Books in the Tom McGuire Mystery series

A week after uncovering the secret of what really happened at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, history professor Matt Conroy was lying in a morgue with the back of his head blown off.SFPD homicide inspector Tom McGuire, a long-time friend of Conroy’s, volunteers to assist the FBI in bringing the killer to justice. The FBI, however, is ordered to stand down for “national security” reasons.They thought that would be the end of it. They were wrong.Tom McGuire was not about to stand down. Not for anyone, not for any reason. That decision put him in the crosshairs of one of the world’s most secretive and dangerous organizations –  an organization whose rich and powerful members will stop at nothing to make sure their 140-year-old secret remains hidden.Drawn into a labyrinth of conspiracies over a century old, Tom McGuire has just walked into his worst nightmare. 

“I solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”A lifetime ago, a young naval aviator took the Oath. Tom McGuire, now a San Francisco PD homicide inspector, hadn’t thought about that Oath in years. That was all about to change.A famous San Francisco newspaper columnist has been murdered. Some would say “executed”. Shot through the head, her arms tried behind her, knotted together from shoulder to wrist.McGuire feels an eerie chill of recognition. After being shot down over North Vietnam, he suffered through seven years as a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, enduring rope torture many times- his arms tied in exactly the same way.A lifetime ago, another young naval aviator also took that Oath. He also was shot down over North Vietnam, and joined McGuire as a POW in Hanoi. His interpretation of the Oath differs from McGuire’s.After thirty years, their lives were about to intersect once again.