In this story from T. M. Bilderback, a new place is introduced: Sardis County.Sardis County is a unique place, with colorful characters, and down-home attitudes. The county seat of Sardis County is the town of Perry, and it has all the usual things a small town can offer. A high school, town square, police station, and shops are all part of Perry, and the Sardis County Chamber Of Commerce has come up with a slogan: “Sardis County – Where YOU Make The Magic!”But, th...

Take four people that have been friends since college. Add a desire to protect others. Toss in a fun-loving look on life, and mix with a dash of a not-quite-by-the-book way of doing things, and what do you have?The partners of Justice Security.They are Joey Justice, after whom the company was named, Misty Wilhite, the love of Joey’s life, Dexter Beck, the martial arts master and computer nerd, and Percival “King Louie” Washington, who bears a striking facial resemblance to ...

Meet Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (Ret.), former member of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces.Colonel Abernathy retired some years ago as a bachelor, and now lives off his pension and his family’s fortune. He is quite old, and belongs to a stately London gentleman’s club.In The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Colonel Abernathy tells a tale to a club acquaintance – a tale of 1950s British Guyana in South America, and the Colonel’s encounter with a lion.But this is no ordina...

It’s November in Chicago. Still healing from an encounter with the Corn Flakes Killer, Lieutenant Michelle “Mickey” Rooney and her partner, Sam Tanner, head out into the snowy night to investigate four seemingly unrelated drug killings. They appear to be run-of-the-mill drug deals gone bad…until witnesses at one of the crime scenes report that they saw the shooting. And they have overheard the name of the killer: Esteban Fernandez.Mickey and the Chicago PD notify the Federal author...

David Rudolph and Jacky Baker are a couple of the best commercial fishermen around the Oregon coast. The two men get lucky and sign aboard the two-hundred-twenty-foot fishing vessel, the Edmund Fitzgerald II.Sailing with a crew of ten, the ship sails through radioactive waters in the Pacific that had been carried by currents from the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. Using the latest and most sensitive Geiger counters available for underwater use, the captain of the

“You must hide your heart. Eli’s coming,” said the mysterious vendor to Gretchen Cantrell.Gretchen dismisses this warning, and, later, she is murdered.Gretchen’s friends, Stu Phillips and Cindy Frasier, become embroiled in the death of their friend.And when the mysterious vendor appears to the two friends and gives them the same advice, that advice turns into a very public fight with a demon…a demon that lives on burning heartache.Will Cindy and Stu defeat t...

Several gruesome murders have taken place in Bohemian Village, the arty part of the city. Each victim was male, and had been last seen dancing in various nightclubs in the Village.Detective John Yates and Detective James William “Jim Bill” Coleman are assigned to stake out one of these nightclubs looking for whoever is behind the “Dance Murders”.But, the situation becomes complicated when Detective Coleman becomes obsessed with a very beautiful girl he sees in the club. No ...

Paul Stiles is spending his Saturday morning mowing his lawn, when his next door neighbor dies a peculiar and spectacular death on Paul’s front lawn. Paul knows something terrifying is happening, but he doesn’t realize that it’s the beginning of a war of survival for humanity.Islamic terrorists have paid rogue Russian scientists to create a plague of genetically created “bugs”, and have turned them loose on the free world, intending to kill the “infidels” of the world. But they did...

Nine great stories are inside T. M. Bilderback’s Greatest Hits!Included are all four of the Justice Security short stories: Someone Saved My Life Tonight is the story of Gus Brazzle. Gus is a “grunt”, or a uniformed officer with Justice Security, who has to make a life-or-death choice inside a madman’s blaze. Saturday In The Park has the Justice Security partners ambushed in the city park…but the “who” and “why” are very much in the air. In MacArthur ...

What happens when a young, fast-rising cop, married to the love of his life, suddenly loses his unborn child to miscarriage, loses his wife to cancer, and loses his job because of a violent incident with a suspect?He decides to have drinking binges to try to forget.That’s what happened to Nicholas Turner ten years ago.Now, thanks to help from his sister, Melissa, and his best friend, FBI Agent Marcus Moore, Nicholas has almost conquered the drinking, and has become ...

Two California girls agree to a camping trip with a boy they met in a bar.The boy has a special talent…and the girls’ life expectancy has grown short.This unsettling story, inspired by the hit song by John Stewart, asks…What is the spooky secret of…Gold?

Thirty seven children, along with their bus driver, have been kidnapped on their way to school. They’ve been hidden away in a location known only to the kidnappers, and booby-trapped so that explosives will go off at 5 PM, unless the kidnappers receive their demands.What they want is simple: Joey Justice. They want to trade Joey to Esteban Fernandez for the bounty, and they’ll kill the children unless it happens.The city’s FBI chief, Marcus Moore, orders Justice Security to...