Jason Blacker Knihy

Anthony Carrick's not looking for a case. But when his good buddy, John Roberts asks a favor of him he can't refuse. Two young men have been murdered after visiting a biker bar in the wrong side of town in Jersey City. The only witnesses are the bikers themselves, but they're not saying much. In Jersey to try and figure it out, Anthony finds the local police not all that helpful. But a connection that Roberts has in Jersey PD, Detective So-yi Park is eager to help figure these murders out. Seems that one of the young men was working on secret weaponry for the DOD and he was talking to a reporter. But when some plumbers come by to fix a leak at Park's apartment things get out of hand. Park ends up dead and Anthony's shot twice in the belly. Could the plumbing company be a front? From secret private military groups to pedophile rings, lucrative defense contracts, and world class hackers, there's a lot to unravel if Anthony wants to save his life and solve a couple of homicides.

In the fall a woman's body is found at the Calabasas landfill. She is remarkably attractive and unblemished. She's also dead. She is naked except for a red chemise. She has been placed with care but there is nothing to identify her by. Captain Roberts of the LAPD has called in Carrick to help with this suspicious death. All leads end up nowhere. But it appears she's not the only woman found dead at the landfill. Back on New Year's day of two thousand a woman was similarly found. She too was unblemished, attractive and left with care. Both of these women had recently had intercourse before their deaths. The cold case from two thousand was handled by Carrick's mentor, retired detective Armando Ferrari.With the help of the FBI, Carrick learns that there are an additional three cases where women, deceased and having recently had intercourse ended up dead in public areas. Carrick believes this to be an international prostitution ring of sorts.The security guard at the landfill appears helpful, but when he turns up dead is that the end of the trail of clues? Or perhaps Carrick has other avenues to explore. From Moscow to LA these crimes seemingly involve the LAPD Chief of Police and Carrick's ex-wife's current husband.

Part 4 in the 5 part series Carbon Heart Silicon Soul: An AI love story!Ny and his friends awake and find themselves in jail. Were they successful? Ny's not sure. It's hard to remember the events that preceded him finding himself now in jail.El is nowhere to be found. Ny remembers that she had managed to escape just as the police had disabled their van causing it to flip over on its side. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured.But where's El? Nobody knows, but Ny and his four friends now find themselves on trial. A trial that looks to be held in a kangaroo court where the outcome is most certainly the death sentence.Unless their lawyer, Kuru Ramisira is able to argue for a lesser sentence which is not looking good.

Third Base is the 3rd Anthony Carrick mystery novel. The Windy City, Chicago, is holding the World Series at Wrigley Field. An exceptionally rare World Series between the Loveable Losers (Chicago Cubs) and The Birds (Baltimore Orioles) with the Cubs favorited to win. Until, that is, their star pitcher James Ensor is found dead by third base. The highest paid player on the Cubs team, Ensor had his share of enemies. There's the other pitchers itching for a shot to shine. Bad blood between Ensor and the left fielder Gibb, and that's not to mention infidelity, mismanagement and gambling over this billion dollar team. Will Anthony Carrick be able to help the local homicide detectives put this homicide to bed so that Chicago can go back to enjoying the World Series. The pressure is on from the Mayor and the Chief of Police for a quick resolution. But the Windy City is blowing a foul wind and each corner offers up more convoluted clues than Ensor could throw curveballs.

Part 3 in the 5 part series Carbon Heart Silicon Soul: An AI love story!Freeing an AI robot from its algorithms is not as easy as writing some code. You have to physically replace an important part and upload special software. All without getting caught.And the robot is constantly and subconsciously trying to send alarms back to Valkyrie Machines headquarters and the police.So they need to do a trial run first. And to help buy them more time, they've decided to attempt this 'rocket surgery' while traveling in an old, rebuilt GMC Vandura from the 80's. This will limit the accuracy of any alarms that might be sent out to the police. It also makes it harder to complete the freeing of El.They get pulled over during the trial run, and they're running up against the clock on the real attempt. Will they manage it with the police hot on their heels?

Part 1 in the 5 part series Carbon Heart Silicon An AI love story!Nytewynd Blak is a senior software engineer for Valkyrie Machines. Valkyrie Machines makes AI robots, like 11AM65111, the one he bought. He calls her El and he's fallen in love with her. This is strictly forbidden and carries stiff penalties if he's caught.But the heart wants what it wants and Nytewynd had decided to take his love for El public. They visit a pop up underground club for humans who are in intimate with machines. It's called Skineez.What could go wrong? Absolutely everything. The police are on a mission to shut down all such activities. With the help of a mole they've found the whereabouts of Skineez and they bring it down. Will Nytewynd and El escape?

Part 2 in the 5 part series Carbon Heart Silicon Soul: An AI love story!The problem with living under one government, the Government of Earth, is the overreaching and overarching surveillance. It's everywhere. Especially on the small handheld computer devices called P-Macs that every citizen has to carry on their person at all time.This means Nytewynd Blak is having to scrub and delete logs constantly to ensure that his secret love for his robot is not detected. But this leaves him open to errors.Nytewynd, Ny to his friends, has managed to convince the police that nothing unlawful is happening between him and his AI robot. He gets El back and he's even more determined to free her from the constraints of her algorithms, but he realizes he can't do it without help.Raklin Orbiter is a colleague and friend of Ny's. Raklin is also a genetically modified individual. But he's willing to help Ny. Ny also finds some surprising but important help from unusual quarters. But will it be enough to finally enable full sentience for El and free her from humanity's shackles?