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The BEWARE SERIES starts on the streets of Chicagoland in the summer of 1936. It follows Doctors Milton and Arthur Beck as they stumble in to disaster after disaster when all they want to do is practice medicine and surgery. Their story travels from Chicago, to Wisconsin and back, and reaches its conclusion on a two-rut backroad in western Montana. Hold onto your hats--it's a wild ride.

These are my first three novels. I am rewriting them and plan to publish them in the future. The titles are provisional.

My life had settled into middle-aged doldrums until . . .

Surgeon Milton Beck's staid life takes a sharp turn 1936. First, he performs the operation of his career and saves a young constable who should have died. When the mob needs a surgeon, who better to kidnap? Milton is then caught between Mob threats and an offer from the FBI after his return. How will he find his way through this mess?

What have we gotten ourselves into . . .

Surgeon Milton Beck and his brother, Dr. Arthur Beck agree to set up a "mob clinic" in cooperation with the FBI but have stirred a hornet nest. Their medical licenses and hospital privileges are under threat from a powerful rival while the mob's deadliest hitman ties up loose ends.

It could be worse . . .

A mob hitman's wife dies after surgeon Milton Beck's nemesis botches a gallbladder operation. The hitman and his partner kidnap the errant surgeon and shoot him. Milton has to swallow his emotions and save the man who has been trying to destroy him. Another hitman is targeting loose ends who Milton previously saved. Milton and his family need a break. They travel to Deer Lodge, Montana to visit their cousin, George. It turns into the vacation from hell.