Nguyen, to the dismay of his chief, isn't ready to close the book. With no motive, means, or opportunity, the anxiety-racked law school dropout starts digging anyway. Nguyen's tortuous investigation leads through the halls of Congress, the gritty oil fields of the Siberian tundra, stately Black Sea palaces of the petro-czars, and the mean streets of San Francisco. Aided by his misfit cousins, Tina Ngo, an attorney with a special practice in feral law, and Tommy Tran, a computer geek straddling the tightrope of legality, Nguyen unearths a malevolent alliance among a billionaire Russian oligarch, a duplicitous foundation director, and a renowned philanthropist hell-bent on tightening Russia's monopoly on the European energy market by choking-off American exports. If it means corrupting the American electoral system through illegal campaign contributions, political blackmail, and a few dead bodies, so be it. In this dark world of Russian deception, Nguyen unravels a complex tangle of illegal offshore accounts, shell corporations, and front companies, all while ducking the crosshairs of the SVR's most skilled assassins. He may solve a murder and maybe save a republic.

Howard Giordano's charismatic protagonist, Luke Rizzo, is back in The Dark Side of the City. In this story, Rizzo takes on the Mafia. Again collaborating with his favorite FBI agent, Rizzo brings down a flourishing money-laundering operation, all the while dodging the mob's many attempts to whack him. Giordano's story gives his fans another thrilling ride from the start of the book to the last sentence. BluewaterPress LLC published Giordano's debut thriller, Tracking Terror, in 2016. The novel became a bronze medal award winner in an international contest where the top-of-the-line thriller author, Daniel Silva, claimed the gold. A Hollywood production company optioned Tracking Terror for film. Giordano's next thriller, The Second Target, dealt with the theme of revenge, and the third thriller in the series, Crossing Into Darkness, combined the subjects of drug smuggling and human trafficking. Luke Rizzo is back. This time the Mafia is his target. Howard Giordano's third book in his page-turning series shows an in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of the mob. It's sure to raise the question of whether it's based entirely on his research . . . or is he a "made man?"John Wayne Falbey, author of the Sleeping Dogs series of geopolitical thrillers