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Livermore author’s thriller “Mayhem at Sea” to be Published August 15
The novel is a PSWA award-winning book
Livermore, Calif., August 5, 2023: On Aug. 15 Rough Edges Press will publish the award-winning thriller “Mayhem at Sea,” which describes how pirates hijack a cruise ship. The book is the third volume in the three-book Luke Ryder series by Livermore mystery/thriller author John G. Bluck.
“In this latest Ryder adventure, the deputy sheriff looks for some relaxation time on an Alaskan-bound cruise ship with his girlfriend, former escort Layla. . . As with the first Luke Ryder exploit, ‘Death in the Holler,’ John brings us another page-turner,” said the author of “Recounting the Anthrax Attacks” and retired FBI agent R. Scott Decker. “Ryder's quiet cruise to the Alaska coast and his anticipated whale watching . . . soon turn into a fight for his and Layla's lives along with those of several hundred fellow passengers.”
In mid-July the Public Safety Writers Association (PSWA) honored “Mayhem at Sea” with a book award. Later, on July 22, the New York Post recommended the first book in the series, “Death in the Holler,” as one of “20 action-packed books to bring on vacation this summer.” In this novel, Ryder solves a murder that takes place on a Kentucky farm's food plot.
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The second book in the trilogy, “Murder at NASA,” was published on July 25. It also won a PSWA book award. In this mystery, Ryder goes undercover at a NASA center in California to investigate a cold-case murder.
Bluck and his wife, Sheryl, are residents of Livermore, Calif. Bluck retired from NASA after 30 years of service. Prior to that, he was an engineer at ABC radio network, and he also filmed
daytime crime in Washington, D.C., for WMAL-TV (now WJLA-TV). Earlier, during the Vietnam War, he served in the Army as a journalist at Ft. Lewis, Washington.
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Founded in 2013, Wolfpack Publishing (http://www.wolfpackpublishing.com) is an award-winning independent publishing company based in Las Vegas, Nev. Wolfpack was named as one of the fastest-growing independent publishers of 2022 by Publisher’s Weekly magazine and one of Inc. Magazine’s fast-growing private companies in 2021 and 2022.
For more information, visit Bluck's website: http://www.bluckart.com and his Rough Edges Press webpage, https://roughedgespress.com/project/john-g-bluck/. Readers can subscribe to Bluck’s e-mail list at http://eepurl.com/cJh_pP.
