John Scheck - Author - Humorist

Purchase on Amazon   Lines in the Sand continues the story begun in La Frontera Saga . As Ax and the Brotherhood expand their gun-theft operation, they collide once again with cartels, corrupt officials, and federal agents. DEA agent Juan Rodríguez and ATF agent Cliff Owens are drawn into a deadly world of kidnappings, cartel warfare, and shifting loyalties. At the center of it all is Diego Valverde, a Spaniard determined to turn cartel wealth into opportunity and hope—but his vision makes him a target. As Colonel Ignacio García and his elite soldiers wage relentless war against the cartels, alliances fracture, corruption spreads, and survival hangs in the balance. A fast-moving, violent, darkly funny border thriller where every alliance has a price—and every line in the sand is meant to be crossed.

 

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Amazon     John Scheck’s Lives of Crimes is a darkly compelling collection that examines how crime and punishment ripple through families and friendships. Moving from the bleak shadows of noir to the unlikely humor found in breaking the law, these stories peel back the layers of ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations, some of their own making, others born of proximity and bad luck. From a young man who uproots his life to visit his brother in a federal prison, to a gambler betting everything on impossible odds, to a weary guard discovering he’s no freer than the men he oversees, Scheck reveals the human pulse beneath violence and retribution, the loyalty, fear, and fragile hope that survive in even the most hostile surroundings.  

  Buy on Amazon   When the elite legal firms of Beverly Hills need problems erased for their most select clients, not argued in court or boardrooms, they contract downward to lesser law offices—ethically compromised “ambulance chasers” with no qualms about getting their hands dirty. Shadowy intermediaries are summoned like genies and the best of these is Tag, a veteran fixer with a brutal past, a dark personal code, and a clear warning to clients: vengeance comes at a cost they may not be able to afford in the end. But in Los Angeles, the rich are used to getting what they want, making Tag a very busy and rich man.     Contracted for a devastating act of retribution against Walter Greene, a Hollywood mogul with a dark legacy of sexual abuse, Tag penetrates Greene’s guarded world to exact the revenge his client sought, winning a battle but starting a war. Far from learning his lesson, Greene enlists his own fixer. Morgan is competent, detached, and even more ruthles...

  Available on Amazon Escaping one of Philadelphia’s most blighted neighborhoods through U.S. Army military police training, Elizabeth Owens becomes a detective in her native city’s police department. Her career is secretly hampered by a wealthy real estate mogul, James McMillan, she arrested for abuse when she was on patrol. Now stuck in the Domestic Violence Unit—one of the department’s least desirable assignments—Owens fights to protect victims in a system that often fails them. After a particularly haunting triple murder, Owens and her partner vow to intercede in domestic violence cases after the aggrieved party makes twenty-seven calls for help, beginning with a serial abuser suspected in the disappearance of a former girlfriend. After Owens discovers McMillan is sabotaging her police career, she uncovers evidence suggesting he’s responsible for the disappearances of multiple women. With help from her partner, a crusading lawyer, and McMillan’s current abused mistress seeki...