Phil Bookman Author

Known as Mr. Perfect, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Rex Baker reigns like a king over his popular TV show, Venture Capital Pie. Baker is blown up in front of millions of VC Pie viewers during a product demonstration. The young entrepreneur, David Novak, is arrested for what everyone calls the Perfect Murder. Anna Novak hires young PI Joe Brink to prove her brother’s innocence. Joe teams up with a grizzled old explosives expert in a desperate effort to save David Novak..

When the love of her life walked out, Stephanie Cunningham was heartbroken. Six months later, now divorced, she read about a hot startup that secured a windfall of venture capital. One of the founders was her ex. The bastard had been working on this all the while he told her he was out fruitlessly looking for work. Then came the ultimate blow. The bastard remarried. There was a picture of the happy couple online. The bimbo was much younger. She was also conspicuously pregnant. That was the moment that Stephanie began planning her revenge. And it would most certainly include murder.

When sales superstar Bobby Bradshaw fails to close four big deals in the last week of the quarter, he is outraged. One deal he could understand. But four? No way. That just doesn’t happen to the Rainmaker. Bobby is convinced the deals were sabotaged, each in a different way. But who would do such a thing? And why? To get some answers, Bobby hires private detective Joe Brink. What starts out as a case undertaken to soothe Bobby Bradshaw’s bruised ego soon exposes a web of villainy that includes multiple murders. And Joe may just become the next victim.

In 1945, an infant was discovered in a basket on the porch of a farmhouse in Manning Cross, county seat of remote Camino County, California. Sarah and Morris Katz adopted the foundling and named him Joshua. Now an old man, Josh Katz hires PI Joe Brink to find out who his birth parents were. Manning Cross is a dying town in a dying county, running out of people, money and hope. And it’s hiding more secrets than Josh’s origins, like the true story of the death of his wife. Sinister secrets of ruthless, powerful men desperate to keep Manning Cross alive and a conspiracy that extends all the way to the White House.

When she was two years old, Sally Roquette’s mother walked out, never to return. Eight years later, her father left the little girl alone in a park, also never to return. Now a grown woman known as Sally Rocket, she spots a man she is certain is her long-lost father in a packed hockey arena, then loses sight of him in the crowd. Sally asks private investigator Joe Brink to help her find the man who abandoned her years ago. It’s a favor Joe is happy to do for his best friend, unaware that he and Sally are entering a maze of treachery, deception, betrayal and murder that will threaten Sally’s freedom and unalterably change her life.

Victor Ostrovsky is on the verge of becoming a billionaire. To celebrate, Ostrovsky decides to buy himself a superyacht. He asks Silicon Valley finance guru and fabled yachtsman Nick Marchetti for advice. When news of their meeting reaches drug kingpin Rick (Rico) Varga, it triggers a series of events that drags Marchetti and his young friend, private investigator Joe Brink, into a mob war. It’s a war Marchetti and Brink have no business being in. Yet however mistakenly started, this war is deadly. As the final battle unfolds, Joe Brink fights for his life in the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean outside the Golden Gate.

Life Is Never Easy-When Joe Brink discovers a charred corpse in the rubble of Boomer Montana's burnt barn. he must save his aging friend from prosecution for negligent homicide.

Retirement Plan-It’s time for Alejandro Zapatero to retire, but there is no off-ramp for a drug cartel kingpin. But Zapato has a plan…

Unmasked-When the CFO of Silicon Valley startup Aztound Technologies is found slumped over his desk with a letter opener protruding from his back, the police quickly home in on a suspect. But Madison Stanhope does not buy the official story and enlists Joe Brink to unmask her husband’s real killer.

A home invasion robbery results in a double murder in Palo Alto, California. A hiking vacation in Tahoe ends with the deaths of a husband and wife due to what seems to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. Yet a third couple dies in an apparent motorcycle accident in Big Sur. All within a month. They’re all wealthy clients of the man known as the boutique business consultant of Silicon Valley, Ernie Alvarez. Are the alleged accidents murders? Are the couples dying because of their connection to Alvarez? Can PI Joe Brink solve the case without destroying Alvarez’s business? And can he get to the bottom of it all before another couple dies?