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The utopian world carefully created by Denver cab driver Brendan Murphy is about to be shattered. In fact, it's about to be the worst day of his cab driving career. There's the Land That Forward Motion Forgot. There's a guy Murph comes to think of as "Mister Twenty." And there's an old woman who wants to pay her fare with a saucepan full of pennies. In "Dark Night of the Soul," the sixth adventure in The Asphalt Warrior series, Murph's plan to carefully monitor the intake of cash-for fear of earning too much-challenges every math skill he can muster. Messes grow around Murph "the way a pearl grows around a pebble." Of course "it's best not to think about what might have happened if you had done this instead of that," but it's hard not to wonder went wrong when you're kissing the asphalt and police have surrounded you with guns drawn. To wriggle out of his latest spot, Murph must stare long and hard at who he is and what he's all about. It's the most eye-popping journey of all time.

Book #3 in the comic adventures of Denver cab driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. "Murph." Previous titles are "Ticket to Hollywood" and "The Asphalt Warrior."

In Varmint Rumble, the final installment of The Asphalt Warrior series, Denver taxi driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. "Murph," is drawn into the shady world of Denver's most notorious outlaw biker gang. A string of misadventures ensues. Murph goes on the lam, overthinks everything, and waxes philosophical about life, death, and facing the music.

Charley Quinn teaches creative writing at a free university in Denver. His specialty is plotting. He doesn't care for lyricism or poetry in the prose cranked out by his students, much to their chagrin. Charlie has rules about writing and he has rules about his life. But a new female student is about to challenge everything he thinks he knows. Her name is Linda Hathaway. Her eyes glisten when she smiles. Charlie is transfixed. When Charlie discovers that Linda is only taking the class for fun, and not to learn how to write, the dynamic between teacher and student shifts. However, getting an accurate fix on what Linda really wants is an ongoing challenge. But Charlie is no less beguiled. Charlie is keenly aware of the unpredictability of bad decisions, but he can't resist Linda's mysterious allure. He may think he knows the rules for writing. He might think he knows what women want. He thinks he understands the "awful truths" about male and female desire. But Charlie is playing a whole new game. And it might turn dark.

In Ticket to Hollywood, the second of 11 comic novels based on cab driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a "Murph," a young woman on the way to a showing of The Great Gatsby leaves her purse behind in Murph's Rocky Mountain Taxi Cab #127--and then goes missing. Murph finds himself confronted by police and loses his job. He becomes entangled with filmmakers and makes his way to Los Angeles in search of the lost woman and in desperate need to restore his reputation and regain normalcy, which in Murph's case means doing as little as possible."Gary Reilly never cared that much about getting his work published. Fortunately for us, his friends did," raves Denver Post reviewer Mike McClanahan who goes on to call the late author "a master wordsmith."The Natanz Directive co-author Mark Graham says, "Gary Reilly is the kind of writer who leaves you smiling at the sheer pleasure of his word choices."Blue Straggler author Kathy Lynn Harris encourages readers to "savor" Reilly's work, "line by line, taking time to enjoy the intelligence, sarcasm and dry wit of the main character, Murph. I found Murph to be laugh-out-loud and consistently funny, yet life-smart and grudgingly loveable."Reilly was born in Arkansas City, Kansas and moved with his family of seven brothers and sisters to Denver. He served two years in the army, including a tour in Vietnam as a military policeman, and later majored in English at Colorado State University with continued studies at the Denver campus of the University of Colorado. After publishing his short story The Biography Man and writing as an AOL comic advice columnist in the 1990s, Reilly turned to novels. His dedication to writing did not include self-promotion. Instead of seeking agents and publishers, he focused on his craft, writing and rewriting, polishing to perfection.

Introducing Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. "Murph," a Denver cab driver with two goals in life. First, to earn as little money as possible to support his simple life, which features a daily burger and episodes of "Gilligan's Island." Second, to never get involved in the lives of his fares. He's not very good with the first issue and spectacularly bad with the second. The Asphalt Warrior is the first of ten adventures by the late Gary Reilly, who passed away in 2011.

Denver taxi driver Brendan Murphy, aka Murph, returns in Reilly's fourth book, "Home for the Holidays." It's Christmastime, and Murph leaves his cab behind to visit his family in Wichita where he finds himself reluctantly reconnecting with his siblings. Meanwhile, Murph takes it upon himself to save an old friend from making the biggest mistake of his life - accepting a job where suits and ties are everyday attire."Reilly is a master wordsmith," Denver Post reviewer Mike McClanahan raved about "The Asphalt Warrior.""A sardonic, well-read, authority-bucking character who cites Fellini and Dobie Gillis in the same passage, Murph...has a clear, winning voice," Denver Post reviewer Tucker Shaw said in a story about "Ticket to Hollywood" being named as a finalist for the 2013 Colorado Book Award.Reilly was born in Arkansas City, Kan., and moved with his family of seven brothers and sisters to Denver. He served two years in the army, including a tour in Vietnam as a military policeman, and later majored in English at Colorado State University with continued studies at the Denver campus of the University of Colorado. After publishing his short story "The Biography Man" and writing as an AOL comic advice columnist in the '90s, Reilly turned to novels.

Intelligence experts and thriller authors concur: RED DECEPTION is “A page-turner by authors who might as well sit on the National Security Council.” When terrorists bomb bridges across the country and threaten the Hoover Dam, the vulnerability of America's infrastructure becomes a matter of national security. But Dan Reilly, a former Army intelligence officer, predicted the attacks in a secret State Department report written years earlier—a virtual blueprint for disaster, somehow leaked and now in the hands of foreign operatives. With Washington distracted by domestic crises, Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov sends troops to the borders of Ukraine and Latvia, ready to reclaim what he feels is Russia's rightful territory. Tensions in Europe threaten to boil over as a besieged American president balances multiple crises that threaten to upend the geopolitical order. This is the chaos into which Reilly leaps headfirst. Reilly's position as Global Head of Security for the Kensington Royal Hotel Corporation means he must keep his customers and staff safe as the crisis envelopes countries across three continents. His past as a State Department analyst means he recognizes the connections behind the seemingly disparate terror attacks, assassination plots, and authoritarian power plays that dominate the headlines. But it's the very knowledge that makes him good at his job that also makes him a target—to the press, to the government, and to the forces gathering for another assault on America. Follow Reilly as he travels the world to safeguard both his company's assets and his country's secrets. With the US at the mercy of an egomaniacal leader, and reporters and covert agents on his tail, he may be the one man who can connect the dots before an even bigger catastrophe unfolds. RED DECEPTION is the second book in the RED Hotel series.

When a bomb rips the faÇade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips. Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive with high level access to the CIA, makes it his mission to track him down. He begins a jet-setting search for answers as the clock ticks down to a climactic event that threatens NATO and the very security of member nations. Reilly begins mining old contacts and resources in an effort to delve deeper into the motive behind these attacks, and fast. Through his connections he learns that the Tokyo bomber is not acting alone. But the organization behind the perpetrator is not who they expect. Facilitated by the official government from a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly or his sources in the CIA and State Department could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is an incredibly timely globe-trotting thriller that's fiction on the edge of reality.

The Red Hotel series takes readers on a thrilling journey through a world teetering on the edge of chaos. From tracking down the mastermind behind a devastating bomb attack in Tokyo to unraveling a calculated act of war by a powerful global superpower, Dan Reilly becomes the linchpin in preventing larger catastrophes and maintaining the fragile geopolitical order, all while racing against time to stop Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov's dangerous ambitions and avert a global crisis. Written by Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman, authors who are no strangers to real world intrigue and international crises, the Red Hotel series combines geopolitical suspense, espionage, and thrilling action. As Reilly battles formidable adversaries and races against the clock, the line between fiction and reality blurs, delivering a gripping narrative ripped from today's headlines. For the first time, RED Hotel, RED Deception, and RED Chaos are in one ebook!