Jacob Cable is a hard-boiled private detective in the style of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet. He is also inspired by Robert E. Howard’s Conan to a certain extent. His world is post-World War II Los Angeles, shady characters, blasting guns and pummeling fists.

Four Jacob Cable books exist: Shiny Things/Pretty Things, Dead Things, Sharp Things and Broken Things/Crazy Things. Click the covers below to order.

Shiny Things sees Jacob Cable hot on the trail of missing jewels and finding a lot more once he looks into dangerous corners. Pretty Things chronicles Cable’s search for a lost woman. The journey brings him into a seedy world of crime and bullets.
Dead Things runs Jacob Cable through a horrifying ringer of death and madness after he wakes up with a nameless dead girl.
A dying man stumbles into Jacob Cable’s arms late night on the streets. Cable follows the man’s backtrail to find those responsible in Sharp Things.
Broken Things reveals what happened to Jacob Cable in a German POW camp during World War II. Crazy Things is about Cable’s time in in an asylum, and the lunatics are about to take over…