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Scar Tissue
A private investigator has seven days to track down a banker who disappeared with millions in stolen mob cash or face the deadly consequences. A vigilante justice P.I. series. Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Dr. Daryl Jennings is a family friend who mistakenly becomes entangled in a fentanyl smuggling operation. Finn negotiates a deal with a violent Indianapolis mob boss to earn the doctor’s freedom, but it doesn’t come cheap. To settle the doctor’s debt, Finn agrees to track down a criminal banker who disappeared with $5 million of the mob’s money. As he investigates the banker’s whereabouts, Finn must evade two brothers looking to collect the bounty on his head, the result of a previous case gone bad. Can Finn find the banker and return the mob’s money before Dr. Jennings’ time (and his own) runs out? Scar Tissue is the second novel by award-winning author Trace Conger. It is the second novel in the Mr. Finn P.I. series.
The Prison Guard's Son
A private investigator searches for two killers in witness protection while evading the US Marshals sworn to protect them and a hitman hired to kill them. A vigilante justice P.I. series. Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Willie Baker is a grieving father hell-bent on revenge. Thirty years after his son’s brutal slaying, Willie hires Finn to find the two men responsible. The only problem? They’re in witness protection. Finn begins his search in the small West Virginia town where the murders occurred and tracks the killers across the country. During his investigation, he crosses paths with a tenacious US Marshal determined to protect them at all costs. After finding the murderers and learning details about their new lives, Finn realizes they aren’t who they seem and struggles with his conscience. That doesn’t sit well with Willie Baker or the hitman he hired to enact his revenge. Can Finn evade the US Marshals and the triggerman long enough to levy his own form of justice? The Prison Guard’s Son is the third novel by award-winning author Trace Conger. It is the third novel in the Mr. Finn P.I. series.
The Shadow Broker
A private investigator must unravel a blackmail plot targeting a criminal information brokerage before the FBI and a hired killer stop him. A vigilante justice P.I. series. Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Bishop runs a black-market information brokerage on the dark web, selling stolen personal data to the highest bidder. When someone blackmails Bishop, threatening to go public with his identity and crimes, he hires Finn to find the person behind the plot. During his investigation, Finn draws the attention of the FBI’s cybercrime unit investigating Bishop, a psychopathic hitman hired to take out the blackmailer, and a Detroit mob boss hellbent on taking over Bishop’s operation. As Finn gets closer to unraveling the mystery, he discovers his ex-wife and young daughter have become targets in the sinister conspiracy. Can Finn survive long enough to unmask the blackmailer, save his family, and escape the FBI’s and the mob’s grasp? The Shadow Broker is the first novel by award-winning author Trace Conger. The novel won a Shamus Award from the P.I. Writers of America as one of the best crime books of the year.
The White Boy
WINNER - Fresh Ink Award for Best Novella of 2020. From award-winning author Trace Conger comes a ghost story that explores the fine line between what is real and what is the product of a child’s vivid imagination. Quinn Becker doesn't believe in ghosts. Or coincidences. That changes when his five-year-old son, Drew, tells him about the "white boy" who visits him at night. Drew recounts his ghostly experience with a boy who looks like him but "doesn’t have a face.” As Drew's encounters with the white boy escalate, Quinn and his wife, Mel, are forced to decipher what is real and what is the product of their son's vivid imagination. As the family searches for answers, they discover a link to a 40-year-old mystery and a connection to Quinn's own past.But the most unsettling discovery is that the white boy is only the beginning. A much more menacing threat is coming.
Catch and Release
An ex-mob fixer must solve the murder of a hitman’s wife and daughter before becoming the next victim. A vigilante justice crime thriller with a twist ending. Connor Harding is the go-to man when it comes to solving problems for the underworld’s most dangerous criminals. Freddie Blasko is a violent hitman with a reputation for results. Twelve years after Freddie’s wife and daughter were brutally killed, he wants Connor to solve their murders. Freddie tracks Connor down at his secluded cabin in Maine, but Connor wants nothing to do with the job. He knows an unsolvable case when he sees one. Twelve years is a long time, and there’s no evidence, no witnesses, and nothing to go on. But, ...
The New Software Engineering
This text is written with a business school orientation, stressing the how to and heavily employing CASE technology throughout. The courses for which this text is appropriate include software engineering, advanced systems analysis, advanced topics in information systems, and IS project development. Software engineer should be familiar with alternatives, trade-offs and pitfalls of methodologies, technologies, domains, project life cycles, techniques, tools CASE environments, methods for user involvement in application development, software, design, trade-offs for the public domain and project personnel skills. This book discusses much of what should be the ideal software engineer's project related knowledge in order to facilitate and speed the process of novices becoming experts. The goal of this book is to discuss project planning, project life cycles, methodologies, technologies, techniques, tools, languages, testing, ancillary technologies (e.g. database) and CASE. For each topic, alternatives, benefits and disadvantages are discussed.
Mirage Man
MIRAGE MAN - A crime thriller from award-winning author Trace Conger Connor Harding is a Mirage Man for the New York mob. He's smart, relentless, and a master of a trade that few people know exists. When it comes to solving problems for the underworld's most dangerous criminals, he's the go-to man. If you've got a problem, you want him on your side, but if you ARE the problem, you never want to meet him.In Connor's line of work, mistakes get you killed. Until now, the only mistake he made was thinking his past would never come back to haunt him. Connor's professional skills are tested when, three years after leaving the criminal life and retiring into obscurity, an eager triggerman arrives at his home to kill him. What begins with a dead man on Connor's kitchen floor spirals into a high-stakes chase that takes him back to his New York City stomping grounds. There, he becomes entangled in a criminal power struggle, mob turf war, and a federal investigation that put his former boss in prison. Connor is determined to find those responsible for the attempt on his life and cancel the contract before someone else cancels him.
The Wicked Side
An ex-mob fixer must find a missing teenager and disrupt a human trafficking operation before she disappears forever. A vigilante justice crime thriller. Connor Harding is the go-to man when it comes to solving problems for those who can’t go to the police. Ellie Armstrong is a seventeen-year-old living in Big Rock, Wyoming. When Ellie disappears, Zoe Armstrong, Ellie’s aunt, calls in a favor and sends Connor to locate her. Determined to find Ellie, Connor turns Big Rock upside down and discovers the small town is hiding something. How is a mysterious hit-and-run connected to Ellie’s disappearance? Why is the local police department hellbent on stopping Connor at every turn? And does her abduction have anything to do with her father’s work with the FBI? As Connor gets closer to finding answers, he starts making enemies. But the residents of this small town are about to learn there are two sides to Connor Harding, the good side and the wicked side. And bad things happen when you’re on the wrong one. The Wicked Side is the eighth novel by award-winning author Trace Conger.
Emergent Evolution
Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties. In part one I consider the background to emergence in the 19th century discussion of the philosophy of evolution among its leading exponents in England - Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Walla...
