Richard Edgar Zwez Bücher

In this novel Phillip, the hero of Melting Man, is joined by two mighty women, Gema and Chameeka. Chameeka is a ferocious street fighter while Gema is an expert in martial arts. They both have felt that in life they have to look after themselves and persons needing all kinds of protection. They are also highly intelligent women who have developed in many ways, including displaying their pictorial artistic talents. These make them the pride of the schools they have attended. All the while, they make sure that the weak and the shy are protected from bullying. While producing paintings as mature women, they become acquainted with the melting powers of the Melting Man. They further develop as Melting Women so they can provide another approach to helping the needy. So it is when these two outstanding women join the Melting team, they deliver a great deal of action conducive to the betterment of civilization as they add their newly endowed powers to the civic development of their city.

Aging trumpet player Lars Lindstrom wakes up one morning to find a dead body on his patio . . . Or does he? Jazzman Lindstrom takes the man's wallet inside to give a name when he calls the police, but when officers arrive, they don't find a body or any signs that a corpse was ever in his garden at all. The wallet Lindstrom is holding, however, belongs to a terrorist suspect on the Homeland Security's Most Wanted list, which sparks interest at nearly every law enforcement agency from the FBI on down. The hip talking Lindstrom find that, as a minor celebrity in the Port of Los Angeles town of San Pedro, he not only makes a fine patsy for a ring of Middle Eastern terrorists, but also a rich piece of bait for the men out to stop them. Lindstrom just wants to put it all behind him, keep a low profile and play his music. But in order to do that, he has to find some answers for himself as well as for the two sides playing him against each other. The search takes Lindstrom from his regular gig leading the house band at Blondy's Waterfront Dive to Oslo, Norway where the suspected terrorist have their secret hide-out, and back. Changing planes in Heathrow is enough to get the British involved as well. Can a slightly alcoholic musician with a phobia of taking a punch in the mouth that might split his lip and cost a week of work become a true secret agent? In a Zen-Jazz Mystery, anything is possible.