BOOKS | Dennis Hetzel

From the UFO mystery of 'Azalea Bluff' to a pair of thrillers that uniquely blend sports and politics ..............

Azalea Bluff

ISBN 13:9781951556365

A bell-shaped object crashes on a football field. A young reporter vanishes. No one will say why.

Olivia Claven lives in the Carolina beach community of Azalea Bluff. She’s trying to regroup, but a flooding tide of setbacks has dashed her dreams .

The love of her life has died in a mysterious crash. Saddled with debt, she’s back in her parents’ house after losing multiple media jobs. The local news website she started could fail at any time, too.

Then she gets a tip that could turn things around. A mysterious object has crashed onto her high school’s football field. The authorities have sealed the area and cut communications, but she knows how to get close without being seen.

She gasps as she views the odd, bell-shaped object that sits on the 50-yard line. Then she vanishes.

As Olivia fights madness in captivity, her father starts a relentless search for answers, stepping into danger as he stumbles upon secrets buried in bizarre UFO stories and the rubble the Nazis left behind in the closing days of World War II.

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Killing the Curse

ISBN 978-0938467991

The stakes of winning are lives and the presidency …

The Chicago Cubs haven't won a World Series for more than 100 years or even played in one since 1945. Now they're positioned to win the Series for the first time since 1908--if only curses and bad luck don't haunt them as usual. That's what happens when a swarm of gnats helps the Boston Red Sox tie the Series at three games each. To kill the curse, the Cubs must win Game 7 in Chicago.

No one wants the Cubs to win more than Luke Murphy, President of the United States and lifelong fan. Leading the chorus of disbelievers is Murphy's boyhood friend, Bob Walters, a sports radio talk-show host with a beautiful daughter and a big ego who built ratings by being 'the man Cub fans love to hate.'

The Cubs have someone else on their side--a brilliant, crazed fan who will do anything to make sure they win. Anything. It starts with an attack on the father of Boston's best pitcher and grows into an escalating threat that could destroy Murphy's career, expose childhood secrets, and kill hundreds of innocent people.

Everything comes to a head as Game Seven unfolds -- a game the Cubs absolutely must win, because the stakes of winning one game have never been higher.

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Season of Lies

ISBN 978-1882658930

A take-all battle against today's politics of destruction....

A pitcher. A president. Two men become linked by events when the stakes are highest.

The Chicago Cubs have finally won a World Series for the first time since 1908. Now they want to build a baseball dynasty. To do so, they trade for star pitcher Trey Van Ohmann. Meanwhile, the Cubs’ biggest and best-known fan, Luke Murphy, is running for re-election as President of the United States in an unpredictable, three-way race.

World events that release frightening waves of religious fervor, today’s ugly politics of destruction and powerful, unknown forces conspire against them. When Van Ohmann decides to get involved and endorse Murphy’s campaign, it could be a mistake that destroys his career, brings Murphy’s presidency down and perhaps cost him his life. The baseball season and a presidential campaign that could be ripped out of today’s headlines come to a climax in one fateful October.