A Real Nightmare

About the Book

A popular and strong advocate of protecting our environment, Boston Mayor, Richard Bronsky is shot and killed while he rides with the just victorious NBA champion Boston Celtics in their Duck Boat parade. The Boston police, with cooperation from other Massachusetts and New Hampshire police departments, suddenly find themselves deep into an investigation as to who and why this former State Senator, who only recently left his job as head of the Washington D.C. EPA, and was just elected Boston's Mayor, would unbelievably be shot and killed in front of the Taj Hotel on Tremont Street in downtown Boston. Sergeant Eric Smothers expertly coordinates this exhaustive investigation, which also involves a traumatic related house torching of a Falmouth, Ma., very active woman, who loudly supports the progression of the Cape Cod Wind Farm project. Three anti-environmental groups and their outspoken leaders are investigated and they, and some of their hired involved followers do not rule out arson or murder or the bombing of a police patrol car, to stand in the way of their anti-environmental goals and their economic windfalls. Smothers and stunningly attractive Boston Police Lieutenant Sandra Graham somehow find their off duty attraction to each other becomes much more than, off with his tie, and off with her high heels, as the moonlight floods Sandra's harbor side apartment. The sergeant finds the lieutenant striking beautiful and irresistible, both in and out of uniform. This a story of well financed bad guy's and their goals, going up against a coordinated effort by determined law enforcement officers to bring the evasive law breakers to court and prosecution. The trail of the bad guys leads all over Massachusetts, parts of New Hampshire and into other parts of the United States, and even into an island in the Bahamas.

About the Author

David H. Swendsen is a retired resource law enforcement officer. He was a Wisconsin Conservation Warden for eight years, and retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as Special Agent-in-Charge of the six State Northeastern Region, in Boston, after twenty -four years of federal service. After federal retirement, he taught resource law enforcement at The University of New Hampshire, Wachusetts Community College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for over eighteen years. From 1989 to April of 2009, he taught and directed the National Park Service's Seasonal Ranger Law Enforcement Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This program is only one of nine 400+ hour such programs in the U.S. This program prepares its graduates to receive commissions as Seasonal National Park Rangers throughout the U.S. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Swendsen has written several Resource law enforcement books, including "Badge in the Wilderness," by Stackpole in 1984. His first novel, "Fault Island," was published by Ourskits Press in 2009.