The Missing Swan: A Crime and Suspense Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780989767156)

Former war hero Bill Conlin embarks on a mission with international implications as he struggles to survive in a criminal world and continues the fight to avenge his ruined life. Now on the run from U.S. authorities, Bill is also on the hunt to take out Russian mafia kingpin Viktor Tsapok, who double-crossed him in New York and left him for dead.

Bill lands a spot on a container ship bound for St. Petersburg. While at sea, he secures a new "crew" in the bearish Ukrainian Yuri and his cronies, the Belinsky brothers, but he also makes a new brutal enemy in Vlad Agargimov a connected Russian gangster.

Bill expects the violence and bloodshed, which has become a constant of his post-war life, but he didn't expect to fall for a sassy art student Janette whose big attitude and enormous heart catches him off guard. Now he must rely on the cunning and strength that brought him triumph on the battlefield and made him a hero in Frank Sullivan's New York crime operations to take down his enemies. Even when all he really craves is a life of quiet normalcy - a life that seems more elusive than any vengeful victory, he must put it all on the line to survive a turf war in Northern Ireland where danger is at every turn.

Can he survive and protect his love or will he pay the ultimate price? Neo-noir's Billy Bourbon is back with the second hardboiled mystery installment in the crime fiction thriller series "Bourbon & Blood". This suspense filled addition, is an addictive action-packed adventure that will captivate and shock pulp fiction fans until its climactic conclusion.